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Mayan art brightens up Shanghai (3)

(CNTV)

14:02, May 15, 2013

People in Shanghai got a chance this weekend to try their hand at creating some unique folk art from Mexico. (CNTV)

Chantal Abrajan, Mexican artist, said, "We have today’s this workshop of Alebrijes because last September we held an exhibition at the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum that was amazing. And the main point of this is try our best to share this amazing culture, this Mexican culture with the Chinese people. Alebrijes has made by wood that the name is copal wood. From the fleure of the wood, it has some kind of powders. So this powder will mix with different things and we can create colors. The masters, the artists for this kind of handicraft are normal people. They grow in small villages and they have all this knowledge about how to make it because the parents of parents of parents teach this kind of things."

Abrajan says she’s also planning to start a workshop on Huaihai(淮海) Road in downtown Jing’an District for people who want to learn more about this unique Mexican artform.

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