Gallery: Mexican Border Project Documents Those Who Make Art, Not War
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*Wrestling costume and mask designer Mascaras Eduardo Sanchez at his workshop in Cuidad Juarez. Sanchez also creates masks for clients in El Paso, Texas.*
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*Ruben Garcia Benavides at his house. Banavides is one of the foremost painters in Mexicali, Mexico.*
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*Artist Ana Maria Cruz, alias Ana Formismo, in front of her mural in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.*
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*Paulo Escamilla Rodriguez is the director of ballet dance at CEMAVI, a school of visual arts in Matamoros, Mexico.*
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*Erica Marin installed her work " Mis Rezos" at the border fence in El Paso. She is a member of Puro Borde, a cross border group of artists in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.*
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*Fabiola Sol Amaro designs costumes mostly for local theater productions at her workshop in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.*
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*Photographer Tochirock Gallegos on the roof of his studio in Reynosa, Mexico. His strong personal work reflects the often violent circumstances in border cities like Reynosa.*
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*Artist Oslyn Whizar at her home and studio in Tijuana.*
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*Photographer Oscar Monroy A. with one of his award-winning photos in Nogales, Mexico.*
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*Writer Miguel Angel Chavez Diaz with a friend in his hometown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He won the Mexican National Journalism Award for his book* El Dulce Encanto de Mi Embolia*, which means "The Sweet Charm of my Stroke," in 2009. The book recalls his survival after a stroke that almost killed him.*
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*Jaime Ruiz Otis is an internationally known artist from Tijuana.*
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*Alfredo Gutierrez paints portraits of American homeless in Tijuana, among other projects. He has painted several murals in the city as well.*
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*Punk rock musician Christian Mueller and his band "Los Whats" shoot a video in a pizzeria in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mueller lives across the border in McAllen, Texas.*
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*Leobardo Sarabia is an art promoter in Tijuana and director of the annual art festival Tijuana Interzona. Here he is shown on the roof of La Casa Del Tunel (house of the tunnel), an art center in a house that once featured a tunnel between its basement and a parking lot several hundred feet away on the American side. The art center is a few feet from the border.*
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