Come join us for a Meet and Greet on Saturday morning, March 1, 2025 from 10:30 am to 11:00 am inside the Chrysler Museum's Huber Court, followed by an optional tour of the special exhibit - "Oaxaca Central: Contemporary Mexican Printmaking" led by Episcodad at 11:00. This optional tour will be about 45 minutes in duration.
Featuring about 100 works drawn from the Chrysler's collection, many of which have never been on view before, this exhibit offers a glimpse of the exciting and diverse art scene in Oaxaca, Mexico. In the last 20 years, printmaking has outstripped other mediums as this historic city's most prominent visual language. Spurred in part by political protests that gripped the city in 2006, artists embraced printmaking as a means of conveying their views, making their presence known, and rallying for change. The results are visible to anyone walking the streets of Oaxaca's city center, where printmaking workshops dot many of the city's blocks. The printmaking methods include woodcut, engraving, etching, lithography and serigraphy. The Oaxacan printmakers' reputation for technical mastery and innovation has attracted foreign artists from across the globe to learn and collaborate with local artists.
The Chrysler Museum is located at One Memorial Place in Norfolk. Admission is free.