Sonoma Valley residents will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in the Zapotec rug weaving tradition this month when two members of a women’s cooperative in Oaxaca, Mexico, exhibit their works, ...

Santa Monica College (SMC) will host renowned California-based Zapotec weaver and textile artist Porfirio Gutierrez in “The Relationship to Climate and Artists Material,” a talk about the importance ...

Still, Zapotec rugs would likely have gone the way of Nehru jackets were it not for buyers who sensed that the rugs transcended mere souvenir culture. Thousands of tourists from such creative hotbeds ...

Some like to shop where there are interesting people in the stores, customers with stories to tell, and lots of history.

I’m in the kitchen with Francisco Bautista on a hot summer day and he’s holding a jar of dead bugs. He scoops a few into his hand, adds a couple drops of lime juice, and as he begins crushing the bugs ...

KAREN QUINCY LOBERG/THE STAR Porfirio Gutierrez uses his loom at the Bell Arts Factory in Ventura. Some of the colors he uses come only from plants indigenous to the village in Mexico. (Photo: Karen ...

His eyes are dark orbs swimming in sea of calm above the ever-curious grin creeping at the edges of his mouth. They belie the quick and nimble work of his hands, dipping in and out of a tight-taut ...

High up in the southern sierra of Mexico’s state of Oaxaca, an innovative nonprofit business inspired by Mohandas Gandhi is helping Indigenous Zapotec families to weather the economic storm that COVID ...