Library

Welcome to the LADAP Library!

LADAP Bibliography to Mexican Folk Art Resources:

• Book Dealers in Mexico City
• Ceramics
• Chiapas
• Days of the Dead
• General Texts
• Lacquerware
• LIST OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN ON MEXICAN FOLK ART
• Masks
• Museums with Mexican Folk Art
• Nacimientos
• Paper Arts
• Retablos / Ex-votos
• Silver
• Textiles & Clothing
• Tin
• Wood Carvings

Articles:

• Monumentos Del Arte Mexicano Antiguo: Ornamentacion, Mytologia, Tributos y Monumentos
  By Chuck Plosky
  2013 – 1
• Interview with Jim Caswell
  By Alan L. Ryave
  1999 – 1
• Las Artes Populares en Mexico: Mexico’s First Folk Art Exhibition
  By Kathleen Vanesian
  2001 – 2
• Mayo Weavings of Northwest Mexico
  By William Laney
  2001 – 3
• A Collector’s Thoughts on Collecting
  By Nicholas Follansbee
  2001 – 4
• An Interview With Doña Marta
  By Tom Pirazzini
  2001 – 5
• Vuelo Eterno
  By Tom Pirazzini – Translated
  2001 – 6
  Cristina Pacheco’s Interview of Don Gabriel Olay Olay
• Mexican Popular Arts
  By Donna McMenamin
  2002 – 10
• Mexican Bas Relief Carvings
  By Kyle Koestner
  2002 – 11
  Reprinted from the Spring ’2001 issue of LaVoz
• Spratling Ranch
  By Carmen Armstrong
  2002 – 7
• Nacimientos Mexicanos
  By Judith Davis
  2002 – 8
• Modesta Fernandez – A Metepec Ceramist
  By Ron Slaughter
  2002 – 9
  A Reprint from Amigos News Letter Jan. 1998
• A Short History of Silver Jewelry Production in Taxco
  By Carmen Armstrong
  2007 – 12
• Dinner with Sigi Pineda: Meeting a Taxco Silver Legend
  By Anned Muse
  2007 – 13
• Filigree Jewelry
  By Carmen Armstrong
  2007 – 14
• Six Points on How to Value a Mexican Art Book
  By Victor Aguila
  2007 – 15
• Managing Your Art and Book Collections
  By Joseph L. Moure
  2007 – 16
• Feria Maestros del Arte
  By Marianne Carlson
  2008 – 17
• A Lover’s Guide to Museum Donations
  By Joanne Stuhr
  2008 – 18
• Donations to the Museum of International Folk Art
  By Barbara Mauldin
  2008 – 19
• Museum Donations From A Donating Collector’s Perspective
  By Pete Cecere
  2008 – 20
• Mexican Folk Art Concursos: Shedding Light on a Hidden Process
  By Deb Hall
  2008 – 21
  Part 1 of Mexican Folk Art Concursos
• Papelitos & Wonderful Memories: More about the Inner Workings of Mexican Folk Art Concursos
  By Deb Hall
  2008 – 22
  Part 2 of Mexican Folk Art Concursos
• Ways to Deaccess Your Private Collection: Or How to Make Room for More
  By Cathey Merrill
  2008 – 23

Thank you for visiting our library!  If you have a book to recommend or an article you have written, please contact Kathleen Vanesian at:  queenksv@earthlink.net