Linda Rivera de Garcia Artist Reception
Linda Rivera de Garcia Artist Reception
The reception will start at 5pm and will be the final event of the special My Antonia Big Read Event at the Opera House
Artist's Biography
Linda Rivera de Garcia is a Mexican American Chicana artist, who has been active for over fifty years creating, teaching, and exhibiting Mexican/Latino folk and indigenous arts and traditional culture throughout Nebraska. Living her entire life in Nebraska, she is now retired from her career as a children's librarian. Linda has recently finished a commission for a work of art to be included in the permanent collection of the Great Plains Art Museum, in Lincoln, Nebraska, after having a summer long exhibition there. She has also exhibited at the Museum of Nebraska Art/MONA, the Durham Museum, and the Sheldon Museum. At the Joslyn Museum, Linda assisted in curating a exhibit of Mexican folk/popular art from the Doug and Pat Wagner Collection. Linda's main motivo/motivation is reflected in her artistic production, its beginnings rooted in the late 1960s, as a student of the College of St. Mary's in Omaha. In 2009, she and her husband José, founded the Mexican American Historical Society and now operate the South Omaha Museum of Immigrant History, also in Omaha.
