Amado pena biography

American visual artist and art educator

Amado Maurilio Peña Jr. (born 1943) is an American visual artist and art educator of Mexican and Yaqui ancestry.

He is known as an important Mexican American artist who emerged from the historical Chicano Movement. He works primarily in printmaking.

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His artwork was featured in the important exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation.^[1]

Biography

Amado M. Peña Jr. was born in the border town of Laredo, Texas, in 1943. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in art and education at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

He has taught art at various Texas schools in Laredo, Crystal City, and Austin. Peña refers to himself as Mestizo due to his mixed Mexican and Yaqui ancestry, a fact that informs his artistic practice. He is a member and recognized as an artisan in the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.^[2]

Art

Growing up with a working class family in a border town, Amado M.

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