Opening Night Dare to Dream II - Laredo Center for the Arts - Sept. 5, 2025

by Tragaluz Staff

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El Abrazo, Sandra Gonzalez

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Romero-Lecanda: for Los Dos Laredos to work collectively, we need processes for sustainable development and the exchange of knowledge and experiences so that culture is the axis of transformation

By Seyde García

Sabbatical from humanity: the (ongoing) career of artist Jorge Javier López

By Mario E. Martinez

Sarah Fox: The Woman Under the Water and Other Stories

By Eva Soliz

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By Ryan Cantú

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By Vanessa Filazzola

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By Rebekah Rodriguez

The role of higher education in the arts

By Eva Soliz

The state of the arts in Laredo today is one of palpable, vibrant, and emerging momentum

By María Eugenia Guerra

The vital role of art spaces

By Maritza Bautista

What art history does: Amalia Mesa Bains’s Domesticana

By Isabel Servantez III

A Program of Daphne Art Foundation