Mexican Folk Art for Sale: Vintage and Reproduction Ex-Votos
Ex-votos came to Mexico from Spain with the 1521 conquest. They are devotional prayer plaques applied to shrines in thanksgiving for a miracle received from a particular saint. These small votive offerings are hand-painted on tin and naive folk art. Usually the supplicant, the person giving thanks for the miracle, hired a local untrained artist […]
One-Day Mixed Media Art Workshop: Personal Altars and Shrines
One Day, February 25, 2016, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. OR One Day, February 26, 2016, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fee: $35 USD/650 MXN pesos OR take both days for $65 USD/1220 MXN pesos You do not need to have an art background to participate. This is about having fun, exploring and experimentation! All […]
Remembering Frida Kahlo: Icon of Passion and Pain
We ended the four-day Looking for Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Art History Study Tour in Mexico City with a morning at Casa Azul and the Frida Kahlo Museum followed by an afternoon at the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum. (I’ll be setting 2016 dates soon. Contact me to be notified.) Frida Kahlo is a great […]
Evoking Frida Kahlo: Making Memory Altars and Shrines
Mexico is filled with altars that usually include sacred images and a Virgin of Guadalupe retablo. During Day of the Dead a family altar displays photographs of departed loved ones. We are taking this mixed media art workshop, based in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico, beyond the norm to create a three-dimensional altar suitable for display. Frida […]