Enjoy Kansas City Mexican Artisan Doll Exhibit Before MAGA Mass Deportations

Forgive our fatalism inspired by our equally snarky & sarcastic ancestors who somehow managed to survive Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" and so much talk radio/podcast rhetoric. 

Fun fact . . . There was a guy on KC talk radio dude who advocated landmine tactics against women and children to regulate borders . . . He was actually pretty cool and admitted that he was far too dramatic and a bit reactionary in his advocacy . . . He was a butcher by trade . . . Which kinda makes sense for anyone who has read about the phrase "The banality of evil." Still, face-to-face he seemed like a nice guy . . . And, again, the challenge here is not to get too theatrical about what will likely be a significant uptick in the preexisting and totes normal U.S. deportation schedule sold as something more fantastical to keyboard warriors, an army of election season bots and your drunk uncle who might have already forgotten about appropriately 70 miles of VERY SYMBOLIC new border wall.

Meanwhile . . . Here's that neat local exhibit that seems worth a peek . . .

"Sold to tourists in the 1940s and 50s, these dolls, drawn from the collection of Kansas City artist and poet Maria Vasquez Boyd, are not caricatures. Each one is unique, expertly constructed from different stuffings and oilskin, and representative of different regions and specific occupations native to Mexico. Their beautiful, handmade accoutrements include musical instruments such as a harp, drum and cello, woven serapes and sombreros, ceramic pots, painted plates and leather sandals with straw straps."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

A display of Mexican dolls from the collection of Maria Vasquez Boyd

The Kansas City artist shares her enthusiasm for what T/m curator Madeline Rislow calls 'important visual documents of Mexican history and culture.'