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October 17, 2007: Tiny watercolors by
Elva Vasquez and her husband have been posted for sale. Ten new
paintings have been added to the gallery of Juan
Fermin Gonzalez Morales. |
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July 21, 2007: Our 2008 Arte Maya
calendar is ready. |
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March 29, 2007: A new gallery of paintings done by San Pedro
artist Guillermo Nicolas Chaz Perez has been
added. He was tragically killed in a bus accident in 2000 at the age of
27. These are the last paintings he did before his death. A close friend
of mine in San Pedro had guarded them since Guillermo Nicolas' death,
but my friend died last year. |
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March 24, 2007: Seventeen of the twenty paintings that
Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay created in the
last two years are now up on the web. They are the first of the new
paintings I brought back from my January trip to Guatemala. |
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June 14, 2006: Paintings have been added to the galleries of
Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay, his brother
Mario Gonzalez Chavajay,
Miguel Angel Sunu Cortez, and
Domingo Garcia Criado. Two other pages in the
Paintings section have been opened. The Under
$150 page incorporates several pages ($50, $75, $100 & $150) which
were just too difficult for me to keep up with. The other page is new,
and consists of Major Paintings—those
paintings which are large (30" x 40" minimum) and of exceptional
quality. Why so many new paintings? I got a new digital camera
which allows me to take one picture which is high enough quality for all
purposes. This means I don't have to piece together two photographs of
one half of each painting to get the quality and size I need, saving me
about an hour of work for each painting. The second reason is that I
have gone through the paintings I currently possess by each
artists and have decided to sell quite a number of paintings I had been
previously saving. Without realizing it, I had been putting aside
an unreasonable number of paintings. I will be posting more paintings by
other artists in the near future as I get them organized and
photographed. |
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June 4, 2006: The 2007 Arte Maya Calendar
is out. More than fifteen paintings have been added to the gallery
of Jose Antonio Gonzalez Escobar. |
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May 30, 2006: Thirty paintings have been added to the gallery
of Diego Isaias Hernandez. The format of the
Paintings section has been changed which should make it easier to view
and select paintings. |
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November 13, 2005: I have added new sites to the Links
page. On this page I have comments on some of my personal favorites.
Near the bottom of the page there links to good links pages. The
topics relate to some aspect of this website—Guatemala, Indigenous
peoples, Maya, Latin art, etc. |
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November 11, 2005: The rest of the 9" x
11" paintings from the new shipment have been posted. Except for
one exquisitely beautiful painting by Miguel
Angel Sunu Cortez, the paintings are by a new artist, Aatuun
Ch'ab'aq jaay, the youngest brother of Pedro Rafael Gonzalez
Chavajay. |
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November 3, 2005: A new shipment of paintings has
arrived, and the first postings—small paintings by Isaias
Hernandez Mendez and Luciano Sitan Sicay—have
been posted. |
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July 22, 2005: The 2006
Arte Maya Calendar is now available. For the first time it contains
the Maya glyphs for every day of the year. |
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April 8, 2005: Many of the artists pages in the
Archives section have re-designed and paintings added. Among those
redone are two sets of brothers: Pedro Rafael
Gonzalez Chavajay and Mario Gonzalez Chavajay;
Emilio Gonzalez Morales and Juan
Fermin Gonzalez Morales |
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March 19, 2005: We obtained a small quantity of the
children's book Diego Isaias Hernandez Mendez illustrated, Trouble
Dolls a Guatemalan Legend. It is out of print. |
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January 24, 2005: Miguel
Angel Sunu has been added to our list of quality painters who have
paintings for sale. Domingo Garcia Criado has
new paintings for sale. The archives section has been divided into two
parts, one where the paintings are grouped by artist, and a new one
which groups the paintings by theme.
The pages are labor intensive, so we will be adding to them slowly. We
will also be redoing the artists section and we have started with the
page on Lorenzo Gonzalez Chavajay. |
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January 16, 2005: The Maya
culture discussion group has begun and we invited you to participate
with your questions or comments. We also have posted a page of paintings
for sale by a recent discovery Luciano Sitan
Sicay from Cerro de Oro. |
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November 24, 2004: In the paintings sections, four
SALE pages were added for paintings of $50, $75,
$100, and $150.
