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Meet The Artisans
Everyone makes music in the village of Walata Grande, located in the Andean highlands near Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. These talented artisans create traditional instruments including moceno, tarka and zampoña flutes, decorated with symbols from their ancient Aymara culture. To supplement potato farming, they sell their instruments through Q'antati, an artisan association in La Paz, which markets handicrafts to Ten Thousand Villages in North America. Justino Quispe Apaza, an artisan and master musician, carves the tarka, an ancient flute, from mara wood. To play, he blows into the end mouthpiece while covering and uncovering the finger holes.
Artisans in the village of Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, make unique cut-metal sculptures by pounding flat 50-gallon drums and cutting traditional motifs with a chisel and hammer. Medea Ulysse is a master craftsman. In addition to his small farm, the supplemental cash income he earns is vital to support his wife and children.
Kalamkari, the ancient art of hand painting and printing cloth with natural dyes, provides the rhythm of life for villagers along India’s tropical southeast coast. Here, Vahedun and Fatima hand paint a mustard color onto cotton cloth using a traditional “kalam,” or pen made from bamboo.
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