Description: A collection of seven lithographs by José Clemente Orozco and paintings by Alejandro Romero, Marcos Raya, Salvador Vega, Roberto Valadez.

Curator: Juana Guzman

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Ruiz Gallery in Chicago.

Description: This exhibition consists of a rich variety of masks chosen from the holdings of Chicago Collectors.  The admittedly personal selection emphasizes form, craft and inventive use of materials rather than age and guaranteed authenticity.  It includes works of considerable age as well as those of contemporary carvers who continue the tradition of excellence in carving.

Curator: Robert W. Anderson, Professor of Art at Calumet College, Hammond, IN

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: The School of the Art Institute Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published.

Description: This inaugural exhibition of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in the Pilsen neighborhood featured religious art of Mexico from the 18th and 19th Centuries. The rich, traditional and artistic expressions of faith and beliefs of the Mexican People were presented in the culmination of work by many anonymous artists.

Curator: Antonio V. García

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Description: Diana M. Solis was born and raised in Chicago in the Pilsen neighborhood. Her studies include fine arts and photography at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and Columbia College. Community involvement has included teaching photography at Mujeres Latinas en Acción and Latino Youth Alternative High School, Recruitment Counselor for LULAC, and Supervisor at Casa Aztlan.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: A graphic art exhibit featuring works by Rene Castro, Enrique Chagoya, Domitila Dominguez, Juan Fuentes, Daniel Galvez, Sal Garcia, Francisco Letelier, Linda Lucero, Irene Perez, Antonio Ramirez and Herbert Siguenza.

Curator:NA

Organizing Institution: La Raza Graphics and Mission Gráfica, San Francisco

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: An exhibition of 68 contemporary works by Latina women artists from across the United States: Juana Alicia, Candida Alvarez, Santa C. Barraza, Barbara Carrasco, Yreina D. Cervantes, Martha Chavez, Dolores G. Cruz, Maritza Davila, Liliana Duran, Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz, Marina Gutierrez, Ester Hernandez, Beatriz Ledesma, Silvia A. Malagrino, Lillian Maldonado, Paula Pia Martinez, Rosalyn Mesquita, Mary A. Moncada, Gloria Rodriguez, Marta Sanchez, Bibiana Suarez and Mirtes de Magalhaes.

Curator: Juana Guzman

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.

Description: An exhibition of 19 Portable Murals by 19 Mexican Muralists working in Chicago: Carlos “Moth” Barrera, Mario Castillo, Carlos Cortez, Aurelio Díaz Tekpankalli, Hector Duarte, José G. Guerrero, Juanita Jaramillo Lavadie, Jaime R. Longoria, Francisco Mendoza, Vicente Mendoza, Benny Ordoñez, Raymond M. Patlan, Dulce Pulido, Marcos Raya, Alejandro Romero, Roberto Valadez, Rey Vasquez, Salvador Vega and Roman Villareal.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Description: “For the most part my paintings are filled with characters, animals, and objects taken from our daily lives that at times come in touch with modern elements with which I have become familiar. I do not consider myself part of any art movement style. I would not be true to myself if I was to fit somewhere or to show-off for something which does not belong to me. In any case, it will be the audience who will decide a name for the type of work I do according to the memories my work brings them”.  Four Egg Tempera on Amate Paper Paintings, Eleven Oil on Canvas Paintings by local artist Filemon Santiago.

Curator:  Beverley Malen

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: This collection of works was a sampling of the rich and varied production of prints by many Mexican masters. The collection covered the time period from the late 1920’s to the 1980’s. The exhibition brought together the “essence” of Mexicans and their visions of Mexico.

