Each culture holds traditions that unify its members. For generations, the Mexican game of lotería has been a beloved pastime in Hispanic culture, so much so that the pictograms have become iconic.

Ever since getting married a decade ago, Rafael Gonzales Jr. has known his wife’s five aunts to meet for long Saturday sessions of loteria, the Mexican card game of chance similar to bingo. “They get ...

As a welcome Saturday evening breeze blew outside the Spirit Waters Gallery about a mile east of downtown, San Antonio author Xelena González held up an extra artistic version of the lotería card El ...

Mike Alfaro knew almost instantly he had hit on something big when he posted his first millennial lotería image on his Instagram page back in 2017. It was a spin on La Dama, one of the images on ...

Daniel Martin Diaz wanted the devil. Robin Westenhiser couldn’t believe her luck when she picked the watermelon. And Ron Kovatch just wanted something out of his comfort zone. The Tucson artists are ...

Lotería images have long been reinterpreted. But we’re willing to bet you haven’t seen any like the ones for the traditional card game in the upcoming Lotería de Tucson exhibit at Galeria Senita ...

Valfré said that her inspiration to create her own Lotería deck was inspired by her own childhood love of the game. "Lotería is a super popular game to play in all Mexican households," she explained ...

In mid-March as the coronavirus swept through the U.S., Rafael Gonzales Jr. watched the news, and all he could do was call the virus by a Spanish swear word: cabrona, the bitch. Like so many other ...

In late March, as the anxiety and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus steadily grew in households around the state, San Antonian Rafael Gonzales Jr. tried to find the humor in things. Gonzales, ...