Lupe Casillas - Lowenberg - 1997

Lupe Casillas - Lowenberg - 1997

Lupe Casillas - Lowenberg, art teacher, by mural old Ysleta ISD Central Office on Alameda Street 1997 Photo taken in El Paso, TX. Image Description: A woman is posing in front of a colorful mural in this color photograph. The woman is standing in the bottom center of the photograph. She is wearing a white blazer with a black dress. She has reddish brown hair. The mural behind her features an array of sunflowers, lilies and Mexican American themes.

Area: Mission Valley / Ysleta

Source: C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections, University of Texas at El Paso Library. Collection Name: Eva Ross - MS477

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

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About 1981 Lupe supervised a mural at San Martin de Porras Church, Sunland Park NM entitled The Apparition of the Virgin de Guadalupe.

See book by Miguel Juarez, Colors on Desert Walls, the Murals of El Paso, Texas Western Press contains interview of artist inEnglish p. 38, in Spanish p. 205.

March is Women's History Month. Art teachers provide help to students seeking creative careers. The mural behind Lupe shows aspects of cultural blend available in El Paso, TX.

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