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Mexican Folk Art Opening Day Celebration

October 29, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 2:30 pm

Free performance Saturday, October 29 featuring Wickenburg’s own Danza Azteca (pictured). Come help us celebrate the opening of “Mexican Folk Art”.

11 to 11:15
Welcome and opening remarks, Museum front porch (21 N Frontier St), Executive Director, Dan Finley

11:15 to 11:45
Danza Azteca of Wickenburg, on Frontier Street in front of the museum. **Free to the public. 

11:45
Flacas (giant puppets) to lead people to the exhibition in the Learning Center.

12 to 12:45 p.m.
Zarco Guerrero Dia de los Muertos Storytelling in the Cultural Crossroads Learning Center.

1 p.m.
Artists Felipe Horta and Ma Elía Saucedo will demonstrate mask-making and will show their beautiful embroidery.


The exhibition was curated by Guest Curator Janet Cantley and DCWM Adjunct Curator of History Eduardo Pagán, Ph.D. Special thanks to our advisors: Julia Macias Brooks, Executive Director, Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce (ret’d) and María del Rocio Rodríguez, Consul for Cultural, Community and Academic Affairs, Consulate General of Mexico in Phoenix.

Thanks to our sponsors:

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Date:
October 29, 2022
Time:
11:00 am - 2:30 pm
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