Family Pictures / Cadres de Familiar Home enriching both their office and

enriching both their office and the nation

My interest in photographing and painting medicinal plants sprang from a 2006 exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art entitled Botanical Treasures of Lewis and Clark—New Art For the Bicentennial

WENDY CORTESI'S STORY BEHIND THE ART

I also use distilled water and the most stable and lightfast watercolor paints available

and a participating artist

Family Pictures / Cadres de Familiar Home enriching both their office andFamily Pictures is the story of Carmen Lamas Garza's girlhood in Hinesville, Texas: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, picking cacti, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day to day experiences are told through fifteen paintings and stories, each focusing on a different aspect of Carmen's traditional Mexican American culture growing up. The paintings and stories reflect the author's strong sense of family and