Participating Artists: Emilio Amero, Raúl Anguiano, Alberto Beltrán, angel Brancho, Jean Charlot, Miguel Covarrubias, Francisco dosamantes, Jesus Escobedo, Sarah Jimenez, Leopoldo Méndez, Carlos Mérida, Adolfo Mexiac, José Chávez Morado, Pablo O’Higgins, José Clemente Orozco, Diego M. Rivera, J. David Alfaro Siquieros, Rulfino Tamayo, Mariana Yampolsky, and Alfredo Zalce.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Description: The Mexican Fine Art Center Museum’s first Day of the Dead Exhibition. At the time, Duarte was one of the newest and most interesting of Chicago’s Mexican painters. The observance and traditions of Day of the Dead are of great significance to Duarte and he has been a strong advocate and promoter of this holiday. This exhibition was dedicated to the preservation of this intriguing Mexican folk tradition. Paintings by: Hector Duarte. Installation by: Clay Morrison.

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: Contemporary Mexican Photography.

Participating Artists: Antonio Reynosa, Flor Garduño, Rafael Doniz, Mariana Yampolsky, and more.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Description: This exhibition is the first exhibition to reveal to the American public the art and culture of the present-day Maya of Chiapas, Mexico. Included are 60 examples of Maya textile art from the mid-nineteenth century to 1987, and 30 contemporary photographs of the Maya people today.  Woven into Maya textiles – and Maya life – is their ancient vision of the universe, preserved for more than a thousand years.

Curator: Walter F. Morris, Jr.

Organizing Institution: InterCultura (Museum services)

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Main Gallery

Participating Artists/Collectors: Textiles from the Collection of Sna Jolobil, The Weavers’ Society of Chiapas, Mexico.  Photographs by Jeffrey Jay Foxx.

*Exhibition catalogue published.

Description: Held to coincide with an International Weaving Conference in Chicago, this exhibit featured pieces from The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum’s permanent collection and from Bill Goldman’s private collection.

Curator:   René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution:  Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: A showcase of Latino work from México and the United States.

Participating Artists: Jose Andreu, Henry Cisneros, Hector Duarte, Alejandro Galindo, Mirentxu Ganzarin, Nereyda García-Ferraz, Paula Pia Martinez, Rodolfo Molina, Jose Moreno, Dan Smajo-Ramirez, Marcos Raya, Arnoldo Roche Rabell, Alejandro Romero, Filemon Santiago, Paul Sierra, Bibiana Suarez, Luis Vargas, Roman Villarreal

Curator: Debora Donato and Antonio V. García

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Main Gallery. 

Traveling exhibition venues:  Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City.  First traveling exhibit organized by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.
                
*Exhibition catalogue published by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.

Descriptions: This solo exhibit showcased the work if Philadelphia-based Mexican photographer Primitivo Rodriguez Osegueda. 

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: 2nd Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition.

Participating Artists:  Henry Cisneros, Carlos Cortez, Maria Enriquez de Allen, Carmen Lomas Garza, Laura Gonzalez, Francisco G. Mendoza and Jose Clemente Orozco School, Jose Nerezo, Arsacio Vanegas Arroyo. Local and national artists complimented the altars with their works.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

Description: This exhibition incorporates over two hundred and fifty of Posada’s works. Posada drew, etched, and engraved images of people and national accounts he witnessed in his lifetime. Posada’s tireless spirit and hard work let him to produce over twenty thousand prints, which made him the most prolific printmaker of Mexico.

Curator:  René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Main Gallery.

Traveling exhibition venues: Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN and Yale University Art Gallery, CT.

*Exhibition catalogue published by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.

Description: Cortez has illustrated, through his linoleum and woodcut prints the struggle of Mexican and Native American people and workers in general in the United States. Being the oldest barrio artist, Carlos has served as a role model to several generations of Chicago Artists. He has been involved in the labor movement with the Industrial Workers of the World Organization and he has contributed with his graphics, poetry, and other writings to labor publications.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: Self-Help Graphics is a  Los Angeles graphic arts center and the exhibit included the work of the following 24 artists: Jose Antonio Aguirre, Alex Alferov, Michael Asmescua, Glenna Boltuch, Rudy Calderon, Barbara Carrasco, Yreina Cervantes, Sam Coronado, Alfredo de Batuc, Roberto Delgado, Alex Donis, Margaret Garcia, Ricardo Gonsalves, Dolores Guerrero-Cruz, Wayne Healey, Leo Limon, Ralph Maradiaga, Malaquías Montoya, Victor Ochoa, Jesus Perez, Liz Rodriguez, Arturo Urista, John Valadez, Patssi Valdez.

