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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. 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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. 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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. 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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. 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LOCATION:Craft in America\, 8415 W. THIRD ST.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90048\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Arts & Crafts,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Kids,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Teens,Fun 4 the Family,Museums
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SUMMARY:PINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION
DESCRIPTION:EVERY TUESDAY – SUNDAY- 3rd Street\n\nPINATAS: THE HIGH ART OF CELEBRATION\n9/4/2021 – 12/4/2021\n\n\nThe Craft in America Center is pleased to present a dynamic in-person and virtual exhibition of about fifty works made by fifteen artists and artist collectives from across the U.S. and Mexico\, which focuses on the overlooked craft of handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects. \n\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\nPiñatas: The High Art of Celebration at Craft in America\, Gallery Installation View. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas\, ubiquitous and often the focal point of parties and festive occasions across the U.S.\, are handcrafted and ephemeral objects that signify happiness\, joy\, release\, and celebration. This exhibition touches on the role that they play in modern material culture and how they are made to embody social commentary\, along with the ways that artists address piñatas as conceptual and technical launching points for their vision. \nThe work of traditional piñata artisans is presented alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through engaging sculptural practices. The contemporary artists featured in this exhibition reconsider the techniques\, materials\, form\, function\, and notion of the piñata\, forming a new language for expression. \nPiñatas are a deeply rooted Mexican tradition that has become widespread and beloved across cultures. Piñatas are accessible by nature and made from relatively humble materials. They are shapeshifters that can be created to take any form\, be that of a creature\, shape\, figure\, or idea. Considering their popularity in our lives and how many memories are made around piñata play\, this contemporary form of cultural craft has been relatively unexamined. \nAs creators of material culture\, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday\, modern world. This exhibition touches on the ephemeral and performative nature of certain forms of craft. Craft today plays a part in our traditions\, our celebrations\, our relationships\, and it deepens how we experience life\, even when it is destroyed or discarded after use. \nPiñatas are intertwined with childhood experiences\, gatherings of family and friends\, and celebratory turning points in life– all of which have become much more precious to us in this era of COVID. As markers of these events\, piñatas have new resonance and meaning today. They continue to be shaped to reflect changing times. This exhibition spotlights makers who creatively generate these objects in response to our shifting world. \n\n\nFor programming related to this exhibition see the links to the right (desktop)\, bottom (mobile)\, or click here for all upcoming events. \n\n\nFor inquiries or more information\, contact center@craftinamerica.org \n\n\n\n\nVirtual Gallery\nClick and drag\, or use your arrow keys\, to see a 360º view of the virtual space\, including tags with object information and images. \n\nPiñatas as Fantasy\n\nRoberto Benavidez\nBenavidez is a figurative sculptor originally from South Texas\, now based in Los Angeles. After studying bronze casting at Pasadena City College\, Benavidez later switched to paper because it was a more accessible medium. This material shift led him to focus on the piñata technique\, a familiar form from childhood. \nFor his landscape piñatas\, in this case one of the pristine beaches on Santa Rosa in the Channel Islands\, Benavidez uses the feathery qualities of his paper medium and crisp cuts to create reflectivity\, depth\, perspective\, and variations of color and light. \nBenavidez plays with underlying themes of ephemerality\, race\, and sin in his impeccably crafted works. \n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Javelina Girl (Illuminated Piñata No. 14). 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 1\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 5.\, 2017. