Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - The Historic Naval Museum recently hosted a collective exhibition organized by a group of local artists in collaboration with the City’s Art and Culture Department. The show was entitled "Serenity and Peace, an Inward Quest."

Councilwoman for Culture Gloria Palacios was charged with the cutting of the ribbon at the opening ceremony. In her speech, she had said "I have witnessed yet one more effort of a group of artists.”

She congratulated the collective and mentioned that "Puerto Vallarta is an enormous art gallery and we are working hard to have every corner of the city filled with art and the cultural expressions we enjoy in town."

Mrs. Palacios was joined by LT. Luis Fernando Lopez Campos, Director of the Historic Naval Museum, and Isela Mariscal, participating artist and the driving force behind the mounting of the exhibition.

Mariscal defined the exhibition as "a collective project arising from the need to communicate the ideas of local artists, each with his or her own ideology, but in the end with the sincerity to convey their ideals by mean of visual works full of symbolism, aiming to have the viewer fly in his imagination and to take in for himself the artistic proposal."

The exhibition presents works by artists Candelario Macedo, Diana Talia Godinez Dominguez, Carolina Perez, Emmanuel Adrian Rangel Valenzuela, Paulina Valenzzia, Lourdes Merino Barba, Berenice Dueñas, Gregorio Mendoza Cortes, Hilda Rosales Licea and Isela Mariscal.

The Puerto Vallarta Historic Naval Museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm. Admission is free to all. For more information on activities of the Art and Culture Department, call (322) 223-0095 or 113-0107. On Facebook, look for Cultura Vallarta Ayuntamiento.