Emmanuel C. Montoya
Linocut, 1987
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Emmanuel Montoya, printmaker, sculptor and muralist was born in South Texas, where he grew up fully aware of his Mexican heritage. It was not until recently that he discovered that his great grandmother was full-blood Apache. With this new information and a new source of inspiration, he began to explore his American Indian heritage by depicting it in his artwork. Montoya served as a professor at San Francisco City College and San Francisco State University. He is extremely active in grassroots-level projects and politics. He has also taught art to disabled children at Creative Growth Art Center, to inmates in the Tracy prison system, and to children at local grade schools and Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art.