NACCS TEJAS FOCO 2023

Awards

NACCS TEJAS FOCO NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD

The Haunted Southwest: Towards an Ethics of Place in Borderlands Literature

Cordelia E. Barrera

Honorable Mention

Undocumented Motherhood:

Conversations of Love, Trauma, & Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Naccs Tejas Dissertation Award

Decolonial Rhetoric in Texas Borderland Gardens

Marlene Galván

Naccs Tejas Letras De Aztl N Community Award

Rosa San Luis & Border Workers United (formerly Fuerza Unida)

About The Award

Winners of the NACCS Tejas Foco 2023 Awards will each receive a print by Chicana Artist, CELESTE DE LUNA. De Luna is also the artist of the cover art of the program, Coatlicue. De Luna is an educator, an artist/printmaker originally from the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and now living in San Antonio, Texas. She is a self-taught printmaker whose work includes large-scale woodcut prints, fabric installation, and other media. She is also a cofounder of the socially engaged art collective Las Imaginistas, an accomplished home cook, and a woman who pulled her family out of the dependency of law enforcement employment. Celeste has been awarded residencies, fellowships, & grants from Vermont Studio Center, Artplace America, a Blade of Grass, Santa Fe Art Institute Artist Residency and recently exhibited her work in Vancouver, Canada. Celeste teaches art and Mexican-American Studies at Northwest Vista College.