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We boarded the Alamo Coach at SAC, with our tour guide Carlos and his father, also Carlos. Our first stop was for breakfast in Laredo.

Crossing the border...

well...it looked easier than it was

Next stop: The Cuatemoc Brewery in Monterrey!!!

Above left: (l to r) Michelle Arrieta, Kay Garza, Ann Keil, Colleen Shannon; Center: the Cuatemoc Brewery; Right: (l to r) Sonya Monroy, Jina Tapia, Valerie Tapia, Julio Borjon.

Above, sculpture at the brewery; to the right, an Olmec ballplayer in front of the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame (also at the brewery).

Sculpture based on an Olmec 'ballplayer'

Above, contemporary sculpture and copy of an Olmec colossal head at the brewery garden.

The Crowne Plaza -- our hotel -- in the distance

From our room, looking down into the atrium

Left, our hotel in the distance -- the Crowne Plaza. Above, the open atrium at the hotel.

Above, view of the mountains from the hotel solarium; center, the hotel pool!!

Above, another view from the hotel solarium.

WE'RE ON OUR WAY TO MARCO -- THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN MONTERREY, MEXICO!!

We cross the plaza, in front of the fountain

On Saturday, we cross the street bordering the Macro Plaza (above left), view the fountain commemorating the founding of the city (center), and on to MARCO, the Monterrey Contemporary Art Museum (above right). Later that afternoon, we visited the Monterrey Metropolitan Museum of Art (center building in the image to the left above) which displayed a variety of local contemporary artists. Below are the side and front of the MARCO museum.

The three images above show the beauty of the museum itself. The exhibit in May, 2003, was Part III, "Los espacios incomformes" (Scenes of Dissent) of the four part series, "Siglo XX: Grandes Maestros Mexicanos." The exhibit included works by Rufino Tamayo, Jose Luis Cuevas, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Carlos Fuentes, Lilia Carrillo, Leonora Carrington, and Remedios Varo. A special travelling exhibit on the second floor of the museum, "Museums for a New Millenium," displayed plans, drawings, photographs and models of the most important contemporary museum today.

Above is the Monterrey Cathedral. A Baroque revival complete with churriguerresque front, it is a Spanish colonial style church. It is a sharp contrast to the bold, minimalist planes of MARCO.

"The group" at a restaurant in Monterrey

Left, the hard-working fund raisers of the Student Art Guild -- Valerie Tapia, Julio Borjon, Martha Jasso, and Jina Tapia; with Marleen Hoover, Faculty Sponsor.