Library Research Guides: Art Appreciation Guide: Local Artists, Museums and Galleries

Art Museums and Associations

Creative Kids
nationally recognized non-profit organization that positively impact specific populations of children through purposeful visual art education.
El Paso Art Association
Founded in 1950, the El Paso Art Association promotes excellence & appreciation of the visual arts in El Paso and the surrounding areas through educational opportunities, exhibitions, community outreach and open membership. Studios at the Art Junction provides 35 studio spaces for artists to rent. Galleries on both floors show exhibitions.
El Paso Museum of Art
The mission of the El Paso Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit works of art that support and illuminate the Museum’s permanent collection of American, European, and Mexican art. The Museum celebrates the region’s diverse cultures through exhibitions, acquisitions, and educational programs and is dedicated to scholarship while providing a stimulating and inspiring environment for all audiences.
International Museum of Art (El Paso)
Housed in the historic Turney Museum at 1211 Montana with two additional gallery wings, museum contains many fine permanent collections along with two changing galleries. Collections include work by southwestern artists, William Kolliker, African Art, Asian Art, Mexican Art.
Juntos Art Association
"an international organization designed to feature and nurture the advancement of art that reflects and represents the borderland environment and community while encouraging the development of artists and the production of quality artistic products and presentations" -- website

Art Galleries

Crossland Gallery (Art Junction @ the EPAA)
Hal Marcus Gallery
Ho Baron Sculpture Gallery
2830 Aurora, El Paso, Texas
Om Room Gallery @ Star City Studio Productions
featuring works by Pat Olchefski Winston with visiting artists and exhibits
San Elizario Historic Art District
Galleries of artists: Albert Escamilla, Robert Dozal, Bert Saldana, Al Borrego, Romy Hawkins, Amado Peña and more
Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
"contemporary art of international recognition and importance" on the UTEP campus
UTEP Centennial Museum
El Paso's oldest museum explores the natural and cultural history of our region with permanent and temporary exhibits of artwork from El Paso's most celebrated artists.

Local Artists

See above tab on El Paso Muralists and Murals tab for other artists.

Women artists in the Border region
Resources from the Frontera webguide
Male artists in the Border region
Resources from the Frontera webguide

Borderlands articles on local artists:

El Paso's Murals / Chicano Mural Movement

El Paso, Texas: The City of Murals (Nmsantos.com)
Short history of murals in El Paso which has so many that the article write "it could market itself as the “City of Mexican-American Murals.”
ArtSpot (El Paso Inc)
El Paso public art mapped
El Paso Mural Guide (with locations)
from a 2020 blogpost on A Little Britt of Fun
Geocoding the Murals of El Paso
GIS project by Miguel Juarez
Murals -- Photos on El Paso History Museum's Digie.org

An art of conscience : a guide to selected El Paso murals
Call Number: Local Libraries
Publication Date: 1996
Chicano Renaissance
ISBN: 0816520208
Chicana/o Studies: Survey and Analysis by Dennis J. Bixler Marquez; Carlos F. Ortega
Call Number: EPCC Libraries
ISBN: 1465225668
2nd edition at NW P. 347-356 "Border Artists in the Contemporary El Paso Mural Movement". Includes detailed bibliography.
Folk Art in Texas by Francis Edward Abernethy (Editor)
Call Number: EPCC Libraries Ebook (for EPCC users only)
ISBN: 0870742108
Publication Date: 1985
p. 64-68 Murals in El Paso
Rethinking the Chicano Movement by Marc Simon Rodriguez
Call Number: EPCC Libraries
ISBN: 0415877423
Publication Date: 2014
p.154

Local Art Exhibit Catalogues

Capirotada : eight El Paso artists, Susan Davidoff ... [et al.] by Kevin Donovan (Editor)
Call Number: EPCC Libraries
ISBN: 0963081608
Publication Date: 1992
Into the desert light : early El Paso art, 1850-1960 by Carol Miller Price
Call Number: EPCC Libraries
Publication Date: 2010
Desert modern and beyond : El Paso Art 1960-2012 by Cable, Patrick Shaw
Call Number: UTEP Library Special Collections in process at EPCC
Publication Date: 2012
Catalogue of an EPMA 2012 exhibit featuring a full color image and biography of these artists:
Manuel Acosta, Jesus "Cimi" Alvarado, Vladimir Alvarado, Celia Alvarez Muñoz, Susan Amstader-Schwartz, Marta (Amaya Arat), John Cleveland Arnold, Julia Barello, Earline Barnes, Ho Baron, Richard Baron, Kim Bauer, Therese Bauer, Phillip Behymer, Bruce Berman, Vincent Burke, Margarita Cabrera. Carlos Callejo, Julián Cardona, Robert Carlson, Frederick Carter, Melesio Casas, Antonio Castro, Sergio Chávez, José Cisneros, Carl Cogar, Holly Thurston Cox, Woodrow "Woody" Wilson Crumbo, Suzi Davidoff, Rigoberto de la Mora, Francisco Delgado, Connie Dillman, James Drake, John Dunn, Gaspar Enríquez, Alberto Escamilla, Adrian Esparza, Noel Espinoza, David Fleet, Dave Ford, Elizabeth Galvin, Margarita "Mago" Orona Gándara, Gabriel S. Gaytán, Manuel Guerra, Carlos Gutierrez, Rudy Gutierrez, Virgil Hancock, Becky Hendrick, Ricardo "Rick" Hernandez, Jan Herring, César Iván, Loren Gene Janzen, Anna Jacquez, Luis Jiménez, Charles Kistenmacher, Susan Klahr, William "Bill" Kolliker, Winifred "Win" Stoddard Korf, Tom Lea, Annabel Livermore, Raymond "Ray" López Alemán , James Magee, Jimmie Lou Malone, Hal Marcus, Frederick A. Martin, Ernesto Pedregón Martinez, Ann James Massey, Robert Massey, Candy Mayer, Diana Molina, Claude Montes, Rudy Montoya Jr., Tom Moore, Aaron Royal Mosley, Nicholas "Nick" Muñoz, Carmen Navar, Mauricio Olague,María Almeida Natividad, Ruben Olvera, Ysela Fulton O'Malley, Mitsumasa "Mitsu" Overstreet, (Willie) Ray Parish, Mario Parra, Gloria Osuna Pérez, Lawrence Benjamin "L.B." Porter, William "Rac" Rakocy, Paul Henry Ramirez, Sam Raveles, Joshua Rose, Hilda Contreras de Rosenfeld, Rudy Royval, Benjamin "Ben" Alire Sáenz, Steve Salazar, Joel Salcido, Bob Snead, Jacquelyn Stroud Spier, Rachel Stevens, David Taylor, Rachelle Thiewes, Eugene Thurston, Aleksander Titovets, Lyuba Titovets, Miguel Alejandro Valenzuela, Willie Varela, Leo Villareal, Bob Wade, Robert Shane Wiggs, Bassel Wolfe, Albert Wong
2006 UTEP Department of Art Biennial Faculty Exhibition
Call Number: EPCC Libraries
ISBN: 0976015455
Publication Date: 2006-01-01