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Dia de los Muertos Open House

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On Monday, October 15, Educational Materials Center and the Fine and Performing Arts department held an Open House to celebrate El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Some of the highlights are show below.

Mariachi Rayo del Sol, in full regalia, led by Ruben Loya, performing at the Open House.

Day of the Dead Altar Display Area Most of the altars were in the Library Review Area which was decorated with the books available for review, of course, and prints, exhibits, exhibits, textiles, and other material available from Educational Materials Center for checkout to teachers. The area was also strung with papel picado banners.	Education Materials Center and Fine and Performing Arts Altar. The altar is decorated with flowers, sugar skulls, candles and memorial pictures. Cards were provided to allow visitors to write the names of those they wanted to remember.

Close up of the EMC and Fine and Performing Arts altar, a homage to art and artists.	Decorated sugar skull on the altar. The skulls are made of sugar and egg whites pressed into molds. They are then decorated with colored frosting and, in this case, M&M's.

Bonds and Engineering Altar The altar is decorated with paper flowers, papel picado, skeletons,candles, pumpkins, and pictures of Arizona service men and women killed in Iraq.	Closeup of the Bonds and Engineering Altar. This altar was very moving and exemplifies the spirit of El Dia de los Muertos.

Science Resource Center Altar The altar is decorated with paper flowers, skeletons and a candelabra.	American Heritage Grant Altar This altar is decorated with flowers, candles, fruit, sugar skulls, and a string of chili lights. The backdrop of the altar is EMC's reproduction of the Ricardo Ruiz painting, El Corrido de Mocho Eugenio / The songs my father taught me are the songs I teach my son.

Planning Altar This whimsical altar is decorated with paper flowers and paper ghosts with a tombstone as the backdrop.	Career and Technical Education Altar The altar is decorated with paper flowers, papel picado, colorful fabrics, candles, photographs, and memorablia of the departed.

Library Technical Services Altar The altar is decorated with flowers, colorful fabrics and candles, a skeleton and grinning skulls, a plate of food with napkins ready, a memorial art quilt, and whimsical skeleton butterflies. This picture show some of the papel picado strung across the exhibit area.	This closeup shows the skeleton butterflies and the memorial quilt.

A close up of a skeleton butterfly. The skeleton is articulated and can be posed. The skeleton butterflies hang by threads in front of the flowers.	The art quilt commemorates those who have died too young in vehicle accidents. The quilt is decorated with photographs, images of cars, skulls and skeletons, and flowers. The quilt is hung from a rod using plastic skull rings in neon colors sold for Halloween.