Mi Cultura

Al Rendón is a commercial and art photographer working in south-central Texas. His photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States, Latin America, and China and have been featured in fourteen books, as well as on the covers of People and Newsweek. Four of his photographs, including portraits of Selena, are in the National Portrait Gallery. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Marise McDermott is president and chief executive officer of the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.

Eduardo Díaz is the acting deputy director of the National Museum of the American Latino. He is the former executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque and previously served as San Antonio’s first director of arts and culture.

Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, formerly of the Rockefeller Foundation and Stanford University, is a native San Antonian and an independent scholar of Latino and Latin American arts and culture.

Bruce M. Shackelford is the Texas history curator for the Witte Museum in San Antonio and the author of Photography on the South Texas Frontier: Images from the Witte Museum Collection  and The Wests of Texas: Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs.

Juan Tejeda is a professor emeritus of Mexican American studies and music at Palo Alto College and the founder of the Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio. He is the button accordionist for the Conjunto Aztlan and the co-owner of Aztlan Libre Press.