Food Shelter Water features the work of four Texas-based photographers who address themes related to our most basic human needs. Barriers to these resources reflect the baseline issues surrounding social justice and equity within American society and around the world. 

This exhibition is a collaboration between The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College and ACC’s Department of Professional Photography (The.DPP). 

This exhibition featured the work of four photographers, including Verónica G. Cárdenas, a documentary photographer, video-, and photojournalist based in McAllen, Texas. Their work documents the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers to the U.S border, and has been published in major publications, such as Reuters, The Texas Tribune, TIME Magazine, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

To find ways to function in contemporary society, many people of color feel compelled to alter, contort, or change their identities. This exhibition brings together the work of Bárbara Miñarro and Dave McClinton, two Central Texas artists with artistic practices that explore themes of race and equity in America. Through their artworks, they explore the body in space and how an awareness of physical stress on the human form can symbolize the challenges wrought by discrimination and injustice.

Bárbara Miñarro is a San Antonio based artist who produces textile and fiber artworks that reflect on tactile memories embedded in objects. Much of her work is connected to the lives of Mexican-American immigrants and notions of belonging and migration.

Dave McClinton is an Austin based artist whose artistic practice is a mixture of digital collage, painting, and photography. His work explores the history of the African-American experience and how that history continues to define aspects of Black life in America.