This is a list of notable
Mexican
Mexican may refer to:
Mexico and its culture
*Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America
** People
*** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants
*** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...
artisans:
Baskets and other non-textile fibers
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Feo Ariza (straw mosaics)
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Rosalinda Cauich Ramirez (baskets)
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Ángel Gil (ixtle fiber products, Guanajuato)
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Apolinar Hernandez Balcazar (baskets, State of Mexico)
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Fortunato Hernández Bazán (ixtle fiber products, Oaxaca)
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Fortunato Moreno Reinoso (reed and bamboo objects, Michoacan)
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Pineda Palacios family (palm frond nativity scenes, Puebla)
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María Quiñones Carrillo (baskets, Chihuahua)
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Felipa Tzeek Naal (palm frond weaving, Campeche)
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Villajuana family (hammocks, Yucatán)
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Andrés Uc Dzul (Panama hats, Campeche)
Lacquer ware
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Mario Agustín Gaspar (Michaocan)
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Pablo Dolores Regino (Guerrero))
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Francisco Coronel Navarro (Guerrero)
Metal working
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Punzo family (copper crafts) (Michoacán)
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William Spratling
William Spratling (September 22, 1900 – August 7, 1967) was an American-born silver designer and artist, best known for his influence on 20th century Mexican silver design.
Early life
Spratling was born in 1900 in Sonyea, Livingston Count ...
(silver, Guerrero)
[William Spratling, "25 Years of Mexican Silverware", ''Artes de Mexico'', Vol. III, No. 10 (1955): 88]
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Apolinar Aguilar Velasco (steel blades, Oaxaca)
Paper-based crafts
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Linares family (alebrijes and cartonería)
The Linares family in Mexico City are among the best known practitioners of a craft known as “cartonería” or the use of papier-mâché to create hard sculptured objects. They have an international reputation for the creation of forms such as s ...
(Mexico City)
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Pedro Linares
Pedro Linares López (29 June 1906 – 25 January 1992) was a Mexican artist born in Mexico City known for coining the word and the concept Alebrije and its plural form Alebrijes that are zoomorphic Cartonería figures.
Career
Pedro Linares ...
(alebrijes and cartonería, Mexico City)
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Rodolfo Villena Hernández (cartonería, Puebla)
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Hermes Arroyo (cartonería and other media, San Miguel de Allende))
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Sotero Lemus
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Adalberto Álvarez Marines
Pottery
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Aguilar family
The Aguilar Family is a Native American family of potters from Santo Domingo Pueblo (currently known as Kewa Pueblo), New Mexico, United States. The group consisting of two sisters, Felipita Aguilar Garcia, Asuncion Aguilar Cate, and their siste ...
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Josefina Aguilar (Oaxaca)
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Hilario Alejos Madrigal(Michoacan)
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Neftalí Ayungua Suárez Neftalí Ayungua Suárez (born April 27, 1936, died June 2021) was a Mexican potter from Patamban, Michoacán, named a “grand master” of Mexican folk art.
Ayungua Suárez was born in Támbani Anápu, Michoacán but moved to Patamban, an indi ...
(Michoacan)
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Alberto Bautista Gómez (Chiapas)
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Jesús José Berabe Campechano(Jalisco)
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Blanco family(Oaxaca)
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Teodora Blanco Núñez[
* María Lilia Calam Que(Campeche)]Cayetano Corona Gaspariano Cayetano Corona Gaspariano is a Mexican potter from San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala, who is the only authenticated producer of Talavera ceramics in the state.
He left his home state at age thirteen to learn the craft in Puebla, working for years a ...
(Tlaxcala)Adrián Luis González Adrián Luis González (born May 5, 1939) is a List of Mexican artisans, Mexican potter specializes in Tree of Life (craft), Trees of Life and other decorative pieces.
González lives and works in Metepec, State of Mexico, Metepec, State of Mexico, ...
(State of Mexico)Carlomagno Pedro Martínez
Carlomagno Pedro Martínez (born August 17, 1965) is a Mexican artist and artisan in “ barro negro” ceramics from San Bartolo Coyotepec, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. He comes from a family of potters in a town noted for the craft. He beg ...
(barro negro, Oaxaca)Trinidad Núñez Quiñones
Trinidad Núñez Quiñones (born June 13, 1948), otherwise known simply as Trino, is an artisan, artist, researcher and teacher whose work has been recognized with numerous awards in both the Durango City, city and Durango, state of Durango. He w ...
* Nicasio Pajarito Gonzalez (Jalisco)Uriarte Talavera
Uriarte Talavera is a traditional Talavera enterprise in the city of Puebla, Mexico, which has been in existence since 1824. It was begun as a family workshop by Dimas Uriarte, but today it is run by a business group. However, the enterprise stil ...
(Talavera ceramics, Puebla)Jorge Wilmot
Jorge Wilmot (1928 – January 12, 2012) was one of the most distinguished artisans of Mexico, and has been credited with the introduction of stoneware and other high fire techniques to the country. His work is also known for its more austere, Ori ...
(Jalisco)
Textiles
* Ana Karen Allende
Ana Karen Allende is a List of Mexican artisans, Mexican artisan from the Mexico City borough of Coyoacán, who specializes in creating rag dolls and soft fabric animals. The tradition of making rag dolls in Mexico extends back to the pre-Hispanic ...
(rag dolls, Mexico City)Florentina López de Jesús
Florentina López de Jesús (July 25, 1939 – February 9, 2014) was a traditional Amuzgo weaver from Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, Mexico. Her work was recognized by various awards.
Life
López de Jesús was born into a poor Amuzgo family in Xochi ...
(weaving, Guerrero)Arnulfo Mendoza
Arnulfo Mendoza Ruiz (August 17, 1954 – March 7, 2014) was an artist and weaver, who exhibited his work both in Mexico and abroad. Born in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, a well-known center for traditional Zapotec weaving, he became one of its ...
Original Friends Dolls Original Friends Dolls is a project run at the Reclusorio Feminil of Puente Grande prison just outside Guadalajara, Mexico, which aims to provide women at the facility a better means of making money then through the prison programs. It was begun in ...
(cloth dolls, Guadalajara)
Wood
* Jacobo Angeles
Jacobo Angeles (born March 14, 1973) is a Mexican artisan from San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca who is known for his hand carved and distinctly painted alebrije figures. The town is noted for its production of these figures which generally are carvi ...
Alejandro Rangel Hidalgo Alejandro Rangel Hidalgo (1923-2000) was a Mexican artist, graphic designer and artisan best known for his series of Christmas cards produced for UNICEF in the 1960s, as well as known in Mexico for his furniture designs and promotion of traditional ...
(furniture, Colima)
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Artists
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the ...