Mexic-Arte Museum

Mexic-Arte Museum was founded and established as a non-profit in 1984 by artists Sylvia Orozco, Sam Coronado, and Pio Pulido in the Arts Warehouse in downtown Austin. They sought to create a space for Mexican art and culture, something virtually unheard of at the time. Today, Mexic-Arte serves more than 75,000 visitors annually, with over 50% of those being people of color, and is one of the foremost Latinx art museums in the country. Through fostering diversity and embracing cross-cultural understanding, Mexic-Arte has created a space by and for Mexican Americans in central Texas.