Bringing It Home: Porfirio Gutierrez

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Video Title: Bringing It Home: Porfirio Gutierrez
Description: Bringing It Home: Artists Reconnecting Cultural Heritage with Community is a panel discussion with artists in the National Museum of the American Indian's Artist Leadership Program. In this segment, Porfirio Gutierrez (Zapotec) talks about his research on Zapotec textile art fabrication techniques in order to promote the methods used in the past among contemporary weavers. Porfirio is a master Zapotec weaver who works with natural dyes. He will do his community project in Teotitlan del Valle a town near Oaxaca, Mexico, known for its traditional Zapotec weavings, made with fibers dyed with local plants and insects. The program was webcast live and recorded at the National Museum of the American Indian on December 9, 2015. For more information on the Artist Leadership Program for Individual Artists, and a second branch of the program for museums and other cultural institutions, see http://nmai.si.edu/connect/artist-leadership-program/
Video Duration: 9 min 49 sec
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