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If you are an artist having any connection to Maya, Guatemala, Native Americans, Latin America, or indigenous peoples, and have a website, I would be happy to provide a link to your website. I will also post a image, probably small, of one of the works selected from your website.

Name: Renato Correa
Date:02/11/2006

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Congratulations! Your website is marvelous and the paintings touch deep inside my Latin soul. Here is a link to Beto Borges paintings, a very talented Brazilian modern painting artist. Of course I am suspect in talking about him since he is a good friend of mine. His work has nothing to do with Arte Maya but I just thought it could be interesting for you to see it. I hope you enjoy glancing thru his work: www.betoborges.net. 

[Editors note: The images are details of Beto's paintings. Click on them to see the full painting.]

Name: Steve Dent
Date: 01/22/2006

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Hi, I greatly admire the work on your website and I will put a link to it from my website. I am an artist myself , I paint Native North American scenes plus other subjects. I also have a keen interest in the history and people of Central & South America. Please take a look at my site Steve Dent Gallery. If you like it, I would be honoured if you placed a link to it. best wishes, 

Steve Dent

Name: Jorg Max
Date: 06/21/2005

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Online Art Gallery of an emerging artist from north-central Guatemala (Coban, Alta Verapaz). Exhibits oil painting themes of indigenous people from this northern region. Themes are realistic, not primitivist, and of all formats.  www.j-art.tk

[Editor's note: Thank you for sharing your site with us. I support all artists, especially artists who are Maya, from Guatemala or Mexico, or latino. The web is an inexpensive place to have a gallery to get your work out there. I will be looking forward to you putting more paintings up on it. The pop-ups which completely block the screen every time you want to go to another page are very annoying. You should do whatever is necessary to eliminate them, even if it means changing your web host.

I would like to engage in a discussion (discussion group) with you and others about the terms realistic versus primitivistic. One painting on your site (not this one) appears less realistic than what I believe you are calling the primitivist paintings.]

Name: MAURICIO ORTIZ
Date: 06/11/2005

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MUY BUENA PAGINA PARA DEMOSTRARLE AL MUNDO NUESTRAS RAICES,ES UN ORGULLO EL SER GUATEMALTECO Y DARSE CUENTA QUE NUESTRO PAIS BA SUPERANDO, LES SUGIERO INCLUIR UN MAPA DE GUATEMALA PUES AHI MUCHAS PERSONAS QUE NO SABEN NISIQUIERA DONDE SE ENCUENTRA GUATEMALA, FELICITACIONES POR SU PAGINA MUY BUENA, SOY DE SAN JUAN SACATEPEQUEZ VIVO EN EL SUR DE CALIFORNIA, PASARE LA DIRECCION DE SU PAGINA A TODA PERSONA QUE PUEDA PARA DAR A CONOCER PARTE DE NUESTRA CULTURA ATRAVEZ DE SU PAGINA DE NUEVO FELICITACIONES Y ADELANTE M.O.

Name: marcela gallardo
Date: 06/07/2005

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Me da felicidad ver gente tan orgullosa de sus raices,costumbres y cultura, y que ese orgullo dea tan grande y bueno que quieran compartirlo con el resto del mundo. FELICITACIONES !!!!!

Name: DEBORAH BADILLO
Date: 06/07/2005

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FELIZIDADAS Y ADELANTE CON SU EXCELENTE TRABAJO.

Name: jorick
Date: 04/24/2005

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thank you for your site

Name: Darrell Keith
Date: 04/12/2005

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Beautiful artwork.

Name: Jim
Date: 04/02/2005

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Wow! what a great resource for Mayan Art! cool site, lots of great info. Jim 

Name: Obed
Date: 03/19/2005

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I love the vibrant colors and the mystery. I visited the Tulum Ruins several years ago and was fascinated with the history of the Mayas. www.Obedart.com

Name: KM
Date: 03/11/2005

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 Felizidades la mejor

Name: Samantha
Date: 03/07/2005

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This is a very good site for students. I think it shows art of the Mayan.

Name: Natalie
Date: 02/21/2005

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all this is good and well but where are all the pictures of Mayan Jade Jewellrey?

