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VOLUME 8 • ISSUE 3 • October 26, 2022
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hello FROM KRISTI
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My lemonade is 15 years old!
In October of 2007, I was laid off from my “real” job. In a time that was incredibly uncertain for so many, I vowed then and there to write my own story, to answer only to myself and the Big Man upstairs. At the time, my daughter was 10 years old, and I thought long and hard about the next steps. I knew I wanted a career that would provide me with the flexibility to attend choir concerts and field trips and to carpool. I wanted to show her hard work can also be fun and how to turn challenges into opportunities, and, most of all, to instill the entrepreneurial spirit in her at a young age. Welcome Home RGV was born on my dining room table 15 years ago, with a staff of one. Me. Fast forward to today, and we have over 20 women on our team, all who want to express creativity at work yet have the flexibility to be home when they need to be. I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to serve the Winter Texan market and for an amazing team that allows me to do what I do best, and that’s connecting people, places, and things. I look forward to the next 15 years and where we will be led. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade…or in our case – margaritas! •
Kristi THANK YOU TO OUR 2022-2023 SEASON SPONSORS
Adult Workshops and Altars of Honor A fraction of the folk-art collection donated by local artist and collector Ann Moore is on exhibit at the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen. Story and photos by Eryn Reddell Wingert
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International Museum of Art and Science (IMAS), located in McAllen, is home to roughly 7,000 pieces of Mexican and Latin American folk art. The collection includes artful textiles, colorful ceramics, and intricate pottery pieces. Some depict domestic or religious scenes, and others lean more toward the whimsical. There is definite whimsy in the collection of hojalata (tin art). A fuchsia and purple cat, for example, with blue wings and a golden
halo; a yellow skeleton sporting an orange western hat and blue and red cowboy boots; a curio cabinet housing a skeleton in a white dress adorned with flowers, gold bangles on her bony—literally--arm, tiny champagne bottles strewn at her feet. These pieces are from the Ann Moore collection of over 2,000 pieces of folk art and are nestled in a large, bright pink cubby as part of the Museum’s Mexican and Latin American Folk Art exhibit. (Additional pieces of Moore’s collection can be viewed at McAllen’s Quinta Mazatlan World Birding Center.)
The ornamental and symbolic tin pieces are the inspiration for an adult workshop planned for Sunday, October 30, at the IMAS, where participants will get to create their own hojalata skeletons. It’s part of a program crafted by the Education Department. “We want the visitors to have a deeper connection to the folk-art exhibit,” says IMAS Education Coordinator, Roni Cortez. The workshop will offer a tour of the permanent folk-art exhibit, explaining the significance of the THE IMAS HOSTS FOLK-ART-INSPIRED CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 >>