Guadalupe Art Program

Currently we are donating 15% of the sales of certain ceramics towards the Guadalupe Art Program in San Diego.  This is a bi-lingual spiritual empowerment workshop for Latina youth (ages 8 through 17) created and directed by The Rev. Canon Mary Moreno Richardson.  

Additionally, the program includes Rev. Mary serving as a chaplain for victims of human trafficking and undocumented youth, as well as providing advocacy for immigrants.

Las Mascaritas (c)

These women's faces symbolize the hundreds of thousands of women around the world suffering from violence and abuse every day.

The face is a reduction of a life size handcrafted ceramic mask, made at a women's cooperative outside Mexico City, to represent the women of Juarez, Mexico, who are being kidnapped and murdered. These crimes have not been solved, even after more than 400 women have been slain since 1993.

These faces belong not only to women in Mexico but also to women and girls all over the world who are being kidnapped, trafficked, abused and murdered.

Rita Resendiz, founder of The Mujeres Alfareras Tlallicihuatl (MAT) (Women of the Earth), originally designed the masks to support her personal efforts to bring attention to the murdered women in Juarez so that the crimes would be investigated and stopped.

Corachol Imports*, USA, (formerly Mi Mexico Artesanias) has been importing a variety of decorative and functional ceramic pieces made by MAT. During a personal visit with Rita in Mexico, the owners of Corachol Imports learned about Rita's activism. As a small family-owned business, Corachol Imports strongly supports efforts to prevent abuse and victimization of women and they asked Rita to re-create the masks into a smaller version of the women's faces, which could be worn as a pin and sold to raise funds to further this work.