Amado M. Peña, Jr.
B.A. (Art) 1965.
M.A. (Art & Education) 1971
Massachusetts Oklahoma Washington D.C. Kansas
Texas Arizona New Mexico Pennsylvania
Florida Virginia Colorado Washington
California Illinois New Jersey Minnesota
Wisconsin Maryland Georgia Tennessee
Oregon
Music at Angel Fire, Angel Fire, New Mexico
Taos Spring Arts Celebration, Taos, New Mexico
Spring Arts, New Mexico
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Texas Sesquicentennial
Albuquerque Light Opera, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Austin Civic Ballet, Austin, Texas
Futures for Children
National Migrant Referral
Mexican American Legal and Educational Fund, Los
Angeles, California
Fiesta Caceria, Laredo, Texas
Childrite, Taos, New Mexico
National Conference on Women and the Law
National Association for Bilingual Education
Texas A&I University, Kingsville, Texas
University of Texas Nursing School, Austin, Texas
Art Has Heart, Casa de Amigos, Scottsdale Gallery
Association, Arizona
March of Dimes, Austin, Texas
High Plains Epilepsy Association, Amarillo, Texas
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, New Jersey
Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado
Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas
National Association for Bilingual Education,
Albuquerque, NM
Easter Seals “Stars Over the Caribbean” Fund Raising
Gala
La Peña’s Toma Mí Corazon” Visual Art Exhibit and
Fundraiser, Austin, TX
STEP For Children Fundraiser, Sarasota, FL
South Texas Community College, McAllen, TX
El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
Doña Ana Branch Community College, Las Cruces, NM
Brackenridge Hospital, Austin, TX
Manor High School, Manor, TX
1987 Native
American Artist of the Year Award, Dine Be Keyah Museum, Page, Arizona
Proclamation, City of Austin, Texas
Guest Speaker, Creativity Symposium, Austin, Texas
Guest Speaker, Idyllwild School (LSOMATA), California
Letter of Greeting from Mayor Feinstein, San
Francisco, California
Retrospective Exhibition, Scottsdale Center for the
Arts, Arizona
1988 Four
Certificates of Merit, Graphics Art Award, Printing Industries of America Inc.
Cover Artist, Mexican and American Foundation Annual Report, Los Angeles, CA
Appreciation Award, Ronald McDonald House, San Diego,
California
1989 Formation of the Amado
M. Peña, Jr. Scholarship Fund, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
Proclamation, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Martin High School,
Laredo, Texas
Three Graphic Arts Awards of Excellence, Austin, Texas
Guest Artist, Penn State Art Department, State
College, Pennsylvania
Parade Marshall, 21st Annual Fiestas Patrias Parade,
Houston, Texas
1990 Grand
Marshall, Washington’s Birthday Parade, Laredo, Texas Honoree, The State of
Texas Cultural and Historical Resources Committee, Austin, TX
Art in Embassies Loan Program, Bangladesh Embassy
Three Graphic Arts Awards of Merit, Austin, Texas
1991 Set Designer, “The Magic
Flute,” San Antonio Festival, San Antonio, Texas Narrator, “Spirits of the Canyon,”
PBS Special
Artist in Residence, Austin Community College, Austin,
Texas
Art Auction, Funding Austin Community College
Scholarship, Lou Diamond Phillips, Celebrity Auctioneer, Austin, Texas
“Chicano Art: Resistance & Affirmation 1965-1985,”
UCLA Wright Art Gallery, International tour includes Denver Art Museum, San
Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Purchase Award, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO
3rd Place – Graphics. Cherry Creek Arts
Festival, Denver, CO
1992 Honorary
Associate of Arts Degree from Austin Community College, Austin, Texas Speaker,
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
University of New Mexico Alumni Association Homecoming
Poster Artist
Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education,
Meritous Service Award
Migrant Educational Opportunities Fund, “Artes 1992,”
Guest Speaker, Flint, Michigan
1993 Presentation
of Key to City, Corpus Christi, Texas
Presentation and Planting of 50th Star on Texas Walk
of Stars, Austin, Texas
Proclamation from City of Austin of Amado M. Peña, Jr.
Day, Austin, Texas
Proclamation from City of Laredo of Amado M. Peña, Jr.
