Dia de Los Muertos: Honoring our Ancestors Through Printmaking Workshop

Printmaking Workshop The Salem Art Association is excited to host Dia de Los Muertos: Honoring our Ancestors Through Printmaking Workshop with instructor & artist, Yanely Rivas. • Theme: Dia de Los Muertos: Honoring our Ancestors Through Printmaking • Audience: Youth & Young Adults • Description: In honor of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), we'll be hosting a block print workshop and create small art pieces as ofrendas (offerings) for our loved ones who have transitioned into the spirit world. • Date and Time: Saturday, October 17 from 1:30-5:30 PM • Location: Bush Barn Art Center & Annex, 600 Mission St, SE, Salem, OR 97302 This workshop is free and supplies will be provided. Space is limited. Registration will close on Thursday, October 15. Questions? Please contact [email protected] About the Instructor/Artist: Yanely Rivas (she/ they) is a working-class printmaker, cultural worker, and educator with ancestral roots amongst the mountains of Michoacán, Mexico —lands traditionally steward by the P’urépecha. Her art practice has been sowed in community and has flourished in the versatile soil of social justice movements and solidarity efforts she’s been a part of over the last decade. Their art is an offering and prayer for a world where we are all beautifully free and interconnected —living in good relationship with the lands, waters, and beings that so graciously nourish our hearts. They create artwork to weave us across the continuum of past-present-future and to leave seeds of ancestral memory, resistance, joy, and hope along the path back to center —back to home. Yanely’s primary creative mediums are printmaking, digital illustration and social practice art. Over the last couple of years, she’s been deepening her art practice in traditional cultural arts including basket weaving, natural dyes, beadwork, and gourd art.