Artist Spotlights
2022 – 2023 Artist Grantee Xelena González
As a welcome Saturday evening breeze blew outside the Spirit Waters Gallery about a mile east of downtown, San Antonio author Xelena González held up an extra artistic version of the lotería card El Árbol, the tree.
Eyes like smiles, the award-winning writer waved the card to a crowd of around 100 people, many seated at tables to play that classic game also known as Mexican bingo. Only this lotería card seemed to mirror itself in design, its round root system below shaped just like its verdant crown above…