Want to know more about the Alebrijes of Mexico? While some see alebrijes as Mexican spirit animals, similar to a Native American totem, others say these famous wood carvings are little more than ...

And then the alebrijes showed up. Minnesota Latino Museum director Aaron Johnson-Ortiz, center, stands with artists Edgar Israel Camargo Reyes, right, and Alberto Moreno Fernández, left ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Alebrijes of Mexico have a history as colorful as the art itself. They are mystical creatures that have been transformed over decades into Mexican folk art sculptures.

“The creatures are called alebrijes (pronounced ah-leh-bree-hehs) and stem from Mexican folklore,” library spokeswoman Denise Raleigh said. The sculptures are part of the larger ...

In Mexico, “alebrijes” is a nonsense word that refers to wildly colored little sculptures of surreal creatures with chimerical features. In Columbus, Alebrijes refers to a recently launched ...

And then the alebrijes showed up. Alebrijes are larger-than-life Mexican folk sculptures, often made with paper and cardboard in a papier-mâché-like style, that depict imaginative creatures in ...