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Norma writes for Selvedge Magazine
Issue #109 -- Rise Up, November 2022
Norma Writes for Selvedge Latin Issue #89
Why We Left, Expat Anthology: Norma’s Personal Essay
Norma Contributes Two Chapters!
- Norma Schafer and Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC has offered programs in Mexico since 2006. We have over 30 years of university program development experience. See my resume.
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Artist Gabo Mendoza Show Opens, Thursday, June 16 at Galeria Arte de Oaxaca
Your invitation to join Gabo this Thursday, June 16, 7 p.m.
I’ve written about Gabriel “Gabo” Mendoza before. His work might seem whimsical at first look. But it is filled with meaning, emotion, character and ripe for interpretation.
Woven handmade paper painted with a child’s scream or song. You decide.
Gabo’s subjects are street people, many representing the underbelly of Mexico: poverty, disenfranchisement, sex workers who are mothers, children who are homeless, uneducated and uncared for.
Young boys (or are they men?) on the street with artist Gabo Mendoza
Dreaming of bicycles and a way to get away
Gabo plays with language in his paintings. Words and parts of words appear and trail off the paper or canvas, giving a sense of incompleteness, impermanence. Bici is Spanish for bicycle. Where’s the B in the painting above? Broken off or away or a shadow or dream?
The family comes together as a unit of friends, substitute for those who are absent
Portrait of Gabo Mendoza in his Xicotencatl workshop taller
Doesn’t every child want a puppy to play with? or maybe it’s a goat!
And they went into the ark, two by two, one male, one female …
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