Day, Laredo, Texas
Reader’s Choice, Best Artist of 1993, The Austin
Chronicle. Austin, Texas
1994 Certificate
of Appreciation, HomeSpun, San Marcos, Texas
Certificate of Appreciation, Texas A&M University
at Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas
Exhibition Honors Award, Texas State Arts & Crafts
Fair, Kerrville, Texas
Reacher’s Choice, Best Artist of 1994, The Austin
Chronicle. Austin, Texas
Recognition for Achievement in Art by Texas Land Grant
Commission, Austin, Texas
Awards, Achievements and Honors (cont.)
1995 Certificate of Appreciation,
Texas A&M University at Kingsville, Texas
National Spokesperson
for March of Dimes “Think Ahead” Campaign
Public Service
Announcement Video for March of Dimes ‘Think Ahead” Campaign
Reader’s Choice, Best
Artist of 1995, The Austin Chronicle. Austin, Texas
Recognition of Major Contribution in the Field of Art,
Texas General Land Office, Austin, Texas
1996
All Time Best Selling
Cover, “Patrones en Colores”, Southwest Art. August1990
Fascinating Texans Award, Institute of Texan Cultures,
San Antonio, Texas
National Spokesperson for March of Dimes ‘Think Ahead”
Campaign
Peña Studio. Gallery Opened, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Public Service Announcement Video for March of Dimes
‘Think Ahead” Campaign
Role Model and Excellence in Art Award, Multicultural
Education and Counseling Through the Arts, Houston, Texas
Works Featured in “Selena”, Selena Film Productions,
Inc., Warner Bros. a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, LP
Work Included in
Permanent Collection at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.
1997
Alumnus of the
Year, Texas A&M at Kingsville, Kingsville, TX
Award of Appreciation, March of Dimes South Texas Chapter, McAllen, TX
Commencement Speaker, Spring 1997 Commencement Exercises, The University
of Texas –
Pan American,
Edinburg, TX
Top 50 Distinguished Alumni, Lared Community College, Laredo, TX
1998
Recognition as
Tiger Legend, Martin High School, Laredo, TX
LULAC National Humanitarian of the Year Award Nominee
1999
1st
Place Award – Mixed Media, Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
Invitational Circle, Tapestry in Talent, San Jose, CA
1st Place – Fine Art Prints, Castle Rock Artfest, Castle
Rock, CO
2000 Invitational Circle – Tapestry in Talent, San Jose, CA
1st
Place Award – Painting – Bayou City Arts
Festival, Houston, TX
Best of Show –
Bayou City Arts Festival, Houston, TX
Pascua Yaqui
Tribal Artisan
3rd
Place – Painting – Spirit of American, Clearwater, FL
Best of Show Award
– Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
1st
Place Award – Painting – Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
Peoples’ Choice
Award – Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
1st
Place Award – Printmaking – 8th Annual Dallas Indian Market, Dallas,
TX
1st
Place Award – Painting – Castle Rock Arts Festival, Castle Rock, CO
1st
Place Award – Printmaking – Castle Rock Arts Festival, Castle Rock, CO
1st
Place Award – Paper Cast – Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremony, Gallup, NM
2nd
Place Award – Painting – Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremony, Gallup, NM
2nd
Place Award – Drawing – Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremony, Gallup, NM
2nd
Place Award – Watercolor – Eight Northern Indian Pueblos – 29th Arts
and Crafts
Show, San Juan Pueblo, NM
2nd
Place Award – Drawing – Eight Northern Indian Pueblos – 29th Arts
and Crafts Show
San Juan Pueblo, NM
Awards, Achievements and Honors (cont.)
