The Juntos Art Association plans to bring in artists, writers, poets, filmmakers and scholars from around the United States for an Art and Literature Festival in El Paso on March 11-13, 2010.
The preliminary Art and Literature Festival schedule includes former El Pasoan David Carrasco, a Harvard University professor, writer and expert on Mexican and Mesoamerican art and culture; Tomas Ybarra Frausto, a Stanford University professor who heads the Smithsonian Council in Washington, D.C.; and Jesus Trevino, a film producer, television director and children's book author. For more information, please contact Maria Almeida Natividad at 915-203-2309 or manatividad@hotmail.com.
Jesús Salvador Treviño is an award-winning filmmaker, renowned for his pioneering films of the Chicano experience. Author of The Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories (Arte Público Press, 1995), Treviño will be discussing his 2005 work The Skyscraper that Flew and Other Stories, that was published by Arte Publico Press.
The event is located at:
El Paso Main Library
501 N. Oregon
El Paso, TX 79901
