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Eduardo C. Garza
Literary Arts: Author/Writer, Playwright, Poet; Media Arts: Radio/Television Talent, Voiceover; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms, Performer and Writer; Other; Performing Arts: Actor, Band, Dancer, Director, Musician, Performance Art, Spoken Word Artist, Storyteller, Vocalist/Singer; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Craftsperson, Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Muralist, Painter; Culture Bearer
Eduardo Cavazos Garza, founder of the Jazz Poets of San Antonio and longtime Chicano activist, artist, poet, musician, actor, drum-maker, mask-carver and Native American spiritual practitioner, was born in Kingsville, Texas in 1947 and moved to San Antonio in 1974. He served in Vietnam from August 1969 to August 1970 and returned to make use of the GI Bill by studying Art at the University of Texas-San Antonio. He has acted in more than seven films, including The Newton Boys, The Bookie, Even Hand and several made–for–TV dramas, plus countless television and radio commercials. He has also participated in scores of sweat lodges, is active in many indigenous ceremonies, and is an outstanding performance poet. Garza has created hundreds of poems and paintings and thousands of drawings, in addition to many wooden faces carved from tree trunks. Garza continues to curate and organize art shows and poetry and music events as he has for decades and currently performs with the Jazz Poets of San Antonio for Brick’s Blue Mondays.
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Artist Style: Dance: Folk, Traditional; Literary: Action/Adventure, Documentary, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose, Science Fiction, Slam, Stream of Consciousness; Music: Acoustic, Blues, Cajun/Zydeco, Classic Rock, Conjunto, Covers/Tribute, Experimental, Folk, Funk, Gospel, Hard Rock, Hip-Hop/Rap, Jazz, Latin/Spanish, New Age, Pop, Rap, Rock, Salsa, Soul/R&B, Tejano, Western Swing, World; Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Guest Speaker, Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Children, Instruction for Seniors, Multi-Day Artist Residency, Performer for Schools/Classrooms, Workshop Presenter; Theatre: Cabaret/Variety, Comedy, Drama, Improv, Musicals, Political, Solo/One-Person; Visual Art: Documentary, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Environmental, Experimental, Expressionistic, Figurative, Illustrative, Minimalism, Nature/Wildlife, Non-Objective, Political, Pop, Social Commentary, Still Life; Murals
Artist Statement of Work
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There is art in every cell of the universe. I like to mix it up. Diversify the intensity of the multiple manifestations in all the genres of art that are available to us in the real world as we know it. Applying, scientifically, the tools and physical matter, allowing the unknown to manifest. Also, allowing the unknown to appear the way it appears in our art. Each work of art is particular to itself. Over-working or changing a piece can cause stress. Accepting unfinished works as they are is key to progress. Keep looking and eventually your piece finishes itself or is abandoned. This applies to all mediums that I pursue, which are painting, drawing, writing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, creating musical instruments, acting professionally, dancing, songwriting, recording songs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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