2001 Best of Show, 1st
Place Award – Painting – Ruidoso Arts Festival, Ruidoso, NM
1st
Place Award – Printmaking – Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
Honorable Mention
– Fine Art – Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market, Phoenix, AZ
1st
Place Award – Printmaking – 1st Place & Best in Category – Cast
Paper – 2nd Place Award –
Watercolor – Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, Gallup, NM
1st
Place Award – Painting – Castle Rock Artfest, Castle Rock, CO
Best of Class –
Painting/Graphics – 1st Place, Graphics – 1st Place,
Painting – American
Indian Art Festival &
Market, Dallas, TX
3rd Place
Award – Painting – Port Clinton Art Festival, Port Clinton, IL
Invitational
Circle – Tapestry Arts Festival, San Jose, CA
3rd
Place Award – Painting – Spirit of America Native American & Wildlife
Festival
Clearwater, FL
2002 Top in Category – Ruidoso Arts Festival, Ruidoso, NM
2nd
Place – Painting - Sharlott Hall Museum,
Prescott Indian Arts Market, Prescott, AZ
Amado M. Peña Day
– May 17, 2002, Austin, TX
3rd
Place – Painting – Red Earth Fine Art Competition, Oklahoma City, OK
1st
Place – Watercolor, 2nd Place – Watercolor, Best in Category –
Printmaking,
1st
Place – Printmaking, 3rd Place – Drawing, 2nd Place –
Mixed Media,
1st Place – Mixed
Media, Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, Gallup, NM
Juror’s Award –
Castle Rock Artfest, Castle Rock, CO
Invitational
Circle – Tapestry Arts Festival, San Jose, CA
Best in Show –
Mixed Media Painting – 1st Place Mixed Media Painting,
Kansas Indian
Art Show, Lawrence, KS
Faculty
Appointment, Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Austin
2003 Invitational Circle – Tapestry Arts Festival, San
Jose, CA
Hall of Fame –
Tapestry Arts Festival, San Jose, CA
1st
Place – Fine Arts – Castle Rock Artsfest, Castle Rock, CO
Honorable Mention
– Lawrence Indian Arts Show, Lawrence, KS
1st
Place – Printmaking – Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
University of
Texas, Chancellors Council, Austin, TX
Master Presenter, NISOD
Dept. of Education Administrators, College of Education, Austin, TX
1st
Place – Oil/Acrylic, Oro Valley Arts Council, Oro Valley, AZ
2004 Best of Category – Red Earth Festival, Oklahoma City,
OK
1st
Prize – Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial, Gallup, NM
Honorable Mention
– Heard Museum Fair, Phoenix, AZ
3rd
Place – Painting - St. George Arts
Festival - St. George, UT
2005 Best in Category – Pastel, Pen & Ink, Ruidoso Art
Festival, Ruidoso, NM
1st
Place – Painting – Eiteljorg Musuem Fair, Indianapolis, IN
3rd
Place – Painting – Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, CA
Outstanding Latino
Cultural Award, Hispanic Caucus
1987 The Laredo Morning
Times. “Peña Brushes Art Canvas for Fiesta Cacena,” 1/15.
Austin
Adopt-A-School Newsletter.
Recognition, February.
Key Magazine. “Amado M. Peña, Jr.” Cover, February.
Southwest Profile. “Amado Peña,” Cover article, Spring.
Arizona Trails. “Amado Maurilio Peña, Jr.” April.
Austin Business Journal. Profit Pictures:
Popular Peña Paints Lucrative Bottom Line,” 6/25.
Publications (Cont.)
1987 The Arizona Republic.
“Markets, Exhibits Spotlight/Indian Artist,” 7/27.
Las Vegas Sun. “Indian Art, Culture Focus of Page Market,” 7/27.
Los Angeles Life. People section, 7/23.
Navajo-Hopi
Observer. “Marketplace Seeks to
Retain Culture,” 7/17.
Santa Fe Reporter “Amado Peña: Art of the Border,” August.
The Forum “Peña Art Corporation Produces Southwest Works,”
August.
Daily News. “Where Will Former ‘GH’ Star Turn Up?,” August.
Austin American-Statesman. “Southwest Style: Amado Peña’s Dazzling Home Manages
to be Snug, Functional,”
10/18.
The Santa Fean
“Amado Peña: Challenging New Directions,” October.
The Corsicana
Daily. “Art Following Life: Peña,” 10/28.
The McAllen Monitor
“Xoxhil Benefit Exhibit to feature Recent Works: Amado Peña’s
Artwork to be on Sale,” 11 / 12.
Key Magazine
Cover article, November.
Taos Magazine.
“El Taller’s Mary Alice Merritt,” Winter.
1988 Changing Times
“How to Invest $1000 or Less,” August.
Laredo Morning Times “New Work Represents Another Milestone,” 5/5.
1989 Guestlife Santa Fe.
“El Taller Gallery,” Annual.
Vista, Personality section, December.
1990 Chicano Anthology
Index. Textbook cover illustration.
Southwest Art
“Amado Maurilio Peña, Cover article, August.
