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Frida` Style: Traditional Women’s Costume From Mexico - January 28, 2012 to June 3, 2012
Posted: February 5th, 2012
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 A special exhibit at the Tucson Museum of Art
January 28, 2012 to June 3, 2012
Open Tuesday – Sunday
Featuring beautiful textiles from The Castañeda Museum of Ethnic Costume
of Tucson, Arizona, and objects from the permanent collection of the Tucson Museum of Art, this exhibit displays examples of the types of jewelry and traditional costumes favored by Frida Kahlo.
Admission to the galleries and historic block:
$8 general
$6 seniors (ages 60+) and veterans
$3 students (ages 13+)
Members, children ages 12 and under, and active military with ID are FREE
First Sunday of the month is FREE for everyone.
140 N. Main Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701 | 520.624.2333 |
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ENCOUNTERS – A Native American Ethnic Costume Exhibit - December 1, 2011 to February 26, 2012
Posted: February 5th, 2012
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 In a special exhibit created for the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, the Castañeda Museum presents ENCOUNTERS – a glimpse into the lives today of the Yaqui, Seri, Tohono O'odham and Yuma peoples, whom Spaniards encountered in the 1500's and who are our neighbors. Apparel, artifacts, dolls and historical photographs of these four indigenous groups will be featured.
Exhibit included in park admission: $4 adult, $2 youth (7–13), children free.
daily 9am-5pm
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
1 Burruel Street • Tubac, Arizona
520-398-2252 • www.TubacPresidioPark.com |
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Meet the Curator of ENCOUNTERS - Sunday, January 29, 2012, 1-4pm
Posted: January 19th, 2012
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 The Tubac Presidio will host a “Meet the Curator” reception for Gayle Castañeda, curator of the ENCOUNTERS exhibit currently on display in the Presidio Museum through February 26th. The exhibit is on loan from the Castañeda Museum of Ethnic Costume in Tucson and offers a glimpse into the lives today of the Yaqui, Seri, Tohono O'odham and Yuma Indians whom the Spaniards encountered in the 1500's. Articles on display include apparel, ceremonial masks, artifacts, dolls and historic photographs of these four indigenous peoples.
Castañeda will give an informal gallery talk and answer questions about the collection in the Museum from 1-3pm. A reception with wine, soft drinks and light refreshments will follow in Otero Hall from 3-4pm. Admission to the gallery talk and reception is $5. Reservations are encouraged.
Sunday, January 29, 2012, 1-4pm
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
1 Burruel Street, Tubac, AZ
RSVP 520-398-2252 |
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Many Mexicos - Vistas de la Frontera - November 19, 2010 through November 2012
Posted: December 6th, 2010
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 The Castañeda Museum currently has several Mexican dolls on loan to the Arizona State Museum for its exhibition, Many Mexicos -Vistas de la Frontera. Three-hundred objects illustrate 3,000 years of varied Mexican histories. See a Maya ritual corn vessel, Spanish colonial retablos, Santa Anna's sword and uniform, Maximilian's ring and Carlota's brooch, and a sombrero that may well have belonged to Pancho Villa! This exhibition interprets the broad sweep of Mexican history from the perspective of the borderlands—a vast, contested space that was the outer rim of Mesoamerica in the pre-Columbian period and later evolved into the northern frontier of Spanish-Indian relations following the conquest of Mexico. The establishment of the international border between the United States and Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century set the stage for a new set of cross-cultural contacts and commercial exchanges. The debates currently raging over immigration by no means diminish these relationships. In so many ways, the history of Arizona reflects the history of Mexico. Many Mexicos is the third exhibition in Arizona State Museum’s Year of Mexico celebrations commemorating the bicentennial of Mexican independence from Spain (1810) and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution (1910).
Location of Museum
Arizona State Museum is located on the University of Arizona campus, just NE of the Main Gate at Park Avenue and University Boulevard in Tucson.
For admission prices please call: 520-621-6302
Hours
Exhibitions and Museum Store
Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (museum store closes 12:30 to 1 p.m. for lunch) Closed Sundays; federal and state holidays |
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Posted: August 25th, 2010
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 The Castañeda Museum
invites you to view its exhibit
"A Journey South"
on the ground floor level of the
Tucson International Airport.
Dolls, textiles, maps, & other items from
Arizona, Mexico, the Caribbean,
Central America, & South America
will be on display.
July 26, 2010 - November 6, 2010
For more info call (520) 299-4129. |
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Marta Morales: Portraits of Purépecha Life
Posted: July 10th, 2007
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 September 6 - November 12, 2007
Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, Arizona
An exhibit of dolls made by Marta Morales Naranjo of Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico ~
from The Castañeda Museum`s ethnic doll collection.
Tohono Chul Park
7366 N. Paseo del Norte
Tucson, AZ 85704
(520) 742-6455
For over 55 years, Ms. Morales has been creating dolls representing the Tarascan/Purépecha people of Michoacán engaged in their daily activities. Her dolls have been exhibited internationally as well as throughout Mexico. She is included in the large volume, GRANDES MAESTROS DEL ARTE POPULAR MEXICANO, published by Fomento Cultural Banamex. Included in this exhibit are flower, pottery, and food vendors and groupings of dolls illustrating Negrito, Viejito, and Lake Pátzcuaro White Fish dances.
These three dolls wear different styles of rebozos used in Michoacán and illustrate the different ways of draping them.
View more dolls made by Ms. Morales in our "Masked Characters" section. |
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Posted: June 20th, 2007
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 Pictured here are Viejito dancers, 7 ¼" tall, made by Ms. Morales in 1984. They represent dancers from the Lake Pátzcuaro area. It's likely the Viejitos (Little Old Men) dances date back to pre-Hispanic dances in honor of Huehueteotl, the old fire god, represented as a bent and smiling old man. Actual dancers are young men dressed in campesino clothing with their faces hidden behind carved wood masks. During the dance, the performers first imitate the slow gait of the elderly, then unexpectedly burst into strenuous movement - a delight to behold! |
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MASKS OF MEXICO: Santos, Diablos y Más
Posted: June 20th, 2007
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 FINAL DAYS OF MASKS OF MEXICO ~
An exhibit of the Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ.
Continuing through October, 2007
Experience the beauty, pageantry, and power of traditionally carved Mexican masks from pre-Hispanic times to the present. Using bright colors and rich imagery, the artisans of Mexico create a fantastic and marvelous world of hand carved wooden masks. Faces smile, grimace, look angelic or diabolic. Whether they are part animal, part human, or stylized characters from Mexican history, they are all most importantly part of a compelling and continuing tradition.
The Castañeda Museum is participating in this exhibit with masks and masked dolls.
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
1013 E. University Blvd., P.O. Box 210026, Tucson, AZ 85721-0026
Phone: 520-621-6302 ~ Fax: 520-621-2976 |
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