[Ed. note: I did a Google search for Maya jewelry and it is indeed true that it is not easy to find photographs of jade on line. The National Geographic has a number of pages with interesting information and some photos on the ancient Maya, but perhaps your best bet to see photos of Maya jade are in books. You might also try your local library. They often purchase expensive art books.]

Name: selma
Date: 02/11/2005

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I love this site. I always come to this site to feel connected with my heritage.

Name: Wendy Casasola
Date: 01/02/2005

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Felicidades. Este sitio es de lo mas lindo que e visto. Me encantaron las pinturas. Excelente trabajo. Adelante! Wendy

Name: Shannon Williams
Date: 12/17/2004

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I love art history very inspiring

Name: jose
Date: 11/26/2004

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I think that this web site is an excellent web. Keep doing your great work.

Name: VIVI
Date: 10/20/2004

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YOUR SHOW WAS GREAT I ALWAYS ENJOY WATCHING IT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!``````

Name: Amanda Nippi
Date: 09/30/2004

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Great website!

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Excellent web to find Mayan art. I am a Guatemala Painter that find deep connection to my Mayan believes and culture. In the past years I have been working in develop a Neo-maya style please visit my web at www.balams.net keep up this work

Name: JORGE FELIX PEREZ
Date: 09/03/2004

Name: OSCAR.RENE.LEIVA.ANGULO
Date: 08/26/2004

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LOS FELICITO POR EL REPORTAJE DE HOY EN LA MANANA POR DESPIERTA AMERICA ME SENTI MUY ORGULLOSO DE SER GUATEMALTECO VIVIENDO AQUI EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ACABO DE VENIR DE GUATE Y SI HUBIERA MSABIDO DE UDS LOS HUBIERA IDO A VISITA PUES FUI A ATITLAN PERO NO SABIA FELICIDADES Y SIGAN ADELANTE MANDENME CATALOGO A OSCAR LEIVA 225 BRUSSELS ST SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 94134 GRACIAS HERMANOS

Name: Andy L. Santana Bolvito
Date: 08/26/2004

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Tube la oportunidad de ver un reportaje sobre esta pagina en el programa de television "Despierta America" en Univision. Deseo expresarles mis mas sinceras felicitaciones por tan extraordinario trabajo. Son obras de artes como las de ustedes las que me hacen siempre sentirme muy orgulloso se ser GUATEMALTECO, arriba el buen trabajo. Atentamente, Andy L. Santana Bolvito

Name: Elmer Bladimiro Lopez
Date: 08/26/2004

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Hola me da tanto gusto felicitarlos por tan ermosas pinturas,y espero que algun dia cuando llegue a guatemala los visite personalmente para poder poner una pinturas de ustedes en mi sala que estan muy bonitas y sigan adelante por que ponen a guatemala en alto hogulloso de ser guatemalateco 100% chapin y arriba guatemala, DALLAS TEXAS EE.UU

Name: Heidy Pineda
Date: 08/26/2004

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All i have to said is CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR EFFORTS IN PROMOTING OUR CULTURAL THAT IS RICH IN COLOR AND SO MANY THINGS. I JUST SAW DESPIERTA AMERICA AND THAT WAS WONDERFUL ITS WAS ABOUT TIME THAT T.V ITSELF SHOWS SOMETHING DIFERRENT FROM GUATEMALA AND I GAVE TWO THUMBS UP TO YOU GUYS..KEEP THE HARD WORK!!!!!:) LOVE H. PINEDA

Name: Annette Gonzalez
Date: 08/26/2004

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Quiero felicitarlos por este sitio, estoy muy orgullosa como buena Chapina, de mis hermanos T'zutuhiles. Adelante! Les ayudare compartiendo esta direccion con todas las personas que conozco y mas. Sigan adelante, asi progresara Guatemala!

Name: Ericka Madriz
Date: 08/26/2004

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Please keep me update with your current catalogue!

Name: Ericka Madri
Date: 08/26/2004

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Please keep me update with your current catalogue!

