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  2. Centro Cultural de la Raza - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. The Centro Cultural de la Raza (Spanish for Cultural Center of the People) is a non-profit organization with the specific mission to create, preserve, promote and educate about Chicano, Mexicano, Native American and Latino art and culture. It is located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.

  3. Mexican handcrafts and folk art - Wikipedia

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    Wood and fiber crafts for sale at the municipal market in Pátzcuaro. Dolls made of cartonería from the Miss Lupita project.. Mexican handcrafts and folk art is a complex collection of items made with various materials and fashioned for utilitarian, decorative or other purposes, such as wall hangings, vases, toys and items created for celebrations, festivities and religious rites. [1]

  4. Culture of San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Culture of San Diego. The culture of San Diego, California, is influenced heavily by American and Mexican cultures due to its position as a border town, its large Hispanic population, and its history as part of Spanish America and Mexico. San Diego's longtime association with the U.S. military also contributes to its culture.

  5. Spanish Village Art Center - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. The Spanish Village Art Center is an art center in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. [ 1] Anni von Westrum Baldaugh was among the artists who had studio space at the Spanish Village. [ 2] Current tenants include the San Diego Mineral and Gem Society and the Southern California Association of Camera Clubs.

  6. Mexican art - Wikipedia

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    Mexican handcrafts and folk art, called artesanía in Mexico, is a complex category of items made by hand or in small workshops for utilitarian, decorative, or other purposes. These include ceramics, wall hangings, certain types of paintings, and textiles. [104]

  7. Mexican ironwood carvings - Wikipedia

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    Mexican ironwood carvings. Mexican ironwood carving is a Mexican tradition of carving the wood of the Olneya tesota tree, a Sonora Desert tree commonly called ironwood (palo fierro in Spanish). Olneya tesota is a slow growing important shade tree in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S. The wood it produces is very dense and sinks in water.

  8. Alebrije - Wikipedia

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    Description. The first alebrijes originated in Mexico City, originally created by ' cartonero ' artist Pedro Linares. Linares often said that in 1943, he fell very ill. While he was in bed unconscious, he dreamt of a strange place resembling a forest. There, he saw trees, rocks, and clouds that suddenly transformed into strange, unknown animals ...

  9. Cartonería - Wikipedia

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    Cartonería, the making of three-dimensional sculptures with papier-mâché, is part of Mexico's tradition of paper based handcrafts. [2] Paper was developed in the region during the Mesoamerican period using the bark of a type of fig tree called amate or the fibers of the maguey plant.

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