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A brightly colored painting of a curandera performing a healing in a bedroom. A woman in a red floral dress leans over a person lying in bed with a cloth on their forehead, sweeping a green palm frond across the turquoise bedspread. A boy in a horse-print shirt watches from the foot of the bed, resting his chin on his hands beside a red apple. Incense smoke rises from a blue can on the floor. The room holds an image of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a lit candle, family portraits on the wall, a sewing machine, and a window looking out onto green leaves.

July 23, 2026

Reconnecting Through Curanderismo: Exploring Healing Traditions in South Texas

Reconnecting Through Curanderismo: Exploring Healing Traditions in South Texas by Oddett Garza, Texas Folklife Community Folklife Fellow Growing up in…

Posted By: Mariela Freire

Thursday, 23, Jul

Reconnecting Through Curanderismo: Exploring Healing Traditions in South Texas

Thursday, 16, Jul

Yiddish Life through Song: When Memory Becomes Performance

Thursday, 9, Jul

Flor y Palma: Traditions of la primavera in South Tejas

Thursday, 2, Jul

Archiving the Ephemeral: the Art of Preserving Dance

Monday, 29, Jun

The Light We Carry Forward

Thursday, 25, Jun

A Shared Cosmovisión: Transnational Plant Lives in Houston’s Greater East End