NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

9/13/2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES -Artist Zarco Guerrero will present the play Face to Face in a Frenzy at Northwestern State University Friday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the A.A. Fredericks Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public. The performance is sponsored by the Mrs. H.D. Dear and Alice E. Dear School of Creative and Performing Arts, NSU's Office of Student Activities and Organizations and the Northwestern Office of Cultural Affairs.

Face to Face in a Frenzy is a one-man play by Guerrero in which masks are extensively used, has been performed both locally and nationally at theaters, schools, conferences and community audiences.

Guerrero has been a force in the Arizona art scene for more than 30 years as a multi-media artist and community arts advocate. He has participated in the Artist in Education program of the Arizona Arts Commission and has conducted workshops throughout the U.S. since 1972. Guerrero has had one-man shows in Mexico and throughout the United States. He is the founder of Xicanindio Artes, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to better understanding of Latino and Native American arts.

In 1984, PBS broadcasted a one-hour documentary about his art, The Mask of El Zarco. Two years later, Guerrero was awarded the prestigious Japan Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and spent one year in Kyoto, Japan, studying the Noh Masks as an apprentice to Joshun Fukakusa. Guerrero also investigated mask carving in Bali, Indonesia and China.

Guerrero received the Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant to pursue his mask carving in Mexico. He was the mask maker for La Mascarada la Vida, a play by Childsplay, Inc. in which he also played the lead male and co-composed the musical score. This play was featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. In 1991, The Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University and its dance department performed A Song for the Forest People, a dance/opera written by Guerrero in which over 30 of his masks were featured.

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