Causes: Arts and Culture
The Twelve Travelers Memorial of the Southwest, now doing business as
the Frontera Arts and Heritage Alliance, has boardened its mission to include mmany forms of two and three dimensional Art.
Our dedication to Arts, Culture, and History of El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and Las Cruces areas will encompass both budding and established
artists and will include educational programming for our youth about
the importance of their heritage.
Please be assured that your contrubution will be handled with
the utmost fiduciary care and is fully deductible in accordance with
federal tax law.
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The Twelve Travelers Memorial of the Southwest established in
1993 and was formed to promote and fund a series of 12 monumental
bronzes of Tom's Lee historical figures during the past 500 years.
Four have been completed: Frey Garcia de San Francisco at 125 Pioneer
Plaza downtown; The Equestrian at the El Paso Airport; Susan Magoffin
at the Keystone Heritage Park, and Benito Juarez at the Chamizal
National Memorial. They are unique. These sites have been visited by
thousands of El Pasoans and tourists.
Candidates for the next PROJECTS are:
**Cabeza de Vaca**- Explorer & Healer and **Estebanico**- Linguist,
Explorer, First black man in the U.S.
Monument of **Francisco Tilagua and Bartolo Pique** - Founders of
the Tigua Indians.
Monument of **Henry Ossian Flipper** – Soldier, Engineer, Surveyor,
Translator & Historian.