As part of this exhibition, we are honoured by the presence of three researchers and experts on the field.
We invite you to expand the knowledge and threads of history on textiles by
Dr. Ruz is a medicine doctor (UNAM, 1977), has a master’s in Social
Anthropology (UIA, 1981) and a doctorate in Ethnology (École des
Haute Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1985). He is a Researcher
at the Institute of Philologic Research, specifically at the Centre of
Mayan Studies, since 1978. He is the author of several books a more
than a hundred papers in indexed journals. He has been a professor at
the Universities of Paris X and Paris VII, New York State University,
San Carlos National University of Guatemala, The Complutense of
Madrid, FLACSO in Ecuador, among others. He is level III of the
National Research System and has been honoured with several awards
like the Francisco Clavijero Award for Best Research by the National Institute of Anthropology and His-
tory (1992), National University Award in Humanities Research (2002) and in 2018 the University of
Sciences and Arts of Chiapas, Mexico, granted him a Honoris Causa doctorate.
Dr. Amalia Ramírez Garayzar is a professor and researcher at the
Intercultural Indigenous University of Michoacán in Mexico.
Attached to the academic program of Art and Cultural Heritage.
She is an archaeologist, a teacher in ethnic studies and a doctor
of history and her main area of research is the clothing systems
of indigenous communities in Mexico and in a particular way
of the peoples of Michoacán, her studies are based on the origin
and diversity of the rebozo. His field of work is handcrafted
textiles and in terms of teaching his interest is the cultural heritage mainly of indigenous peoples.
M.A. Arroyo has a master’s in arts by the National Autonomous
University of Mexico and two honours in textiles and mural
painting (Bucharest, Romania) and Visual Arts (Valencia, Spain).
She has been teaching at UNAM for 40 years and she has had 35
individual exhibitions and participated in 137 collective ones. She
has been honoured with several awards, like the Tapestry Biennale,
By Bellas Artes Institute in México (1980), National University
Award for her career in teaching Arts (2014) and Coatlicue Award
at the XXI International Forum “Women in Arts”, Mexico, Ger-
many, Spain in 2017.
“My dreams were always in full colour. Landscapes, rivers, leaves, roots and light spectrum, which cre-
ate my vision of nature. I have practiced and worked techniques of painting, drawing, tapestry, and em-
broidery, always experimenting, and researching. My artwork is the result of those techniques getting
colour, lines and dimension, from painting and drawing and texture and enriched colourful body from
tapestry and embroidery.”