Painted Sounds of The Spanish Language

by Armando Santa Ana Chávez

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SHOWING ALL MONTH
Dec 2^nd to Dec 26^th, 2011
Diaspora Gallery
215 East State Street, 
The Commons
Ithaca, New York

Armando Santa Ana Chávez: Armando Santa Ana is a Mexican painter, solar sculptor, writer, and professor of Mexican Art History and Latin American Literature in different universities in Mexico and the USA. He was a disciple and friend of Juan Rulfo. His most recent important exhibition was shown at the Yucatan Museum of Contemporary Art. All museums of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) have collected his solar sculptures. Now he is dedicated to the preservation of native people's languages, focused especially on the Huichol people (Wixarika Language) in the western mountains of Mexico (Sierra Madre Occidental). In this fall semester he is a visiting professor in SUNY Cortland, where previously he visited as a Fulbright scholar.