The Austin Chronicle. Reader’s Choice, Artist of the Year.
West Austin News. “Eight Austinites receive Citations of Honor from Cultural and
Historical Committees,” December.
Laredo Morning
Times. “Family recalls artist’s earlier pursuits,” May.
Art in
American History. Overhead Projection Teaching Aid. Transparency of
work.
Laredo Morning
Times “Amado Peña named WBC parade marshal,” January.
Texas Medicine.
“TMA releases Amado M. Peña Jr. print for Border Health Conference,” November.
1991 Austin Weekly.
“Local Heroes,” January 2-8.
Southwest Profile Whitney Publishing Company, Taos, NM “Art as Autobiography,” Cover,
February/March.
Southwest Art.
“High Note,” September.
International Fine Art Collector. “Amado Peña, a Time of New Imagery,”,
October.
The Austin Chronicle. Reader’s Choice, Artist of the Year.
Keyboard Companion.
Cover illustration, Fall.
12th Annual Saginaw LULAC Scholarship Awards, Cover
and article.
Laredo Morning
Times “Amado Peña named among state honorees,” January.
Laredo Morning
Times “Artist Peña bags another state honor,” January.
Corpus Christi
Caller-Times. “Peña: Southwestern
Artist will talk about his work, inspiration at AMST,” April.
Sunday Express
News “Magic Flute’ sets bring paintings to life for Peña,” June.
Sunday Express News. “Amado Maurilio
Peña Jr. and the Magic Flute: San Antonio Festival ‘91 — The New
Frontier,” June.
Durango Herald
“Snowdown Artist named, schedule full of fun. Peña returns as benefactor
artist,” January.
1992 18th Annual TACHE Conference, program page
12, July.
The Galveston Daily News “Artist Peña to appear at Saturday’s Art Walk,”
November.
Dallas Morning
Times. Photo, May.
Vidoran & San Antonio Commercial Recorder “Amado Peña, A
Brush With Greatness,” December.
El Paso Times.
“Peña highlighted at Studio W,” October.
The Galveston Daily News “Visions of serenity,” November.
Hispanic Texas: A Historical Guide, first edition, University of Texas Press, Austin
Publications (Cont.)
1993 Socio
Cultural. “Expoicion pictorica de Amado Peña,” November.
That’s Country.
“Amado Peña: 51st Texas Star,” January.
Austin American-Statesman “Artists Paredes, Peña deserve every tribute,”
October.
Herald Coaster.
“Autograph Time,” April.
Austin American-Statesman “Artist Peña helps send Sanchez kid to college,”
October.
Dallas Morning
News. “Amado Peña: An artistic
storyteller paints his heritage,” October.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
“Images of Mestizo culture: Works of artist Amado Peña to be featured at opening of Center for Hispanic Arts,” March.
Beeville Bee-Picayune
La Feria News. Perryton Herald, and ThrockmortonTribune.
“Amado Peña, A Brush With Greatness,” January, February, and March.
Abilene Reporter-News. “Peña: Southwest’s premier Indian painter brings his
vivid ‘Peña People’ style to Western Heritage Classic art show,” May.
Midland Reporter-Telegram. Photo, October.
Yippy-Yi-Yea.
“WestFest at Copper Mountain Resort,” Fall.
Midland Reporter-Telegram. “Peña talks to people through art,” October.
1994
17th Annual Liberty Mutual Legends of
Golf,” Artist Amado Peña creates
‘The Legend’,” May
The Victoria Advocate. “Peña’s art helps define Southwest,” May
Laredo Morning
Times. “Educator, artist team for story of family values,” November
El Paso Times.
“Craving contact with his roots,” October
Michael Martin
Murphey’s 8th Annual WestFest
“WestFest artists share their love and passion for the American West,”
September
The Monitor
“Decorated ostrich eggs to be auctioned off at Easter Seals Gala on Saturday,”
April
Laredo Morning
Times. “Educator, artist team for story of family values,” November 17,
1994
1995
Austin
American-Statesman. “Their arts are
in the right places,” February
East Valley
Business. “Southwest Arts Festival Premieres Renowned Artist Amado Peña.”
January
Southwest Art.
“Covering the West: The Best of Southwest Art,.” October
The New Mexican.
“Books celebrate mestizo roots,” March
Campaign News.
