This weekend I watched the screening of the Metropolitan Opera’s “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” – a dazzling new production with fabulous sets and costumes. (Of course, the music was wonderful as well!) I was reminded of my many visits to Mexico City for the Mexico Quilt Festival, which sadly ended with the pandemic. But on those quilt festival trips, I visited the Blue House (Casa Azul) where Frida grew up, and the art studios of both Frida Kahlo and her artist husband Diego Rivera.
During those years, I took art and museum tours which included the monumental murals by Diego, and saw the exhibit with Frida’s indigenous costumes, colorful jewelry, and prosthetics. “Frida” with Salma Hayek (2002) is still one of my alltime favorite movies, and I often play the film’s soundtrack when I am in the studio.
Here is the photo album from Mexico City, with Casa Azul, Diego’s murals, and more. The photo above is Frida’s paints and palette, her easel and wheelchair, in The Blue House where she spent most of her life. She was driven to make art, despite her pain and disabilities. I suspect that many of you quilt, sew, and create to help deal with similar challenges.
This Friday evening I am speaking on “Art and Activism” on World Environment Day in Houston Texas, and I am bringing several of my story art quilts to display for the event. You can find more information, and a link to register, on this blog post.
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Travel/Lecture Dates:
June 5 – Featured Speaker – World Environment Day – Houston
July 28 – Aug 2 – Festival of Quilts – Birmingham UK
Nov 12-15 – Intl Quilt Festival – Houston
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