“RAINBOW WEAVER/TEJEDORA DEL ARCOÍRIS”

By Linda Elovitz Marshall

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 1 - 2

Publisher: Children’s Book Press

ISBN-13: 978-0892393749

Teacher’s Guide: https://www.leeandlow.com/books/rainbow-weaver-tejedora-del-arcoiris/teachers_guide

Ixchel wants to follow in the tradition of weaving on backstrap looms just as most Mayan women have done for more than two thousand years. But there is not enough extra thread for Ixchel to practice with. She tries weaving with blades of grass and bits of wool, but no one would want to buy the results. As she walks around her village, she finds it littered with colorful plastic bags. Suddenly, Ixchel has an idea! She collects and washes the bags, cuts them into thin strips and weaves them into a colorful fabric that looks like a beautiful rainbow.

“DRUM, CHAVI, DRUM! / ¡TOCA, CHAVI, TOCA!”

by Mayra L. Dole 

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 1 - 2

Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc.

ISBN-13: 978-0892393022

Reading and Craft Tips: http://readingtokids.org/Books/BookView.php?pag=2&bookID=00000479

“Chavita, por favor, drumming is for boys!” Even though nobody in her Cuban-American neighborhood thinks girls should play the drums, Chavi knows she was born to drum. And the whole world is her instrument: she drums on paint cans, a pot, sofa arms, even on her mother’s cheeks. Her favorites by far, however, are the tumbadoras, the conga drums that liven the Caribbean music she and her neighbors love. So, when her music teacher, Mr. Gonzalez, does not pick her to play on the school float for the festival on Miami’s Calle Ocho, she decides to do something about it!

“FINDING THE MUSIC / EN POS DE LA MÚSICA”

by Jennifer Torres

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 2 - 3

Publisher: Lee & Low Books

ISBN-13: 978-0892392919

Teacher’s Guide: https://www.leeandlow.com/books/finding-the-music-en-pos-de-la-musica/teachers_guide

When Reyna accidentally breaks Abuelito’s vihuela—a guitar-like instrument—she ventures out into the neighborhood determined to find someone who can help repair it. Along the way she gathers stories and mementos of Abuelito and his music. Eventually, she visits the music store, where the owner gives her a recording of Abuelito’s music and promises that they can fix the vihuela together. Reyna realizes how much she’s learned about Abuelito, his influence in the community and the power of his music. She returns to her family’s restaurant to share Abuelito’s gifts with Mama and finally hears Abuelito’s music for herself.

“MY PAPA DIEGO AND ME / MI PAPÁ DIEGO Y YO”

by Guadalupe Rivera Marín

Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten - 2

Publisher: Children’s Book Press

ISBN-13: 978-0892392285

Interview With Author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q36e19v2D80

Guadalupe Rivera Marín had a very unusual childhood, growing up among world famous artwork. Her papá, Diego Rivera, was a larger-than-life figure who created unforgettable images of working people, of life in Mexico, of industrial machines and flowers. But Rivera also loved to paint children (including at times his own daughter), and these works are featured in Marín’s book, along with lessons, as well as wisdom, that Rivera passed along to her. Filled with recollections that are tender, humorous and unexpected, “MY PAPA DIEGO AND ME / MI PAPÁ DIEGO Y YO” creates an intimate portrait of a world-renowned artist.

Higher Education 

“A Principality of Its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society”

Edited by José Luis Falconi and Gabriela Rangel

Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University Press)

ISBN-13: 978-1879128316

This collection of essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society’s visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the U.S. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society has played a pivotal role in Latin American art, from Pre-Colombian to modernism. The book brings together a cross-cultural group of art historians and curators who discuss the relevance of the institution’s relationships with art, economics and politics. Essays address the emergence of site-specific practices including Gego’s Reticulárea, as well as explore the achievements, frictions and experiments that modeled the institution from the Cold War forward.

“Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy: An Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists, 1960-2007”

Edited by Victoria Noorthoorn

Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University Press)

ISBN-13: 978-1879128347

“Beginning with a Bang!” features the shift between the explosive and experimental moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s and the current scene emerging after the extreme crises in Argentina during the last 40 years. Back in the 1960s, artists explored destruction and dematerialization to propose original contributions to the fields of conceptual and action-based art. Today, however, artists explore fiction and intimacy as critical strategies to both review and rebuild the artistic system. The exhibition catalogue brings together a historical section, as well as information of performance-based actions and sound and video works by Argentine contemporary artists.

“The Archaeology of Mural Painting at Pañamarca, Peru”

by Lisa Trever

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Harvard University Press)

ISBN-13: 978-0884024248

The archaeological site of Pañamarca was once a vibrant center of religious performance and artistic practice within the ancient Moche world. During the seventh and eighth centuries CE, architects and mural painters created lofty temples and broad-walled plazas that were arrayed with images of mythological heroes, monstrous creatures, winged warriors in combat, ritual processions and sacrificial offerings. This illustrated volume offers an account of the modern history of exploration, archaeology and image making at Pañamarca; it also offers documentation of the new fieldwork that led to the discoveries of 1,200-year-old mural paintings, presented here in detail for the first time.

“Portraits of an Invisible Country: The Photographs of Jorge Mario Múnera”

Edited by José Luis Falconi

Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University Press)

ISBN-13: 978-0674055865

In 2003, Jorge Mario Múnera won the Latino and Latin American Art Forum Prize at Harvard University, entitling him to produce and present an exhibit at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. By this time, Múnera had already produced a body of work, revealing the farthest corners of his native Colombia through his photographs of people and their traditions. “Portraits of an Invisible Country” is the culmination of a five-year collaboration between the photographer and the show’s curator of the show, José Luis Falconi. It includes essays with reflections on Múnera’s body of work and 16 photo posters.