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Puerto Rican sculptor Pepón Osorio crafts whimsical metal-and-glass chandeliers, which he bedecks with plastic toys, glass crystals, and other mass-produced trinkets found throughout the Bronx, where he lives. Chicana artist Carmen Lomas Garza paints richly detailed gouache works depicting life in a Texas Mexican-American family. And New Mexico's Doña Agueda Martinez demonstrates the technique, passed down through her family, for weaving vibrant wool rugs and blankets. This recently updated exhibit from the Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates the work of this diverse trio of Latino artists—and many others—whose work is displayed in Washington, D.C. Video interviews, biographical profiles, and a gallery of images introduce craftsmen and avant-garde performers alike whose work plumbs politics, family dynamics, cultural crossroads, and traditional skills. In the process, they reveal something of "the rich and varied experience of being Latino in the United States"—and they speak del corazón, from the heart.