angel… My Mexican Angel 15 Oct 202515 Oct 2025 It was really hard for me to decide what artist to base my Mexican angel on. I admire the craftsmanship and art from Mexico so much... but seeing Mario Castillo's…
Art… The Mexican Muralist Movement. Part II 24 Sep 20253 Oct 2025 I decided to write the post to share the murals I saw when I visited Pilsen in Chicago, U.S. Here immigrants from Mexico started to settle after World War I…
Art… The Mexican Muralist Movement. 20 Sep 202520 Sep 2025 The Mexican Muralist movement is widely considered the first major public art movement in the modern world. Unlike earlier murals that often served religious or purely decorative purposes, the Mexican Muralism movement was…
Art… Surrealist Female Artists in Mexico 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025 Imagine yourself a woman in 1940's in Europe and wanting to be an artist. The place was way too oppressing with the war and its aftermath and also with the…
Art… Crafts from Mexico 28 Aug 2025 Just like their dancing, the crafts of Mexico are historic, alive today and so varied! Of all the countries I have visited in my life, Mexico was by far the…
Beauty… La Guelaguetza, a festival from Oaxaca. 20 Aug 202520 Aug 2025 The origins of La Guelaguetza are deeply rooted in the history of the Zapotec and Mixtec peoples of Oaxaca. The word "Guelaguetza" comes from the Zapotec language and means "reciprocal exchanges of gifts and…
Art… Mexico’s Folk Dancing 8 Aug 202518 Aug 2025 Mexico has a rich and diverse heritage of folkloric dances, known as baile folklórico, which are deeply tied to the country's history and regional identity. These dances are a fusion…
Art… Making a Quetzalcoatl Puppet 1 Aug 20251 Aug 2025 Hi! I decided to post this fun activity I enjoyed with my students. I created Quetzalcoatl puppets. Quetzal what? Quetzalcoatl, one of the most adored Mesoamerican gods. You can learn…
History… Visiting Maya Exhibits Part 2 4 Jul 20254 Jul 2025 The second exhibit about the Maya I visited was in The Peabody Museum of Archeology and Enthnology at Harvard University. This museum is renowned for its extensive Mesoamerican collections, and…
Culture… History of Mexico Part II 24 May 202524 May 2025 In Part I we left off a Mexico that had just become independent from Spain. But the new budding country faced faced a significant challenge: internal disagreement on its system…
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