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Some of our visitors use their time in the forest as a personal artist retreat. This area of Michoacán is known for attracting artists such as Frido Kahlo and Diego Rivera. We’re not sure if it’s the climate, the openness of the people here to receiving strange artist foreigners, or just coincidence. Whatever the case, […] It’s funny to watch the trends that pass through the Bosque with different visitors and volunteers. The past two weeks have been full of knitting! One of our recent visitors, Carla, carved knitting needles out of oak. A couple of hours of carving later, she knitted a nose warmer to help […] Charles, a great volunteer we had in December and January, taught us how to build giant puppet heads! He worked hard for many days and completed the puppet head on his last night here. It is, indeed, a giant puppet head.
In our volunteer program we try hard to engage our volunteers […] The ancient craft of papermaking has found a place at the Bosque. Using both recycled paper and fibers we collect in the forest, we have started to make many different test batches of paper.
The process took awhile to get going… Suzanne, Brie, Ben, Dominik, Charles, Trevor, and others have all contributed […] This afternoon we drove across the lake to Tzintsuntsan, hoping to meet with a well known potter there, buy some clay, and have her access a dirt sample from the land here at the Bosque. We asked around and quickly found Ophelia, who welcomed us into her studio where 3 or 4 generations were busy […] |