Photos: Courtesy of Luis El Estudiante
The island’s attendance at a select international Popular Art fair in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, with the presence of landscapers from this southeastern territory, allowed the North American public to appreciate the creative innovations of the Bayate Group.
LUIS THE STUDENT, IN FRONT OF HIS WORK AND WITH HIS FATHER AT THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOLK ART. SANTA FÉ. NEW MEXICO. UNITED STATES.
From the Santiago municipality of Mella came Luis Rodriguez Ricardo (Luis El Estudiante) along with his father Luis Rodriguez Arias, a visual artist like him, who represented 21 watercolorists with works by the Bayate Group, accompanied by the contributions of 165 virtuosos in various artistic manifestations, from 51 countries.
LUIS RODRIGUEZ RICARDO, AT THE BAYATE GROUP STAND. UNITED STATES FAIR
General Coordinator of the Bayate Cultural Route Project, Luis El Estudiante, feels great satisfaction in participating in this universal event, precisely when they are celebrating the first three decades of this artistic structure based in the town of Mella, in Santiago de Cuba, from where community images of naive art have emerged, exhibited in Spain, Canada and Sweden, among many other countries.
NORTH AMERICAN PUBLIC AT THE BAYATE GROUP STAND IN THE UNITED STATES
Conferences and academic meetings on popular arts and their projection in the world, as well as parades of the participating delegations displaying the typical costumes of each of their cultures, were part of the program of the twentieth edition of the World Popular Art Bazaar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, a place where the proposals of the Bayate Group, and those of other colleagues from the provinces of Holguín, Guantánamo and Granma, were displayed with great acceptance.
