For the second week of #HispanicHeritageMonth, let’s take a look at the work of María Luisa Martín.⁣ ⁣ At the age of 12, María Luisa Martín and her family emigrated to Mexico as refugees of the Spanish Civil War. As a young woman she attended the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City, where she studied under some of the great artists of the period, such as Alfredo Zalce, Carlos Orozco Romero, and Agustín Lazo. She went on to become a member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, an artist's print collective founded in Mexico in 1937. There she focused on printmaking with political and social themes such as images of workers, indigenous people, prisoners and works supporting the Cuban Revolution. In the early 1950s, she met Diego Rivera, who invited her to collaborate on mural projects at the Teatro de Insurgentes and The Olympic Stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria. After becoming a recognized and celebrated artist around the world, the student uprising in Mexico in 1968 prompted her to become a drawing teacher, working at the National Autonomous University of Mexico from until her death in 1982.⁣ ⁣ [‘Paz Para Mi Hijo’ María Luisa Martín, 1955]