Oaxaca Mardi Gras with Jacobo and Maria Angeles
It’s Fat Tuesday, otherwise known as Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent. Here in Oaxaca, Mexico, we have our own version of Mardi Gras or Carnaval in the Zapotec village of San Martin Tilcajete. The people know how to put on a good party. A group of artists, collectors and supporters of Penland School of […]
Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Carnival in San Martin Tilcajete, Oaxaca
San Martin Tilcajete is best known for its woodcarvings. Whimsical figures — human, animal, and anthropomorphic — are painstakingly whittled from copal wood and then painted in bright, magical colors by talented artisans. Often, the designs are intricate patterns that derive from Zapotec symbology or represent scenes from every day village life–a band of […]