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Friday, September 14, 2012

Lynnhurst Shop Takes Visitors On International Adventure

Anne Damon recently returned from Mexico with over 700 unique pieces of art.

Listening to Anne Damon of Lynnhurst's Zinnia Folk Arts  describe the results of her regular buying trips south of the border, you're liable to find yourself lost in descriptions of splendid Mexican cities and art emerging from hidden campesino houses like so much buried treasure. See photos (at right) of some of the folk art Damon found on her recent buying trip to Mexico. She may bracket her tales with comments like "really, I can't think of interesting things that happened," as she did in a recent interview with Patch, but Damon's tales of silversmiths hammering away in whitewashed, hillside cities like Taxco de Alarcon  sound like the stuff of great adventures.  A Folk Art Bloodhound Perhaps one reason Damon is so modest about the …

Friday, March 9, 2012

Travel The World Without Leaving Home

Mexican Folk Art Comes To 50th And Bryant.

Anne Damon may be just opening her first brick-and-mortar store, but she’s no newbie to the world of Mexican folk art. At age 16, she went to Mexico City to study Spanish, and fell in love with the country’s crafts, and every year she keeps going back for more.   “I’m more interested in the quirks, the handmade pieces,” she said. “I find it more interesting to see pieces that are one-of-a-kind, that are less ‘schooled’ because people have learned their craft from their family or their community, not an art school.” A few years ago, she decided to put her expertise to use, opening a pop-up shop in St Louis Park before settling on the old Kurimay Interiors space as a permanent home for her wares. The new shop, to be called Zinnia Folk Arts, …

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