Yolopopotli/ Roberto Mejía Muñoz and Martha Patricia García Aguilar
Country: Mexico
Tribal affiliation(s): Nahuatl
Items sold: Popotillo grass art
How to purchase:
Website: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/indigenous-crafters-highlands-ukraine-and-mexico-travel-boston
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yolopopotli_arte_popotillo/
Facebook: Popotillo Arte Yolopopotli
Email: a.popotillo@hotmail.com, paty_garciapopotl@hotmail.com
Bio:
Roberto Mejía Muñoz and Patricia García are mestizo artists from Mexico. Their family have been working and selling their crafts worldwide for about 20 years. Their crafts, rooted in their ancestral Nahuatl culture, feature a natural fiber known as popotillo. This is a straw-like grass that is collected from the high parts of a volcano or the hills of the Valle de Mexico. They dye it various colors and secure it using a natural glue made from a tree resin and beeswax. These skills and traditions have been taught for over three generations. Roberto, Patricia, and their family also instruct their community on how to create rare crafts using popotillo. At the Cultural Survival Bazaars, Roberto and Patricia represent Yolopopotli, a family business that includes four families whose members participate in the creation of the art. What makes their work so unique is that they each reflect their own experiences, visions, and inspiration in their work because everyone sees the world and life differently.
