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List Of Mexican Artisans
This is a list of notable Mexican artisans: Baskets and other non-textile fibers * Feo Ariza (straw mosaics) * Rosalinda Cauich Ramirez (baskets) * Ángel Gil (ixtle fiber products, Guanajuato) * Apolinar Hernandez Balcazar (baskets, State of Mexico) * Fortunato Hernández Bazán (ixtle fiber products, Oaxaca) * Fortunato Moreno Reinoso (reed and bamboo objects, Michoacan) * Pineda Palacios family (palm frond nativity scenes, Puebla) * María Quiñones Carrillo (baskets, Chihuahua) * Felipa Tzeek Naal (palm frond weaving, Campeche) * Villajuana family (hammocks, Yucatán) * Andrés Uc Dzul (Panama hats, Campeche) Lacquer ware * Mario Agustín Gaspar (Michaocan) * Pablo Dolores Regino (Guerrero)) * Francisco Coronel Navarro (Guerrero) Metal working * Punzo family (copper crafts) (Michoacán) * William Spratling (silver, Guerrero)William Spratling, "25 Years of Mexican Silverware", ''Artes de Mexico'', Vol. III, No. 10 (1955): 88 * Apolinar Aguilar Velasco (steel blade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico '' The World Factbook''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by area; with approximately 12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apolinar Aguilar Velasco
Apolinar Aguilar Velasco is a traditional blacksmith who lives and works in the southern Mexican town of Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca. Although there is a tradition of making blades in the town, the Aguilar workshop is the only one that still makes all pieces by hand, with no industrialization. The work of this craftsman, and that of his brother, Angel, have been used in movies. The workshop exports directly to buyers such as theaters, martial arts enthusiasts and collectors in both Mexico and the United States. Origin of workshop Aguilar Velasco was born and raised in Ocotlán de Morelos in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. This town is known for its handcrafts, especially pottery. There is also a tradition of blacksmithing. Apolinar and his brother Angel learned this craft from their uncle Ricardo Guzmán and formally established a workshop in 1970. The uncle died later in 1985, at the age of 110. Although Angel has since died, Apolinar continues the family tradition and has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús José Berabe Campechano
Jesús José Bernabe Campechano is a fourth generation Mexican potter who is best known keeping the disappearing ceramic form of “petatillo” alive. He has won various awards for this work including the Galardon Angel Carranza of Mexico's National Ceramics Prize in 1989. Bernabe Campechano has worked for over forty years in the ceramics town of Tonalá, Jalisco. He has created a number of traditional Jalisco ceramics, but is best known for his petatillo pieces. Petatillo ceramics are noted for their intricate designs, which place tiny crosshatches in the empty spaces among the larger design elements. This work is intricate and time-consuming, which has made it expensive and hard to find. His family began making this pottery in the mid 19th century, and the artisan has continued the tradition, teaching his children as well as others. Bernabe Campechano continues to work in his workshop in Tonalá, along with his children. Their work is a combination of tradition and innovation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Bautista Gómez
Alberto Bautista Gómez is a Mexican potter from Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas. It is a Tzeltal Tzeltal may refer to: * Tzeltal people, an ethnic group of Mexico * Tzeltal language Tzeltal or Tseltal () is a Mayan language spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas, mostly in the municipalities of Ocosingo, Altamirano, Huixtán, Tenejapa, ... community with a long tradition of pottery making, many learning the craft as children. His grandmother taught him to work with clay when he was fifteen, first making cookware and flowerpots. He then moved on to more decorative items, such as figures of birds, women and children, which became imitated by others in the community. He then began to create lamps in the form of giant tigers and tiger heads, painted in natural colors, which became prized for their artistic quality and have since evolved into sculptures in their own right. Other innovations of his have been to create large vases called “ cántaros” with raised designs, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neftalí Ayungua Suárez
Neftalí Ayungua Suárez (born April 27, 1936, died June 2021) was a Mexican potter from Patamban, Michoacán, named a “grand master” of Mexican folk art. Ayungua Suárez was born in Támbani Anápu, Michoacán but moved to Patamban, an indigenous community at the base of a small mountain of the same name in the Tangancícuaro Mountains, where Purépecha is still spoken. The town is noted for its green glazed ceramics, especially platters, plates, jars, pineapple shaped storage containers and many other items. He attended school only until the second year of primary as he had to work the family’s corn and vegetable fields. Only much later did he learn to read, forced by the need to read road signs in his later travels to sell his wares. At age 21, he married Ana María Cuevas, who taught him how to make ceramics. The artisan at one point tried to migrate to the United States but could not pass the border, so worked in Tonalá, Jalisco for a few months. There he learned abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilario Alejos Madrigal
Hilario Alejos Madrigal is a Mexican potter from a small town in the state of Michoacán, known for his “pineapple” ceramic wares. The name comes from the original form which was created by his mother, potter Elisa Madrigal Martinez, who created punch bowls in the shape of pineapples. Alejos Madriga’s variations include bowls, candelabras and more, with the version done in a green glaze be best known. Alejos Madrigal has won awards for his work, which is featured on the cover of large reference book ''Grandes Maestros del Arte Popular Mexicano'' by Fomento Cultural Banamex. Biography Alejos Madrigal is from San José de Gracia, Michoacán. His mother was Elisa Madrigal Martinez, from Carapan, Michoacán. When she moved to San José de Gracia as a potter, she decided to create something different than the town’s traditional saucepans, making punch bowls in the shape of pineapples, even gaining recognition for them. She then began to use the pineapple motif to create othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefina Aguilar
