Xipe Projects is a Non-profit Educational Foundation
About Us...
Xipe Projects is a non-profit educational foundation for Latin American masks and popular art.
The Foundation serves to disseminate information and stimulate interest in Latin American masking and popular art through:
- conducting and underwriting research that will be presented in publications, lectures and seminars.
- exhibitions of material drawn primarily, but not exclusively, from the Markman’s extensive collections.
- acquiring, conserving and publishing information about the masks, costumes, dance paraphernalia and popular art of various Latin American traditions.
Staff...
PETER T. MARKMAN, director of Xipe Projects and professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, has specialized most recently in the study and teaching of mythology and ritual. His publications, with his wife Roberta, include:
Masks of the Spirit: Image and Metaphor in Mesoamerica, University of California Press, and The Flayed God: The Mythology of Mesoamerica, Harper Collins
Masks from his collection have been exhibited at numerous venues and are included in numerous publications.
ALISON L. HENEY, assistant director and curator of the Markman Collection at Xipe Projects, received her PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University in New York and has done extensive research on the symbolic language and aesthetic forms of collective ritual and cultural performance throughout southern Mexico and Guatemala. Her 2006 field research in the villages of Nahualá, Totonicapán and Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa was sponsored in part by the Tinker Foundation for Latin American Studies with some research in primary sources graciously provided by Gio Rossilli.
JESSE HOFFMAN is a doctoral candidate in English at Rutgers University where he teaches courses in writing and literature. His dissertation, Victorian Elegy in the Age of Photography, examines how literary form influences the practice and understanding of media. His research interests extend across the fields of nineteenth-century literature and visual culture as well as contemporary culture and Holocaust studies. He is an amateur photographer, and he is currently working on a Xipe Projects photography project.
Armando Colina and Victor Acuña, representatives of Xipe Projects in Mexico, founded the prestigious Galeria Arvil in Mexico City and have directed it for 42 years. In 2010 they were awarded the Medalla Bellas Artes by El Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes in recognition of their contribution to the arts in Mexico. Needless to say, we are honored by their willingness to represent us.
