Marietta Bernstorff, Curator, Organizer

Hanging made by women in a small village in Mexico. Much of their work is commentary on their men and children needed to go north for work.

Logo for Patchwork Healing Blanket: La Manta de Curaci'on

Marietta hosted us one day during the Art Immersion Tour in Oaxaca in March 2019. She was the curator of a show we had seen at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca (Museum of Contemporary Art), in which she brought together traditional artisans with modern artists and they collaborated on work. This was a fascinating exhibit with so many layers of meaning and so many stories to be told.I hope she writes about it soon, At her house, she told us these stories and she also told us about the other work she does. One project she had was bringing in sewing machines, materials, and teachers, to teach women of a small town to make these patchwork hangings. Another of her projects was the Patchwork Healing Blanket: La Manta de Curaci'on in which women from all over the world were asked to contribute a decorated fabric square about violence against women. The pieces were sewn together and displayed in a demonstration in the Zocalo of Mexico City in January of 2020. The plan is for it to travel.