In the Mian Gallery, "No Pierdas El Tino,” loosely translates to “Don’t Lose Aim,” which Paul Acevedo Gomez use to speak about his personal story and talk about his identity as a Mexican American artist. Heoffer a distinctive perspective on the pursuit of identity through art, evoking a universal sense of yearning to belong in a world that often marginalizes and isolates.

In the Snap Space, Melissa Guadalupe Wolf explores “The Origin of Vaqueros.” Hundreds of years before there was the American cowboy, there was the vaquero, an expert horseman who could adeptly herd cattle through skills with a lasso. Dating back to classic western cinematography, the image of cowboys has been cemented as white Americans when the first vaqueros were in fact Indigenous Mexican men.