2nd Friday Exhibit Reception - Catrinas on Parade and Escuchame
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Oct 14, 2022 6pm - 9pm
Location
Firehouse Art Center
667 4th Ave
Details
MAIN GALLERY
Catrinas on Parade
Each year, the Firehouse Art Center invites local artists to create their representation of La Calavera Catrina. La Calavera Catrina is a zinc etching by the Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada. Originally a commentary on the Mexican natives who, Posada felt, were aspiring to adopt European aristocratic traditions. She has become an icon of the Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead. There are select Catrinas hanging at the Longmont Public Library as well.
SOUTH GALLERY
The South Gallery’s “Escuchame” explores complex issues like healing, feminism and identity. Featuring Jamie Chihuan and Adriana Paolo Palacios Luna, the exhibition includes painting, printmaking and fiber arts, the works connected by common threads of shared life experiences, and complex narratives layered by cross cultural experiences, memories, environmental commentary, spiritualism and symbolism.
During the reception, Chihuan will screen his documentary film discussing issues of identity in the Latinx Artist Community when dealing with Dia de los Muertos.
Showings at 6:30pm and 7:30 pm
Adriana will be hosting mini workshops on traditional Mexican art techniques during the exhibit reception. All workshops are hands on, from an intercultural approach, celebrating diversity, equity and creativity. Workshops at 6:30pm and 7:30pm.
