Friday 27 February 2009 at 1:02 pm
JUNE 26th, 27th, 28th
JOIN US FOR A WEEKEND OF CRAFTS AT EAST HILL FARM
The Guild will host a variety of craft workshops during the last weekend of June, 2009. Work with experienced craft teachers in an exploration of new worlds and possibilities through collaboration with material, nature, experienced craftsmen and students. Join together each day for lunch and exchange with the whole workshop community. Limited overnight stay is available.
Friday 27 February 2009 at 07:54 am
Saturday, Sept. 12th and Sunday, Sept. 13th, 2009
Where?
Warren County Fairgrounds
Rte. 6, Pittsfield, Pa.
This celebrated and award-winning Festival will be returning to its popular home site, the quaint Warren County Fairgrounds, located on Rt. 6, approximately 13 miles west of the historic town of Warren, Pa. The hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and it will be held rain or shine as most exhibits are under cover.
Wednesday 25 February 2009 at 11:33 am
Friday October 2 through Sunday October 4, 2009
Each year downtown Hendersonville is transformed into a giant outdoor art gallery featuring artists and fine art craftspeople displaying their original works of art. Because 2009 marks the 50th Anniversary for Art on Main, the Arts Council is planning to expand the event into a two-week Festival of the Arts.
John C. Campbell Folk School provides experiences in non-competitive learning and community life that are joyful and enlivening. Located in scenic Brasstown, North Carolina, the Folk School offers year-round weeklong and weekend classes for adults in craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, nature studies, photography and writing.
Tuesday 24 February 2009 at 12:07 pm
Where? Laguna Beach CA
Mark your travel calendar for our 43rd Annual Summer Show which opens Friday, June 26 and continues daily through Sunday, August 30, 2009. The Sawdust will feature the fine art and craft of nearly 200 Laguna Beach artists and is sure to be the highlight of your summer adventures. Join our E-mail Club to receive Sawdust updates and special offers, too.
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Tuesday 24 February 2009 at 11:26 am
You may know Althea Crome's work from her Contribution to the "CORALINE FILM"! Here is what the artist has to say:
Today I live in Bloomington Indiana with my children, 10 year old triplets and 14 year old son, along with our dog Herbie, our ancient cat Nellie and our wee marsupial Max. I love to Knit and man, do I love a challenge!
I have knitted, in full-scale, since college. I find great joy and comfort in the creative process that knitting provides. The texture of the yarn, the smooth rhythm of the needles and the emergence of a pattern in my hands as I work has always been quite magical to me. But, by adding the challenge of creating an object for a physical world that is so small as to be almost beyond our grasp, is to add a new thrill to an already beloved art form.
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Approximately 30 windmill-like sculptures which shine and reflect in the sun and whirl and spin in the wind, Simpson’s whirligigs are made from recycled machine parts, then painted and covered with thousands of small reflectors. Many stand up to 50 feet tall. Simpson began work on Windmill Farm in 1985, after retiring from a machine repair business he ran with friends. The “park” is Simpson’s farm, today filled with over 30 whirligigs of Simpson’s design and construction.
The Folk Art Fair, organized uninterruptedly for the last 30 years on Krakow's Main Square, proves the vitality of folk handicraft and the need to cultivate it.
Not only can visitors buy handicrafts, but also learn about various techniques, such as pottery, sculpture, embroidery or lace-making and even try their hand at those difficult crafts.
Monday 23 February 2009 at 07:38 am
This is our newest short film! Enjoy!
A comedy spoof about an unsuspecting family who becomes victims of the Internet. The internet is out-of-control and begins attacking. Find non-stop laughs as the internet uses ads and spam to harass innocent bystanders. If we don't control the internet it may try to control us!
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Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. ( 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story. Darger's work has become one of the most celebrated examples of outsider art.
Friday 20 February 2009 at 08:19 am
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is…
a) one of North America’s premier outdoor music festivals, happening the second weekend of every July in Birds Hill Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada
and
b) a year-round arts organization in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, presenting the best in live music, music training, and arts events, and operating a year-round music store in Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is incorporated as a not-for-profit charitable organization.
On June 6, the Southern Highland Craft Guild is sponsoring a one day festival which offers all the best WNC has to offer: a trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway, fine regional crafts, old-time music by local musicians and regional BBQ. For the second season, Clay Day and Guild Fair on the Parkway have been combined to offer educational demonstrations and an exposition of craft booths from 10am to 4pm at the Folk Art Center.
