Ambassador of Mexico, Arturo Sarukhan and Mrs. Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan, hosted a special reception to share the exhibit Ceramics of Paquimé and Mata Ortiz: Tracing a Family Legacy, with cultural and artistic institutions of Washington, D.C. The Mexican Cultural Institute is honored to exhibit, for the first time in the Washington area, a comprehensive collection of 50 pieces from Mata Ortiz, one of the finest pottery of Mexico, and 8 pieces from the pre-Hispanic Casas Grandes culture, and particularly the major city known today as Paquim¨¦, that was influential over a region that today encompasses both Northern Mexico and the American Southwest from 700-1450 AD.
Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities; Ambassador of Mexico to the United States Arturo Sarukhan and Mrs. Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan.
Carole Watson, Deputy Chairman, National, Endowment for the Humanities; Alejandra de la Paz, Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute; Georgette Dorn, Chief Hispanic Division, Library of Congress; Bertha Cea, Senior Cultural Affairs Specialist, Embassy of the United States in Mexico; Barbara Tenenbaum, Specialist in Mexican Culture, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress.
Alejandra de la Paz, Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute; Mayte Lujan, curator of the exhibition The Ceramics of Paquimé and Mata Ortiz: Tracing a Family Legacy; Mrs. Veronica Valencia-Sarukhan