Winners of the LXIII State Palm Sunday Contest Chosen: IAM – MonitorExpresso.com

Uruapan, Michoacán. – Specialists and connoisseurs of Michoacan folk art selected the 178 winning pieces of the 63rd State Palm Sunday Handicrafts Contest in Uruapan, as shared by the Institute of Michoacan Artisans (IAM) in a statement. In this edition, 1,482 people participated with the registration of 2,674 pieces in 16 craft branches, from 92 localities in 34 municipalities of the entity. The qualifying jury, made up of 23 specialists, including anthropologists, historians, master craftsmen and connoisseurs of popular art, had the task of selecting the winning pieces of the contest, which will be awarded on Sunday, March 24 at 12 noon at the Huatápera de Uruapan. towers, and sculpture), copper, carved wood, wood, masks, guitars, stringed instruments, maque, gold lacquer, cane paste, palm branches, miscellaneous, vegetable fibers, jewelry, miniature, toys, feather art, waxwork. Also, stonework and lapidary, as well as textiles (cotton embroidery, fraying, backstrap loom, cotton, patakua, cotton sashes, wool sashes, wool on backstrap loom, wool on pedal loom, embroidered wool and cotton and wool backstrap loom). All the pieces of the contest will be on sale from March 23 to April 7, at the Casa de la Cultura in Uruapan, from 10:09 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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