Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia
by Carmen Lomas Garza

In 1990 Children’s Book Press of San Francisco published Family Pictures/Cuadros de familía. Children’s Book Press published three more award winning picture books of Ms Garza’s artworks and short stories: In My Family/En mi familía; Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas; Making Magic Windows: Creating Papel Picado/Cut-paper Art with Carmen Lomas Garza. By 2012 over 700,000 copies of the books had sold when the publisher Lee and Low Books of New York City purchased Children’s Book Press and continues to sell the books.

In My Family/En mi familia
by Carmen Lomas Garza

A picture book for children in English and Spanish of Garza’s artwork with a one-page story about each painting. Contains 13 color reproductions. Published by Lee & Low Books.

Magic Windows/Ventanas mágicas
by Carmen Lomas Garza

A picture book for children in English and Spanish of Garza’s artwork with a one-page story about each paper cutout. Multicolor layout of 18 images. Published by Lee & Low Books.

Making Magic Windows: Creating Papel Picado/Cut-Paper Art with Carmen Lomas Garza

An instructional book in English for parents, teachers, and teenagers on how to make “banderitas”, tissue paper cutouts and more complicated cutouts. Published by Lee & Low Books.

Exhibition Catalogues

A Piece of my heart/Pedacito de mi Corazón, The Art of Carmen Lomas Garza

(ISBN 1-56584-164-6)
A reprint of the catalogue for the solo exhibition at Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, in 1991 which traveled to five cities. Contains twenty-four color reproductions and thirteen black & white.

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Carmen Lomas Garza, Lo Real Maravilloso /The Marvelous: The Real

(ISBN 0-9605194-6-7)
A catalogue of a solo exhibition at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco in 1987. Contains fifteen color reproductions. Published by The Mexican Museum.

Monographs

Carmen Lomas Garza by Constance Cortez

In this volume of the path breaking A VER series, Cortez explores Garza’s artwork in the context of the Chicano/a art movement, family and regional traditions, and Garza’s own political and social activism. “A Ver: Carmen Lomas Garza” by Constance Cortez, winner of a 2011 International Latino Book Award by Latino Literacy Now, Published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Documentaries

PAPER CUTOUTS TO STEEL, THE ART OF CARMEN LOMAS GARZA
BY ARTURO GARZA

Carmen talks about her paper and metal cutouts and the production of four commissioned metal cutouts for New Hope Housing in Houston, Texas in 2009.

Film length is 28.30 minutes.

CARMEN LOMAS GARZA: LOOKING BACK
A FILM BY SEVERO PEREZ

From Filmmaker’s Library – Carmen Lomas Garza is a Chicana artist who created images about the lives of Mexican Americans based on her memories and experiences growing up in South Texas. She introduces you to the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, Texas where she had a solo exhibition in 1991, titled “A Piece of My Heart/Pedacito de mi Corazón”.

1:20 minute trailer