CONTACT: Clara Mae Marcotte

512-593-4143

FOUNDER OF AUSTIN ART GALLERY

SPEAKS FOR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH

KINGSVILLE (September 24, 1998) -- Sylvia Orozco, founder of the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, will speak on art administration in Texas A&M University-Kingsville's Bailey Art Gallery at 10 a.m. Wednesday Sept. 30.

Orozco, who was a Texas A&I art major for two years, received her bachelor of fine arts in studio art from the University of Texas in Austin, and her master of fine arts degree from San Carlos Academy of Art in Mexico City. When she returned to Texas, she founded the Mexic-Arte Museum in 1983. The museum, the first organization in Austin to promote multicultural contemporary art, was incorporated in 1984, obtained its non-profit status in 1985 and began a sister museum relationship with Mexico City's Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Studio Museum in 1993.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information call the art department at 512-593-2619.

-TAMUK-