In association with this year’s MexicoFest, there will be an exhibition of Huichol art at UBC’s Irving K Barber Learning Centre, as well as at the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum of Greater Vancouver.
Huichol art represents their spiritual and religious beliefs, in anything from woven bracelets to colorful yarn paintings, to gourds inlaid with vibrant beads—depicting symbols such as the serpent, the sun, the jaguar, the deer and the peyote cactus. A common feature of Huichol art is the peyote button, the part of the cactus that they consume at least once yearly after they make a pilgrimage of hundreds of miles to the desert at San Luis de Potosí or Real de Catorce, (known by the Huichol as ‘Wirikuta,’ or ‘Field of Flowers’), under the guidance of their shamans.
August 1 to September 17, 2012.