Sala Diaz is honored to host a new installation by Arlington, Texas-based octogenarian Celia Álvarez Muñoz. A conceptual multi-media artist, Muñoz’s latest exhibition, Caritas y Marcas, examines the role that mothers have in the world. The exhibition opens Thursday, April 28, 2022, from 6–9pm, at Sala Diaz. This event is free and open to the public.

Muñoz considers herself an “artivisit,” that is an artist and activist. In her own words, “Since my days teaching art at all levels, preschool to university, commissioned residencies and public art, the goal has always been to develop validation or protest to our cultural evolution as a citizen of a community, city, state, country, or the world. In doing so, it has given more meaning to the process of artmaking. The commercial art and teaching perspective gave rise to developing projects for commissions.”

Caritas y Marcas is a continuation of Muñoz’s artivist mission. With a military father deployed to Alaska and Germany, Muñoz was raised surrounded by her mother, aunt, and grandmother in El Paso, Texas. Like much of her work, Caritas y Marcas draws from the artists’ personal experiences to discuss universal themes, in this case, motherhood.