artsednet@lists.getty.edu writes:
>The Spanish teacher and I want to collaborate on a Cinco de Mayo project.
>Something simple, for 6th graders. We're hoping to have Mariachi played in
>the cafeteria at lunch. We'll probably decorate with tissue paper flowers.
>!One Mexican-American student who has just moved here asked what we did to
>celebrate!)
I don't know the name of the technique, but I've seen cut paper
decorations used for Cinco de Mayo. Usually rgin colored paper sheets are cut
into a design or a scene. It reminds me of cut paper snow flakes, except they
are usually rectangles and hung sort of like banners. They are shown in this
painting by Carman Lomas Garza
http://artarchives.si.edu/images/ybartoma/lomasga2.jpg
Susan Holland
Visual Art Studies
University of Texas at Austin
susan_holland@teachnet.edb.utexas.edu
