Last month Flirt (my dog) and I made our first trip into Santa Clara del Cobre, Michocan. When I say I went into Santa Clara I went into a dusty, hot fire filled factory. My ears were filled with a constant ringing from over a dozen men hammering out copper by hand. In the center of the workshop a … [Read more...]
Maestro Juan Torres Calderon, Artist and Sculpture, Morelia, Michoacan State, Mexico
January 21, 2012
Maestro Juan Torres Calderon, renowned Michoacan artist and humanist born in Morelia in 1942, studied at the Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes of the University of Michoacan de San Micolas de Hidalgo and in the studio of respected Maestro Alfredo Zalce. Early in his career Juan contributed in the … [Read more...]
Herlinda Morales, Lead-Free Ceramics Artist, Santa Fe de la Laguna, Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan
November 25, 2011
Herlinda Morales is a recognized Purepecha artist/craftswoman who creates intricate, lead-free, black glazed ceramics with her family in the small, traditional village of Santa Fe de La Laguna, Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan. Herlinda’s signature design is the whimsical butterfly. The family mines, … [Read more...]
Brilliant Soil – Tierra Brillante, Feature Length Documentary
November 22, 2011
“The Dream of a Purepecha Woman for Her Land to Shine Again” Feature Length Documentary produced by Omar Foglio Almada and Ana Paola Rodríguez España “By custom, thousands of artisans in Mexico still use lead based glazes in their pottery without knowing the damage that this toxic element causes … [Read more...]