All paintings on these pages are at greatly reduced prices for quick sale |
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February 2, 2004: We are inaugurating the first
Tz'utuhil Mayan woman painter Vicenta Puzul de
Gonzalez with a solo exhibition at Cup-O-Java in San Francisco.
Vicenta is the wife of renowned painter Mariano Gonzalez Chavajay. After
many years of working with her husband helping him with his
paintings, Vicenta has decided paint only under her own name and wants to
work exclusively with Arte Maya Tz'utuhil. A page of Vicenta's
past works appears in the archives section. |
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January 18, 2004: New paintings (for sale) were added
to Mario Gonzalez Chavajay's page and to that of
his uncle Jose Antonio Gonzalez Escobar. |
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January 15, 2004: Our shopping cart system has
been upgraded so that Paypal is available as a purchase option. |
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January 10, 2004: Several artist's work have been
added to the ARCHIVES section: Vicenta
Puzul de Gonzalez, the first Tz'utuhil woman painter; Jose
Antonio Gonzalez Escobar, her uncle; Miguel
Angel Sunu an emerging young painter, and the brothers Juan
Fermin Gonzalez Morales and Emilio Gonzalez
Morales. |
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December 10, 2003: An exhibition of
Diego Isaias Hernadez Mendez paintings entitled "Pesadillas"
[Bad Dreams] has been put up and at the same time is on the web. In spite
of its subject matter it is a light hearted exhibition reflecting Isaias's
ability to laugh at life's disasters. It will be on exhibition until
February 1, 2004 and on the web indefinitely. |
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November 6, 2003: Pedro Rafael
Gonzalez Chavajay's pages have been updated and eight new paintings
have been added. |
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November 4, 2003: Eight new paintings by artist Domingo
Garcia Criado have been added to his gallery page. Ten more will be
added in the near future as photographs are taken of them. |
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October 4, 2003: All paintings by Mario
Gonzalez Chavajay have been put On Sale for between 30 and 50
percent off. New paintings have been added and will be added in the
following days. Added Oct 16: There is also an exhibition
of Mario's paintings in San Francisco California until December of
2003. For the first time you can see and buy the paintings on the website
at the same time as at the exhibition. |
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September 30, 2003: More paintings have been added
to Jose Antonio Gonzalez Escobar's page of works
for sale. These are a little larger (11" x 13") than the one's
currently on the page (9" x 11"). There will be some additional
paintings added in the next few days. |
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September 26, 2003: Our 2004 Arte
Maya Calendar is ready. |
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September 14, 2002: More than twenty new paintings
have been added to Mario Gonzalez Chavajay's page in the Paintings
section. This has necessitated the addition of another page. The first
page [Mario] has the small paintings. The second
page [Mario 2] has the larger paintings |
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September 10, 2002: Thirteen paintings by Jose
Antonio Gonzalez Escobar have been added to his page in the Paintings
section. We are happy to get these paintings as we had sold out all of his
previous work. This time we have some larger paintings by him. We should
be posting more in the next few days. |
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September 9, 2002: In the Paintings
section new paintings have been added to Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay's
gallery pages. The gallery has been divided into two pages, one for small
paintings [Pedro Rafael] and the other for medium
and large paintings [Pedro Rafael 2]. To promote
lagging sales in this recession, quite a number of these paintings have
been put on sale. Art is a much better investment than the stock
market. |
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August 15, 2002: The 2003 Arte
Maya Calendar arrived and is available for sale. (SOLD OUT 2/22/03) |
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April 17, 2002 A trip to Lake Atitlán in February produced 2000
photos from which to choose some good ones. The Photographs section will
be featuring many of these photographs. The first page in the Photographs
section to benefit is The Artists of San Pedro la
Laguna. |
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November 24, 2001: Jose Antonio Gonzalez
Escobar has been added to the our stable of artists. He has been
painting for many years and is well established in Guatemala. There are
also new paintings by Mario Gonzalez Chavajay
and Isaias Hernandez. All the navigation buttons
have been re-done to be more consistent and to make it easier for you to
tell where you are and find your way around. Many page have been updated
and old images have been replaced by newer clearer ones. |
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October 27, 2001: A shopping cart system has been added to the
site so people can buy now paintings online through a secure connection,
without the limitations of Paypal. The paintings
pages have been updated and expanded with many new paintings. |
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August 28, 2001: Links page expanded.
