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Mexican artist Ana Pellicer has died at the age of 79
Ana Emilia Pellicer became one of Mexico's leading artists by shaping the arts in a way that intertwines sculpture, goldsmithing, pedagogy and social commitment, four main elements of her entire career. Her work, both artistic and community-based, transformed the way art is understood as a relationship with the environment.
Together with her husband, James Metcalf (New York, 1925 - Santa Clara del Cobre, 2012), they established an important artistic colony with the Adolfo Best Maugard School of Arts and Crafts in Santa Clara del Cobre in the Michoacán region. Born in 1946 in Mexico City, she is recognized for her work in the fields of sculpture, jewelry and crafts, but also in parallel for all her community work in the Michoacán area.
Corunda, Ana Emilia Pellicer (1995)
The jewelry she created for the Statue of Liberty in New York will always be remembered as part of the centennial of the megalithic work that welcomes the city of skyscrapers. Amulets, necklaces and other creations linked to traditional Mexican goldsmithing were exhibited as individual sculptures created in the late seventies and years after the eighties. Pellicer is recognized in her country of origin, but she would exhibit in different corners of the world.
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The year 1976 was the moment of the creation of the school in Santa Clara, a town in the municipality of Salvador Escalante, where he created a key link in his life, to study and create from ancient copper techniques and indigenous crafts of the region. It was an artistic project, but also social in itself. It was a pioneering educational initiative that combined the ideology of the art & craft movement with the drawing method of Best Maugard, based on seven fundamental symbols of Mexican popular art.
It will become a school that seeks to dignify artisanal work by integrating contemporary techniques, as well as a critical and social perspective. In 2018, Ana Pellicer was awarded the Gertrudis Bocanegra Medal, an award for women who do exceptional work within the progress of the state of Michoacán.
Vestuari per a Nahui Ollin, Ana Emilia Pellicer (1999)
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