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Lexa Walsh celebrates Dias de los Muertos with Oakland Museum of California

Alumna Lexa Walsh has been working with OMCA to dig through twenty years of archives and photos to create an installation celebrating their twenty year anniversary of Dias de los Muertos at the Museum. Walsh wanted to share not only the colorful history of offrendas and rituals and the heartfelt community input, but also and the piles of mundane paperwork, planning and hard work that went into each year’s celebration. She interviewed longtime stakeholders and shares selections of the archives, juxtaposed into a diorama-meets- offrenda. The show opens October 10th and runs through early January 2015.

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