Jenelle Esparza (San Antonio) and Fronterizx (M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz of Phoenix, Arizona) are recipients of the 2024 US Latinx Fellowship, a part of a serious initiative led by the Mellon and Ford Foundations.
This joint initiative supplied beneficiant, unrestricted funds aimed to assist the artistic course of and foster future relationships akin to their UTSA exhibition “Fronterizx: Artwork by M. Jenea Sanchez & Gabriela Muñoz with Jenelle Esparza,” which opens Wednesday.
All three artists are fluent in a number of media, together with cloth artwork, set up, images, printmaking and video, they usually draw from their lived experiences as brown ladies within the U.S.-Mexico border area.
As such, place and id are liminal and fluid, and their work usually entails socially engaged practices. This present marks Fronterizx Collective’s first exhibition in Texas in addition to its first collaboration — hopefully one in every of many — with Esparza.
Free, artist talks and exhibition preview 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, opening reception 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, exhibition viewing 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, UTSA Primary Artwork Gallery, Artwork Constructing Room 2.03.04., Paseo Del Sur, (210)-458-4011, colfa.utsa.edu.
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