Mexican Masters of Folk Art Show
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| | Admission to Emma Lee Turney's show, including "Mexican Masters of Folk Art" is $5 USD, and good for all four days. For more information contact Emma Lee Turney, at (281) 493-5501, or send an email to turnyshows@aol.com. |
In conjunction with the Emma Lee Turney Folk Art Fair and Creative Market, the exhibition and show "Mexican Masters of Folk Art" will open on March 28th and continue through March 31st in Round Top, Texas.
Created by Emma Lee Turney in 1967, the Round Top Antiques market is now one of the major venues for art, folk art, and antiques in the world. For the first time since the market's inception, Emma Lee Turney expands her attention to include fine work by folk artists south of the border. This exciting development heralds a new era for serious collectors, museum curators, designers, artists, and art investors.
"After 40 years of promoting the best American art, artists, and antiques," says Ms. Turney, "I am thrilled to open up my venue to this endeavor. Roberto Alvarado, Susanna Kirchberg and I have been thinking about it for several years and now with the addition of Marianne Carlson and Teresa Kendrick the time is more than right to bring Mexican artwork of this quality to Round Top."
Publishers Roberto Alvarado and Susanna Kirchberg of "El antiQuario" and "Show Daily" magazines are experts in the field of Mexican arts. They join forces with Marianne Carlson, founder of the annual Feria Maestros del Arte show in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico each November, and author, Teresa Kendrick, to track down and hand-select the hundreds of fine pieces for the event. The selection process will entail months of travel into the country's rural areas to locate many of the show's reclusive artists.
"Mexican Masters of Folk Art" showcases carefully-chosen works from some of the best contemporary artists of Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca, and several other states renowned for their arte popular.
The show will include work in a variety of media: clay, copper, tin, alpaca, silver, wood, and textiles as well as techniques including traditional pottery forms, figurative ceramics, exquisite shawl and rug weaving, mask-making, carving, papermaking, metalsmithing, and tattooed wood.
Many of the artists are recognized as national treasures and are chronicled in the watershed book, Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art, researched and published by Mexico's Fomento Cultural Banamex.
Works by famed rebozo weaver Camelia Ramos, carver Jose Luis Cerda Baez, and Tlaquepaque ceramist Salvador Vasquez are just a few of the artists whose pieces will appear in the show.
In addition to opening ceremonies, book signings and guest appearances by authors and other experts in both contemporary and vintage Mexican arts will take place during the show.
 "Mexican Masters of Folk Art" opens from 9 am to 5 pm March 28 through March 31, in the Cedar Barn of Emma Lee's Round Top Folk Art Fair and Creative Market. The new state-of-the-art show barn is located at 1235 Hwy 237 North, across from Festival Institute, Round Top, Texas, 70 miles east of Austin.
Admission to Emma Lee Turney's show, including "Mexican Masters of Folk Art" is $5 USD, and good for all four days. For more information contact Emma Lee Turney, at (281) 493-5501, or send an email to turnyshows@aol.com. |
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