Listen to an interview with Adair Margo, the founding director of the Tom Lea Institute in El Paso, Texas. Tom Lea is one of El Paso's most celebrated and prolific visual artists, with most of his works on view at the El Paso Museum of Art located at One Arts Festival Plaza in Downtown El Paso.
Margo oversees Lea's legacy and organizes a month-long festival in El Paso honoring the artists and this year, Tom Lea Month is officially taking place in October, no longer falling in the hot summer months. The move to October allows for the event to join in other El Paso arts events, such as Chalk the Block. Visit www.tomleainstitute.com for news and information about Tom Lea Month.
Adair Margo Bio
Adair Margo was the Chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities during the two-term Presidency of George W. Bush. During her tenure, Margo focused on international cultural diplomacy beginning with Mexico. She traveled with First Lady Laura Bush to Paris, France for the United States reentry into UNESCO in 2003 and was appointed by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the US National Commission for UNESCO. Serving as a cultural ambassador, Margo traveled to Uruguay in 2004 at the invitation of U.S. Ambassador Martin Silverstein and she led the highest level cultural delegation to ever visit the People’s Republic of China at the invitation of Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng in 2006. Adair Margo received the Aguila Azteca, the highest recognition given by the Mexican Government to a non-Mexican citizen, from Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC in 2007. In 2008, she received the Presidential Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush who cited her “rallying of support for the cultural agencies and strengthening of international relationships from Mexico to China”.
From the Tom Lea Institute website:
The Tom Lea Institute will:
* work in collaboration with other institutions to create a
comprehensive digital library for his art, illustrations, letters,
photographs and press, making them available to students,
researchers, and the general public;
* publish Tom Lea’s catalogue raisonné;
* sponsor Tom Lea Month annually, formalizing the 2007 Tom Lea
Centennial resolutions by the City Council of El Paso; the
State of Texas; the United States Congress; and the United
States Senate, and;
* fund projects and scholarship related to Tom Lea’s life and work.
You are invited to contribute to the Tom Lea Institute, insuring that Tom Leaâs work is shared more widely and preserved for generations to come. Please call 915 533-0048 for more information. www.tomleainstitute.org
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