"This was the meeting of two worlds," said Walther Boelsterly, director of Mexico City's Museum of Popular Art. "The pinata and the celebration were used as a mechanism to convert the native ...

Five years after starting to make and sell her colorful and creative party favorites from their ... back to her childhood in Mazatlan in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Piñatas, the extension ...

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“If you understand the Mexican culture and the U.S. culture, you can decode the art pieces in a way where they're telling you something. And that's what all great art, at the end of the ...

NPR's Alejandra Marquez Janse reports that in Mexico and in Mexican American ... of Popular Art in Mexico City. He says while there's no documentation about the origin of pinatas, oral history ...

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Piñatas are, of course, a staple of traditional Mexican culture that exist somewhere between artisanal craft and party decoration ... in the U.S., and about the art world in general.

Get the tutorial at Catch My Party. Check out this free art museum, which features Mexican art for all to view. Find plenty of family-friendly activities on its website, too. If making your own piñata ...