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Art & Design
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The first Bombyx mori, or silkworm eggs, were brought to New Spain in 1523.
Campos often highlights figures from nature and spirituality, infused with Purépecha iconography.
López comes from Santa María Atzompa, a small town cradled between the rolling hills of the Oaxaca Valley of southern Mexico with a rich clay tradition dating back over 3,000 years.
Using the brightest shades of acrylic paint she can find, and the best on-sale paint brushes she can buy, she turns brick walls into public exhibitions of culture, color, and creativity.
At the 2024 Festival, Wall and her family are demonstrating the traditional Pueblo process of pottery making.
Lily Hope’s earliest memory of Chilkat weaving begins in her childhood bedroom in Juneau, Alaska.
At the Festival, Cory Perry mulled over the significance of working on the National Mall as a Black queer artist from the Ozarks.
In Buddhism, the mandala is a spiritual image that draws meaning from the elements, senses, and mind, as well as from the teachings of the Buddha.
The invitation to participate in the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival was a turning point for the Catalan flower carpet creators.
Artist Verónica Castillo aims to “change the world one clay piece of art at a time.”
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