Saltillo's Museum of the Desert in Mexico explores every aspect of desert Life
The Museum of the Desert in Saltillo is always changing, always exploring this unique ecosystem's diversity.
read moreSaltillo, Mexico - color, culture and colonial charm
Just five hours by bus from McAllen, Saltillo is a delightful colonial city
rich in history, museums and eco-tourism. Young couples relax on iron benches surrounded by manicured gardens. Streams of water rise from a fountain into gentle arcs in the sunlight.
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Michoacán's master craftspeople and their arts
Abdon Punzo Angel's thick hands tapped minute details into the menacing snout of the copper dragon that sat immobilized in a vise, its body seeming to squirm. Beside him, another shiny dragon writhed f...
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Palm Sunday crafts fair in Uruapan
Artisans participating in the competition and crafts fair will come from workshops throughout Michoacán, which has more than 100,000 artisans from more than 200 communities.
Elvia Silva Bartolo belie...
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Flavors of Mexico's Indigenous Kitchens The Purepecha of Michoacan
The Purepecha Indians throughout Michoacan have developed a tantalizing culinary heritage for centuries that still awakens the senses with its powerful aromas and flavors. In Uruapan, Morelia and other...
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The colorful wood carvings of Cuanajo, Michoacan
An endless number of approaches to familiar motifs show themselves throughout the town.
A trogon, its cherry red neck gleaming against a body of emerald green, crawls up the side of a picture frame, f...
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Catrina: Skeletons take over the art of Capula, Michoacan
Inspired by the caricatures of lithographer Jose Guadalupe Posada, the elegant Catrina has her origins in Day of the Dead celebrations. Capula's Catrinas arrived only recently.
They stand in the doorw...
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Cupatitzio Gorge National Park in Uruapan
The paths are riddled with streams of water that exhale their sweet musty breath as they descend toward the river; the forest is bathed in a powerful mist, emboldened by its fragility where the thunder...
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Jose Maria Alejos Madrigal: Generations of ceramic creativity in San Jose de Gracia, Michoacan
"I learned from my parents. It's been passed down from generation to generation."
read moreArte plumaria: the feather art of Martha López Luna
The 52-year-old artisan and married mother of three sons only began working in arte plumaria in 1999, but she has already earned an impressive reputation for herself. A book featuring her work titled Mi Collar, Mi Pequeña Pluma (My Necklace, My Little Feather) contains photos of her images endowed with a calamitous beauty . . .
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A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
Her bold hands coax the thread through white cotton, relinquishing a fragment of the kaleidoscopic hues within her soul to cavort freely across the snowy landscape. The joints of her fingers moving wit...
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Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from the dark wet dough, turtles swimming to its surface, bug-eyed devils rising from the mud, all brought to life by the magic touch of Antonia Cruz Rafael. Ocumicho is part of a cluster of villages in western Michoacan known for its clay crafts.
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