Mexic-Arte Museum – Austin, Texas
This is the official Mexican and Mexican American Fine Art Museum of Texas which has changing exhibits to keep the museum fresh and you coming back time after time.
The museum was founded in 1984 to showcase the traditional and contemporary Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art and culture through education and displays. The main gallery is reserved for traveling and curated exhibitions of art. These displays include those from Mexico and other Latin American countries as well as for national, local and regional Chicano and Latino artists. The back gallery is for new talent not yet seen in Austin giving new artists a venue to showcase their works to the public.
On permanent display are prints from the Taller de la Grafica Popular/Workshop of Popular Graphics dating from 1940 to 1970. This collection of etchings, linocuts, lithographs and silk-screens are part of a populist art movement in Mexico. The objective of the artists was to further the goals of the Mexican Revolution and the progressive and democratic interests of the Mexican people through the popular medium of printmaking.
The Masks from the State of Guerrero exhibit is a collection of traditional ritual masks. There are 100 works showing a record of its people, culture, religion, and history.
The Serie Print Project is a collection of silkscreen prints created by regional artists and includes over 200 works.
The Ernest De Soto Collection showcases the works of this man as the first Mexican American Master Printer. The collection consists of contemporary Latin American and American lithographs, fine prints, and etchings by renowned artists.
Location: 419 Congress Ave., Austin Texas 78701
Phone: 512-480-9373
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