Dreams on Hold

How a SNAP Delay Ripples Through One South Texas Household

A Mother’s Guilt, a self-portrait oil painting by Rio Grande Valley artist Josie Del Castillo, produced in 2024. (Courtesy of the artist)

Josie Del Castillo is a figurative painter whose work reflects the multilayered experiences of growing up Mexican American in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. Her paintings draw deeply from the everyday realities…