OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, September 13, 2003
7- 9 p.m.
LECTURES
Artist/Educator Kurt Weiser
Friday, September 5
Time and Location TBA
Mexican Folk Art In Context: Selections from the Vanesian Collection
Selected from more than 300 works collected over more than 25 years, the exhibition demonstrates ways in which folk artists reflect and comment on both enduring and changing aspects of their world. Some things remain constant, such as mythology, but that mythology may take on new meaning in response to the impact of political, ecological and cultural upheaval. The exhibition places works of art in the context of the makers’ particular worlds as well, with photographic references gathered by the Vanesians as they collected throughout the Mexican republic.
Selections from the exhibition
Artists in the Exhibition
Folk artists in the exhibition represent the regions of Tlaquepaque, Jalisco; Metepec, Michoacan; Ochumichu, Michoacan; Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan; Olinalá; Patamban, Michoacan; Mexico City, D.F.; Barrio de la Luz, Puebla; Metepec, State of Mexico; Etla, Oaxaca; and Oaxaca City, Oaxaca.
Exhibition Catalogue
A full color catalogue is available for this exhibition. The publication include essays by
Kathleen Vanesian and a foreward by Marilyn A. Zeitlin. Information regarding the catalogue can be found on the ASU Art Museum Publications Page.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by Marilyn Zeitlin and John Spiak, MEXICAN FOLK ART IN CONTEXT: Selections from the Vanesian Collection will be installed in the ASU Art Museum’s Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
Duration
MEXICAN FOLK ART IN CONTEXT: Selections from the Vanesian Collection (September 13, 2003 – January 4, 2004) is open at the Nelson Fine Arts Center: Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Support
The exhibition, catalogue and related programs are supported in part by Eddie Shea, The ASU Art Museum Store and Friends of the ASU Art Museum.
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