ISSA Mexico\ Papermaking Town's Woodcarving Park

The first Tapalpa Wood Sculpture Symposium, and ISSA Mexico, was held during April 2-7 in Tapalpa, 

central Mexico. The event featured five sculptors from four countries.

 Ana Paula luna, organizer of the sculpture symposium, describes, "I used to do a sculpture symposium

 in Guadalajara. Currently, I moved it to a smaller town where the state can allocate funds to pay 

the artists and get some support from the municipality, and in the future I hope to organize it annually 

and create a sculpture landscape route where locals and tourists can enjoy public works by artists from

 all over the world. This time five sculptors from Canada, Iran, Mexico and Bolivia were invited."

 Tapalpa, which means "color of the soil" in the local Nahuatl language because of its earth and flowers,

 is a small mountain town in the state of Jalisco that began as a lumber industry town, and was home to 

the first paper mill in Latin America in 1840. 

Contributor: ISSA Mexico member, Ana Paula luna 

Editor: Liu Qin, Song Mingcheng

Translator: Sun Ya’nan

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