Traditions

Traditions / Tradiciones

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La Fiesta de San Juan - June 24 - a summer celebration.

La Fiesta de San Juan 2014

Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead

Tango at El Tiradito 2019

My playful interpretation. Read more HERE.

The Fiesta Grande Street Fair

Note: I was honored to be able to provide the promotional art and graphics for the Fiesta Grande committee, and I donated all my posters and digital files to them for future use.

Fiesta Grande Poster 2014

Fiesta Grande T-shirt Design 2015
(printed on multiple colors)

Fiesta Grande Street Fair Poster

** La Corua was a water serpent that lived in springs of water and protected them. It had a cross on its forehead and cleaned the veins of water with its teeth. According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corua, the spring would dry up.
Source: Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta - James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992. **
Serpents are sacred to most indigenous cultures throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

Traditions / Tradiciones

La Fiesta de San Juan - June 24 - a summer celebration.

Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead

The Fiesta Grande Street Fair

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