By Norma Martinez & Lauren Terrazas • Oct 4, 2019 A happy, young 12-year-old girl living in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, sees her life upended when her family emigrates across the border to El Paso. Though the move was from one border town to another, the culture shock brought emotional and physical trauma that she’d carry…
Nicholas Frank Two years after Rocío Alvarado Lockwood died of cancer in 2015 at age 54, her family found her voice. Among her possessions were impassioned journals she had scrawled years earlier, recounting her traumatic experiences as a child immigrant in El Paso, and a haunting set of drawings and prints depicting wounded, silent children,…
Deborah Martin Sep. 17, 2019 Updated: Sep. 17, 2019 7:12 p.m. When Rocio Alvarado Lockwood talked about her childhood in the time right after her family moved across the border from Juarez into El Paso, she left out some of the more harrowing aspects. “When she did talk about it, she sort of played it off…
Monica Brooks has loved letter forms since she was a child. She still remembers a demonstration of calligraphy she saw when she was in middle school and how fascinated she was by it. Today, Brooks is a member of the San Antonio Calligraphers’ Guild and an accomplished calligraphic artist whose work is featured in the…