Mexic-Arte Museum

Hola Mexic-Arte Museum and friends! My name is Yana, and I’m your Changarrito for the month of August ☀️

It’s good to be home! Born and raised in Buda, Texas, it feels like a full circle moment for me to be working with the museum that first introduced me to Latine art ❤️ I’m a painter and illustrator based in San Antonio, creating fantastical and colorful compositions that explore local and familial histories. Through my work, I trace how contemporary culture and social structure manifests over generations, each piece serving as a meditation on our connection to each other and the natural world.

Whether I’m in the gallery, leading workshops, or at local art markets, I’m always looking for ways to connect as an artist, educator, and friend.
I’m excited to share more about these mestizos, flora, and fauna later this month (zine style!) and to hopefully connect with you at the museum 🪷

🗓️August 15 & 16 and 22 & 23
🕕12 pm - 3 pm
📍Outside Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress Ave

Participate in the Mu***os Mercado! Viva la Vida features over 20 Día de los Mu***os inspired artists, artisans, vendors, and makers! Mexic-Arte Museum is thrilled to invite vendors to take part in the annual Vida la Vida on Saturday, October 24th!

Mexic-Arte Museum’s 43rd Annual Viva La Vida Festival and Parade is Austin’s largest and longest-running Día de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) event. The festivities begin with a Grand Procession at noon. Festival activities run until 6 p.m.🕯️

All merchandise must be Día de los Mu***os themed and artist made.
Imported goods are not accepted.

If selected, fees to participate are:
$120 - Artisan Vendor
$200 - Small Food Vendor
$500 - Food Truck/ Large Scale Food Vendor

Application🔗 https://forms.gle/gpjSSKEoxvFkAXi87

‼️DEADLINE TO APPLY IS AUGUST 28, 2026

*Acceptance into the Mu***os Mercado is contingent upon review by Mexic-Arte. Mexic-Arte Museum reserves the right to make the final determination of vendors.

🐊Yo yo yo it's Citlali Delgado () again. I am in my last week as the Mexic-Arte’s Changarrito artist in residence for the month of July so please come visit me at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center this Saturday (10am-3pm) and at the Mexic-Arte Museum on Sunday (12-3pm).

In celebration, here are ten random facts about my art life!!! 😛

1. Studio time is sacred because not only do I get my art done but during the process, I dance hard, cry my eyes dry, and sing my heart out according to how I feel.
2. I am working on a mural about New Mexico icon Fabiola Cabeza de Baca for New Mexico State University.
3. I love bringing my dogs to the studio so they can keep me company
4. I am in my third month of being an artist in residence at the El Paso Border Art Residency (). I am learning the difficulty of what it is to be my own boss.
5. The Latinos Who Lunch podcast has been the BEST thing that has helped me think about my artwork in a way that university couldn’t. I highly recommend giving this Q***r, Latino ran art podcast a listen.
6. I listen to Hamilton too much in the studio. In the Heights as well.
7. I’ve started growing my armpit and leg hair out in an attempt to redefine my own femininity. You can see I’ve started painting women in my art with body hair too!
8. My favorite painting ideas come to me in visions at night when I've finished doom scrolling and am about to fall asleep.
9. My favorite places to take photo references are at kermeses (outdoor carnival-style fiestas usually hosted for church charity fundraisers). I am not religious but I highly enjoy these celebrations for the people, food, and dancing.
10. I love the performance of being an artist because I can go from looking greñuda, bare footed, and wearing dirty clothes painting in my studio to going to art openings being the fashionista that I always dreamed of.

It has been such a pleasure to have conversations with the locals of Austin and the ones who make the city great. I reflect on sharing my work outside of museum walls and in the public eye. I am finding joy in selling prints of my paintings for the first time because accessibility in my work has been long overdue. Please thank your local custodians for their services. Be kind to those who are different from you because this individualistic nation does not want to see that happen. Reconnect with the people that have shown you support. Call an aged woman beautiful today. You only live once so take care of yourself. I’ve been learning to do the same.

🌟Yoooooo, it’s Citlali Delgado, July’s Changarrito artist in residence through the Mexic-arte Museum! Please come visit me at the following varying locations in Austin.☝🏽⬆️👆🏽💖

I’m a painter and muralist from El Paso, Texas with a BFA from New Mexico State University. Based in the borderlands, my paintings function to understand how I and my communities can live with, against, and past the border. I attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art residency program, I have collaborated with the Taco Bell Foundation, and I have work in the ENMU and the NMSU Museum permanent collections. I’ve exhibited at the El Paso Museum of Art Border Biennial, Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez Bienal Fronteriza, and the Ecos del Sol exhibition at the Museum of the Big Bend.

