Amate Paintings and Cut-Paper Figurines from Amate 

High School / Middle School Art

• Modern amate paintings are descendants of pre-Columbian and colonial codices.
• Stephanie Wood and Yasmin Acosta-Myers, “Amate Painting Interactive: An Artistic Rendering of Community Life in a Nahua Community in the State of Guerrero.”
• Click here to play with the Interactive Amate Painting (watch for loading time)
• Click here for the explanation of the process (PhotoShop and Flash)

Original Amate Painting

Amatero: Luis Domínguez

Luis Domínguez

• Other Resources
  • Secular and Sacred Aspects, http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1081-amate-art-of-mexico-where-the-secular-meets-the-sacred
  • Amate and Otomí Religious Use, http://home.earthlink.net/~kering/amate.html
  • More Otomí “charms” and a video about amatl paper making
  • San Pablito, Otomí community in Puebla state, and cut-paper figures; scroll down until you spot the blue cut figure
  • Amate Paper Making,  http://overflowprojects.com/folderxalitla/xalitla.html
  • Amate Painting Pioneer, Cristino Flores Medina, http://www.mexican-folk-art-guide.com/cristino-flores-medina.html

Amate paintings created by U.S. youth in a workshop at the museum of art at the University of Oregon, 2015.

• Curricula — amate paintings  (not from our institutes)
  • A Pinterest page on Mexican bark painting projects
  • A fourth-grade amate painting lesson by teacher Patty Palmer, 2010 (not part of the NEH Summer Institute)
  • Another photo of Patty’s students’ projects
  • And another bark-paper painting lesson from an elementary-school art teacher (“Katie”), posted to a blog, in 2011
  • A high-school art lesson in amate painting, by Grace Hall, n.d.
  • Mexicolore’s amate painting results, students in the U.K.

• Curricula — amate cut-paper figures (not from our institutes)
  • Another amate figure lesson, attributed to the Otomí culture
  • An eighth-grade amate paper figure lesson by arts teacher Jana DiSimone