by Staff | Jun 17, 2021 | press
By Angie Cina McIntosh Memorial Library has teamed up with the Folk Art Collective to offer a variety of programming via Zoom that highlights work of folk artists in Mexico. The Mexican artists came together in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to face their...
by Staff | Oct 17, 2020 | Destacado, press
The summer was finishing and we couldn’t pass the opportunity to paint a mural inspired on Alfonso Morales Mexican cartonería (traditional pepier maché). With a well known phrase of Morales “viva la cartonería” we took two days to have fun on this...
by Staff | Oct 1, 2020 | press
Report and photos by GILLIAN POMPLUN | see complete news here: SWNews4u The grand opening of Marvan’s exhibit in Viroqua on Thursday, Oct. 1, drew Mexico’s representative at the Consulate in Milwaukee, Norma Sanchez Arellanes, to attend the event. Though it was a...
by Staff | Sep 28, 2020 | press
Folk Art Collective Origins We are a group of Mexican folk artists living in towns throughout Mexico and Wisconsin. We are a group of artists from different towns in Mexico and Mexican artists living in the USA. Through pottery (barro), cartonería (a traditional...