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Papel picado for sale at a market in Coyoacán, Mexico City for Day of the Dead. Papel picado coming down from a Mexican church. Papel picado ("perforated paper," "pecked paper") is a traditional Mexican decorative craft made by cutting elaborate designs into sheets of tissue paper. [1] Papel picado is considered a Mexican folk art.
Albarrán Romero in 2005. Herminia Albarrán Romero is a Mexican-American artist known for her papel picado (Mexican paper cutting) and altar-making. She received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is a Chicana artist and illustrator. She is well known for her paintings, ofrendas and for her papel picado work inspired by her Mexican-American heritage.
Papel picado is a traditional Mexican decoration that uses thin, tissue paper that people cut designs and art into. Papel picado literally translates to “chopped paper” or “pecked paper ...
Barbara Earl Thomas (b. 1948), American visual artist, writer, and arts administrator based in Seattle; Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948), Chicana papel picado artist and illustrator; Xiaoguan Qiao (b. 1957), Chinese papercut artist [10] Karen Bit Vejle (born 1958), Danish papercut artist
Viernes de Dolores, like her other paintings in this series, faithfully captures the customary contents of Mexican Catholic home altars. The altar is erected on ascending tiers, and the shelves are lined with papel picado, a traditional Mexican craft of hand-cut, brightly colored paper. Local pottery, wares, fruits, and flowers signify the ...
Betsabeé Romero (born 1963) is a Mexican visual artist. Her works include sculptures, installations, printmaking, perforated paper, photographs, and videos. [1] She has exhibited widely, and has been featured in more than forty one-person exhibitions in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. [2] [3] Romero has described herself as a "mechanic ...
Blanka Amezkua (born 1971) is a Mexican-American Latino inter-disciplinary contemporary artist. [1] Collaboration, radical pedagogy, and community building are central to her art making and projects. Formally trained as a painter, her creative practice is greatly influenced and informed by folk art and popular culture, from papel picado to ...