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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Handmade Mexican Art from 3 de Mayo, Morelos and getting it home in one piece
If you are planning a trip to the state of Morelos in central Mexico you'll probably want to enjoy a fun day of shopping in the small colonia of 3 de Mayo. (Yes, they spell it with a real number "Three...
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Jacobo Angeles: A rich wood-carving tradition in Oaxaca, dating to pre-Hispanic times
Jacobo Ángeles' work is prominently displayed in The Smithsonian, Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art, and elsewhere throughout the continent and further abroad, in museums, art colleges and gall...
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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 moreChapala's Feria Maestros del Arte: guardians of the folk art tradition
"Art is a country's history and, before Mexicans could read or write, they were telling stories through their art. If this art disappears, so does history."
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Arte 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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Changing Dreams: A Generation of Oaxaca's Woodcarvers
You can't isolate yourself. Modernity arrives and replaces what you have.
>Changing Dreams by Vicki Ragan and Shepard Barbash is a thoughtfully written and provocative book - one which should...
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MASCARAS DE MEXICO Mascaras de Mexico
From romance to religion, to crimes of passion and crimes of the heart, masks have intrigued, beguiled, and fascinated us from pre-historic cave dwellers to the present.
Although masks are found in vi...
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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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