The traveling exhibition is a project of the Minnesota Latino Museum, which is still working on creating its permanent home.

An example of an alebrije, a brightly colored papier-mache sculpture of a fantastical creature, during an exhibition at a street in Mexico City. OMAR TORRES/AFP via Getty Images.

A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works. By Alexa Brazilian The artist Joel Hernandez, 39, first worked with papier-mâché as an 8 ...

Last year, the museum called the festival "Dream with Alebrijes" and welcomed about 4,500 attendees for the gathering that highlighted alebrijes, large colorful papier-mâché sculptures that were ...

Santa Fe's Museum of International Folk Art is showing 'La Cartonería Mexicana' through Nov. 3, 2024 'La Cartonería Mexicana' celebrates more than 100 colorful pâpier maché creations | Arts ...

Another captivating aspect of the art is that each piece is almost entirely made out of papier-mâché, and much of it is “coffee-stained.” For Jean-Louis, paper is sacred.

The original church was dismantled in the early 17th Century and rebuilt in 1758 thanks to the patronage of Thomas Prowse. A series of further restorations took place in 1838 and again in the late ...

It just looks like papier mache, it doesn't really add to the aesthetic around here. 'We've got all this rich history and you're just putting up some rubbish looking art project, I don't think it ...