Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
Herminia
Albarrán Romero, Día de los Muertos Artistic Mentor
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, received $7,500 for an artistic mentorship with Herminia Albarrán Romero, a traditional Mexican artist. Ms. Albarrán Romero will offer workshops about the art and traditions of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday observed on November 1st and 2nd that honors and celebrates loved ones who have passed away. Ms. Albarrán Romero will teach participants how to create a traditional altar. She will demonstrate papel picado (the art of Mexican cut paper), paper flower-making, and preparation of traditional altar foods such as Pan de Muertos (bread of the dead), mole (a Mexican sauce), and atole (a Mexican breakfast drink). Ms. Albarrán Romero and workshop participants will create altars for the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts exhibit in November 2005. She will also offer discussions and demonstrations to the public on Día de los Muertos and the art of papel picado as an educational component of the exhibit. The entire project including workshops, altar creations, exhibit, and discussion will be videotaped and made available to local libraries and schools.
Herminia Albarrán Romero, a former Master Artist in ACTA’s Apprenticeship Program, learned the arts associated with Día de los Muertos from family elders in her village of San Francisco de Asis in Tlatlaya, Mexico. In her work with Mission Culturales, a government sponsored rural education program, she had the opportunity to further her knowledge of traditional arts through her work with rural Mexican communities. Since moving to the Bay Area more than twenty years ago, she has demonstrated and taught the traditions of Día de los Muertos and Mexican paper arts at museums, galleries, libraries, and schools. In 2005, Albarrán Romero received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s highest honor bestowed to folk & traditional artists.
Contact Information
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 821-1155
info@missionculturalcenter.org
www.missionculturalcenter.org
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