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It’s Cinco De Mayo! Join us for a special “Live, Learn, and Lunch”, in celebration of Mexican Heritage.

The fiesta starts with an authentic Mexican lunch at 11:30 a.m, followed with an illustrated presentation of "Mexican Culture: PreHispanic Times to the Present" with Margarita Maxson.

Margarita is a visual artist born in Mexico and has lived and shown her work in the USA over the past 17 years. She is an oil painter who also works in tri-dimensional mixed media, and doll making. Her work is inspired by myths, legends, and indigenous cultures from Latin America.

Following the presentation, we will play a game of Lotería, similar to Bingo, which was very popular during the XIX Century country fair.






BIO - Margarita Maxson
Born in 1977 in the village of Tulancingo de Bravo, Hidalgo, Mexico; Margarita has worked designing stages, logotypes and advertisements for the Federal Government of Hidalgo State, in the departments of Tourism and Economy.
Besides, Margarita kept painting for specific clientele, especially portraits and historical themes of Mexico. The principal subjects of her paintings were villagers, farmers, prehispanic natives, Aztec & Maya Mythology and the Spanish Conquest.
She immigrated to the United States in 2006, and started exhibiting through the region. Her work has been published in The Norwich Bulletin, the New Haven newspaper The Register, the New London newspaper “The Day”, and The New York Times. In 2009 Margarita started working in doll making, and mixed media. Her work is found in collections across USA, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Argentina, France, and India.


www.margaritahmaxson.com
Instagram: @mhmaxson
Facebook: Contemporary Clay and Paint
Twitter: @MargaritaVoice