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Mamie Spiegel How San Miguel Became an Arts Community

W67 How San Miguel Became an Arts Community
Sunday, February 16
9:00–10:30 p.m.

$30.00

Mamie Spiegel | Pleasures of Reading

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What brought hundreds of aspiring artists, young and old, to a tiny, little-known town in the remote mountains of Mexico in the second half of the 20th century? Why San Miguel de Allende? What was the magnet that transformed the village into a major center for the arts?

Three men — a Mexican, a Peruvian, and an American — founded an art school that drove the dynamic for enriching the town. Each of them has a fascinating and genuinely surprising biography. Then, when American GIs flooded San Miguel in the post-War years, all hell broke loose. The famous painter, David Alfaro Siqueiros, created and then abandoned a huge mural project at the former nunnery. Why did he abandon it?

The story of San Miguel has never been more entertainingly told.

About Mamie Spiegel

Mamie Spiegel is an artist, historian, and long-time resident of San Miguel de Allende. She authored a carefully researched and lavishly illustrated book, San Miguel de Allende: Colonial Society and the War of Independence, available at the Biblioteca Publica de San Miguel. Like her lectures, the book is as much a visual experience as it is an intellectual one. Mamie has lectured on the colonial society of San Miguel, the life and work of David Alfaro Siqueiros, and the remarkable poet Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz.

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