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Embroidering Mexico: Feminine Spaces, Dechados And The National Space, Regina Perez Kamel

Theses and Dissertations

Mexican dechados consisted of pieces of cloth were women and girls would practice and record needlework. It was a practice rooted in western tradition where they were known as samplers. Given that dechados were objects that were made within feminine spaces they illuminate how gender is constructed through space, and how those gendered spaces generate different ways of knowing.

As the majority of Mexican dechados correspond to the nineteenth century, a period of national construction, this study questions the role that the domestic space played in the establishment of the Mexican nation. It proposes that although displaced and subservient to …

Creating Sustainable Foundations For Rhizomes Of Mexican American Art Since 1848, Karen M. Davalos, Constance Cortez

School of Art & Design Faculty Publications and Presentations

This report describes the goals and lessons learned during the foundational efforts to create, Rhizomes of Mexican American Art Since 1848, a digital tool in development that will enhance discovery of Mexican American art and related documentation at libraries, archives, and museums nationwide.1 The digital tool takes its name from continuously-growing stems that produce complex, connected lateral structures. This metaphor for rhizomatic roots also references the reciprocal, redistributive, and equitable methods employed to create a cross- institutional network that shares digital files and historical documentation about an underrepresented community. Furthermore, Rhizomes operates as a post-custodial archive that virtually unifies content …