The World of Frida,  celebrates the culture, style, and persona of visionary painter Frida Kahlo—an artist who continues to inspire with her story of love, adventure, pain, and courage. The exhibition will include art with Frida Kahlo as the subject as well as artworks inspired by her life and art, including themes of Frida’s garden, Mexican culture and fashion, vibrant colors, surrealism, and more.

Touring exhibition dates

Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, Carlsbad, NM

Nov. 9, 2019 – Jan. 25, 2020

Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL

Feb. 22 – April 26, 2020

Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA

May 23 – Aug. 16, 2020

California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA

Sept. 19 – Nov. 15, 2020

Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL

Dec. 12 – Feb.  27, 2021

Jurors
Lisa Congdon
Fine artist, illustrator and author Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful paintings and hand lettering. She works for clients around the world including MoMA, REI, Harvard University, Martha Stewart Living, Chronicle Books, and Random House Publishing, among many others. She is the author of seven books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist, and illustrated books The Joy of Swimming, Fortune Favors the Brave, Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, Twenty Ways to Draw a Tulip and A Collection a Day. Her latest book, A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives, was released by Chronicle Books in October 2017. She was named one of 40 Women Over 40 to Watch in 2015 and she is featured in the 2017 book, 200 Women Who Will Change the Way you See the World. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Rebecca Gomez, Curator of Exhibitions & Programs, Mexic-Arte Museum
Rebecca Gomez earned her B.A. in Art History from Southwestern University (2007) and her M.A. in Art History and Criticism from the University of Texas at San Antonio (2011), focusing on Latin American Art and writing her thesis on “The History, Collection, and Display of Chicano/a Art in San Antonio.” Rebecca served as Assistant to the Curator at the UTSA Art Collection for three years; interned at the Royal Academy for the Arts in London (2006); and curated the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibit: Art of Devotion: 18th and 19th Century Mexican Religious Folk Art (2007). Her written work appears in peer-reviewed publications, including Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas (University of New Mexico). Rebecca is the Curator of Exhibitions and Programs for the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas, an institution dedicated to the cultural enrichment and education through the collection, preservation and presentation of traditional and contemporary Mexican, Latino and Latin American art and culture. In the past three and a half years she has served as the project director or curated nearly 30 exhibitions including the recent exhibition Diego and Frida: A Smile in the Middle of the Way (2016). Additionally, she has served as a panelist for the East Austin Studio Tour and the West Austin Studio tour for Big Medium.