Name: SILVIA ORELLANA
Date: 08/26/2004

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MUCHAS FELICIDADES POR ESTE ADELANTAMIENTO, YA QUE DAN LA OPORTUNIDAD DE QUE TODO EL MUNDO VEA EL ARTE DE GUATEMALTECO. VI UN REPORTAJE EN LA T.V. EN HORA BUENA Y A SEGUIR ADELANTE.

Name: Mariluz Del Valle
Date: 08/26/2004

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Les felicito por tan hermosos trabajos y que sigan dando a conocer su cultura.Esa es la mejor herencia que nosotros los latinos podremos llevar dentro de nosotros sin que nos la puedan hacer olvidar.El que AMA a su patria,pais,pueblo;nunca olvidara ni permitira que le roben sus raices. Dios les siga bendiciendo con sus habilidades y cultivando su cultura por todo el mundo. Les recomiendo que si pueden incluyan un mapa reconociendo en donde se encuentra Guatemala.En muchos sitios no conocen que existimos. Yo soy de Puerto Rico, y en Estados Unidos casi no saben de nuestra cultura. Creen que todavia vestimos como los Indios, arcos y flechas...Es en serio...Un abrazo grande desde Puerto Rico...

Name: jennifer
Date: 08/26/2004

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vi la paguina por la television la anote y fui a ver por la computadora me encanta su paguina pienso ke es una muy buena idea los felicitos son muy buena sus pinturas su historia es muy linda en sus pinturas reflejan todo lo ke piensan bye atte jennifer i love guatemala bye

Name: Balam Soto
Date: 07/30/2004

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Great Guatemala art, I am a Guatemalan Artist that Loves the art of Santiago, keep up going, my art is at www.balams.net.

Name: Ana Rivera
Date: 07/21/2004

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I have gotten tons of use from your web page for my thesis for my architecture degree. If I could send you a personal e-mail I would be delighted since there are some things I would like to ask you. I you could write me at: analurivera@hotmail.com I'm looking forward to hear from you, thanks!

Name: dwight wayne coop
Date: 06/02/2004

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Hello, Joseph Do me a favor: please re-send your earlier correspondence to me at a new email address: dwight@revuemag.com I still want to do the Sisay article for our July issue, and I will acknowledge any help you give us to our tens of thousands of readers who are in or at least reading about Guatemala. Thanks Dwight Wayne Coop Staff Writer REVUE www.revuemag.com

Name: carlos Pinto
Date: 04/29/2004

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gracias por promover el arte Guatemalteco, me he tomado la libertad de ponerlos como link de referencia en la pagina web que estoy creando www.jcarlospinto.com, en donde muestro parte de mi trabajo como pintor, adelante y siempre en contacto

[Editor's note: gracias por compartir sus obras con nosotros Juan Carlos Pinto. Yo especialmente gozo sus colaboraciones. Nuestro libro de huespedes es abierto a todos artistas Guatemaltecos o Maya. Yo voy poner un ejemplo de su trabajo o un enlace a su sitio gratis.]

Name: Don
Date: 04/15/2004

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I spent five weeks in guatemala about nine years ago. I also like art. The best art that I have found on a google search of "country x" + "painting" is that which is found in Guatemala. The best of wishes to your beautiful country and ALL of its people.

Name: Audrey Choiniere
Date: 03/24/2004

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Beautiful and interesting!

Name: Gloria
Date: 03/23/2004

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Me parece muy lind, Ver que tambien en Guatemala existe la informacion Technologica. Se ve tan vivo y exacto como es Nuestro Arte. Mis mejores deseos por la superacion de todos los Artistas y no artistas GOD BLESS GUATEMALA AND ALL.

LOVE, GLORIA

Name: Jose M
Date: 03/09/2004

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Todo esta historia sobre Guatemala es muy interesante apesar que yo soy Guatelmateco no se nada de mi pais ya que mis papas me tragieron a u.s.a. pequeno so me interesaria saber mas sobre mi pais y lapregunta que siempre me hacen es porque los mayad desaparesieron o porque dejaron las ciudades.

Name: Carlos Nava San Roman
Date: 01/21/2004

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Well i paint art maya, and i want to published with you, i wanna known how can i get notice from you, or how can i send you some pictures.

