Mexican Folk Art Workshops
Inspire, inform and create with Mexican Folk Art objects in the classroom:
An informative and fun course that explores the traditions of Mexican Folk art including Day of the Dead. The Folk art objects tell the history of Mexico. The objects can be used to inspire practical workshops across the Key stages using a number of disciplines: animation, ceramics, model making, textiles and ICT.
Course Description:
We provide a collection of Folk Art objects including Day of the Dead skeletons relevant to the workshop. The morning session is spent looking at Mexican Folk Art: the stories, myths, history and cultures that have informed Mexican Art. A practical workshop can be initiated.
Recent workshop examples include creating coil pots based on Mexican pueblo pottery; making sugar skulls and animated cowboy skeletons; making textile designs using ICT; making mosaics with found objects & sculpting life size figurines as used in Mexican Festivals.
Aims:
To introduce Mexican Folk Art objects and the context in which they were and are made.
To use Mexican Folk Art as a starting point to a practical workshop.
To cover a range of methods and materials suitable for KS2. KS3 and KS4 and AS/A2 students.
This course includes:
A CD of images and relevant course materials.
Cost: £250 plus VAT. VAT is fully reclaimable by most schools. Includes travel within M25. Excludes materials.
How to book:
Email: education@milagros.co.uk
Call: 0207 613 876
Post: Milagros 61 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG.
Mexican Folk Art and Day of the Dead:
The historic meeting of Moctezuma, head of the Aztecs, and Cortes who lead the Spanish invasion, was pivotal to Mexican history and influenced both the fortunes of Spain and England. The Folk Art objects have been hand made using techniques passed through generations. They resonate with Mexico’s rich cultural history. Mexican Folk Art is a hybrid art embracing the myths and aesthetics of the Pre-Cortes cultures (The Aztecs, the Mayans, the Toltepecs) and subsequently Spanish Catholicism. This has created a wonderfully enriched and variegated style.
About Milagros:
Milagros has been working with artists, independent makers and small workshops in Mexico for twelve years. Tom Bloom and Juliette Tuke have travelled the length and breadth of Mexico finding, sourcing and commissioning Mexican Folk Art. They have a gallery/shop in Columbia Road Flower Market in East London which houses a changing collection of Mexican Folk Art objects. These include Trees of life, Mexican Day of the Dead figurines, wood-carved creatures from Oaxaca, pottery from the Patzcuaro, ceramics from Ochomicho, recycled glassware & hand made decorative tiles.
Workshop Leader:
Juliette Tuke, the workshop leader, is the curator of Milagros and has ten years teaching experience in London. She has taught in primary and secondary schools across the Key stages as well as teaching Digital Art in Adult Education. She is passionate and enthusiastic about Mexican Folk Art and teaching. She has recently completed a series of workshops at the V & A Museum in association with The International Baroque Exhibition. She is a qualified teacher with a BA Honours in Textiles. A CRB and references are available on request.
Mexican Folk Art and Day of the Dead:
The historic meeting of Moctezuma, head of the Aztecs, and Cortes who lead the Spanish invasion, was pivotal to Mexican history and influenced both the fortunes of Spain and England. The Folk Art objects have been hand made using techniques passed through generations. They resonate with Mexico’s rich cultural history. Mexican Folk Art is a hybrid art embracing the myths and aesthetics of the Pre-Cortes cultures (The Aztecs, the Mayans, the Toltepecs) and subsequently Spanish Catholicism. This has created a wonderfully enriched and variegated style.
About Milagros:
Milagros has been working with artists, independent makers and small workshops in Mexico for twelve years. Tom Bloom and Juliette Tuke have travelled the length and breadth of Mexico finding, sourcing and commissioning Mexican Folk Art. They have a gallery/shop in Columbia Road Flower Market in East London which houses a changing collection of Mexican Folk Art objects. These include Trees of life, Mexican Day of the Dead figurines, wood-carved creatures from Oaxaca, pottery from the Patzcuaro, ceramics from Ochomicho, recycled glassware & hand made decorative tiles.
Workshop Leader:
Juliette Tuke, the workshop leader, is the curator of Milagros and has ten years teaching experience in London. She has taught in primary and secondary schools across the Key stages as well as teaching Digital Art in Adult Education. She is passionate and enthusiastic about Mexican Folk Art and teaching. She has recently completed a series of workshops at the V & A Museum in association with The International Baroque Exhibition. She is a qualified teacher with a BA Honours in Textiles. A CRB and references are available on request.
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