The Bandera County Public Library is excited to have Sandra Velasquez Pokorny as its December Artist of the Month. She was born and raised in San Antonio and worked as an instructional designer for the U.S. Army and Air Force for many years. She retired in 2017 and moved back home, surrounded herself with family and focused on her art. She says, “I wanted every woman who viewed my work to see her reflection in the eyes of the women I painted. I come from a line of very strong women, so I painted my family as soldaderas, as cowgirls, as the farm ...