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Piñata No. 2\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 2\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 1\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Illuminated Hybrid No. 3\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Moonrise Over Skunk Point (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 2\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 16\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 17\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 18\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 19\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 20\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 22\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 23\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 24\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 25\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 26\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Piñathko No. 30\, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nRoberto Benavidez\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nPiñatas in 2D\n\nFrancisco Palomares\nPalomares is a first-generation Boyle Heights native who is inspired by the Spanish master painters and the way that brush strokes can convey visual narratives. He reframes present-day social struggles through the lens of art historical precedent. \nPalomares highlights the beauty of the mundane and ordinary by taking his subjects out of context\, making them worthy of a more thoughtful look. \nFrancisco Palomares\, Agarrate Papa\, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Piñata y Dulces\, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Guapo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Chulo\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nFrancisco Palomares\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPolitical Piñatas\n\nDiana Benavidez\nBenavidez is a Binational artist who explores piñata-making as a method of expression and storytelling. Her piñatas reflect her experiences growing up along the San Diego/Tijuana border\, her identity\, and culture. Her work is known for introducing materials not commonly found in traditional piñatas including media and technology. \n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Border Crosser (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, La Guayina (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiana Benavidez\, Installation of Border Crosser and La Pinche Migra (from Vehículos Transfronterizos series)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Pop Culture\n\nAna Serrano\nSerrano is a first-generation Mexican American originally from Los Angeles and now based in Portland. Inspired by the intersection of her dual cultural identities\, she is best known for using brightly-colored cardboard and paper to highlight elements of Latinx culture. \n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Walter Mercado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Juan Gabriel\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas: Irma Serrano\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas\, María del Barrio\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas El Chapulín Colorado\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Gloria Trevi\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Julio César Chávez\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Cantínflas\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Piñatitas Jesus Malverde\, 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nAna Serrano\, Installation Image\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñata Landscapes\n\nJustin Favela\nLas Vegas artist Favela is best known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the Latinx experience. His painting series pays homage to the legacy of Mexican and Latin American  masterworks. \nJustin Favela\, Baño de los Pescaditos (after José María Velasco)\, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\nSita Bhaumik\nBhaumik uses art as a strategy to connect memory and history with the urgent social issues of our time. Estamos Contra el Muro / We Are Against the Wall was a collaborative project she led that was installed at Southern Exposure gallery in San Francisco. In response to the 2016 election\, a wall built of hand-crafted piñatas in the form of cinder blocks was installed and ultimately\, at the close of the exhibition\, community members gathered to destroy the proxy wall as one would a piñata\, in an act of defiance against the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico. \nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\nSita Kuratomi Bhaumik in collaboration with Cece Carpio\, La Pelanga\, Norma Listman\, People’s Kitchen Collective\, Piñatas Las Morenitas Martínez\, and Little Piñata Maker Estamos contra el muro | We are against the wall\, 2016\n\n\n\n\nIsaias Rodriguez\nOriginally from Boyle Heights\, CA\, Rodríguez is a multimedia artist known as Little Piñata Maker. Several years ago\, he made his first piñata to hang from his car’s rear view mirror and he now creates limited edition series and custom orders\, each piñata no larger than about 4 inches tall and wide. \nIsaias Rodriguez\, resilience\, 2021\nIsaias Rodriguez installation of resilience\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\nPiñatas and Permanence\n\nPiñata Design Studio\nFounded by Yesenia Prieto and co-owned with Mia Baez\, La Piñata Design Studio is led by third generation Los Angeles piñata makers and designers reinventing the traditional craft of piñata making through their custom piñatas\, sculptures\, masks\, and installations. They create larger than life installation projects for companies and museums such as LACMA\, Microsoft\, Google\, and celebrities such as Rihanna. \nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, In God We Trust (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nYesenia Prieto\, Mia Baez\, and Andrew Munguia\, All the Glitters (detail)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas as Commentary\n\nGiovanni Valderas \nDallas native mixed media artist Giovanni Valderas incorporates and deconstructs elements of the traditional piñata in order to transform the piñata’s original identity as one of gratuitous celebration\, into one of cultural construct. \nThe Casita Triste series guerrilla site-specific project draws inspiration from the brightly painted homes found in predominantly Latinx communities\, which are quickly disappearing due to displacement and gentrification. Through the inclusion of cartoonish anthropomorphic elements\, each piñata house speaks to the fragility\, history\, and experiences of the marginalized community. \n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Installation Image of Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, Casita Triste (Sad Little House)\, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, A Marginal Universe\, 2019. