TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: San Miguel Allende, Mexico: Ceramic Art by Jessica Vazquez Castro

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

San Miguel Allende, Mexico: Ceramic Art by Jessica Vazquez Castro

We like to visit San Miguel Allende in Mexico and during our last visit we discovered a young ceramic artist, Jessica Vazquez Castro. She must be all of 24-years old and she works in her husband's family-owned tile shop/factory. I'm sorry I've forgotten the name of their shop, but it's one of the largest in San Miguel. The store has fine ceramic items.

We commissioned Jessica to make a ceramic tile copy of Cafe Terrace at Night, a favorite Van Gogh image. I also bought an original "Church" scene by Jessica and a statue of Mary.

This is about another topic: regarding my "serious" work, I finished the draft of my third novel. Now the rewriting begins. I have no idea how long the rewriting will take. Creative writing is very mysterious and does not know time.

Read also

The Many Faces of Mexico

Visiting Colonial Mexico

Pictures of San Miguel and Guanajuato, Mexico

Tags: Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, Spanish Colonial, art, artist, Jessica Vazquez Castro, ceramic, tile

This is all for now,

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.