{"id":11884,"date":"2025-10-09T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:16:23","slug":"dia-de-los-muertos-ofrenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/exhibitions\/past\/dia-de-los-muertos-ofrenda\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00eda de los Muertos Ofrenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Picture8-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11885\" style=\"width:560px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Picture8-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Picture8-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Picture8-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Picture8.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>October 20 \u2013 November 6<br>Gallery Talk: November 5, 12:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help us celebrate the 10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of our Day of the Dead installation!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, Dr. Beverly Joyce, art historian and director of The W Galleries, invited Ms. Erinn Holloway, instructor of Spanish and coordinator of study abroad programs, and Dr. Jo Shumake, formerly of the US Department of State and stationed in Mexico, to pool resources for an installation honoring this important Mexican holiday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, the <em>ofrenda<\/em>, or altar, collaboration has become a much-anticipated and colorful display for The W Galleries. A gallery talk about the history, art, and purpose of <em>D<\/em><em>\u00eda de los Muertos ofrendas <\/em>will be given by students in Ms. Holloway\u2019s upper-level Spanish class.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 20 \u2013 November 6,<br \/>\nGallery Talk: November 5, 12:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-2026-exhibitions","category-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11906,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions\/11906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}