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nGiovanni Valderas\, No Hay Pedo (Canary)\, 2016. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñata as Performance\n\nJosue Ramirez\nJosué Ramírez AKA Rawmirez is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation\, craft\, video\, and performance. Rawmirez works in the Rio Grande Valley\, along the Texas/Mexico border\, and his current work investigates relationships between personal identity and location. \n\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange)\, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\nJosue Ramirez\, Piñata People (Orange) Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas and Cultural Tradition\n\nAmazing Piñatas / Lorena Robletto\nAmazing Piñatas was formed by owner Lorena Robletto nearly a decade ago. After consulting for immigrant-owned businesses and serving as a social worker for immigrant families\, Robletto turned her focus towards the artistry of piñatas and set up a shop in the Los Angeles Piñata District. Her studio and storefront is now located in Mid City\, where her team creates custom piñatas of any scale along with ready-made piñatas and various signature designs. She frequently makes props and commissions for the entertainment industry and other branded events. \n\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Seven Point Star Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Alebrije Installation\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nLorena Robletto (Amazing Piñatas)\, Geometric Piñata Installation (Center)\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nDignicraft\nThe Collaborative Piñata is a long-term project to establish a dialogue between Purepecha crafts people and cultural agents from the region of Baja California\, Mexico and Southern California\, U.S.A. The border city of Rosarito\, Baja California\, is home to a community of up to 250 families who migrated north more than 1\,500 miles from their ancestral homeland located in the island of Janitzio\, Michoacan\, and adopted the making of piñatas as their craft and main source of living. \n\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman) Installation\, 2015. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nDignicraft in collaboration with María Rosa Guzmán Soto\, Eduviges Solorio Morales\, José Raúl Guzmán Soto\, Nadia Iliana Guzmán Solorio\, Bryan Guzmán Solorio\, Evelyn Guzmán Solorio\, María Amparo Guzmán Soto\, Guadalupe Solorio Vargas\, José Vivaldo Jacobo Guzmán\, María De la Luz Solorio Morales\, Javier González Cortez\, Edith González Solorio\, Eréndira Pineda Campos and Leonel Solorio Morales Cheremati (fisherman on canoe) and Nanachi (woman)\, 2015\n\n\n\n\nPiñatas for This Day and Age\n\nAmorette Crespo\nAmorette Crespo began making piñatas in 2017\, when her daughter requested a Selena themed piñata for her 10th birthday. Crespo taught herself through practice\, trial and error\, and has been making custom piñatas ever since. From concept\, to design\, to prototype\, to shopping for supplies to the finished product\, Crespo is a one-woman operation. Crespo makes all of the piñatas in her home in El Sereno\, in Los Angeles\, CA\, but she has customers all over the country. \n\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Hot Cheetos\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas)\, Zoom Laptop\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Folklorico Dancer\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America.\n\n\nAmorette Crespo (Party Girl Piñatas) Selena and Hot Cheetos Installation\, 2021. Mari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\n\n\nMari Carson\nCarson is a costume and sound designer based in the Sacramento area. She began making piñatas in 2014: \nSeven years ago I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and the treatment was a radical hysterectomy. As a response\, my friends threw a farewell party for my uterus. I made a piñata in the shape of a uterus\, filled it with glitter\, condoms\, lube and the tampons I would never need again and destroyed it with a baseball bat. \nSince then\, I wanted to share this awesome piñata with the world. This piñata is made to order to celebrate your uterus or the uterus of someone you love. \nMari Carson (Plaid Hamster Knits)\, Uterus Piñata\, 2021. Photo: Madison Metro\, Craft in America\n\n\nLisbeth Palacios\nPalacios’s All Party Art is a party supply business that specializes in piñatas. Palacios began her business in Venezuela and is now based in Tampa\, Florida. \nLisbeth Palacios (All Party Art)\, COVID Vaccine\, 2021. 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LOCATION:Craft in America\, 8415 W. THIRD ST.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90048\, United States
CATEGORIES:-West Hollywood,Arts & Crafts,Fun 4 Couples,Fun 4 Kids,Fun 4 Seniors,Fun 4 Teens,Fun 4 the Family,Museums
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