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The Dia de los Muertos Celebration held at the Northfield Armory was a big success. The turnout was estimated at “over 350” by Douglas Padilla and “maybe 500” by Theresa Whitesong. Factoids: over 200 meals were provided by a group from the St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, and they were gone in less about 1 hour. We went through about 240 cans of pop plus gallons of hot chocolate and coffee. Here is a photoset of the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n At one point the fire alarm went off on a false alarm which locked out the natural gas supply to the stove in the kitchen, so the group had to contend with heating the tortillas on an electric hotplate. Someone ran home to get an additional electric hotplate which turned out to be a Norwegian lefse hotplate. True story!<\/p>\n The important thing is that everyone had a great time and many people were happy and excited. Oliva, daughter of Dan Riggens and Catherine Dominguez, asked her parents at one point “if this is what it is like in Mexico?” and also Father Dempsey told about some nice<\/a> conversations he had about the traditional observance of Dia de los Muertos in Vera Cruz. <\/p>\n People danced, talked and socialized.<\/p>\n The long print provided a nice<\/a> backdrop to the event and ringed the “drill floor” or basketball court in the Armory on two sides. The print then traveled to St. Dominic’s Catholic Church and was on display <\/a>in the O’Gara Social Hall outside the sanctuary for the bilingual mass on Nov. 2. The print then went to Buntrock Commons at St. Olaf College and was displayed there<\/a> for two days. The long print is considered number 1 of 5 in our edition, and entire print set is documented here <\/a>in some detail.<\/p>\n ArtOrg would like to thank the many, many people who helped make these events a reality:<\/p>\n Sawdust art and organization: Faustino, Marco, Ivan, and others And of course a big special thanks to Kari Alberg, Marco Flores, Xavier Tavera and Douglas Padilla, and the general openness of everyone without which this could never have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dia de los Muertos Celebration held at the Northfield […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyxFx-3J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artorg.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOfrenda: Tina O’Brien and Xavier Tavera
\nTranslations: Linda Burwell, Lori Rosmiller
\nLighting, construction: Alvin Ho, Myrl Dahl
\nArmory event personnel: Erica Hoffmann and Alan Winsor
\nFood and drink: The group from St. Dominic’s and Goodbye Blue Monday.
\nCollege publicity: Erica, Monica, Margerita and Nicolina of LASO, Bill Green, Lynn Stenstrom
\nLocal supporters: Marg Evans-de-Carpio, Amy Garza Colin, Jim Blaha, Theresa Whitesong, Father Denny Dempsey
\nVideo and photography: Paul Krause, Greg Mattern, Bob Anderson, Dan Iverson of the Northfield News, Vance Gellert, Luigi Sison, Tina O’Brien, Paul Hager
\nSteamroller helpers: Joyce Francis, Alvin Ho, Keeny Swearer, Abby Vaughn, Suzy, Mike, Wendy Smith, David Drentlaw, Marybeth and Meredith Fredrick, Chris Schommer, Ron Wolfe, Jonathan, Natasha Pestich, and Fred Hagstrom (who suggested we go with the big steamroller)
\n100-foot-print helpers: about 100 individuals, too numerous to list, thank you!
\nMusic: Los Jefes, Jose Curbelo,
\nSpecial gallery art thanks: Dawn Zero Erickson, Luis Fitch, Douglas Padilla, and Claudia Baca.
\nSponsors (special recognition): Helen Preddy, Jim Egbert, Bill Laurie Tim and Carol Cowles.
\nSponsors: First National Bank of Northfield, Community Resource Bank, The Anderson Center in Red Wing, The Art Store, Circa, Chapati, The Contented Cow, Will Healy
\nThanks to: Taylor Trucking, Greg Langer at Northfield Tractor and Equipment, Mark Graue of Lamperts, Goodbye Blue Monday, Peter Diggens and Gordon O.
\nThe ArtOrg Board of Directors: James Schlichting, Board President, Mark Fries, Secretary
\nRobert Anderson, Scott King, Kory Kohrs, Sharon Lessard, Greg Mattern, Catherine McBride, Cora Scholz, Elizabeth See, Rick Swearer, Anne Vogelwede
\nSpecial thanks to Mark, Mim, Tracy at Mueller-Dahl Remodeling for the use of their facilities and parking lot!
\nThanks to the artists of the big print: Claudia \u201cBilly\u201d Baca, Kendall Bohn, Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas, Anselmo Cornejo, Betto Lim\u00f3n, Gustavo Lira, Steven \u201cNuno\u201d Nu\u00f1ez, Maria Christina O\u2019Brien, Douglas Padilla, Juan Jose Palacios, Christina Perez, Richard Swearer, and Xavier Tavera.<\/p>\n