Ozark Beer Company features Mexican Visual Artist and Cultural Promoter

María de Lourdes Valverde Galindo was born and raised  in México. Since 2015, she has been based in Bentonville, AR. She got a Bachelor’s degree in Science of Industrial Engineering at Durango Technologic Institute in Mexico.

She is a self-taught artist taking art seminars and workshops to improve her work, fellow of Artists INC. She is represented artist by Art Ventures Gallery in Fayetteville, AR. and director of  “Raíces de México”, a group of volunteers that promote Mexican traditions.  

Her passion to create art has been interrupted many times in her life for different reasons, but she always finds her way back to it again and again. She has participated in many community art exhibitions in Cultural Centers, museums, and galleries in Mexico (Durango, Aguascalientes, Nuevo Leon, México City) and now in Arkansas (Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville, Little Rock, Helena, Conway, Pine Bluff, and Hot Springs).

She is the principal organizer of the Day of the Dead Festival in Bentonville including an art juried exhibition from 2017 to 2021 at The Museum of Native American History.

In December 2021 she was invited by Mexican Consulate in Little Rock to represent  Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the Missouri States as an Artist for a meeting with another 37 artists and cultural authorities to discuss a collaboration with both governments in the cultural topics.  

Her work is based on what she loves: Nature, feeling expressions, family, Mexican topics. She uses oil and acrylic and oil paint in most of her paintings.  

lulu.valverde@gmail.com

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