Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas
Mexic-Arte Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Mexico City Mexico-American official in Texas, as designated by the state legislature. Although mainly focused on the arts of Mexico, their scope includes Latin America as well as Latino arts, both contemporary and old, as well as Chicano art. Its diverse and eclectic collection, exhibitions and programs reflect the heritage of the area that was once Mexico. The population of Texas remains heavily Hispanic, and the Mexic-Arte Museum celebrates this culture.
Located in the heart of downtown, the Mexic-Arte Museum offers a modern, contemporary, through which more than 75,000 visitors a year journey. The main gallery is usually used for exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art from Mexico and other Latin American countries, as well as national artists, local and regional Chicano and Latino. One of the few museums to support new talent, the gallery back provides a space for emerging artists to exhibit their works.
Museum's Permanent Collection has been developed with intended to show the rich and diverse art and culture of our unique region. The collections include prints from the Taller de Grafica Popular in / Taller Popular, a collection of etchings, linocuts, lithographs and screen prints created by leading artists, as part of a populist art movement in Mexico. Ernest De Soto Collection was named for Mexico's first impression of Master of America, and consists of contemporary Latin America and lithographs of America prints and engravings by artists of renown. One of the most colorful and attractive exhibits is the mask of Guerrero, a collection of traditional ritual masks made by Nahua Indians. Over 200 silkscreen prints by regional artists make up the Serie Print Project.
Retablos exhibitions have included: Miracles of the border, Embrace the Chaos by young Latino artists, and the box Contemporneo Art Museum / The Museum of Contemporary Art Fund. The diversity of the arts is clear when exhibitions include Aztec mummy movies and the Aztec and Maya Revival exhibition, showing a fusion of Pre-Columbian visual patterns with modern Mexican material culture.
The main museum event for over a quarter century, and one of Austin's favorite celebrations, falls every year around Halloween. Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is traditionally the day when Mexicans remember their loved ones who have died. Mexic-Arte Museum celebrates with music, entertainment and food in downtown Austin on 5th Street, between Congress and Brazos. Altars adorned with traditional offerings including candles, flowers and images of calaveras (skulls) are on display, as a joyous procession of people dressed in skeleton and Frida Kahlo costumes join other revelers for dancing and fun.
Extension education is of paramount importance in the Mexic-Arte, which offers after school classes, free guided tours and a full schedule in anticipation of the Day of the Dead celebration. A corner of the museum is designated an interactive family area, and host the renowned scholars in a series of lectures in the gallery. The Museum Mexic-Arte is located at 419 Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas.
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