Our links section is very good, not because we spend much time on it, but
because it contains links to lists of links on other web-sites where the
people have gathered links about various related subjects. It is an
excellent resource for people writing articles or reports. |
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August 24, 2001: The first Arte Maya
Tz'utuhil calendar (for 2002) has come out and is for sale, both on
this website and in stores. |
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February 2, 2001: The Textile or traje
section has been greatly enlarged. There are individual pages for many of
the pueblos (such as San Antonio Palopo)
around Lake Atitlan. There is also a Bibliography
page. |
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March 21, 2000: A few books/booklets are finally
offered for sale on the Books page under the Paintings
section. |
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January, 2000: Two important exhibitions:
(San Francisco CA) Tz'utuhil Mayan Painters will be the most important show of
contemporary Mayan paintings ever assembled outside of Guatemala; and (Santa Cruz, CA) an
exhibition of paintings by the first tz'utuhil mayan painter and his grandson. |
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June 12, 1999: We have begun a large project to replace the majority
of our early images with better digital images.In some cases the colors of the paintings
will appear less intense, but in nearly all cases they will be more detailed, richer in
color and truer to the original painting. The small paintings we scan directly from the
painting; the large paintings are photographed with a digital camera. In order to get the
more detail we ofter piece together two or more scans/photos to make one image of the
painting. |
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March 21, 1999: More detailed information and a separate page for
Casa Rosario, the Spanish Language School in San Pedro la Laguna,
Solola Guatemala. An Interview which was published in Cultural
Exploring Magazine about Arte Maya Tz'utuhil has also be put on line because it clarifies
a bit about our history and who we are. |
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March 9, 1999: For people who are traveling to Guatemala and
want to learn backstrap weaving, there is a page of information on one of the weavers, Gudelia Cumes, offering classes in San Pedro la Laguna. |
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February 10, 1999: The Operation of a Death
Squad in San Pedro la Laguna by Benjamin Paul and William Demarest tells the story of
the violence in San Pedro from 1980 to 1985. Just a few brave artists painted
subjects such as the death squads and these paintings along with others are shown on the
web for the first time to illustrate this article. The article is quite long for the web
but it is broken up into six more manageable bites. The humanity of the writing is
accented by the charm of the paintings. |
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December 20, 1998: Section on Chema Cox, a
Tz'utuhil-Mayan watercolor artist, added to the Catalogue of Paintings section. |
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September 11, 1988: Guatemalan Textiles, the
main page of a new section which is authored by Margot Blum Shevill, is finally up and
running. We will be adding more examples of the textiles of different pueblos of Lake
Atitlán to this section as time goes on. |
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August 11, 1998: Current Exhibitions updated
with an upcoming exhibition in San Francisco. The artist Victor Vasquez Temó will be
coming to San Francisco for this exhibition. |
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August 10, 1998: David Hamilton took photographs of Semana Santa in Santiago Atitlan when he was there in 1997 and
1998. |
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August 2, 1998: Juan Sisay, Santiago
Atitlan's first and most famous painter, is represented with a painting (soon to be
paintings and a page of his paintings) on the web. |
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March 21, 1998: A new section called Projects.
The first project covered is Pedro Rafael's pencil project pictured above. |
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March 20, 1998: What's New Page |
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March 3, 1998: Nine new and two updated links |
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November 28, 1997: San Pedro la Laguna in 1941,
a page of photographs by Benjamin and Lois Paul. |
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To contact us write: Arte Maya Tz'utuhil, P.O. Box 40391, San
Francisco, CA 94140. If you need to talk to me directly, email me with your
telephone number and I will return the call. I am currently moving my office.
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