Cilau Valadez is part of a new generation of young Huichol Indians who have migrated to cities outside of their indigenous villages. Educated as doctors, lawyers and teachers, they use their professional positions to advocate for the rights of their struggling Huichol communities, while continuing to apprentice to learn the practices, traditions, and arts of their elders.
The son of world-renowned Huichol yarn painter Mariano Valadez and anthropologist Susana Valadez Eger, Cilau has been mentored by his communities’ master craftsmen and shamans to be able to carry on the practices of the Huichol mystic arts to coming generations. One of the few in his community fluent in English, Cilau uses his voice as an advocate for Huichol indigenous rights and his vision as an artist to spread the meaning and beauty of his people’s culture to the world.
Read more about Cilau in Stevie Mack's article in the April SchoolArts Magazine. He is planning to speak to our SchoolArts/CRIZMAC Folk Art Extravaganza in Santa Fe in July. Learn more about this seminar and its benefits to you as a teacher at CRIZMAC's website.
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