This Installation has received recognition from the very inception, by being awarded an Artists Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arizona Commission for the Arts. And now that the Lotería Installation project is complete, It is exciting to announce that this installation has already started to travel, beginning its journey in Mexico!

The elaborate premier exhibition inauguration was held on Nov.2, 2001 at the Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., Mx. and exhibited there until March 2002. It then went on to tour Mexico to Celaya and San Miguel de Allende, curated by El Museo de la Ciudad. It was especially poignant to begin the tour in Querétaro as this is the home town of the original Lotería game, produced by
Don Clemente Gallo S.A. de C.V.. The Landin family who are the owners of Don Clemente Gallo have been significant sponsors in the Lotería Installation. They have been very generous and supportive with the historical background information, and have even printed up a Lotería game with the artwork from this installation to accompany the exhibition tour. Proceeds from the sale of the Loteria games will go to the FAI Save the Children Foundation of México. The printing of the new games is an historical event in itself since Don Clemente Gallo hasn't changed the images of the original Lotería game in over 100 years!

The Lotería Installation returned to the States in October 2002 and has completed a successful two-year traveling tour throughout the US organized by the The Arizona Commission for the Arts . Subsequently, it continues as a traveling exhibition to many museums, cultural centers and universities throughout the United States.

The topic of La Lotería is one that everyone who was queried was eager to talk about. Perhaps because of the familial ties, or just because of the joy that people who have grown up with this pastime have experienced... like the man who grew up in a tiny village at the foot of the volcano in Colima. He will never forget the excitement he felt as a young boy when the unannounced feria would trot into town and when he spotted the painted wooden Loteria tablas tied to the saddle of the burro, his eyes smiled and his heart jumped - for he knew that night, they would be playing La Lotería!