Curator:NA

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: The beauty of papier-mâché, like all forms of popular art, lies not only in the artistic imagination of the artists, but also in the manner in which it is produced. Using only shopping-bag paper and a water-flour glue, incredibly beautiful and fantastic images are produced. Cartoneria figures have been used traditionally in Mexico during holidays and celebrations. The two most important feast days that feature cartoneria figures are the Day of the Dead and the Lenten observances.  This exhibit of a little over 100 papier-mâché pieces brings together the most prominent papier-mâché artists of Mexico; the Linares family and Jose “Pepe” Hernández.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

Description: This exhibit included the work of 32 Pilsen youngsters who w ere recruited by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum to attend The School of the Art Institute’s summer program.

Curator: N/A

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery 

Description: 3rd Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition.

Participating Artists: Charlie Carrillo, José Guerrero, Ester Hernandez, Nicolás de Jesús, Lake View H.S. Advance Placement Art class under the direction of Esther Charbit, Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, and Roberto Valadez. Other Participating artists - Jesús Acuña, Josefina Aguilar, Jose Maro Alvarado, Emilio Basilio, Alfonso Castillo Orta, Carlos Cortez, Hector Duarte, Joan Hackett.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

Description: 4th Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition.

Participating Artists: Jesús Acuña, Leticia Arriaga, Arturo & José Barrera, Alfonso Castillo Orta, Mario E. Castillo, Carlos Cortes, Gerardo de la Barrera, José de Jesús Escalera, Nicólas de Jesús, Alvaro & Antonio de la Cruz, Hector Duarte, Luis Gonzalez, Juanita Jaramillo-Lavadie, Luis Jimenez, Leo Limon, Miguel & Ricardo Linares, Felipe Linares, Mario Lopez Torres, Cesar Augusto Martínez, Patricia Martinez, Oscar Moya, José Narezo, Alejandro Nava, Francisco R. Oñate, Miguel Angel Pardo O., Elisario Pedro, Carlomagno P. Martínez, Filemon Santiago, Oscar Soteno, Rogelio Tijerino, Roman Villarreal, Mariana Yampolski, Marcos Raya

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

Prints from the Permanent Collection

Description: Including Mexico’s President Salinas de Gortari’s donation

Participating Artists: José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Emmanuel C. Montoya, Alfredo Zalce, Francisco Toledo, Manuel Felguerez, Rafael Coronel, Jose Luis Cuevas, Carmen Parra, Federico Cantú, Jean Charlot

Curator: Organized by the Permanent Collection Dept.

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

Archives Casasola: Photographs from the Mexican Revolution

Description: Photographs of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) by Agustin Casasola and Hugo Brehme.

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

“Wish List”

Description: Prints for the Permanent Collection.

Participating Artists: Alfaro Siqueiros, J. David Anguiano, Raul Belkin, Arnold Castañeda, Alfredo Carrington, Leonora Chavez Morado, José Charlot, Jean Colunga, Alejandro Costa, Olga Cuevas, José Luis Dosamantes, Francisco Gerzo, Gunther Mendoza, Ariel O’Higgins, Pablo Rivera, Diego M. Toledo, Francisco Xavier Maximino

Curator: Permanent Collection Dept. and René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum West Wing Gallery

Mexico: La Visión del Cosmos  - Three thousand Years of Creativity

Description: 158 Mesoamerican artifacts were on display (for the first time) within the Mexican community. The ancient Mexican pieces are from the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Many local artists were also commissioned to paint murals depicting life in ancient Mexico. Artists include: Mario Castillo, Sal Vega, Marcos Raya and Francisco Mendoza. This landmark exhibition was the museum’s response to the 500-year anniversary of the encounter of two worlds.