[Editor's note: Thanks for your interest Carlos. Because we are a very small organization in order have the resources to accomplish our goals, we have kept our focus narrow—contemporary Tz'utuhil Mayan painters from Guatemala. However if you wish to send me a photo, I would be willing to publish it next to this or a new entry in the guestbook. You could also leave a way interested parties can be in touch with you. Photos can always be emailed to me through the feedback form above, or they can be sent to: Arte Maya Tz'utuhil, P.O. Box 40391, San Francisco, CA 94110.]

Name: Jose Sosa
Date: 12/30/2003

Name: sandra m. kellaher
Date: 12/15/2003

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each year i enjoy your calendars and the paintings i have purchased prior in time. thank you for sharing these wonderful artists with us and allowing us to enjoy their works.

Name: Susan
Date: 12/08/2003

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I saw several Nan Cuz paintings in 1984 while on vacation in Guatemala. Her talent is magnificent. Every day I have regretted that I didn't bring one of her paintings back. I am overjoyed at finding her work on the internet.

[Editor's note: Nan Cuz is an internationally famous Guatemalan artist and she has an interesting artist's house in Panajachel. My first knowledge of  Nan Cuz came when we each bought a painting by Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay from an exhibition in a restaurant in Panajachel. She bought the most beautiful painting in the exhibition, a small painting of a Mayan fisherman in a cayuco with the volcano in lovely shades of violet, pink and blue in the background. I bought the painting with the most challenging theme—alcoholism. 

Two people have sent me photos of the Nan Cuz paintings they own. Unfortunately, I did not keep a good record of who they were, but I am putting the images up so that people can get an idea of what her style of painting is like. Her paintings are very thick; they have a texture similar to Southwest Indian sand paintings, although not so uniform.]

Name: Enio Suasnavar
Date: 11/17/2003

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Quisiera saber algo de un pintor que me llamo muchisimo la atencion, en una visita que hicimos hace un tiempo atras a santiago atitlan, lo unico que me recuerdo es el apellido del pintor, este era GUZMAN. si pudieran conseguirme la direccion o la manera de poder comunicarme con el se lo agradeceria. Gracias anticipadas.

[Nota de editor: Yo no conozco un pintor Guzman, y el nombre no es un apellido de Santiago Atitlan. Es posible verdad que hay un pintor Guzman que vive en Santiago. Entonces yo pienso que la mejor manera de buscar esto pintor es llamar a El Sitio en Antigua Guatemala. Ellos tiene un gran biblioteca de libros acerca de arte, y es muy posible que ellos sabran de la artista Guzman. Voy obtener el numero telefonico lunes]

Name: gabriel
Date: 11/01/2003

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Huehuetenango

Name: Michael R. Roth
Date: 10/25/2003

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I am just a lowly, humble poet, and common working man trying to plant a seed in the heart of humanity.

http://truth.url4life.com/

http://thoughts.url4life.com/  

http://godschildren.home-page.org/

Name: Fran
Date: 10/22/2003

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Date: 10/07/2003

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http://www.putinkey.com/teachersapple.index.html

[Ed note: this is a one page site about how one artist was inspired by studies of the ancient Mayan culture.]

Name: Tlalok Red Eagle holder of Thunder Feather of lightning
Date: 10/05/2003

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I think the I have the spirits of Maya and Azteks working thru me when i paint my art i find so much significance with my manifestations remember no hate or ignorance against different tribes nations north or south remember "WE ARE ALL RELATED from THE SPIRIT WITHIN" beyond religion and beliefs, culture, peace and love

[Ed. note: If all the religions learned to get along and tolerate and respect each other the world would be a better place. Even now there are Guatemalan Christians who unfortunately do not want the Mayans to practice their ancient religious customs. The Bahai religion teaches that all men are brothers and all religions are one so that whatever church or religious ceremony one participates in, it is to the same God/spirit. We would do well to respect all religions however diverse and all life. Religions who teach hatred, killing and intolerance don't deserve to be called religions.]

Name: Melissa
Date: 09/28/2003

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it is a pretty good site. I like it.

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