Slow Baja1 Mai 2020

Slow Baja - Art and Tacos with Adalberto Pérez Meillón

Adalberto Pérez Mellión is an artist and printmaker who operates Taller Pérez Mellión—initially opened as Galleria Pérez Mellión in 1988. In the beginning, he specialized in selling the art and crafts of the Paipai and the Kumeyaay Indian tribes of Northern Baja. He spent years traveling to their remote communities by four-wheel-drive vehicle trading for their handicrafts.

After an artist-in-residence scholarship took him to Zacatecas, to study printmaking at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, Pérez Mellión returned to Ensenada and turned his gallery into a printing studio. Since that day, he has been teaching the craft of printmaking while selling the art of his students and local contemporary artists.

In this conversation, we discuss his progression from folk-art dealer to becoming an artist and a teacher of printmaking. Additionally, we covered a three-day hike with burros to see cave art he took with our mutual friend Ted Donovan led by Francisco Detrell. Last but certainly not least, we discussed the origins of fish tacos in Ensenada and his favorite tacos stands. Please note we taped this conversation in January 2020 before social distancing due to COVID-19 was in practice.

Taller Pérez Mellión
Lazaro Cardenas
22820 Ensenada, Baja California
+52 646 171 6127
www.facebook.com/pages/Taller-Pér…/113662939114683

Centro de las Artes de Baja California
Boulevard Lázaro Cárdenas y Avenida Club Rotario
22880 Ensenada, Baja California
(646) 173 43 07/08
www.icbc.gob.mx
www.facebook.com/CEARTEnsenada/

Francisco Detrell Baja Guide
Expediciones de Ecoturismo
(646) 178 0499
ecoturb@ens.com.mx

Tacos Corona Tacos de Pescado and Camaron
Avenida y, Espinoza, Benito Juárez,
tacoscorona.business.site

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