Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and William Douglas Horden

Martha Ramirez-Oropeza is a mural painter,

a performer in popular theater, and a researcher

/ lecturer of the Nahuatl pre-Hispanic codices of

Mexico. She was vice-director of the Mascarones

Theatre Group for 32 years, and designed and

co-founded the Nahuatl University pyramid campus

in Ocotepec, Morelos, Mexico. She apprenticed under

master muralist David A. Siqueiros, Guillermo Monroy

in the Fine Arts Institute, and, more recently, under

Chicana muralist Judith F. Baca. She conducts inter-

national Nahuatl Culture seminars in Mexico and lec-

tures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She

is also an artist in residence at the Social and Public

Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California,

and is a performing and visual arts teacher for children

in a Spanish total immersion school in Santa Monica,

California.

William Douglas Horden has researched

indigenous divinatory systems of ancient China

and Mexico with passion and independence

since 1969. He is steeped in the shamanic world

view from living in the Copper Canyon of Mexico

with the Tarahumara Indians and in numerous

other indigenous communities over the past

few decades. William was initially trained in

the I Ching by Master Khigh Alx Dhiegh and

has since developed a fresh new approach to

the ancient art. He currently lives in Roseburg,

Oregon and Coatepec, Mexico.

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