We're pleased to learn that our upcoming Day of the Dead Workshop has been named by InfoHub an Unordinary Trip of the Month. InfoHub is the #1 travel portal on the internet specializing in out of the ordinary vacations. So this is a great opportunity for us to promote cultural awareness of Oaxaca and encourage more people worldwide to visit this unique part of Mexico

 Whats more,  InfoHub has  told us that students who book our course before August 15, 2017 will be eligible for a very special prize from InfoHub's sister company GPSmyCity--publisher of travel apps for Apple and Android. The GPSmyCity app features offline city maps, self-guided walking tours and travel articles for 1000 cities worldwide--turning a mobile phone into a personal tour guide. With this app in hand you can explore Oaxaca, Mexico City and many other destinations in Mexico on your own and at your own pace. The GPSmyCity app also works offline so there no need to  worry about roaming cell phone charges when traveling abroad,

A lucky winner, chosen at random, will get a one year full membership to the GPSmyCity app including access to ALL the GPSmyCity content--over 6,500 self-guided city walks and travel articles--a total value worth over $8000!

was the theme of Mari's well received solo show this summer at the Worcester Polytechnical Institute's Class of '42 Gallery

Mari is currently in an exhibition at the Meueo de Art Popular in Mexico City together with other members of her Oaxaca collectivo.  An exploration of immigration in the puebla of Tanivet, the exhibition is the product of many hours spent meeting local families, collecting their histories, and then documenting them in photographs and paintings.  These are two of Mari's contributions.

On Thursday, August 7, The Worcester Center for Crafts will launch a unique exhibit that will take viewers on an artistic journey through a world of storytelling. Titled “Ambient Folklore,” the exhibit will provide visual narratives of nine artists, available for exploration and explication by viewers.

“The word ambient talks about something relating to the immediate surrounding of something else,” says Honee Hess, executive director for the Worcester Center for Crafts. "Ambient Folklore is sort of: What are the ideas that are surrounding us that we call from past folklore or that we are using in art to create new folklores? It's all about the things that are around us that are influencing how we make art and how we tell stories through art.”

Humberto will be showing his latest paintings at the Ishuakara studio and gallery on November 1 at 7:00. Hope you all can come.

1 de noviembre a las 7 pm en Ishuakara Casa Estudio, Cosijopi 208, Col. Centro.r

Si gustas más información puedes contactarnos al telefono (951) 5145045
o a nuestra dirección Cosijopi 208, Col. Centro, Oaxaca, Oax.

The two Oaxaca photographs below have been chosen for the museum's Off The Wall Exhibition. This is a highly prestigious juried show of work by artists from all over New England.

Humberto is showing his latest collages at the Polanco Gallery of Mexican Art. Here are details of the show:

Friday, July 26, 2013 - 6:15pm to Friday, August 30, 2013 - 9:15pm
Paisajes Desconocidos, Collages by Humberto Batista.
Event Description: An exhibition and sale of new collages by
Mexican artist Humberto Batista at Polanco Gallery, from July 25
thru August 30.

Event Location: Polanco Gallery, 393 Hayes Street, San Francisco.
Website: http://www.polancogallery.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/polancogallery

And here's a link to more of his collages. If you can't get to the exhibition in person, do visit it online!

Click here to visit La Jicara, the bookstore which is carrying Mari Seder's book CUBA: EL TIEMPO SUSPENDIDO / CUBA: TIME SUSPENDED. It's also for sale at the gallery where Mari had an exhibition by the same name in October 2011: Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo, located on the corner of M.Bravo and Garcia Vigil.