She is also a serious student of the ethnographic art of the Amazon basin.
Discussions are under way for bringing the exhibition to the United States.
The exhibition includes brilliantly colored feather crowns, sacred flutes and whistles, hammocks, bows and arrows, blowguns and dugout canoes from the Venezuelan portion of the Amazon basin. They are the material expression of the most secret rites, passed down from one generation to the next. Everything they make has meaning. Even colors have meaning. Last year, at the national Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn, the show attracted a record- breaking 200,000 visitors and was awarded the Leone d'Oro di San Marco, one of the most distinguished cultural prizes in Europe.