“....
Having gone from an aesthetic appreciation of huipils to an obsession
about their meaning, I know that never in this lifetime will I
understand all the codes whispered within their threads...”
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Pozos resident Lena Bartula opens her studio for the upcoming Artwalk with a series of prints....”
from San Miguel de Allende's news and tourist newspaper, Atención San Miguel June, 2008.
The Creative Journey continues with Joan Columbus and Lena Bartula, Dec. 7, 2007, Atencion San Miguel
"Como un homenajage a Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz y mas mujeres quienes les fue
robado el resplandor de su inteligencia,la maestra Lena Bartula ..... "
Noticias, Queretaro, Qro, del marzo, 2008.
"A hate crime took place at the Chinatown Branch of the San Francisco Public Library......"
Read this article about the crime, the art and the documentary film by Cynthia Buzzard for American Artist Projects.
".....her
work asks questions such as "if a poem is painted on canvas, is it then
a poem or a painting? If an artist chooses a garment to paint on, is
the result then art or clothing...."
