Austin Founder Lions Club

Sylvia Orozco, Executive Director of Mexic-Arte Museum

  • 12 May 2011
  • 11:45 AM - 12:59 PM
  • Wells Fargo Building, 400 W. 15th Street, 3rd floor Auditorium

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Sylvia Orozco, Executive Director
Mexic-Arte Museum

Introduction by
Lion Gus Garcia

Mexic-Arte Museum is dedicated to enriching the community through education programs and exhibitions focusing on traditional and contemporary Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art and culture. Since its founding in 1984, Mexic-Arte Museum has been designated as the Official Mexican and Mexican American Fine Art Museum of Texas by the 78th Legislature of the State of Texas.

Mexic-Arte Museum’s impressive history has prepared it to become one of the foremost arts institutions in the region. The next few years will see the Museum dramatically expand its facility, its scope and its resources. Executive Director Sylvia Orozco will come discuss the museum, it's history, and it's future.

HISTORY

Mexic-Arte Museum was founded in 1984 by artists Sylvia Orozco, Sam Coronado, and Pio Pulido in the Arts Warehouse space, to share the art and culture of Mexico with communities in Texas.

Starting with the Day of the Dead festival in the fall of 1983, the Museum began offering outstanding cultural programs and obtained its non-profit status during the 1984 season. Since then, it has continued to present multimedia works by the finest established and emerging artists from the United States, Mexico and Latin America.

To expand its programs and exhibits, Mexic-Arte Museum moved into its current home at 419 Congress Avenue in 1988.

Speaker's Bio:

Sylvia Orozco, Arte Mexic Museum, Fine arts in Austin, Mexico, Latin ArtSylvia Orozco, co-Founder and Executive Director of Mexic-Arte Museum, has been with the organization since its incorporation in 1984. She received her B.F.A. in Fine Arts from The University of Texas at Austin in 1978 and completed course work for an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City in 1983.

Among many other honors, in 2007, Sylvia received the prestigious Ohtli Award from the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior of the General Consulate of Mexico, and in 2009 was selected for the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Mexican American Cultural Center and on City of Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell's Community Cabinet.


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