Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an ancient tradition rooted in Mexico, celebrating life and honoring those who
have passed on. Our particular celebration draws its influences from Jose Guadalupe Posada’s early 1900’s portrayal of
personalities and professions as skeletons or Calaveras. Posada depicted rich and poor alike as skeletons in ordinary and
sometimes outrageous but tragic life settings. Printed sheets would circulate during Día De Los Muertos festivities where
he would seize the opportunity for political satire and comedy. The Posada Calavera always seemed to be laughing,
frolicking and up to some kind of mischief. We want the public to laugh and perhaps cry but never abhor, they must never
be made to feel that they just walked away from seeing something gory, ghoulish, foul or traumatizing.