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a/k/a Jazz Fest, is a 10-day cultural feast in which thousands of musicians, cooks and craftspeople welcome 400,000 visitors each year. The Louisiana Heritage Fair showcases unforgettable music on multiple stages, delicious Louisiana cuisine in two large food areas, and crafts artisans from the region and around the world demonstrating and selling their work. The Louisiana Heritage Fair is held at the Fair Grounds Race Course over the course of 2 weekends. They are April 24,25,26 & April 30, May 1,2,3, 2009.
Wednesday 18 February 2009 at 11:59 am
Opening of “Inside/Outside” at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Folk Art will feature the "Shine Shack" by artist Mike Shine. The Museum of Craft and Folk Art announces Inside/Outside: A look at outsider artist environments. Front and center in the exhibit is the “Shine Shack”, a near exact replica of the funky retro coastal cabin artist Mike Shine shares as a studio/second home with his wife and their three sons - all artists.
Shine’s work can be described as a colorful, sometimes disturbing mixture of driftwood, house paint, Nordic mythology, insomnia, 1970’s pop culture, absinthe, Teutonic philosophy, his wife Marianne, and woodworking skills left over from a previous life. Shine’s art draws from themes of classic mythology, philosophy and psychology, and how they relate to modern day mankind. “But in an accessible way, without the pretension, and bullshit,” he emphasizes.
Restaurant-owner and folk artist Martin Sanchez has created an urban oasis, a garden of Eden, hidden behind shrubs, trees and a wrought-iron fence inside Martin’s Tio’s Tacos restaurant on Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside, California.
Relatively undiscovered, Mr. Sanchez has been working on his creation for almost 10 years. Patrons of the restaurant can walk underneath cooling streams of water flowing from a fountain garden made of broken pieces of clay and old pipes, discarded bicycles, dolls and other items. While we were there, we found Mr. Sanchez’ relatives helping him work to expand his garden paradise.
From the deepest darkest depths of the Appalachian Valley (where they have to pump sunlight in) comes Cunningham's unique, one of a kind style of outsider/folk art. His art is inspired by the rich and proud heritage of the Appalachian people and their culture.
Tuesday 17 February 2009 at 08:27 am
BRADFORD, Pa. – The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will host the Sixth Annual Heart of the Alleghenies Folk Music Festival from August 7-9, 2009.
Festival attendees will have an opportunity to attend instructional workshops, dances, and open jam sessions featuring Old time, Bluegrass, Dulcimer, Autoharp, French-Canadian, Scottish, and World folk music in an informal college setting. Activities will begin on Friday afternoon with a concert featuring workshop instructors, followed by a contra dance.
Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Gallery in Sanford Florida is a wonderful place to find Folk Art from Southern Artists. Since 1996, Jeanine Taylor has specialized in contemporary folk art from Florida and the Deep South. Her spacious gallery in Sanford Florida (just 25 minutes northeast of Orlando) is home to the art of 20-30 self-taught artists, as well as 8 working artist studios. She insists on celebrating the artist as well as the art by hosting a full schedule of shows, events, and educational programs.
The history begins in 1856 in Hoxton, an area of London bordered by the wealth of the City and the poverty of the East End. This is where Benjamin Pollock was born. At this time the toy theatre trade was flourishing in Covent Garden's Theatreland. By the time Benjamin Pollock had married Eliza Redington and inherited her father's Theatrical Print Warehouse, the toy theatre trade had been overshadowed by new fangled novelties such as magic lanterns, gramophones and the wireless.
Laura Beatrice Marling (born February 1st 1990), is a folk-pop singer-songwriter from Hampshire, England. Marling has toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK and beyond including Adam Green and Jamie T, who invited her on tour with him in 2006 after he attended her second-ever gig.
Spearheaded by local songwriter and arts advocate Aengus Finnan, the Shelter Valley Folk Festival began around a kitchen table in the fall of 2003. There, a dedicated group of friends and strangers (consisting of a lawyer, a social worker, an art therapist, a recent art college grad, a songwriter, an engineer, a newspaper reporter, a retired teacher, and a high-school student, and a Fair Trade coffee-shop entrepreneur) gathered regularly to envision what a cultural community event centred on fantastic folk music might look like and entail.
