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By Mexican artisan Juana Ponce, this figurine is crafted from ceramic in the style of Talavera handicrafts. This figurine, part of a series, depicts a Mariachi playing a guitar. Ponce paints the Mariachi with intricate floral motifs using colorful pigments.

By Mexican artisan Juana Ponce, this figurine is crafted from ceramic in the style of Talavera handicrafts. This figurine, part of a series, depicts a Mariachi playing a violin. Ponce paints the Mariachi with intricate floral motifs using colorful pigments.

Lifting the hem of her wide skirts, a beautiful catrina in blue launches into a sevillana. Maria Lozano in Mexico crafts the stunning skeletal figurine from papier mache, painting it carefully by hand. Lozano designs the figurine after the original "La Calavera Catrina", a zinc etching created by the artist José Guadalupe Posada in Mexico around 1910. Posada created the character, a female skeleton with an elegant hat, as a satirical portrait of Mexican natives who aspired to European style and denied their own heritage. The catrina has since become an emblem of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration and a popular folk art subject.

By Mexican artisan Juana Ponce, this figurine is crafted from ceramic in the style of Talavera handicrafts. This figurine, part of a series, depicts a Mariachi playing a trumpet. Ponce paints the Mariachi with intricate floral motifs using colorful pigments.

By Mexican artisan Juana Ponce, this figurine is crafted from ceramic in the style of Talavera handicrafts. This figurine, part of a series, depicts a Mariachi who sings soulfully. Ponce paints the Mariachi with intricate floral motifs using colorful pigments.