Posts Tagged ‘arts’

Cultural Coalition Launches Online Museum

Zarco in front of a group of folklorico dancers wearing his masks

Mask Alive! Museum Features Hundreds of Masks Used By Arizona’s Performing Arts Organizations Cultural Coalition, Inc has announced the launch of its Mask Alive! Museum & Cultural Center (MAMACC), an online collection of masks, performance art related objects, exhibitions, and free pop-up art installations around the Valley. A dream of Cultural Coalition’s founders Zarco and…

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Mask Making Workshop

Back in April, Zarco and Cultural Coalition had some very cool visitors in the studio and at Rancho del Arte – a group of high school students and teachers from Silverton Public School in Colorado! This amazing group of students come from an EL or Expeditionary Learning academic model school. They were working on research…

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Eulogy to Diane Hunt Vanek

Two dancers. Mark in a fur mask in a squat position jumping in the air above Diane, sitting on the ground holding up a mask with fur

By Zarco Guerrero Carmen and I first met Mark and Di in the early 80s at Tuba City High School on the Navajo Reservation where we were both Artists in Residence. I remember the first time I saw Dancing Di dance, she fluttered around like a butterfly and could sting like a bee. She was…

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Festivals – More than just one day!

image of Elitza, young woman with brown hair wearing a white long sleeve shirt with flowers

This past spring, Cultural Coalition had its first Events Management Intern as part of our Guerrero Family Legacy Apprenticeship Projects. Elitsa Southern joined our team in January and worked with us helping to coordinate our Mask Alive and El Puente Festivals. It was such a great experience for us to have her assistance on all…

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New Mask Exhibit In Downtown Mesa

Make your way to 111 W Main St in downtown Mesa to see the latest exhibit from Cultural Coalition’s Mask Alive Museum & Cultural Center project – A Study in Noh Masks! Featuring over 20 masks hand-carved and painted by artist and sculptor Zarco Guerrero, these masks are part of his Noh Mask Series, carved…

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