Stone Art
Stone Art - Unlike many islands in the Caribbean, Roatan has found itself as the poor relative of Honduras. As such we find ourselves in a situation where survival is the main daily activity, rather than the expression of emotion through art. Even though people are using their skills to feed their families the art can still be found if you look for it.
Most of what you find is junk for tourists mainly cruise shippers; which is a situation that we are trying to change. To do this we first have to try and change the thinking of the tourists. Instead of buying a $20 piece of junk at each port buy a $50 locally made piece of craft (preferably stone art) at every other location. Tourists should also be looking for orginal pieces to take home, instead of the mass production nick-nacks. Dont get me wrong these play an important part in the local economies, but unless they come from a co-operative, chances are they are being produced for pennies and sold for 10's of dollars. Nothing wrong with commerce, I only wish to ensure that the artists are getting their fair share!
New Competition for Roatan children
We are in the process of setting up a competition for everyone under the age of 18 to design a sculpture that will be carved out of locally quarried stone on Roatan. This piece of stone art will then be placed in the municipal gardens in the center of Coxen Hole; subject to the new majors permission of course. It is hoped that by encouraging the children to design a piece of stone art that they will be empowered to create other pieces of art, and to collectively design and produce art for their own local communities. If we are successful then it is my wish to expand the competition onto a national level.
Honduran art galleries, craft and gift shops
We will be posting information about Honduran art galleries, craft shops and fair's as we find them.
National Gallery of art - The National Art Gallery houses collections of different forms of art spanning 7,000 years of work by Honduran artists, from paleolithic times to today. For more information contact the Honduran National Gallery of Art directly using the informaiton below.
Contact Rosamaria Prats - managing Director, 00-504-237-9884 or email direct galerianacionalarte@yahoo.es
Art of the America's - Very nice website, and even better Honduran art.
Waves of Art - Located in the West End of Roatan, nice collection.
Piq'Art Gallery - PiQ Art Gallery started in April 2003 in La Ceiba, Honduras by artist Myriam Piquion
Honduras.com - Artists gallery.
Lenca pottery - Lenca art store.
Google images of Honduran Art - Great collection of Honduran art from Google.
Yaba Ding Ding - Roatan arts and crafts shop located in Coxen Hole.
Travel to Honduras - Multiple links to verious gift and craft shops throughout Honduras.
Maya Archaeology - Very interesting info and pictures from Copan
Galeria Gold-Rose
2-3 Ave. Pasaje Continental San Pedro Sula
2-3 Calle,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Tel: 252.509
Fax: 253.3348
More Honduran & Roatan Art galleries to follow.
Luxury waterfront condos on Roatan
Stone Art
