Sergio Rodriguez Delgado sold his first sculpture in 1957, at age 6.
The piece, in part made from toilet paper and glue, depicted a bullfighter on tiptoe snapping a piece of cloth through the air.
“Pah! Pah!” he demonstrated, animatedly describing the scene with a napkin during an interview at Santa Fe’s Dos Amigos Sports Mexican Restaurant.
Sergio Rodriguez Delgado works on a mural Thursday. Now with secure housing, Rodriguez Delgado’s dream is to draw on prior experience making traditional Mexican star piñatas to start a piñata business, and he’s working with a business counselor at New Mexico Small Business Development Centers to gather the documents and skills to do so.
Sergio Rodriguez Delgado talks Thursday about some of the projects he’s worked on by his mural at Dos Amigos restaurant. Rodriguez Delgado started his work in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he worked as a freelancer in graphic design and crafted bronze sculptures for the Chihuahua government and other “high-up” wealthy people, but he moved to Pojoaque about 30 years ago at the invitation of late pueblo Gov. Jacob Viarrial to teach classes at Poeh Cultural Center.
