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"Annual 'El Día de los Muertos' (The Day of the Dead) Celebration"
2001-10-30 until 2001-11-04
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA, USA

The annual Mexican, Día de los Muertos rite will be celebrated at the Seattle Art Museum. For this traditional observance two installations will be on view at the downtown Seattle Art Museum.

The installations in Brotman Hall will be an ornate altar honoring the deceased surrounded by traditional Mexican sand painting tapeta, from Oaxaca, Mexico. The altar and tapeta are designed by artists Fulgencio Lazo-Amaya and Issac Hernandez and created with other local artists. The installations are co-sponsored by the Seattle Art Museum and the Mexican Consulate.

Known in English as The Day of the Dead, this historic celebration spans centuries, combining ancient and New World traditions, folk customs and spiritual beliefs. Observed in Mexican and Mexican-American communities on Nov. 1 and 2, El Día de los Muertos is a powerful, symbolic celebration in honor of relatives and friends who have died.

During this time, families assemble altars (ofrendas) laden with offerings of food and drink to nourish the spirits. Flowers, candles, clay figurines that make light of death, sugar skeletons embroidered with the names of the deceased, and personal messages to the spirits are placed on the altar. In this manner, the altar is presented to the community to celebrate loved ones who have passed away and the ideas they imparted in life.


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