¡Colores!; Building Bridges, Binding Generations: Hispanic Women and Their Art

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · February 1, 1995

An insightful probing of the art and experience of a number of Hispanic women who examine their roles in their communities; in their relationships with men, their families, and their culture. They also consider the larger social milieu with Anglos, African Americans, Native Americans, and other ethnicities among whom these Hispanic women will soon be in the majority. Featured Segments: Ancestors Calling: Rooted in Mexican Culture, Anita Rodriguez (Painter, "Enjarradora" or Mud Specialists/Adobe Finish); Primal Beauty: Not to Forget Who I Am, Cecilia Portal (Photographer, Series - "Dreams and Myths"); Standing Alone: Let Me Be Me, Goldie Garcia (Comedienne); Poetic Perseverance: Art at Any Cost, Patricia Rodriguez (Mujeres Muralistas); Return Home: Creation of That Inner Room, Demetria Martinez (Author, "Mother Tongue"). Guests: Anita Rodriguez, Cecilia Portal, Theresa Cordova (Chicana Studies Scholar), Goldie Garcia, Patricia Rodriguez, Christine Sierra (Chicana Studies Scholar).