Art

In the Latin American collection at the San Antonio Museum of Art, you will see the Black Man mask (PDF) and the Tiger mask (PDF) from Mexico. Pretend you are a mask-maker getting ready for a big celebration in a village in Mexico. You have made your masks, and now they need to be painted. Choose colors for the masks that you think would suit your particular celebration, and color them with crayons or markers. Add designs and symbols. Make one of your masks symmetrical in color, and make the other one different, or asymmetrical. When your masks are finished, cut them out. Write or describe a short scene from the celebration in which your masks will be used.