DÍa de Los Muertos '23

All photographs were shot by Rosa. If you are the creator/artist/organization of any of the following altars and would like to add your name beneath a photo, feel free to send me an email at poetarosasysuenos@gmail.com. In your email, please state the row and photo number (ex. "Row 1, photo 3"), your name / artist name, and (optional) an artist link you would like to add (portfolio, other artwork, etc.).

This collection of Día de Los Muertos photographs was created to document UC Berkeley's Annual Altar Exhibition put together by lecturer and interdisciplinary artist Jesús Barraza. I first encountered Barraza and his teachings as an undergraduate student. Through his course, "Spirituality as Resistance," I was introduced to Chicana/o artistic practices developed in the 1970s that center community, cultural memory, and the continuation of meXicana traditions in diaspora. To document these altars is also to document the labor of remembering, the acts of gathering, arranging, preserving, and returning that allow cultural memory to remain present across generations and geographic distance.

All photographs were shot by Rosa Garcia-Lemus. If you are the creator/artist/organization of any of the following altars and would like to add your name beneath a photo, feel free to send me an email at poetarosasysuenos@gmail.com. In your email, please state the row and photo number (ex. "Row 1, photo 3"), your name / artist name, and (optional) an artist link (portfolio, other artwork, etc.).