Curator: Donald McVicker, Ph.D. and Laurene Lambertino

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery and West Wing

*Exhibition catalogue published by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum.

Latino Youth: Living With HIV/Aids in the Family

Description: Stories and drawings by Chicago Latino children living with HIV/AIDS

Curator: N/A

Organizing Institution: This exhibit is the result of a project initiated by the Pilsen-Little Village Community Mental Health Center and the Illinois Prevention Resource Center in collaboration with Hispanic AIDS Network.

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published.

Four Decades After the Muralists

Description: This exhibition showcased the vein of alternative artwork that reacted against the official government sponsored public arts. The artwork displayed in this exhibition developed parallel to the Mexican Mural Renaissance of the 1930’s and 1940’s. However, it did not find any support in Mexican museums – all government run. The lack of exposure and exhibition opportunities for this movement provoked a group of artists called La Ruptura (The Rupture) to eventually demand attention and support.

Participating Artists: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Laura Anderson, Javier Arécalo, Feliciano Béjar, Antonio Castellanos, Miguel Castro Leñero, José Chávez Morado, Arnaldo Coen, Olga Costa, Aarón Cruz, José Luis Cuevas, Xavier Esqueda, Gunther Gerzso, Serio Hernández, Joy Laville, Guillermo Meza, Gustavo Montoya, Rodolfo Morales, Luis Nishizawa, Roberto Parodi, Vicente Rojo, Raymundo Sesma, Francisco Toledo, Cordelia Urueta, Roger Von Gunten

Curator: Antonio Espinoza  

Organizing Institution: Kimberly Gallery, Washington D.C.

Traveling exhibition venues: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery, Kimberly Gallery, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.

*Exhibition catalogue published.

Carmen Lomas Garza: Pedacito de mi corazón

Description: Born in Kingsville, Texas, Lomas Garza’s personal experiences provide a backdrop for her poetic recollections of family events, communal gatherings and cultural practices within her Mexican-American heritage. Guided by memory her monitos, or little people paintings, blend fact and fiction with a unique personal aesthetic to enlighten, instruct and awaken values and emotions common to people of all cultures.

Curator: N/A

Organizing Institution: Laguna Gloria Art Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum West Wing and Courtyard Gallery

Traveling exhibition venues: El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas; Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas; Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois; Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

*Exhibition catalogue published

The Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meanings

Description: This exhibition was organized by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum and included the works of twenty contemporary Mexican artists from across the U.S. Over seventy new and recent works of art focusing on the themes of family, land and afterlife.

Participating Artists: Celia Alvarez Múñoz, Judy Baca, Santa Contreras Barraza, Carlos A. Cortez, Nicolás de Jesús, Margaret García, Rupert García, Adán Hernández, Ester Hernández, Luis Jiménez Jr., Carmen Lomas Garza, Frank López Motnyk, César Augusto Martínez, Marcos Raya, Patricia Rodríguez, Peter Rodríguez, Rubén Trejo, John Valadez, Patssi Váldez and David Zamora Casas.

¡Muertos de Gusto!  Days of the Dead, Memory and Ritual

Description: 7th Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition.

