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… 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…
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…
Uncategorized Visiting Maya Exhibits Part 1 26 Jun 20251 Jul 2025 Hello! Recently I visited two great exhibits about the Maya. I am showcasing one of the exhibits in this post. The first place I visited is the Museum of Fine…
History The Maya and Their Use of Number 0 16 Jun 202516 Jun 2025 One of the most important mathematical creations of human kind is number 0. Kind of ironic when one thinks about this as it partly stands for nothing. However this number…
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…
Geography… The Geography of Mexico Part II 27 Apr 2025 In my last post I covered five of the ten geographical regions of Mexico: Baja California Peninsula, The Mexican Plateau, The Sierra Madre Oriental, the The Sierra Madre Occidental &…
Geography… Geography of Mexico Part I 20 Apr 202520 Apr 2025 Mexico is located in the Southern portion of North America. Mexico's northern border is shared with the United States, specifically California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas (from west to east).…
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