The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe New Mexico’s Amy Groleau has curated an exhibit, Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. In this exhibit she has brought traditional artists, artists that documented the Internal Conflict of Peru through traditional means, and artists who have remixed the cultural legacy with the modern reality of the city and the amalgamations that have happened in these places. In this show memory is crafted from ancestral designs, from snap shop ceramics, and from screen printing that gives city dwellers, migrants, indigenous and in general the people a voice.
This interview features Fernando Castro and Carol Fernandez of Amapolay Manufactuas Autonomos along with Amy Groleau the curator of the Latin America Collection of the Museum of International Folk Art. They go into the history and the mixing of culture. Click here to listen to the full piece.