Traditions

Traditions / Tradiciones

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

La Fiesta de San Juan 2014

Read my full interpretation HERE.

Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead

Tango at El Tiradito 2019

My playful interpretation. Read more HERE.

The Fiesta Grande Street Fair

I was honored to be able to provide the promotional art and graphics for the Fiesta Grande committee for a couple of years before this proud tradition was put on hiatus. I so look forward to its return one day! It was the best Chicano street fair in the Southwest, IMHO -- they had it goin' on. I donated all my posters and digital files to them for future use. Andale!

Fiesta Grande Poster 2014

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

Fiesta Grande Street Fair Poster

* La Corua was a large 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. Vanishing water sources and economic pressures in Mexico have pushed the folktale of La Corua to the dustbin of history on both sides of the border.

Serpents have long been sacred to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

* Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta - James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992

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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