Title: Quincenera Cow Location: Williams Tower: Post Oak Blvd. Artist: HCP/El Centro de Corazon Sponsor: Anonymous Friend of the Houston Center for Photography Quinceanera Cow is painted pink with a pearlized finish. It has a bejeweled tiara on its head; long, black eyelashes over big brown eyes; pink “pantaloons” and a “rosary” around its neck. Photographs of young women from one year to fifteen years of age are collaged along one side, as is a print of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. On the other side, more color Xeroxes of the beautiful fifteen-year-old girls dancing with their fathers and a legend of celebration of Quinceanera further decorates the cow. The “Girls Own Stories” program teaches the use of photography and photographic processes to the participants. The girls formulated their design around the use of their cameras from the program and photographs that they took of their homes, neighborhoods and during actual Quinceanera celebrations. The Quinceanera is an important ceremony and tradition in Hispanic culture. It celebrates a young girl’s passage into womanhood at age fifteen. The cow is designed to educate the public about Hispanic traditions in a way that reflects to the young women who created the cow.				This cow was sold in Flight 7 of the internet auction hosted by Amazon.com that ran from January 5 to January 11, 2002. Send a Postcard

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