GoFundMe Support for Grave Dancing!

https://gofund.me/f34934fc PLEASE HELP SUPPORT OUR PLAY! Read all about it in the link!

Grave Dancing Play Coming to Mexico in Fall 2026?

https://www.insidersnews.net/post/a-new-play-starring-jos%C3%A9-guadalupe-posada-and-the-calavera-catrina-coming-to-san-miguel-de-allende We had hope to bring the paly to San Miguel de Allende in 2025 but finding actors, a producer and director has been a challenge. Stay in touch as we are hoping for the Fall of 2026!

New Play: Staged Reading of Catrina and Posada from Nov 2023 Now on Vimeo to Preview

Synopsis José Guadalupe Posada sits alone in his simple Mexico City apartment drinking tequila as he has done for years at the end of each calendar year. He is despondent, having a bit of an existential crises, questioning the worth of his life’s work, when he is suddenly visited by a mysterious yet familiar messenger. It is his creation known now as la Catrina. Has she come to comfort him? Or perhaps this calavera has a bone to pick with him on some hot issues? Real or dream, a debate ensues to a final dance in the grave. It's a work in progress but you can watch what we have so far! Copy and paste the link below into your browser. https://vimeo.com/1011675448?share=copy

Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX to Exhibit José Guadalupe Posada- Legendary Printmaker of Mexico

Exhibition Dates: October 21, 2023 - January 7, 2024

 https://arlingtonmuseum.org/posada-legendary-printmaker-of-mexico

This is the first showing of the full new exhibition which includes many cultural and historical elements contained in the imagery created by Posada as exhibited over the last five years in the traveling exhibition José Guadalupe Posada- Legendary Printmaker of Mexico but expands on a variety of themes based upon suggestions and inquiries from curators and attendees alike. See illustrations by Posada recording the attitudes of his time exposing racism, LBGTQ rights and social injustice, plus selected works by contemporary artists influemce by Posada.

"José Guadalupe Posada: Legendary Printmaker of Mexico" Opens at the Museum of Art Las Cruces New Mexico

Dancing skeletons

Join us at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, 491 N. Main St., for a new exhibition, “José Guadalupe Posada: Legendary Printmaker of Mexico,” featuring more than 60 pieces of the artist’s work as well as contemporaneous artwork that is influenced by Posada’s style. The exhibit will be on view from Nov. 4, 2022, through Jan. 21, 2023.

JUN 11, 2022 - SEP 18, 2022 José Guadalupe Posada at the Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY

Posada's art will be on display in New York State https://www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/jose-guadalupe-posada/ https://www.hydecollection.org/event/presentation-jose-guadalupe-posada-legendary-printmaker-of-mexico/

California Center for the Arts Posada Exhibition to Run September 18, 2021 to November 21, 2021

This exhibition continues the National Tour of: José Guadalupe Posada: Legendary Printmaker of Mexico September 18 - November 21, 2021 The exhibition is represented by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, and created by the Catalina Island Museum, and the Posada Art Foundation. For information contact: https://artcenter.org/museum/future-exhibitions/

JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA: At Albuquerque Museum December 19, 2020 through May 23, 2021

Exhibition Dates: December 19, 2020–May 23, 2021

The exhibition recognizes Posada’s cultural contributions, which reflect the spirit of Mexican identity in his time and ours and imparts a universal perspective extending well beyond the borders of his native Mexico. 

Posada’s art lampooned politicians, recorded vivid images of the Mexican Revolution, inspired Mexico's famed Taller Grafica Popular to use art for social causes, helped the Cuban Revolution succeed, adorned adorned concert tickets for the Grateful Dead and today leaps to life annually as the skeletal images seen during Day of the Dead, so popular now there is even a Disney and Pixar film, Coco, that celebrates the holiday. Yet Posada’s influence is rarely associated with his name, his true story virtually unknown.

Decades after his death, art historians and artists continue to explore and discover Posada’s cultural contributions, reflecting not only the spirit of Mexican identity in his time and ours but imparting a universal perspective extending well beyond the borders of his native Mexico.

The exhibition was organized by the Catalina Island Museum www.catalinamuseum.org, in association with the Posada Art Foundation, www.posada-art-foundation.com, and Landau Traveling Exhibitions, ww.a-r-t.com/posada/

WTTW News on Skeletons of 'Legendary Printmaker' Posada

https://news.wttw.com/2019/07/30/exhibit-digs-satire-and-skeletons-legendary-printmaker-posada

The First Exhibition of Our Joint Venture with Landau Traveing Exhitions and the Catalina Island Museum

José Guadalupe Posada
Legendary Printmaker of Mexico 

June 17 - September 13, 2019
Public Reception: Thursday June 20th, 6 - 7 p.m.

All material on loan courtesy of the Posada-att-foundation.com

For information:
http://www.clevecarneygallery.org/posada

Short Intro Video of Santa Catalina Island Museum Exhibition

https://youtu.be/8f7WJyyY62k  youtube link to watch video!

 

Jose Guadalupe Posada: Legendary Printmaker of Mexico Exhibition

Catalina Island Museum exhibition open from Dec. 23, 2017 to April 8, 2018.