Wednesday 11 February 2009 at 10:40 am
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, (October 26, 1874 – April 5, 1948), was a prominent socialite and philanthropist and the second-generation matriarch of the renowned Rockefeller family. Referred to as the "woman in the family", she was especially noteworthy for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street in New York, in November, 1929.
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Tuesday 10 February 2009 at 1:12 pm
In addition to nationally known headline acts each evening, the Tucson Folk Festival showcases local and regional musicians from Arizona and the Southwest. The Festival offers workshops, a gospel sing-along, a children's show, and features a wide array of food and craft booths as well.
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Tuesday 10 February 2009 at 07:47 am
Regina Spektor born February 18, 1980, is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village. Spektor was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia), to a musical Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Russian college of music, and now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.
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Entering its 29th year, the UK's most northerly folk festival is regarded a prestigious event for performers, locals and visitors alike. Organized by a voluntary committee (and run by an even bigger pool of volunteers) the Festival prides itself in reaching out to even the most far flung areas of Shetland. Concerts are organized throughout the isles, consisting of some of the best International, British and Shetland music that the world has to offer. In fact, visiting artistes are regularly dumbfounded by the quantity and quality of local musicians that our remote isles have to offer.
Friday 06 February 2009 at 12:20 pm
by Rodger L. Hardy
PROVO -- Charlie Willeto was the first of the Navajos to break with tradition and create images of people for sale. Using wood he found in the desert as he herded sheep, including fence posts and old boards, the Navajo shaman or medicine man created a new kind of folk art.
Though images of people created for the market was considered taboo (human figures were solely used by medicine men to heal the sick and in religious ceremonies), Willeto got around the no-no by creating images of spirits from an unseen world instead of live figures.
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The Festival, an initiative of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia together with the City of Philadelphia’s Office of the City Representative, encourages a better understanding of Japanese cultural, social and educational customs.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – After hibernating through the cold, gray months of winter, return to the outdoors and embrace the vibrancy of spring during the 2009 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, www.phillycherryblossom.org, with events through March and April, 2009.
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Friday 06 February 2009 at 09:44 am
Exhibition: January 17- March 7, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Community Folk Art Center
Address: 805 East Genesee Street, Syracuse, NY
Contact: 315-442-2230
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Friday 06 February 2009 at 08:11 am
The Obama room is the "Official Bad Art Museum of Art" curators are Marlow Harris and JoDavid.
The Official Bad Art Museum of Art is located at Cafe Racer located at 5828 Roosevelt Way in Seattle WA 98105. Usual hours are 7am until 2am each day. Admission is free, but it would be nice if you had a cup of coffee, a sandwich or a beer!
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Where
2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival
12 King William Rd
Unley South Australia 5061
AUSTRALIA
When
Feb 19- March 1
2009
Seats are now on sale for the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival!
The world arrives in Adelaide this February, as the eleven-day BigPond Adelaide Film Festival (BAFF) presents over 130 films from 49 countries and an atlas full of special events, forums and art installations.
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Thursday 05 February 2009 at 1:33 pm
Over the past fifteen years, Folk Fest has become the largest and most important event in the history of Folk Art. Prestigious galleries and dealers from all over The United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe, specializing in self-taught art, Outsider Art, Southern Folk Pottery and and now with a special emphasis on Antique Folk Art and Anonymous Works fill the cavernous 85,000 square foot facility at the North Atlanta Trade Center. Annual attendance consistently soars past 12,000. Visitors pour in from all over the country to see what is hot in the world of folk art. Folk Fest is the place where museums, prominent galleries, important publications, and serious collectors make their new discoveries. The importance and popularity of Folk Fest has made Atlanta the undisputed, Hub of Folk Art.
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Russian folk art expresses the artistic impulses of peasants and artisans to decorate their homes and objects of daily use. It reflects both timeless traditions and changing conditions in the Russian countryside, shows peasants' responses to nature and their deep spiritual connection with natural forces.
Where is a better place to display a work of art than on your body, a canvas that travels with your every move? The tattoo craze that has been spreading from teen to adult and adult to teen has infected women and men who ink their skin as a form of self-expression.
