Our Lady of Guadalupe
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand grew up in Puerto Rico. She is the author of several children’s books, includingShake It, MorenaandJuan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico. She lives in Portland, Oregon.Tonya Engel was born in Houston, Texas and travelled extensively in the US and Europe before settling down in her studio in Brooklyn, NY.  Tonya Engel is a self-taught painter. After a short-lived exploration in her earlier career with abstract painting, she began to totally concentrate on figurative form mixed with the emotion and expressionistic boldness that makes her works resolutely contemporary.