Mission Valley also known as El Paso-Isleta-San Elizario region, includes all Lower Valley neighborhoods as well as a portion of Eastside. It is the city's third-largest neighborhood, after East El Paso & Central El Paso.
Mission Valley in El Paso is essential to the development of Latino art and culture. Development of Corpus Christi de Isleta, a mission servicing possibly the earliest religious community in Texas, began in 1680 with a significant contribution from the Valley's Latino art and architecture. Initially Mestizo craftspeople from northern Mexico, Latino painters produced a variety of religiously themed works of art. Retablos, religious artwork, church statues, sculptures, and designs used in the missions' architecture were among the works of art. These early craftsmen who were employed and resided in seventeenth-century Juarez, Isleta, and adjacent San Elizario are still mostly unknown to us.
The history has great effect on modern artists in the region, who display this influence in their work.
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