Mexican Art comes to Catalina Island for the first time in this exhibition celebrating Mexico’s most prolific artist. José Guadalupe Posada’s images captured all aspects of daily life in Mexico City from 1889-1913, directly influenced artist like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, shaped the Mexican identity and continue to inform contemporary image making today. A wide representation of Posada’s work, including his famous Day of the Dead calaveras and the artist’s original printing plates, make up this first-of-its-kind exhibition. 

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The exhibition will feature text in English and Spanish.

Jose Guadalupe Posada Makes the Top 7 List at the MALBA in Argentina

José Guadalupe Posada. “La calavera catrina”, ca. 1912. Zincografía. 23 x 31 cm

 

4. José Guadalupe Posada, La calavera catrina (1912)

Convertida años después en símbolo oficial de la celebración del Día de los Muertos -tradición azteca que se remonta a la época prehispánica-, La calavera catrina es una zincografía (impresión que reemplaza la piedra litográfica por la plancha de zinc) pintada por el artista José Guadalupe Posada en 1912. Una calavera con un distinguido sombrero de plumas es la imagen elegida para criticar de manera metafórica a la aristocracia mexicana, a las clases privilegiadas, antes de la revolución. "Catrina es algo así como un dandy, un snob, una figura típica de la modernidad, que quiere simular ser algo que no es", explica Victoria Giraudo. La metáfora de la muerte implica que "así como estás, te vas, no importa si seas rico o pobre", agrega la curadora mexicana Ariadna Patiño Guadarrama. Años después la imagen será tomada a modo de homenaje por Diego Rivera, como tema central de uno de sus murales más destacados, Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central. Finalmente, la catrina se incorpora al imaginario colectivo mexicano como una de las representaciones centrales del Día de los Muertos, cada 2 de noviembre, un festejo para recordar a los seres queridos que ya no están, con ofrendas, flores, velas y mucho color. FROM:https://www.infobae.com/america/cultura-america/2017/11/11/7-obras-imperdibles-de-la-gran-muestra-de-arte-mexicano-del-siglo-xx-que-se-exhibe-en-el-malba/

Las Cruces International Film Festival to Screen ART and Revolutions

Searching for Posada: ART and Revolutions® is scheduled to screen March 9, 2017 at 3:30 pm at Allen Theaters Cineport 10. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.lciffest.com/tickets. The screening represents the premiere of the documentary in the State of New Mexico.

Nov. 20, 2015 7pm Screening at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco

Film Screening, Lecture and Exhibition; Meet the Director! December 5th Stanford University, Palo Alto CA

Please join us at the Bishop Auditorium, Level 1 of the Lathrop Library on the Stanford Campus (See Map Below). December 5, 2014  5:30 PM to 8:00PM

Film Director Victor H. Mancilla will talk about the making of the film joined by co-writer and Executive Producer Jim Nikas. Original works by Posada will be available for viewing. Hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Stanford Film Society. Contact: CLAS at 650-725-0502 for questions.

 

San Francisco Art Institute Screening or ART and Revolutions

Standing next to a 1924 print showing Posada's famed calavera Catrina, Mexican Consul General in San Francisco, Dr. Andres Roemer, opened the Sept. 17 screening of Searching for Posada: ART and Revolutions. Over one hundred attendees consisting of artists, students, professors and the general public watched the documentary. The ensuing Question and Answer session with director Victor Mancilla and producer Jim Nikas lasted longer than the film itself. Mission accomplished!

ART and Revolutions Final Cut Complete!

After nearly three years ART and Revolutions now has a Final Cut and within the next ten days (by May 18) it will be finished. Director Victor Mancilla will be overseeing just a few small edits of subtitles and credits in the studio. We will be submitting to selected film festivals and hope to show the film at various venues in the USA and Mexico (to start!). The Final Cut is 40 minutes and 28 seconds in length. Viva Posada!

El Centenario Posada Lecture at Arteamericas Fresno, CA

Lecture on Posada and an update on the documentary at ArteAmericas 1630 Van Ness, Fresno, CA. There is a current exhibition showing Posada's work and complimentary commemorative exhibition celebrating Posada's work with artwork from 32 artists from the Instituto Grafica of Chicago.

Frida Kahlo and José Guadalupe Posada

Posada's art has influenced many artists over the years. One was Frida Kahlo. The images shown here in this blog posting show striking similarities. Here is a partial quote from an interview of Frida conducted back in 1933.

"I had gone up to the Barbizon-Plaza hotel to interview Frida Kahlo, who was the wife of Diego Rivera, and a great painter herself, a sort of demonic surrealist. That was when Rivera was doing those Rockefeller Center murals. Thumb-tacked all along the walls of the hotel suite were some very odd engravings printed on the cheapest kind of newsprint. "Jose Guadalupe Posada," Kahlo said, almost reverentially. "Mexican. 1852-1913." She told me that she had put the pictures up herself so she could glance at them now and then and keep her sanity while living in New York City. Some were broadsides. "They show sensational happenings that took place in Mexico City--in streets and in markets and in churches and in bedrooms," Kahlo said, "and they were sold on the streets by peddlers for pennies." --from the book Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell (1992).

Perhaps some of the images by Posada of disasters and the demonic elements present in many of the sensational broadsides made an impression on Frida. If she was not already familiar with Posada's images, being married to Diego Rivera may have helped as he had just a few years earlier in 1930 authored the Foreword about Posada in the Monografia Posada published by Francis Toor.