Teresa Eckmann is Associate Professor of contemporary Latin American art history at the University of San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of Neo-Mexicanism: Mexican Figurative Painting and Patronage in the 1980s (UNM Press). She has curated several exhibitions in her field including most recently, Alberto Mijangos,159: A Retrospective of His Art (and Life), and Status? Prints from Puerto Rico to San Antonio for the city’s Department of Arts and Culture. She is currently working on a second book project, Growing Urban Presence: A History of Public Art in San Antonio.