October is a big month for altars - last night I attended El Centro del Pueblo's Dia de los Muertos festival, and next week is the
Hollywood Forever extravaganza with elaborate altars up to the sky - so I'll be posting in installments...
The altars in this post are from El Centro del Pueblo's celebration, a great event put on by Echo Park's El Centro del Pueblo community center and
Erik Garcetti and the L.A. City Council. There were 16 official altars built by community members, and additional altars and altar-inspired works in the evening's art showcase. Community and artist altars were freely available to interested participants and the festival itself was free and open to the public. Neighborhood restaurants donated food, proceeds of which will help purchase holiday gifts for local children.
Altar for the Artist: part of the art exhibition.
Patriotic:
Pet altar:
School-project-esque-altar honoring Alexander Graham Bell, Benjamin Franklin, César Chávez, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Selena (Quintanilla-Pérez):
