Day of the Dead Celebration at Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft!
In conjunction with the First Friday Trolley Hop, the Museum will host a Day of the Dead celebration Friday, November 2nd from 5-9pm that will include food, live music from Marlon Obando, music and dancing from Camino Flamenco, a sugar skull contest, fire dancers, face painting, puppets, art cars and a candle lit march. Guests are encouraged to attend wearing costumes and masks.
The Museum will also host a public altar in the third floor education center lobby. Members of the public are encouraged to bring items to build a community altar in honor of loved ones who have passed away. These altars typically contain pictures of those relatives who have passed, flowers, food, candy, etc.
The KMAC Gallery Shop will be featuring artwork for sale that is themed around the Day of the Dead holiday, including a selection of works by Geoff Carr and Danny Dutton. The Geoff Carr images are from his Day of Dead Series, and the complete show of those works will be on display at Carr + Waite Studios during the trolley hop. Danny Dutton’s pieces, inspired by the traditional tissue paper garlands made during the Day of the Dead celebration, are hand cut, framed skeleton paper cuts that he created using surgical scissors. He will also be featuring skeleton themed paintings.
About Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is a joyous holiday, originating in Mexico that blends native Aztec and Roman Catholic traditions and beliefs to celebrate and honor the lives of deceased friends and family members. In this tradition, death is not seen as the end, but rather a new stage of life. It is now celebrated with cultural variations in areas throughout Latin America and the United States.
