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Artesanos Don Bosco (ADB) Exhibition at the Art Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

1300 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20577

October 3 – 17, 2016                    
Opening: Monday, October 3, 2016, 6-8 pm

GARAC — ‘I gift you’

Artesanos Don Bosco presents the exhibition, GARAC, a Quechua word meaning ‘I Gift You.’ It is also an acronym of the Quechua words for the materials used by the artisans to create their work, each of them gifts of the earth:

Guero = wood, Away=textile, Rumi =stone, Actzy = glass, Cori = metal

GARAC reflects the significance of our work in South America and represents the message we would like to give to the people:

Art through Charity.

This exhibition is combined with the works of Argentinian artist, Adriana Carambia, whose encounter with non-conventional materials inspire her to transform her ideas into works of art.

To learn more visit: http://www.idbstaffassociationartgallery.org/en/evento-detalle.php?id=80 
                                      or http://www.culturecapital.com/feature/98/galleries-in-metro-dc

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Father Ugo, 91 years old, never stops to dream and make the dreams reality.
In this video the last project that begun on January 2015 and still is in progress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3jP9o5rRE 

If you want to help us to support the project, please contact info@artesanosdonbosco.com

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Send us any picture and our craftsmen in Peru will carve and paint a wooden panel.
Coming soon: Carved wood panels of iconic landscapes of Baltimore / Washington D.C.
including Inner Harbor and the National Mall.

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During his trip in South America, Pope Francis was at Santa Cruz in Bolivia. You can admire the beautiful altar carved by Artesanos Don Bosco. The details and the personages represent South America people gathering Jesus that is offering the Bread.

See the link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Artesanos-Don-Bosco/158999420789996

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By Fr. Mike Mendl, SDB

Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood is a lively one just south of the Inner Harbor. It’s home to middle-class homes, churches, popular restaurants and watering holes, boutiques, and other businesses ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Hill,_Baltimore). Right along Charles Street, the “main drag,” on the corner of W. Henrietta Street, you’ll find Artesanos Don Bosco, which might be described as a fashionable boutique for high quality wood furnishings and art in several media.

All of the furniture and art are crafted in the Peruvian Andes by young artisans (both men and women) trained in in a program founded by Italian Salesian missionary Fr. Ugo De Censi. The whole enterprise is sponsored by an association of Italian volunteers called Operation Mato Grosso, whose object is to help the poor in South America.

Naturally, the artisans need a market for their work, which is where the store in Baltimore comes in. Two or three times a year they receive a shipment of whatever the craftsmen in Peru have produced; the store will also order custom jobs.

The artisans themselves come from many villages in the Andes. They went to Salesian schools, sometimes far from their home villages, to get basic schooling and to learn a craft. The schools teach one or more of the following: carpentry, carving (both wood and stone), metalwork, painting, glasswork, wood inlay, weaving, and knitting.

Each piece is the basic work of one artist—no assembly line work! Some pieces do involve more than one craft, e.g., cabinetry and painting, and thus require a craftsman for each skill. Everything is handcrafted with basic tools. No nails are used in the assembly of the cabinets, beds, desks, chairs, etc.—just fundamental joinery such as dovetails and mortise and tenons, and occasionally some screws, according to Gianpaolo Ghezzi, who manages the store on Charles Street and greets visitors with a warm welcome.

Profits from the sales go back to the Andean artisans and the schools.

Artesanos Don Bosco has several attractive Web presences, e.g., https://www.artesanosdonbosco.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Artesanos-Don-Bosco/158999420789996 but depends mostly on favorable reviews in the press (of which there are quite few), word of mouth from satisfied customers, and walk-in business from visitors to Federal Hill.

To see samples of the furniture and art, both sacred and secular, available at Artesanos Don Bosco, go to the Facebook site above or to https://artesanosdonbosco.shutterfly.com/You may also write for a beautiful catalog of their sacred furnishings, which includes an explanation of the whole educational program: info@artesanosdonbosco.com

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Chimbote is a town located 270 miles from Lima, the Capital of Peru.
In the video a child is telling us how his family left the “Sierra” (Andes Mountains) looking for a better life and work in Chimbote.
As “Pancho” ‘s family, many others made the same trip and arrived in the same town with no house and work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Fz2SlDla8

Our Mission in Peru decided to help the children giving them the opportunity to have an education and in January 2015 we began to build 5 kindergartens in the area called “nueva Chimbote”.

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FURNITURE FOR THE POOR is the title of a new video produced by Catholic News Service. Watch it on YouTube.

The 5-minute video shows the life and work of the “ARTESANOS” in the mountains of Peru working with Italian volunteers to create furniture, carvings, and sacred artwork sold around the world.
We appreciate if you share the video with your friends to promote the ARTESANOS work.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9XmYQAoTGE&feature=youtu.be

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