Artisans

"My designs reveal a tiny bit of Mexico that I carry in my heart." "Hi. I'm Ana Maria González, and for as long as I can remember I've been in contact with arts and crafts. My whole family produced them in one way or another and whenever we'd visit our relatives, my cousins and I would end up making something for fun. "After I married, my husband and I created> various kinds of handicrafts, but the need to make something different led me to launch my own line of designs. I began making decorative boxes, painted by hand with different...

Wood Jigsaw Puzzle FigurinesMEXICO "It wouldn't be the same without the people who work with us. They've shared their ideas and their work as we try to build a collective dream." "I was born in Mexico City in 1955. From the time I was a boy, I felt a need to create. A friend and I invented things like putting a sail on a bicycle so the wind would push us along, or making a yo-yo with a string long enough so we could play from the rooftop. We said we were going to be inventors. We spent our time...

"Using cloth of distinctive shades and textures along with colorful wool and floss, we are able to tell about the history, legends and stories linked to our cultural roots.""We're a group of homemakers from the town of Tembladera in Cajamarca's Yonan district. Before we became involved with this project, we were fulltime homemakers but we started getting together to share our textile skills. We knit, crochet, embroidery and craft all kinds of utilitarian objects, and we decided to form a group and work together. "In May of 2003, we began crocheting together. As time went by, we learned macramé because...

"I want more people to gift dreams with my designs. They are full of love and color, and are the result of teamwork and passion." "I'm Maribel Posso Olivares. I majored in journalism and worked at an airport checking passengers' documentation, but I wasn't passionate about my job despite meeting interesting people from all over the world. I've always been interested in Peruvian art, especially in ceramics. "As a child, I would travel along the mountain range during the summer. I'd visit different towns in the Castrovireyna Province, which is filled with picturesque blue skies, green fields with the scent...

"I like stone's naturalness and purity of color."Born on February 20, 1962, Cesar Gonzáles has worked as a stone carver since 1988. Before that his job was in residential construction, building and finishing houses. But after learning the technique of stone sculpture in the workshop of a friend, he found he preferred it; the following year he became independent and began to create his own images.  A married man, Gonzáles has a son and three daughters. The oldest girl shows the most interest in her father's art and even assists him. Gonzáles works with serpentine, rose manganese, calcite, celestite, red...