Lectures
and Slide Shows
| 1997 |
Lawndale Art Center, Speakeasy – a
review of the Day of the Dead portfolio.
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| 1998 |
Ancient Americas Society at Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia. Presented and discussed selections from the Huastecan
carnival series, including photography of the devil cult of the
Huasteca Veracruzana.
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| 1993 |
Ivy League and Sister Schools
Dinner sponsored by the alumni clubs of Cornell, Dartmouth, University
of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Smith, Vassar, Wellsley, and Yale
Universities. Slides and lecture on the Carnival Festival of
the Tlacaxipehualiztli, a celebration of purification and renewal
as practiced by the Huastec culture of east central Mexico, prefaced
by an introduction by Marion Oettinger, Ph. D., curator of Latin
American Art and Folkart, San Antonio Museum of Art.
|
| 1994 |
The Propitiatory Festivals of the Holy
Cross as celebrated by the Nahua culture of Guerrero,
Mexico, including the famous "Tecoaliztli" ritual
combat between men dressed as jaguars to experience pain which
is offered as a sacrifice to validate the communities’ rain
petitions and shed a little blood to give fertility to the
earth. State dinner Explorer’s Club of Texas, Dallas,
Texas.
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| 1992 |
A review of the Essence of Mexico
Project with a special emphasis on the importance of aesthetics
and design as related to the success of the traditional and religious
celebrations of the Mexican people. All School Lecture Program,
Rice University School of Architecture.
|
| 1992 |
A review of the Essence of Mexico Project The
Border Series, The Houston Seminar, organized by Rice University.
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| 1992 |
A review of the Essence of Mexico Project,
Tejas Breakfast Club, Houston, Texas.
|
| 1991 |
The Importance of the Creation and Use of Ephemera
as Related to Traditional and Religious Festivals Celebrated
by Indigenous Mexican Folk Cultures. Visiting Lecturer Series,
Clemson University, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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| 1988 |
Semana Santa en Guatemala,
Friends of Folk Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio,
Texas.
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| 1986 |
A 12-projector, multi-media presentation The
Sky and the City with original music by Arthur Gottschalk
of Rice University was held in the Transco Auditorium. The exhibit
was billed as the last official event of the sesquicentennial,
and was attended by an audience of more than 700.
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| 1985 |
Chromium Voices of the City. A slide show
of cityscapes from the Parklane Collection was shown to
audiences at the University of Texas at Galveston accompanied by
an original musical composition by David Colson, performed by the
Electronic Music Studio of Rice University and organized by the
Office of Campus Life.
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