Mexican artist’s exhibit (Star Tribune)

Jan. 20, 2008

If an art exhibit in the Twin Cities ever connected to average people, it is the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Walker.

"She is a national treasure in Mexico," says Tina Tavera, a community activist and artist who wrote the Walker's Kahlo bibliography and also organized a visit by two groups of Mexican workers from the Lake Street area. "A lot of them wanted to spend the whole day at the museum because they knew they would be in tears after they saw it. They identify with a lot of the symbolism in Frida's work -- with her pride in where she came from, with the fact that living in Mexico is hard and that they have gone through so much to get here."

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