outdoor presentation of dance-music at the 2nd annual Puerto Vallarta Cuale Art Festival
 

Puerto Vallarta Theater/Teatro Vallarta downtown cultural center
presenting concerts, drama, spectacles, dance and video artists.
The theater is located at 184 Uruguay between Avenida Mexico and Peru. Tel: 222-4475, 222-4517
Recently opened in March 2010 - the Puerto Vallarta Teatro on facebook
 

Mexico art in new gay-owned Puerto Vallarta Contempo Gallery, painting by Jesus Cantu
 

Lovely stained glass art scene over the entrance to Vallarta Plaza building on the main downtown plaza
 

Puerto Vallarta downtown main plaza with statue to Ignacio Vallarta,
the governor of the state of Jalisco (1872–1876), who also
 served as Foreign Minister under Mexico's President Porfirio Díaz.
In 1877 Ignacio Vallarta was named President of the Supreme Court of Mexico,
an office which he served concurrently with his role as foreign minister.
 

Puerto Vallarta artist Rocio Sanchez and her bronze statue Reina del Mar (Queen of the Sea)
which now graces the malecon in La Paz, Mexico.
Picture thanks to Rocio and Galleria Dante at 269 Basilio Badillo street
 

One of seven bronze public sculptures by Puerto Vallarta artist Ramiz Barquet
Further info from Galeria Pacifico on Barquet and his major contributions to local Vallarta art
This piece of artwork, the flautista or flute player, appears downtown on Galeana street at Hidalgo
 

arte Huichol yarn painting Puerto Vallarta by Maximino Rentenia de la Cruz
from my personal collection of ethnic indigenous art.
Some Huichol art symbols are as follows:
Deer: messenger of the gods; Eagle: power of the earth
Muvieri: wand, most important tool-instrument of the shaman
Peyote: symbol of life and success; Shaman: medicine man and healer
Snake or serpent: god of the ocean
 

Puerto Vallarta outdoor culture - live musicians on the PV downtown malecon
in their colorful native clothing
 

Thanks to the non-profit Ports of Art in the Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara airports,
the Fresh Air Foundation since 2008 has helped hundreds of young people in attending
day and summer camps with programs in the arts, ecology, language and phys ed.
Further details at the Ports of Art website and also at Ports of Art - Facebook
 

Lacandonia art gallery now located over at 313 Basilio Badillo street.
Original Maya art, with many pieces exclusively and exquisitely handmade by Mayan descendents.
Many of these art works represent a deep-felt religious sense from Maya culture.
 

Puerto Vallarta arts & crafts - local artist and his watercolors on the downtown malecon
 

Puerto Vallarta Cuale Cultural Center on the Cuale River island
 

'Reunion' by painter David Villasenor -
from the private Puerto Vallarta collection of C. Timothy
 

Puerto Vallarta sculpture "Bicentenary Victory" by local Puerto Vallarta artist Adrian Reynoso,
celebrating the 200 years since the Mexican revolution of 1810
(btw, time for another revolution, folks!)
 

Gay-owned Patti Gallardo Eclectic Art Gallery and Interior Design on the South Side at 250 Basilio Badillo.
Phone: 222-5712, Monday to Saturday, 10am-4pm and 5pm-10pm
 

Located since 1996 at Libertad and Agustín Rodríguez streets across from the main municipal-flea market
is Ramiz Barquet's bronze statue El Pescador - The Fisherman.
Barquet called his "fisherman/poet" Isidro
 

The newest work of public Puerto Vallarta art along the downtown malecon,
the Unicorn of Good Fortune by artist Anibal Riebeling, on display since Janaury 2011
 

The General and His Dead - by noted local painter Oscar Capeche
One of the few pieces of political art I've seen in Puerto Vallarta,
rather a surprise, frankly, considering the social inequalities and endemic injustice in Mexico.
Thanks to Oscar and my friends at the excellent Dante Gallery
 

Puerto Vallarta statue to John Huston on the Cuale River island.
The famed director-writer-actor received 15 academy award nominations in his lifetime and lived
on and off for many years in his beachfront house/estate in Las Caletas on the South Shores.
He is of course remembered locally for filming gay playwright Tennessee Williams' brilliant play,
The Night of the Iguana, here in Gay Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in 1963.
In the plaque below is Huston's tribute to his friend, the actor Humphrey Bogart.
 

Painting at city hall by Puerto Vallarta artist Hector Ponce J.
 

One of the frequent indigenous cultural fairs that takes place either in Lazaro Cardenas park (above)
or at Miguel Hidalgo park annually, usually in February and/or November.
Participants above appeared to be mostly from the state of Oaxaca.
Several indigenous communities will participate and share their dance and ceremonies, food,
healing/medicine, art and crafts. The dancing and drumming are among my favorites.
 

local street artists and graffiti drawings at the Puerto Vallarta municipal sports complex skateboard area
 

Another one of Ramiz Barquet's fine statues
in front of Los Mangos Public Library on Francisco Villa avenue
 

Visiting art studios and galleries - things to do and see in Puerto Vallarta Mexico
Jose Marca studio at 326 Lazaro Cardenas street,
5th anniversary exhibition/exposition poster from January 2010
 

the Historical Naval Museum in downtown Puerto Vallarta along the New Malecon extension
 There are only four such Navy museums in the country that present an overview of Mexico's maritime history.
Features cartography, images, navigation instruments and scale models. Telephone: 223-5357
 

gay Art gallery Contempo store-front window with city street scene reflected
 

Puerto Vallarta Art and Culture
 
 

"Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly."  - Mexican painter Frida Kahlo

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