José Villalobos

Recorded August 20, 2020

+ ART + Together with the Emma S Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, we're proud to feature the amazing artist, José Villalobos. ⁠
José Villalobos is known for artistically protesting culturally-accepted traits of toxic masculinity through performance, installation, sculpture, drawings, and fashion. Villalobos grew up on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Tex., and was raised in a traditional conservative family. His oeuvre reconciles the identity challenges in his life, caught in between traditional Mexican customs and American mores, as well as growing up with religious ideals that conflict with being gay. In his work, he confronts the derogatory terms and attitudes with which Villalobos continues to withstand today. ⁠s, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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