Josefina Aguilar (born 1945) is a Mexican folk artist from Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca. A member of the Aguilar family, she is best known for her small clay figurines called ''muñecas'' (dolls), an artform she learned from her mother. Aguilar uses red clay to create depictions of everyday village activities, religious and folkloric scenes, famous figures, and special Day of the Dead statues. Collectors of her work include Nelson Rockefeller, who discovered her work on a trip to Oaxaca in 1975, as well as repeat visitors to Oaxaca who come to see her latest work. Aguilar says each figurine she makes is unique. She became blind in 2014 and now uses touch to create her art. One of her major collectors quoted her as saying "It's not the eyes. It's the hand and the brain." Biography Josefina Aguilar was mentored by her mother Isaura Alcantara Díaz and her grandmother. She began learning her craft from them when she was six years old. Aguilar's mother died in 1968, at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends Of Oaxacan Folk Art
Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the traditional handcrafts and folk art of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, especially to encourage young artisans to continue family and regional traditions. The organization was established in 2007 by American writers, art historian, educators, gallery owners and collectors, many of whom have long-standing relationship with Oaxacan artisans. The organization collaborates with the Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca (MEAPO), especially its director Carlomagno Pedro Martínez Carlomagno Pedro Martínez (born August 17, 1965) is a Mexican artist and artisan in “ barro negro” ceramics from San Bartolo Coyotepec, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. He comes from a family of potters in a town noted for the craft. He beg .... Since 2010, the organization has held competitions for young Oaxacan artisans in conjunction with the Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca. They also sponsor sales of Oaxacan c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aguilar Family (Oaxacan Potters)
The Aguilar family of Ocotlán de Morelos are from a rural town in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. This town produced only utilitarian items until Isaura Alcantara Diaz began creating decorative figures with her husband Jesus Aguila Revilla. The couple taught their five daughters who continued innovating their own styles and then teaching the two generations after them. Two of the sisters, Guilliermina and Irene have been named “grand masters” by the Fomento Cultural Banamex, for their figures and sets of figures related to the life and traditions of Oaxaca, as well as Mexican icons such as Frida Kahlo and the Virgin of Guadalupe. The younger generations have made their own adaptations with some attaining their own recognition such as Lorenzo Demetrio García Aguilar and Jose Francisco Garcia Vazquez. Isaura Alcantara Diaz Isaura Alcantara Diaz (1924-1968) was the original innovator, who made pottery with her husband Jesus Aguila Revilla. Prior to this, the ceramics of Ocotlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adalberto Álvarez Marines
Adalberto Alvarez Marines (born 1952) is a Mexican artist and artisan who specializes in creating sculptures and other works in hard paper mache, called cartonería in Mexican Spanish. As a child, Alvarez began drawing and writing, with some success in publishing illustrations and stories. In his mid twenties, he discovered cartoneria and shifted his artistic work to this medium, first on a personal basis while working at a factory until in 1994, when he dedicated himself to the craft full-time. Alvarez's work is distinct in Mexican cartoneria because of its often non-traditional themes and artistic sense, often classed as art, rather than handcraft. With the exception of alebrijes Alebrijes () are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical (fantasy/mythical) creatures. Description The monos de madera or alebrijes as they are called in Spanish were originally created by carver Manuel Jimenez but soon bec ... and skeletal figures, Alvarez avoids traditional f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sotero Lemus
Sotero Lemus Gervacio is a cartonería artisan who is known for his traditional toymaking and large figures. Although situated in the Mexico City metro area, Lemus' work and style is based on the cartonería traditions of Celaya, Guanajuato. He is a fourth-generation "cartonero," from a family who is noted in Celaya for its work. Lemus' work has been sold and exhibited in various parts of the world, including the United States, Europe and Central America. Since 2005, he has also been involved in the making of much larger works for exhibition, starting with a twelve-meter tall image of Don Quixote on horseback, which toured Mexico for about a year. Family background Lemus is descended from a family which has been prominent in cartoneria (papier-mâché) in the town of Celaya, itself prominent in this activity since the mid 19th century. His is a fourth-generation cartonería artisan, learning from his noted grandfather, Bernardino Lemus Valencia, who became well-known and well-li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermes Arroyo
Hermes Arroyo (full name Hermes Arroyo Guerrero, born December 31, 1970) is a craftsman based in the small city of San Miguel de Allende in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. His is best known for his work in the making of giant Cartonería, papier-mâché and fabric “puppets” called “mojigangas” and their preservation as a cultural tradition of San Miguel. Arroyo's work has been commissioned and regularly exhibited in Mexico, especially in the states of Guanajuato and Querétaro. Life Arroyo was born and raised in the town of San Miguel de Allende, in central Mexico. He was one of thirteen children, exactly in the middle, but his family did not make handcrafts of any kind. His interest in it came about in grade school, when a classmate name Antonio Almanza, brought nativity figures made by his father, a locally noted artisan named Genaro Almanza, who had a workshop nearby on Calle Jesus. Arroyo's fascination with the figures extended to all aspects of Almanza's work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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