Some people focused on creating designs with tissue paper, while others took advantage of the buttons and paper cut-outs to decorate any empty spaces in their altars.
I enjoyed seeing how everyone customized their altars using the given materials. Thanks to our facilitator from Self-Help Graphics, I quickly learned that we could have artistic freedom when decorating the shoebox, as long as we included certain decorative features, like a reference to all four elements (earth, wind, fire and air). At the beginning of the workshop, I didn’t know if there was an objectively “correct” way to make an altar. Alongside my friends, I made an altar from a recycled shoebox for my maternal and paternal grandfathers. So attending the Shoebox Altar Workshop was a great cultural experience for me. While I had heard of Día de los Muertos, I had never participated in any of the practices associated with it. From Kaylee Kayle (left) with other workshop attendees
SHOEBOX DIA DE LOS MUERTOS ALTAR HOW TO
In collaboration with Self Help Graphics, and sponsored by LMU’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, LMU’s Chicano Latino Student Services, the Latino Faculty Association, and the Latinx Staff Association, more than 25 in-person and virtual attendees had the opportunity to learn about the history of the holiday and how to make their own “shoebox altar.” We asked our student assistants Kaylee, Lia, and Vero to share with us their experience attending the workshop. Hannon Library hosted a workshop to celebrate Día de los Muertos.
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