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Thursday 05 February 2009 at 07:56 am
The Museum of Craft and Folk Art provides innovative exhibitions and educational programs that are designed to connect with and inspire diverse communities. As the only folk art museum in Northern California, the museum is known for a rich offering of focused and unique exhibitions of traditional and contemporary folk art and craft from around the world — demonstrating how folk art, contemporary craft, and fine art are all part of the same continuum.
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Thursday 05 February 2009 at 07:03 am
Watch the video of how to make a clay pipe. The art of making clay smoking pipes dies out. The last clay pipe maker of Holland retired and gives his last demonstration of how to make clay smoking pipes.
His craft lives on in the municipal museum of Gouda in Holland. A wonderful art form with amazing results.
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Wednesday 04 February 2009 at 09:56 am
March 27 & 28, 2009
The 12th annual Catawba Valley Pottery and Antiques Festival will be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at the Hickory Metro Convention Center, I-40, Exit 125 in Hickory, NC from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Tickets are $6.00 for adults and $2.00 for children 12 and under and are available at the door. Ticket holders will be entered in a drawing for door prizes.
Wednesday 04 February 2009 at 09:21 am
SAVE THE DATE! 36th Annual Mercer Museum Folk Fest (Rain or Shine)
Saturday & Sunday, May 9-10, 2009
10 a.m.-5 p.m., Mercer Museum
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Let’s face it. Soot-and-spit drawings aren’t common, even in today’s anything-goes art scene. Nor are layered constructions made with tarpaper and twine. Yet both types of work are common in the oeuvre of James Castle (1899-1977), the famously deaf artist from Boise, Idaho, and both are avidly collected. James Castle started drawing when he was six or seven years old. He developed his spit-and-soot method early, too, using the soot from a wood-burning stove on his parents’ farm.
When Gary Vaillancourt gave his wife, Judi, a gift of three antique chocolate molds in 1984, neither of them knew it would signal the start of a new family business. In the years since, Judi's collection has grown to about 10,000 vintage molds — one of the largest collections in the world. She uses her molds to make hand-painted collectible chalkware figures for all major holidays — especially Christmas.
The Museum of International Folk Art in New Mexico has an extensive exhibit of the Folk Art collection of Girard Wing. Alexander Girard first began collecting folk art in the 1930's, buying a few pieces in New York, starting with a spatter-painted Mexican bank in the shape of a horse. Later, on a postponed honeymoon, Alexander and Susan Girard traveled to Mexico and returned with a carload of things for their home, the beginnings of what was to become the largest collection of cross-cultural folk art in the world.
First presented in St. Louis in 1934, the National Folk Festival is the oldest, longest-running and most diverse festival of traditional arts in the nation. Championed in its early years by Eleanor Roosevelt, it was the first event of national stature to put the arts of many nations, races and languages into the same event on an equal footing.
More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death. It was a ritual the indigenous people had been practicing at least 3,000 years. A ritual the Spaniards would try unsuccessfully to eradicate. A ritual known today as Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.
JUNE 26th, 27th, 28th
Saturday, Sept. 12th and Sunday, Sept. 13th, 2009
Friday October 2 through Sunday October 4, 2009
Where? Laguna Beach CA
You may know Althea Crome's work from her Contribution to the "CORALINE FILM"! Here is what the artist has to say:
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is…
Opening of “Inside/Outside” at San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Folk Art will feature the "Shine Shack" by artist Mike Shine. The Museum of Craft and Folk Art announces Inside/Outside: A look at outsider artist environments. Front and center in the exhibit is the “Shine Shack”, a near exact replica of the funky retro coastal cabin artist Mike Shine shares as a studio/second home with his wife and their three sons - all artists.
Restaurant-owner and folk artist Martin Sanchez has created an urban oasis, a garden of Eden, hidden behind shrubs, trees and a wrought-iron fence inside Martin’s Tio’s Tacos restaurant on Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside, California.
BRADFORD, Pa. – The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will host the Sixth Annual Heart of the Alleghenies Folk Music Festival from August 7-9, 2009.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
April 1, 2, 3 & 4, 2009
Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Gallery in Sanford Florida is a wonderful place to find Folk Art from Southern Artists. Since 1996, Jeanine Taylor has specialized in contemporary folk art from Florida and the Deep South. Her spacious gallery in Sanford Florida (just 25 minutes northeast of Orlando) is home to the art of 20-30 self-taught artists, as well as 8 working artist studios. She insists on celebrating the artist as well as the art by hosting a full schedule of shows, events, and educational programs.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, (October 26, 1874 – April 5, 1948), was a prominent socialite and philanthropist and the second-generation matriarch of the renowned Rockefeller family. Referred to as the "woman in the family", she was especially noteworthy for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street in New York, in November, 1929.
