Camas+para+Sueños

Date: 1985
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1995/1995.94_1a.jpg?itok=Jdl9_6s8 width="272" height="353" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/camas-para-sue%C3%B1os-34978"]] || Title: **Camas para Sueños**

Artist: **Carmen Lomas Garza**  Born: Kingsville, Texas 1948

Medium: gouache on paper Dimensions: sheet: 28 1/8 x 20 1/2 in. (71.4 x 52.1 cm) sight: 23 x 17 1/2 in. (58.4 x 44.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program

Accession: 1995.94 || Painter and printmaker. While attending Texas Arts and Industry University (Texas A&I) in Kingsville, Lomas Garza joined the Chicano movement. In addition to earning a B.S. in art education and a Texas Teaching Certificate from Texas A&I (now Texas A&M, Kingsville), she holds an M.Ed. from Juárez-Lincoln/Antioch Graduate School, Austin, Texas, and an M.A. from San Francisco State University. Awards and fellowships include VIDA Award, Arts Category; several California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence Grants; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for Painting and Printmaking; and a California Arts Council Fellowship. Latino Art and Culture Bilingual Study Guide (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1996)
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 * How might the three people be related to one another?
 * How do you think the young girls' dreams differ from their mother's? Why might they have different dreams?
 * The mother is preparing her daughter's bed for dreams. How might she also prepare her daughter to achieve her aspirations or dreams for the future?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What are your dreams? What might some challenges be to achieving them? What can you do to prepare and make them come true?

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