Trying to direct the right donations to the right people, Los Mayas Eternos AC, a charitable organization that brings food and hygiene supplies to poor villages in Yucatán, is turning to smartphone technology. Pedro Tec, the organization’s founder as well as an artist from Ixil, announced the plan — dubbed K-otoch — at Mayas Eternos…
An artist-photographer’s nonprofit foundation dedicated to bringing aid to the residents of various pueblos is offering a new calendar to raise funds in 2022. Los Mayas Eternos A.C. — of which Yucatán Magazine is a sponsor — is starting its annual sale of calendars depicting Maya people from the lens of Pedro Tec, an indigenous…
Pedro Tec and the Yucatán nonprofit foundation Los Mayas Eternos AC are working on a new oral health campaign for children from four small towns.
“Los Mayas Eternos” explores themes of identity, ancestry, gender and socio-political aspects of Mayan culture.
The Maya Community Center initiative began with a simple vision of bringing nutritious meals to families in need. What started as a modest community kitchen project quickly blossomed into a thriving hub of activity in Cholul. The center, located on Calle 21 behind the Cholul Municipal Palace, established itself as the central point for food…
Artist Pedro Tec, in collaboration with Fine Art America, is hosting a photographic exhibition in homage to the Maya people of his hometown. “The Last Mestizos of Ixil” represents the first time that Tec has displayed artwork in this tiny pueblo north of Conkal. His silvery black-and-white photos depict its matriarchs in stunningly dreamlike detail,…
A drive is under way to bring shoes for 500 children in impoverished Xaya, a pueblo in southern Yucatán state. Led by photographer Petro Tec, the nonprofit Los Mayas Eternos AC is collecting shoes to bring down and distribute. Conditions there are dire. According to SEDESOL (the Secretary of Social Development) Xaya is a highly…
Pedro Tec’s exhibit of Mayan portraits is migrating north of the border.
In the darkest moments of his life, Pedro found a series of characters in his dreams.
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