In addition to nationally known headline acts each evening, the Tucson Folk Festival showcases local and regional musicians from Arizona and the Southwest. The Festival offers workshops, a gospel sing-along, a children's show, and features a wide array of food and craft booths as well.
Regina Spektor born February 18, 1980, is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village. Spektor was born in Moscow, USSR (now Russia), to a musical Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Russian college of music, and now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.
PROVO -- Charlie Willeto was the first of the Navajos to break with tradition and create images of people for sale. Using wood he found in the desert as he herded sheep, including fence posts and old boards, the Navajo shaman or medicine man created a new kind of folk art.
Exhibition: January 17- March 7, 2009
Over the past fifteen years, Folk Fest has become the largest and most important event in the history of Folk Art. Prestigious galleries and dealers from all over The United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe, specializing in self-taught art, Outsider Art, Southern Folk Pottery and and now with a special emphasis on Antique Folk Art and Anonymous Works fill the cavernous 85,000 square foot facility at the North Atlanta Trade Center. Annual attendance consistently soars past 12,000. Visitors pour in from all over the country to see what is hot in the world of folk art. Folk Fest is the place where museums, prominent galleries, important publications, and serious collectors make their new discoveries. The importance and popularity of Folk Fest has made Atlanta the undisputed, Hub of Folk Art.
Russian folk art expresses the artistic impulses of peasants and artisans to decorate their homes and objects of daily use. It reflects both timeless traditions and changing conditions in the Russian countryside, shows peasants' responses to nature and their deep spiritual connection with natural forces.
The Museum of Craft and Folk Art provides innovative exhibitions and educational programs that are designed to connect with and inspire diverse communities. As the only folk art museum in Northern California, the museum is known for a rich offering of focused and unique exhibitions of traditional and contemporary folk art and craft from around the world — demonstrating how folk art, contemporary craft, and fine art are all part of the same continuum.
The 12th annual Catawba Valley Pottery and Antiques Festival will be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at the Hickory Metro Convention Center, I-40, Exit 125 in Hickory, NC from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Tickets are $6.00 for adults and $2.00 for children 12 and under and are available at the door. Ticket holders will be entered in a drawing for door prizes.
36th Annual Mercer Museum Folk Fest (Rain or Shine)
Let’s face it. Soot-and-spit drawings aren’t common, even in today’s anything-goes art scene. Nor are layered constructions made with tarpaper and twine. Yet both types of work are common in the oeuvre of James Castle (1899-1977), the famously deaf artist from Boise, Idaho, and both are avidly collected. James Castle started drawing when he was six or seven years old. He developed his spit-and-soot method early, too, using the soot from a wood-burning stove on his parents’ farm.
Come Celebrate the Work of our Hands! Join us this summer for the third annual Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Fair and SEIZE THE DAY!
When Gary Vaillancourt gave his wife, Judi, a gift of three antique chocolate molds in 1984, neither of them knew it would signal the start of a new family business. In the years since, Judi's collection has grown to about 10,000 vintage molds — one of the largest collections in the world. She uses her molds to make hand-painted collectible chalkware figures for all major holidays — especially Christmas.
The Museum of International Folk Art in New Mexico has an extensive exhibit of the Folk Art collection of Girard Wing. Alexander Girard first began collecting folk art in the 1930's, buying a few pieces in New York, starting with a spatter-painted Mexican bank in the shape of a horse. Later, on a postponed honeymoon, Alexander and Susan Girard traveled to Mexico and returned with a carload of things for their home, the beginnings of what was to become the largest collection of cross-cultural folk art in the world.
First presented in St. Louis in 1934, the National Folk Festival is the oldest, longest-running and most diverse festival of traditional arts in the nation. Championed in its early years by Eleanor Roosevelt, it was the first event of national stature to put the arts of many nations, races and languages into the same event on an equal footing.
More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death. It was a ritual the indigenous people had been practicing at least 3,000 years. A ritual the Spaniards would try unsuccessfully to eradicate. A ritual known today as Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.
Folk Art for the Fun of It