User:Thelmadatter/Julio Garduño Cervantes

Julio Garduño Cervantes (b. September 15, 1940 - d. November 16, 2007) was an activist dedicated to preserving Mazahua culture.(artesmex)

Born in Puente Andaró neighborhood of Temascalcingo, State of Mexico a rural area in the northwest of the State of Mexico.(artesmex)

visited Mazhua villages on foot starting at age 15.(artesmex)

The 1968 student uprisings in Mexico City has a profound impact on him as a university student in Toluca, deciding to return to home to reach elementary school.(artesmex)

Became involved in the indigenous rights movement.(artesmex)

Named secretary when 11 Mazahua-dominated municipalities formed the Supreme Mazahua Council in 1974, one of the first in Mexico.(artesmex)

He collected textiles and ceramics.(artesmex)

Learned exhibition design from Daniel Rubin de la Borbolla with whom he organized painting workshops for children.(artesmex)

did photography, painting and wrote poetry, including his best known work Soy Mazhua.(artesmex)

He lived in Toluca in a modest house that had a Tree of Life pattern on the front gate, based on a napkin design from Villa de Allende.(artesmex)

In 1985, he published An End to the Silence which documents the formation of the Mazahua council and other indigenous political organization.(artesmex)

He traveled internationally to promote the Mazahua, speaking on countries such as Paris, Ecuador and Peru.(artesmex)

He collaborated with Mexican and foreign academics such as Adolfo Colombres, from Argentina.(artesmex)

He was director of the Mazahua Ceremonial Center in Santa Ana Nichi. The center's musuems contains many items donated by Garduño including quezquemitls, wraparound skirts and embroidered shirts.(artesmex)

By the time he died, Garduño amassed a large collection of Mazahua cultural items, most either given as gifts or bought directly from artisans. It including a number of wide embroidered belts by Sofia Ferrer.(artesmex)

He was married to Francisca F. Garcia Martinez, who became the librarian at the Intercultural University in San Felipe del Progreso, dedicated to bilingual education.

The couple met in 1981.(artesmex)

Garduño promoted Mazahua handcraft design, which represent nature, including the deer, which the Mazahua believe protect them and the agricultural cycle. He believed the symbols formed a kind of codex which particularly represents the reality of Mazahua women. He considered textiles to be the highest of the Mazahua art forms. (artesmex)

He earned his bachelors in fine arts from La Esmeralda.(artesmex)

He established two Mazahua/Spanish newspapers, Eco and Iyasú, with editor Ruben Ruiz Piña.(artesmex)

Was official historian and journalist for the Temascalcingo municipality.(artesmex)

His photographs and drawing appeared frequently in the above publications.(artesmex)

He documented customs and dress for more than forty years, a rarity in Mexican indigenous scholarship.(artesmex)

born 1940 (mexdes)

Born Ejido del Puente, Temascalcingo.(mexdes)

was teacher.(mexdes)

poet, writer and painter.(mexdes)

He was part Mazahua.(mexdes)

he was involved in indigenous rights and autonomy.(mexdes)

He met with John Paul II in 1979 to discuss indigenous rights.(mexdes)

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lo que después le permitió viajar por varios países. Garduño Cervantes es fundador del Centro Ceremonial Mazahua –en cuyo museo pueden admirarse algunas de sus obras– y creador del primer periódico bilingüe español-mazahua en el Estado de México.(mexdes)

Su amor por la pintura empezó desde muy joven, y a los diez años ya hacía sus pininos. Más adelante estudió pintura en la Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda y en la Academia de San Carlos, donde fue alumno del maestro Esteban Nava. Como pintor ha expuesto en París (1988), Israel, Estados Unidos y en diversas partes de la República Mexicana.(mexdes)

Autor de Temascalcingo (monografía municipal) y de otras obras, como el poemario Soy mazahua y los libros Al final del silencio y Movimientos indígenas contemporáneos, entre otros, Julio Garduño está casado con Francisca García, mujer de raza pura mazahua. Ambos les han transmitido a sus tres hijos varones el gran amor por su tierra y les han enseñado a conocerla y a cultivarla, labor que desempeña toda la familia junta.(mexdes)

Julio Garduño Cervantes, hombre sencillo y cálido, nos lleva de la mano a través de su pintura, sus escritos y su poesía, a conocer y admirar a la raza mazahua.(mexdes)

Works

 * Temascalcingo (nd)
 * Soy mazahua (1981)
 * Himno del movimiento indígena mazahua (1982)
 * El Final del silencio : documentos indígenas de México (1985)
 * Tata Nguemore (1991)
 * Nrro maani ne chutatá, "La casa de los dioses" : ofrenda Matlatzinca al Xinantécatl (1996)
 * Nu tonjo nu xinchi zak'u = Canto al movimiento de la vida (2013)