Career
She is Latina and lives and works in West Texas. She is currently a professor in the School of Art at Texas Technical University where she was the creator of the annual undergraduate show. Her art studio is in Lubbock, Texas.
Fuentes was named one of the top 100 most influential people in Lubbock, Texas in 2008.
Fuentes helped organize first annual Dia de los Muertos procession in Lubbock in the late 1990s. Fuentes was born in San Angelo, Texas.
She was raised in Odessa, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts at North Texas State University.
During her time in New Mexico, Fuentes attended and trained at the Tamarind Institute.
Fuentes designed her own home, basing it on native adobe architecture. Fuentes taught art in Albuquerque, New Mexico for about 15 years. Over the years, she has taught in Texas Public Schools, the Waco Art Center and at the University of Albuquerque and the University of New Mexico.
Foreign many years, Fuentes limited her palette to black and white.
Her art, over a 30-year period, has explored the boundaries of both abstract and representational art Deconstructing everyday objects has also become an important part of her work.
Fuentes herself describes her work as "non-objective or abstract," but also as "biographies and self-portraits." She sees her art as revealing who she is and how she has developed and grown as a person.
