upcoming grant deadline:
05/15/2024
upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Ana Guissel Palma
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2015 Art and Change Grant – $2,400
- Neighborhood: West Kensington
- Change Partner: Dalia O’Gorman, Casa Monarca
- Discipline: Crafts and Textiles, Folk Arts
- Social Change / Intent: Cultural Preservation, Displacement / Migration / Immigration, LGBTQI Social Movements
Ana will lead a community of immigrants to preserve Day of the Dead- a Mexican cultural tradition- and resist its mainstream exploitation using paper-mache. Through eight workshops, participants will research ancient, inherited documents that explain the origins of this celebrated syncretism. Together, with Casa Monarca in South Philadelphia, they will design and produce a colorful procession with the pieces created at these workshops, culminating in an authentic Day of the Dead celebration.
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