Mexican Folk Art – The Artists of Puerto Vallarta
If you’ve traveled near the US/Mexico border, you’ve no doubt seen the beaded artwork in various shops and stalls. Sometimes you’ll even see someone painstakingly working on an art piece in the shop, tapping tiny, colorful beads into a beeswax-coated wooden carving of an animal, a mask, or perhaps an egg. We’ve bought our share of those, and have enjoyed giving them as gifts to friends. But if you think these pieces constitute the entire breadth of Mexican Folk Art, you are sorely mistaken. Several years ago, while shopping in downtown Puerto Vallarta, we stumbled upon a shop called Peyote...
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