Day of the Dead (past)

I participated and enjoyed a lot of Day of the Dead events in the last decade, in Tucson, Albuquerque, El Paso and Oaxaca.

"All Souls Procession" 2012

from the "Sculpture Resource Center"

with Martin Quintanilla's large skull

2009

TUCSON

The first Tucson "All Souls Procession" I went to was in 2009, when I followed the Calliope float by the "Sculpture Resource Center" and Mark David Leviton.

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Calliope (based on a hand rail car design)

at the "All Souls Procession" in Tucson 2009

2011

* TUTAN KAMOTE *

TUCSON

In 2011 Martin Quintanilla built a large skull for the "All Souls Procession" in Tucson at the "Sculpture Resource Center" -- called  TuTan Kamote!  Plus Xerocraft hackspace also paraded a large skull.

TuTanKamote large skull by Martin Quintanilla

in front of the "Sculpture Recource Center"

before joining the Tucson "All Souls Procession" 2011

Back of the above skull

• Playlist of TuTanKamote at the "All Souls Procession" in Tucson 2011 (including a cameo of the large Xerocraft skull).

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TuTan Kamote

2012

TUCSON

The "mini-All Souls Procession" in 2012 started from the house of Sue Johnson, the founder of the Tucson "All Souls Procession," and proceeded to the Tucson Museum of Art.

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Mini-Procession

Mini-procession

from sculptress Sue Johnson's house

The relatively new Xerocraft hackerspace also paraded a large skull for the second year, at the Tucson "All Souls Procession" in 2012.

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Xerocraft Hackerspace

Xerocraft skull

at the "All Souls Procession" in 2012

Xerocraft joining the "All Souls Procession" 2012

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Sculpture Resource Center

Martin Quintanilla lead a giant skull

and the "Sculpture Resource Center" crew

though the "All Souls Procession in Tucson" in 2012

Martin Quintanilla

and Marcy Miranda James

in front of the "Sculpture Resource Center"

with the big skull 2012

We used the photo below of the 2012 "All Souls Procession" to the Tucson Sculpture Festival 2013 as Martin Quintanilla's sculpture.

Martin Quintanilla

led the "Sculpture Resource Center"

through the "All Souls Procession" 

in Tucson 2012

2015

OAXACA

We were in Oaxaca to put on a pop-up print show of the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta during the Day of the Dead 2015.

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In Oaxaca the day before

the Day of the Dead

Oaxaca

Day of the Dead 2015

We showed the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta in Mexico City, a few days before the Day of the Dead in 2015, for the 32nd Anniversary of the serigraph studio Taller 75 Grados.

 

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(Mexico City)

Mexico city paranda

 leading up to the Day of the Dead

2017

ALBUQUERQUE

Henry Morales showed his prints at the South Broadway Cultural Center for the Day of the Dead exhibition in 2017.

Henry Morales showing prints

at the South Broadway Cultural Center

 in Albuquerque 2017

2018

Ambos Lados International Print Exchange

The prints were due on Day of the Dead in 2018 for the "Ambos Lados International Print Exchange," but Manuel Guerra extended the deadline to December 15th.

Manuel Guerra's print

hanging at the El Paso Museum of Art

(he also was the US organizer

of the Ambos Lados print exchange)

2019

El Paso

 

Colectivo La Ultima Hora brought large puppets from Mexico City for the first Day of the Dead parade in El Paso -- Desfile de Alebrijes.

La Ultima Hora float

for the Desfile de Alebrijes parade

in El Paso in 2019

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Desfile de Alebrijes parade

in El Paso 2019

Colectivo La Ultima Hora also created the floats for the opening Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City for the James Bond movie Spectre.

Colectivo La Ultima Hora

created the large skeleton floats

for the Day of the Day parade in Mexico City

for fabulous opening scene in the James Bond movie Spectre

Federico Villalba put on a nice Day of the Dead exhibition in downtown El Paso in 2019.  Colectivo La Ultima Hora of Mexico City also contributed some sculptures to this exhibition.

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Dia de los Muertos exhibition

in downtown EL Paso in 2019

Manuel Guerra contributed a print to the El Paso show, and also to the Day of the Dead exhibition at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

(Albuquerque)

Manuel Guerra of El Paso

contributed the top print to the 

Albuquerque Day of the Dead show 2019

at the South Broadway Cultural Center

We also had a Desert Triangle Print Carpeta opening at the Las Cruces Museum of Art during the Day of the Day in 2019.

The Desert Triangle opening in Las Cruces

on the Day of the Dead 2019

2020

UPDATE (November 15, 2020):

Because of the Covid 19 pandemic, this year the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque put out a video of their annual Dia de los Muertos exhibition  in lieu of an opening.  The altars and video were curated by Augustine Romero.

Omar Gonzalez (Texas)

Virtual Dia de los Muertos in Albuquerque

at the South Broadway Cultural Center

Also contributions by:

• Xavier Moreno 1st (Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Xavier Moreno 2nd  (Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Alejandra Mares (Guadalajara, Mexico)
• Pavel Acevedo (Riverside, California)
• Manuel Guerra (El Paso)