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NACCS TEJAS FOCO 2023
Awards
NACCS TEJAS FOCO NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD
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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.