October 3, 1994

Peruvian folk artist Nicario Jiménez spoke on “Art and Popular Resistance in the Andes.” A sculptor of retablos, portable boxes filled with brightly colored figurines arranged into narrative scenes, Jiménez translated the antique genre developed by Andean people from the portable religious shrines carried through the mountains by Catholic priests into contemporary narratives sometimes containing police cars and buses and having as many as a dozen individual scenes.