View our new (and first-ever!) interactive Oaxacan folk art travel planner

FOFA is excited to announce a free, interactive new travel planning tool – a first for visitors to Oaxaca! – that streamlines how to discover and connect with folk artists in their home workshops. This new software consists of seven regional maps of Oaxaca state, each with icons indicating the folk arts created there and villages where artists live and work. Artists’ villages are identified by red dots; a simple click takes users to the artists’ profiles that appear on FOFA’s companion Artists’ Directory, including their names, photos, type of art, social media addresses, and contact information.

Most young artesanos depend on visitors coming directly to their home workshops to make a living, yet many travelers to Oaxaca never venture far beyond the city itself. That’s why we created these interactive maps — so that travelers can easily see where individual artists are located across all seven regions and plan their itineraries accordingly. Oaxaca’s highways have improved enormously in recent years, and with smartphones and internet access common even in remote areas, communities throughout the state are now far more reachable. Our goal in introducing the interactive maps is to facilitate more visits to artists’ communities, thereby enabling more artists to build sustainable livelihoods.

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