WORKSHOPS
Learn more about the workshops that visitors and volunteers can take part in.
Through workshops, volunteers and visitors can learn more about Mexican folk arts and connect that knowledge to the decorations seen on the ofrendas.
BLOCK PRINTING
Celebrate Día de Muertos by creating a linoleum print with your own original drawing. Learn how to use specialized tools to carve your artwork into linoleum, and once your piece is finished, you’ll ink it and run it through a press. Visitors who join this activity will learn the printmaking technique, with the option to turn their design into a pin-back button.
SUGAR SKULLS
No Day of the Dead altar is complete without sugar skulls. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to decorate sugar skulls and explore your creativity as you help guide others in decorating theirs. Join us and help keep the work tables stocked with all the necessary materials, maintain a steady workflow, and ensure a safe and welcoming environment. Encourage participants to decorate just one skull per person—if they’d like to make more, they’re welcome to come back at another time.
MASKS
In this interactive and educational activity, participants will have fun and let their imaginations run wild while learning fun facts about working with paper. They’ll also learn to share and collaborate in groups, develop fine motor skills, and feel proud and satisfied with what they create.
FACE PAINTING
La Catrina is an illustration by Mexican engraver and cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913), depicting a skeleton adorned with a European-style feathered hat. Later, the muralist Diego Rivera renamed her “La Catrina” in his famous mural Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central, where he placed the skeleton alongside other important figures from Mexican history, recognizing La Catrina’s significance as a symbol of the contradictions within 19th-century Mexican society. Join this activity to learn the technique for painting faces like La Catrina and discover more about this fascinating story.
