EL NAHUAL

Entretejiendo Culturas:Encuentro Exposición en donde participan 10 tejedores de Teotitlan del Valle, entre los cuales esta Erasto Mendoza Ruiz, que participa con una Pieza tejida con seda y algodón. La exposición se encuentra exhibida en el Museo Textil de Oaxaca hasta finales de febrero 2013

The Mexican Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong

The Mexican Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong just passed along the poster for the upcoming Mexican Film Festival in Hong Kong. Woven Lives is included as the only documentary.The beautiful background is a weaving done by talented Oaxacan weaver, Erasto "Tito" Mendoza - one of the artists in the film and a visitor to UW Madison last fall. This weaving inspired the theme for the whole film festival.

For more information on the Film Festival:
http://mexicanfilmfestival.blogspot.com/

Explendor del Textil

The Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, is internationally known for its colorful floor rugs and use of natural dyes. This unique exhibition at Puerto Vallarta´s Peter Gray Art Museum features a rarely seen collection of exquisite tapestries from some of the best Zapotec weavers, from miniatures to large format pieces, created exclusively for wall decoration. The luminous quality of these finely woven tapestries, presented for the first time in a group show of 14 artists, makes for a memorable visual experience.

Esplendor del Textil

Tito Mendoza from Teotitlan, Oaxaca Mexico visits UW Madison Textile and Apparel Design Program

Oaxaca Weaver Tito Mendoza to Visit Madison WI

TITO MENDOZA IS ONE OF THE WEAVERS FEATURED IN THE FILM WOVEN LIVES/VIDAS ENTRETEJIDAS
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday Oct. 7th
Centro Hispano Madison WI
5:00 Event time
6:00 screening of Vidas Entretejidas (Spanish with English Subtitles)
810 Badger Road
http://micentro.org/
Chat time before and after the film with Zapotec weaver Tito Mendoza, his wife Alejandrina Rios and filmmaker Carolyn Kallenborn.
Free and open to public

Madison Weaver´s Guild
7:00 pm
Oakwood Village 5565 Tancho Drive, Madison
For more information contact Pat Hilts vlhilts@wisc.edu
Screening Woven Lives (in English)
Discussion after the film with Zapotec weaver Tito Mendoza, his wife Alejandrina Rios and filmmaker Carolyn Kallenborn.
Free and open to the public

Tuesday Oct. 11th
UW Whitewater University Center room 266
3:30 Screening of Vidas Entretejidas (Spanish with English subtitles)
Discussion after the film with Zapotec weaver Tito Mendoza, his wife Alejandrina Rios and filmmaker Carolyn Kallenborn.
Free and open to the public

Wednesday Oct. 12
UW-Madison Design Studies Department
Clase de Tejer
1:20 - 3:50
Demonstration of tapestry weaving by Tito
For information, contact Carolyn Kallenborn cmkallen@wisc.edu

International Surface Design Conference in Mineapolis MN.

"Aires Zapotecos"

This tapestry, designed and woven by Erasto (Tito) Mendoza, is a finalist in the VI International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art in the AIR large format category. The piece was woven with wool, silk, cotton, and feathers on a cotton warp.
The selected finalists´ textiles will be on display at The Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City from May 26 to July 22, 2011.

For more info about the Biennial, follow this link:
http://www.wta-online.org/ING/

Tito explains his piece in this way:
In the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, where I was born, we have two principal sources of income: agriculture and weaving. It is a tradition never to leave a rug unfinished before starting another activity. We only break with this tradition when the strong winds arrive that announce the harvest. Then we all head to the fields with the swirling winds under darkened skies.There we remain until the end of the harvest season, leaving behind only the ever-present feathers—from where they come, we’re not sure.
This tapestry represents the day when weaving and harvesting competes for power. The wind assails us in the fields, hindering the harvest and unraveling the threads of our weavings.