In her artwork, Cuando el regress es la cosecha Lorena Molina thinks about how she feels about how it would be to return to where she is from in El Salvador after having been forced to leave her homeland. Use these stories to learn more about El Salvador and stories that align with the artist’s:
Laura Veles Drey’s work, Nothing Grows in a Straight Line, explores stories of migration, labor, storytelling and connection to the land including her own family experiences as agricultural workers and in her grandmother’s Houston garden. Explore these ideas through connecting stories:
National artist Anita Fields explores her indigenous traditions as a member of the Osage Nation in her work WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH. Learn more about the Osage crafts and traditions that connect to her work at Artpace.
In her pieces The Memory of the Sun and The Earth Carries a Memory, Anita Fields’ portrays the Cahokia and Sugarloaf ceremonial mounds, both sacred sites to the Osage people. Learn more about these sites here: