Best Restoration
For La Raza mural on Holly Shores
Anytime an Austin mural is rescued from disrepair, it's cause for celebration, but the restoration of For La Raza by community group Arte Texas deserves a citywide cheer. It's revived an important community landmark – a vibrant statement of Chicano pride painted in 1992 by Robert Herrera and Oscar Cortez – and also reinvented it, with heightened colors and new images painted by the original muralists in collaboration with a new generation of Eastside artists. As restored, the mural simultaneously pays tribute to Holly Shores' past and again makes a bold statement about the community's present and future.