Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Judith Roberts trained at the Art Institute of Baltimore. She fell in love with Mexican culture when she first traveled to the country twenty years ago. She settled with her family in San Miguel de Allende, opened a shop selling folk art, clothing, and jewelry, designed her own clothing line, and spent much of her time photographing all that she saw.

This exhibition focuses on Roberts' extensive trips throughout Mexico's vastly diverse ethnic regions, where she experienced and captured celebrations and religious rituals along with ordinary life. The Magic Gardens is showing Roberts' photographs in relation to the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Frida Kahlo exhibition that opens on February 20th.

Julia Zagar has steeped herself in Mexican folk art for more than forty years, as a student, a collector, and an art dealer. She brings all of that and more to a special lecture series at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she shares her knowledge and experience of Mexican culture and Frida Kahlo's life and work. The final two lectures focus on the art and culture of Oaxaca, and the recent opening of Frida Kahlo's long-locked closet. This much-anticipated final lecture, "Frida's Closet," will share with Philadelphia audiences the discoveries found in this hidden place.

Final lectures: Thursdays - February 21st and 28th from 9:30-10:30 am; Saturday, February 23rd from 9:30-11:45 am
For more information: Visit the the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Web site.