Tapestry is a documentary film made in 1974 by El Paso dance icon, Rosa Guerrero, that tells the story of her use of dance to celebrate diversity and enhance multicultural education for students. Guerrero teaches students folk dances from countries around the world, showing how they all inform each other, and spreading the message that America is not a melting pot, but a beautiful tapestry of many individuals. The film also documents what was intended to be Guerrero's final dance performance for an audience, though she was later called back to dancing.

El Paso icon Rosa Guerrero is an artist, educator, dance historian, and humanitarian born in El Paso in 1934. After a childhood fraught with discrimination due to her Mexican roots, Guerrero worked in her adult life to create a space of multi-cultural appreciation and education in El Paso schools. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in Education from Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) in the 1970s. She founded the Rosa Guerrero International Ballet Folklorico in 1974, and worked in El Paso public schools for over 20 years where she developed the first curricula in multicultural education. She has received many awards throughout her career, including an induction into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame and the George I. Sánchez Memorial Award for her contributions to multicultural education. Guerrero was also the first Latina woman in El Paso to have a public school named after her.

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