“Peña Exemplifies the Spirit of Volunteerism,” March of Dimes National
Newsletter, April
Laredo
Morning Times. “Poster signing party
to benefit students,” January
GuestLife New Mexico. “Peña Studio Gallery: Welcome Back Amado!”
1996
The Southwest
Arts Festival. “Amado Peña creates
‘96 festival poster,” January
Mature Living “Southwest
Arts Festival Features renowned Santa Fe Artist Amado M. Peña, Jr.” February
The Desert Sun.
“Southwestern art on display,” February
The LaPeña newsletter “‘Toma Mi Corazón IV’ La Peña’s Visual Art Fundraiser,”
February/March Santa Fean “Road To Romance,” January! February
Dallas Morning News “Amo, amas,
Amado,” January 14, 1996.
Laredo Morning
Times. “Alexander art students under Peña’s guiding hand,”May 2,1996
1996 American Indian Art Festival & Market. “Amado Peña Joins the ‘Circle of Honor’.”
Desert Sun
“Artist in action,” March 17, 1996
San Antonio
Express-News “Peña is proud home is where his art is.”
Laredo Morning
Times. “Peña returns to teach Laredo youth,” May 1996
Walt Garrison All Star Rodeo “Amado M. Peña, Jr.,”
March 30 & 31, 1996
1997 THE PAN AMERICAN
“Amado M. Peña to speak at graduation ceremony”
Laredo
Morning Times “Monday Wash: Critique
said the kid could draw.”
Indio Post “Buyers spend $300,000 for art.”
The Telegraph “Noted artist likes Alton enough to come
back.”
Laredo Morning
Times “ Peña conversation starts Speaker Series.”
1998 Southwest Art “Conversation Piece: Print Publishers”
2000 Powerlines “Amado Peña – Southwest Artist” September
PUBLICATIONS (Cont.)
2002
Tejano
Assocaiation for Historical Preservation
“Ron Tyler, Exec. Director,
Texas State
Historical
Assoc., Henry Cisneros, the the artist Amado Peña are the newest members
to
be added to the steering committee.”
March 2002
2003 Amado and Friends “A Tribute to the Art of Amado M. Peña, Jr” by
Mike DeVault
Two Voices “A Collection of Art and Poetry” by Irene E.
Peña and Amado M. Peña, Jr.
Amadito and
Spider Woman by Lisa Bear Goldman.
Illustrations by Amado M. Peña, Jr.
Governmental
Palacio de Gubernador, Baja California,
Mexico
The People’s Republic of China
Museums
Historical and Creative Arts Center,
Lufkin, Texas
Museum of Nuevo Santander, Laredo,
Texas
National Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington. D.C.
The Whitney Museum, San Antonio, Texas
The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa
Fe, NM
Institutional and Corporate
Execucom, Austin, Texas
Inter-American Development Bank,
Washington, D.C.
New Mexico Highlands State University,
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Pan American University, Edinburg,
Texas
Southwest Art, Houston, Texas
Texas A&I University Art Museum,
Kingsville, Texas
Texas Commerce Bank, Pasillo De Artes
Gallery, Austin, Texas
Tracor Incorporated, Austin, Texas
The University of California at Long
Beach, Long Beach, California
The University of Kentucky, Louisville,
Kentucky
The University of Texas, Benson Latin
American Collection, Austin, Texas
Southwest Bank, St. Louis, MO
Related
Experience
2005
Austin, TX
Artist in Residence – El Paso Community College
El Paso, TX
Distinguished Professor – University of Texas at
Austin
Austin, TX
National Institute for Staff and Organizational
Development – Painting Demo
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
2004
Austin, TX
Honorary Associate of Arts – El Paso Community College
El Paso, TX
Speaker – National Association of Community College
Teacher Education Programs
Tempe, AZ
Keynote Speaker – League for Innovation in the
Community College
San Francisco, CA
2003
El Paso, TX
Keynote Speaker – League for Innovation in the
Community College
Phoenix, AZ
2002
Keynote Speaker – League for Innovation in the Community
College
Boston, MA
Artist in Residence, Texas A & M – Kingsville
Kingsville, TX
University of Northern Colorado Exhibit
Greeley, CO
Texas Migrant Education Conference
South Padre Island, TX
Amado M. Peña, Jr. Endowment for NISOD
College of Education – University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX