Women Embroiderers Gather Regularly in Las Vueltas

Every Thursday, women embroiderers from Las Vueltas gather in the municipality in Chalatenango. The meetings are part of the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen’s [Museum of the Word and the Imagen, MUPI] project “Cartografías Femeninas del Exilio y la Repatriación” [Women’s Cartographies of Exile and Repatriation]. The initiative is being carried out with women embroiderers in the department of Chalatenango, with support from the Surviving Memory project and the AECID.

The photographs are courtesy of Olvin J. Abrego, a young intern at MUPI who completed his bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies. He is currently conducting research with support from Dartmouth College’s Olga Gruss Lewin Fellowship Program and a Fulbright research grant.

The Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador research initiative is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Western University, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Research Fund.