Mexican Folk Art Festival: Papel Picado Demo, Latin Jazz & Baile Folklórico | USF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The University of San Francisco will be hosting the Community Folk Art Festival for the Family as part of USF and The Mexican Museum’s exhibit, Dobles Vidas: Folk Art from The Mexican Museum.

The free festival will celebrate live music, dance, hands-on arts demonstrations, and bilingual tours. Dobles Vidas is a showcase of more than 60 works exploring the stories an object can communicate about those who create, use, and collect them. The exhibit holds works from a number of Mexico’s internationally-recognized artists and collectors. The exhibition is the second collaboration between The Mexican Museum and the University of San Francisco’s Thacher Gallery and Masters in Museum Studies Program.

Festival Activities:

Thacher Gallery

• 12:30-2:30 pm: Exhibition: “Dobles Vidas: Folk Art from The Mexican Museum”
• 12:30-2:30 pm: Papel Picado (cut paper) Demonstration by Bay Area author/artist Carmen Lomas Garza
• 12:30-2:30 pm: Face Painting
• 1-1:30 pm: Docent led tour of “Dobles Vidas: Folk Art from The Mexican Museum” (English)
• 2-2:30 pm: Docent led tour of “Dobles Vidas: Folk Art from The Mexican Museum” (Spanish)

Gleeson Plaza

• 12:30-1 pm: Baile Folklórico de San Pancho Performance and Lesson
• 1-1:30 pm: Latin Jazz
• 1:30-2 pm: KUSF DJ David Mendez-Alvarez spinning “Música de México”
• 2–2:30 pm: Conjunto Folklórico (USF’s Latin American folk music group)

Kalmanovitz Hall Sculpture Terrace

• 1-1:30 pm: Docent led tour of “Escultura: Selections from The Mexican Museum’s Permanent Collection” (Spanish)
• 2-2:30 pm: Docent led tour of “Escultura: Selections from The Mexican Museum’s Permanent Collection” (English)

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