HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – A new exhibit opens Thursday, September 15 at the Holland Museum and it will feature a collection prints that reflect on the often harsh social reality of the times in Mexico City in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
It’s called Taller de-Grafica Popular which is spanish for People’s Print Workshop. An idealist artist collective from Mexico City says Education and Outreach Manager Connie Locker. ” The exhibit showcases 12 works from the people’s print workshop.These works really focus on the plight of workers in Mexico at the time. The artist traveled throughout the country and really highlighted the local problems they saw with how workers were being treated.The exhibit is really interesting in that it shows the works next to the original descriptions written by these artists when the works were published in the 1947.”Locker says you can also read the artist’s comments in both English and Spanish how they felt about meeting and sketching these workers. The group also inquired several other similar movements that happened around the world for workers rights.
The exhibit will run through December 15. Holland Museum is located at 31 10th Street.