About my why…⬇️👇🏽

My paintings are ever reframing my testimonies as a Chicana in search of grieving and growth. Always concerned with the U.S./Mexico border, my understanding of regional complexity is always in orbit. When I paint, I am reevaluating the many nuances and fantasies others have of the desert and of what constitutes what Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and the U.S. even is. Sometimes though, I find some fantasies to be of my own emergence.

I think about my site-specific presence as a maker, exhibitor, and institutional participant on top of my brownness through themes of politics of representation, tokenization, and erasure.

The land I belong to is to be respected for its history and then critically maintained through decolonizing, grieving, and healing. Trying to take care of the people I paint knowing the artistic agency my work does and does not have, I am to uncover ways in which my communities and I can live with, against, and past the border.

❤️‍🔥Visit my Website (artecitlali.com) for more info and come visit me at the following locations around Austin.

🐊Saturday, July 18: TBD
🌞Sunday, July 19: Mexic-Arte Museum
🫶🏽Saturday, July 25: TBD
💖Sunday, July 26: Mexic-Arte Museum

Join Mexic-Arte Museum for Family Day with Artist Allison Lash, who will demonstrate techniques for weaving crafts and art objects. Participants will be able to create their own God's Eye (or Ojo de Dios), as well as try looming or weaving a fabric bracelet.

🗓️Sunday, July 12th | 1 – 4 pm
📍 419 Congress Ave
🚗Free street parking Downtown on Sundays
🔗Free RSVP: https://WeavingWithAllisonLash.eventbrite.com

🎟️Admission is FREE every Sunday thanks to HEB & Downtown Austin Alliance

📣Save the date of October 24th for Mexic-Arte Museum’s 43rd Annual Viva La Vida Festival & Parade!

The Vendor, Volunteer, and Parade participant forms are NOW OPEN! Sign up to be part of Austin’s largest and longest-running Día de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) celebration!🕯️🏵️

Learn More🔗https://mexic-artemuseum.org/event/43rd-annual-viva-la-vida-festival-parade/

The festivities of Viva La Vida will start with a Grand Procession at noon on Saturday, October 24th, at 4th Street and Congress Avenue. The Festival will run until 6pm and includes: Mariposa Plaza with hands-on art activities and artist demos, traditional foods, Mu***os Mercado with local artists and retail booths, a low-rider exhibition, live performances, and so much more!

Hi, y’all! It’s Lianna again (Villa Atelier | Lianna), the Changarrito Resident Artist for the month of June! I wanted to share a never-before-seen tour of my home studio/atelier 🐞⭐️

I love seeing other artists’ spaces, so here’s a peek into mine! It’s my most favorite part of my home, and my sacred space. I’m so grateful to have a designated space to create, surrounded by my plantas that I marvel at all day. I love getting up every morning, walking into this room, turning on the plant lights, and sitting at my desk🫀and there’s Teddy, my 12 y/o dog and self-appointed studio manager. I hope y’all enjoyed these corners of my atelier 🫶🏼🌱

Thank you to everyone who checked out my work at the Mexic-Arte Museum this past weekend! I loved all the conversations I got to have with y’all and am excited to see y’all again this weekend, June 20-21!:)

Join Mexic-Arte Museum for a two part Family Day!
Explore Austin's waterways, cultural history, and ecological imagination through walking tours and a clay sculpture workshop with artists Allison Lash and Chance Ramirez!

🗓️ Sunday, June 28
🕚 11am - 4:30pm
📍 Mexic-Arte Museum - 419 Congress Ave Austin, TX 78701

🔗Free RSVP: https://ClaySculptingFamilyDayJune2026.eventbrite.com

This workshop will take participants from the Museum's galleries, along the 5th St Mexican American Cultural District, to the banks of Lady Bird Lake, then into sculpting with clay at the Museum, weaving together Austin's ecological landscape, Mexican American and Indigenous history, and the transformative world-building of contemporary artist Saya Woolfalk.

Part 1: Reading The River
Participants will meet outside Mexic-Arte Museum at 11am to walk to Republic Square, where they will study the Blackbird sculpture (a monumental grackle sculpture by Kincannon Studios honoring the Mexican American community displaced from the neighborhood in the 1920s), and then continue to Lady Bird Lake to observe the watershed, sketch the landscape, and collect natural texture tools.

Part 2: Sculpting The Zanate
Participants will return to the museum to build their own terracotta clay hybrid guardians from their field observations: chimeric figures that are part human, part zanate (Great-tailed Grackle), part myth, and part future, imagined as permanent inhabitants of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) future tunnel.

This workshop is part of a larger public art project by artist Saya Woolfalk, commissioned by the Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment Art in Public Places program for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.