To commemorate their time in Milwaukee, Anderson and Vinaver donated a boxed portfolio of ten prints, Color Grafica Joven Veracruzana, to our Special Collections. Produced in an edition of 35 copies, the ten 60 x 49 cm prints shown here demonstrate a range of printmaking techniques, including lithography, engraving, woodcut, collagraph, and Japanese mokuhanga wood block printing.
Located in Coatepec, Veracruz, the mission of La Ceiba Gráfica is to use art, education, environmentalism, and collective artistic work to create a model of social transformation that generates empowered communities that are aware of their responsibility in caring for their natural environment. The artists represented here are Edgar Cano, Sr. González, , Daniel Berman, Uriel Marín, Sebastían Fund, Rodolfo Sousa, Lucia Prudencio, Abel Zavala, Nicolás Guzmán, and Jimena Ramos.
The Maya ‘Wall of Skulls’ (Tzompantli) at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico.
Tzompantlimeans “skull racks” in Nahuatl, and were described by the horrified Spanish conquistadors. This Mesoamerican architectural form is usually found in central Mexico during the Postclassic Period, where they were often made of the real skulls of sacrificed people. Low platforms with carved friezes depicting such skulls are found at some Maya sites in association with ball courts. The shown frieze from Chichén Itzá is one such example of this.
Rocío Sagaón en un ensayo del ballet ‘El vuelo del alma’, mayo de 1950 México Impresión contemporánea (a partir del negativo de película de seguridad) CONACULTA. INAH. SINAFO. FN., Pachuca, Hidalgo.
