Michoacán Pottery, Film and Reception
Thursday, June 14, 2012 • 6:00 p.m.
Institute of the Americas| Hojel Auditorium and Arango Foyer

General public: $10
Institute members: Free • Become a member
Students (must present school id): $5

Please come join us for an exhibit of exquisite lead-free Michoacán pottery and film about how it is made. The pottery will be for sale at the wine reception immediately following the screening of a feature-length documentary about Michoacán potters. Omar Foglio, producer, and José Luis Figueroa, co-director, will answer questions about the film and the difficult process of convincing Michoacán artisans to make lead-free pottery during the reception. Brilliant Soil focuses on Herlinda Morales, one of the great masters of Mexican folk art. Brilliant Soil, in Spanish with English subtitles, documents the rise of the poor, indigenous women potters of Michoacán who banded together forming Uarhi, the word for woman in the native Purepecha language.
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