Participating Artists: Mary J. Andrade, María Enriquez de Allen, Josefina Aguilar, Gerardo Bonilla, María Bustamante, Enrique Chagoya, The Castillo Family, Othon Castillo Luna, Santa Contreras Barraza, Carlos A. Cortez, Guillermo Delgado, Héctor Duarte, Ricardo Duffy, Joan Hackett, Nicolás de Jesús, Luis Jiménez Jr., Miguel, Paula, and Ricardo Linares, Abelardo López, Mario López Torrez, Mario Martín del Campo, Alfredo Martínez, Daniel Martínez, Leovigildo Martínez, Rita Marquez, Adolfo Mexiac, Gabriel Macotela, Leopoldo Morales Praxedis, Rodolfo Morales, Francisco R. Oñate, Marcos Raya, Arturo Rivera, Alejandro Romero, Patricia Salas, Virgilio Santaella, Cecilio Sánchez, Oscar Soteno, Francisco Toledo, Patssi Valdez, Salvador Vega

Curator: René H. Arceo

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery.

Traveling exhibition venues: Heard Museum, Phoenix, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Mexican Museum, San Francisco and Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota.

 “A Window to Our Neighborhood”

Description: An exhibition of works by students who participated in the Architectural Art
Class sponsored jointly with the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio.

Curator: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Education Dept.

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum /Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

El Quinto Sol: Tenochtitlan Tlatelolco Recent Findings

Description: This exhibition showcased approximately ninety Aztec artifacts from the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and her sister-city Tlatelolco. The artifacts that comprise this exhibit included ceremonial, burial and domestic items, and musical instruments from the temples of these ancient cities.

Curator: Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Organizing Institution: Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

Tenochtitlan visto por los niños de Kanoon

Description: Gerald Delgado Kannon Magnet School has sought to intensify the recognition and appreciation of culture as the most important factor of human development. The fundamental philosophy behind this young adult course was to recognize the importance of all cultures that existed in the American continent before the arrival of the Europeans.

Curator: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Education Dept. and Kannon Magnet School, Chicago Public School.

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum West Wing

three institutions from each of these cities.

Participating Artists: Salvador Vega, Leopoldo Praxedis, Jose Guerrero, Oscar Romero, Hector Duarte, Celia Rodriguez, Dolores Guerrero-Cruz, Rodolfo S. Castillo, Nicolas de Jesus, Magdalena Audifred, Miguel Angel Reyes.

Curator: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Permanent Collection Dept.

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum West Wing

Los Mineros Mexicanos

Description: This photography exhibition by Milton Rogovin, exposed the conditions in which the miners worked and how they and their families lived in the regions of Pachuca, Guanajuato and Zacatecas.

Curator: N/A

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published.

Celebrate Pilsen:
Photographs by the children of Orozco Elementary School

Description: An exhibition of photographs by children from the local elementary school, Jose Clemente Orozco, depicting their neighborhood.

Curator:

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum /Orozco Elementary School

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Courtyard Gallery

*Exhibition catalogue published.

Day of the Dead 1994: Calaveras Pa’ Todos

Description: 8th Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition.

Participating Artists: José Aguilar, Josefina Aguilar, Carmen Alarcón, Alvaro de la Cruz, Linares Family, Miguel Linares, Ricardo Linares, Miguel López Lemus, Jeff Maldonado, Rita Márquez, Francisco X. Mora, Rodolfo Morales, Joel Rendón, Richard Ríos, Heriberto Rodríguez, Patricia Rodríguez, Arturo A. Sandoval, Ismael Vargas, Ignacio Vera Ponce, Juan Alcázar, Justina Fuentes, Ariel Mendoza, Ricardo Aguía, Tony Galigo, Lourdes Guerrero, Saucedo Elementary School, Patssi Valdez, María and Roman Villareal

Curator: René H. Arceo Frutos

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery

The Amate Tradition: Innovation & Dissent in Mexican Art

Description: This landmark exhibition showcased sixty contemporary amate (tree bark paper) paintings created by Nahua artists from the Alto Balsas region in the state of Guerrero. These elaborate and imaginative amate paintings reflect the innovation and genius of the Nahuas, one of Mexico’s fifty-six indigenous groups, and demonstrated how this art form was utilized by the community as a form of political protest.

Curator: Jonathan D. Amith

Organizing Institution: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Displayed at: Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum Original Main Gallery