Voices in Concert: In the Spirit of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

This catalog spotlights the work of three Chicana artists whose work deals with issues of gender and racial inequality. All threeTina Fuentes, Delilah Montoya and Kathy Vargasare Texas natives, and their pieces included in this volume were recently featured in an exhibition in Houston at the Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA) and the O'Kane Gallery at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Themes of identity, freedom, transformation and exploration appear in the artists’ work. It is the freedom to createcombined with cultural and historical contextsthat suggests a connection with the seventeenth-century Mexican writer, Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz. Though they share a commitment to social justice, their art is very different. Tina Fuentes is a painter who uses the human figure as the central mode of inquiry in her work; sometimes it is recognizable and other times it’s very abstract. Delilah Montoya documents Chicano communities through photographs. And Kathy