Opening Reception: Mexican Folk Art of Animal World

Where:
Back to the Picture Latin American Gallery
934 Valencia Street
(between 20th and 21st Streets)
San Francisco, CA  94110
(415) 826-2321
www.backtothepicture.com

About:

Animales y Nahuales:  Spirit Guides and Companions

Musical Guest:  Miguel Govea & Family, Adalberto Pérez Meillón:  Acrylic on Amate, Hand-painted Mirrors, and Prints Mata Ortíz ceramics, by the artisans of Mata Ortíz, Chihuahua, México Carved Animal Figurines, by the artisans of the Oaxaca region, Oaxaca, México, brought to us by DeSilva Imports.

 Nahual - A spirit being or animal entity closely associated with humans.

Among Mesoamerican communities it is assumed that humans have an animal counterpart to whom their life force is linked; a protective spirit.  Nahual is also associated with the pre-Hispanic shamanistic practice of human transformation or shape-shifting.