Mexico’s Day of the Dead and its imagery ... to make elaborate decorative art on the ground around the ofrenda, such as crosses or skulls. Illuminate the altar with candles (preferably white ...

Papel picado isn’t used exclusively during Day of the Dead, but it plays an important role in the holiday. Draped around altars and in the streets, the art represents the wind and the fragility ...

The famous Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, also known as the Day of the Dead, is a celebration ... now they're creating altars that are closer to contemporary art installations," Sandoval ...

There's an art to altar building ... when he was 10 , vaguely remembers his family there celebrating Day of the Dead. They built altars around a large statue of the Virgin Mary, surrounded ...

If you intend to create your own vibrant home altar or ofrenda to remember departed loved ones for Day of the Dead, you’ll need ... are not real skulls but works of art, made from a variety ...

An ofrenda, or offering, at a Day of the Dead event ... we do art and talk about subjects relating to art. This year, to prepare for Día de los Muertos, our group made our own altars.

And, if you're in London, there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate Day of the Dead ... etching by Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada. Prior to the festival, people create altars to ...

Celebrations vary by region, but they have much in common: altars with offerings ... Some people see the Day of the Dead as simply a Mexican cultural art form and a family-friendly celebration ...