Remembering Teresa Lozano Long

Teresa Long and her husband Joe, at the office in Austin, Tuesday afternoon, December of 2002

In 2002, the spotlight was on Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long following their $20 Million gift to ARTS Center Stage to help renovate Palmer Auditorium into a multivenue performing arts center to be renamed "The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts". Model of the new center to be is in foreground of photo. The Long's gift is the largest individual donation in Austin's history and among the largest individual gifts to the arts ever given in Texas.

Teresa Lozano Long and her husband Joe R. Long arrive at the Paramount Theater for the Texas Medal of Arts Awards Tuesday night. They are the 2005 Honorees for Individual Arts Patron.

Jane Sibley, right, talks with Rusty Tally, center, and Teresa Lozano inside Palmer Auditorium on Wednesday, April 13, 2005. Abatement will begin on the soon on the building which will become the Long Center for the Performing Arts.

Teresa Long, center, (of the Long Center), listens to a presentation Thursday during the November meeting of the The National Council on the Arts in Washington, DC.

Teresa Long (of the Long Center), listens to a presentation Thursday during the November meeting of the The National Council on the Arts in Washington, DC.

Teresa Lozano Long and her husband Joe Long addressed the audience in the Dell Hall gathered for the Gala Opening Concert in 2008 for the Long Center for the Performing Arts that is named for them.

Roy Johns greeted people arriving for the Gala Opening Concert at the Long Center for the Performing Arts dressed in the costume of a Harlequin player. People arriving were greeted by paparazzi, opera singers and characters from various musicals and plays in 2008.

People explore the lighting outside the Long Center before a rehearsal session that included the Antone's House Band in 2008

Interior view of the Dell Hall at the Long Center in 2008 before the grand opening.

Teresa Lozano Long announces the creation of the Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts in 2011during a press conference at the East Austin College Prep Academy. The Alliance announced the formation of Austin Soundwaves, whose mission is to increase participation by Hispanic students in the performing arts.

The 2012 Austin Project Rostow Awards at AT&T Center. Joe and Awardee Teresa Long

2013 Authentic Mexico Gourmet Gala benefiting the MexNet Alliance. Long Center. MexNet President Monica Peraza with Joe and Teresa Long

Robert Barnes, left, president and CEO of International Bank of Commerce - Austin, gives a hug to Dr. Teresa Lozano Long, right, president of the Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts before a press conference held at IBC Bank's Domain Branch, in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, September 4, 2013. The press conference announced the Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts' musical instrument donation drive, Fall Into Music, is helping nine Austin area music programs.

Teresa Lozano Long unveils a plaque in her honor at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections on Friday March 6, 2015.

UT President Bill Powers kisses Teresa Lozano Long, who along with her husband Joe Long, left, attended the unveiling of plaques in honor of Teresa Lozano Long and Nettie Lee Benson at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections on Friday March 6, 2015. The plaques pay tribute to the Longs, who endowed the Institute of Latin American Studies, and Benson, who served as director for 30 years of the collection that now bears her name.