Martha
Ramirez-Oropeza is a mural painter,a performer
in popular theater, and a researcher/ lecturer
of the Nahuatl pre-Hispanic codices of Mexico.
She was vice-director of the Mascarones Theatre
Group for 32 years, and designed and co-founded
the Nahuatl University pyramidcampus in Ocotepec,
Morelos, Mexico. She apprenticed under master
muralist David A. Siqueiros, Guillermo Monroy
in the Fine Arts Institute, and, more recently,
under Chicanamuralist Judith F. Baca. She
conducts inter-national Nahuatl Culture seminars
in Mexico and lectures at the University of
California, Los Angeles. She is also an artist
in residence at the Social and Public Art
Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California,
and is a per-forming and visual arts teacher
for children in a Spanish total immersion
school in SantaMonica, California.
William
Douglas Horden has researched indigenous divinatory
systems of ancient China and Mexico with passion
and independence since 1969. He is steeped
in the shamanic world view from living in
the Copper Canyon of Mexico with the Tarahumara
Indians and in numerous other indigenous communities
over the past few decades. William was initially
trained in the I Ching by Master Khigh Alix
Dhiegh and has since developed a fresh new
approach to the ancient art. He currently
lives in Roseburg, Oregon and Coatepec, Mexico.
