The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden will present Autumn at the Arboretum: Mundo México.This year's festival transforms more than 110,000 pumpkins, gourds, and squash into an unprecedented celebration of Mexican living culture, contemporary art, and cross-border biodiversity,.
At the heart of ¡Mundo México! are eight monumental sculptures from Spirit Guides: Fantastical Creatures from the Workshop of Jacobo and María Ángeles. Based in San Martín Tilcajete, a Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexico, Jacobo Ángeles and María del Carmen Mendoza create vibrant hybrid animal figures that draw from Zapotec cosmology. Their work is rooted in the concepts of the tona and nahual - spiritual beings believed to guide individuals based on birth date and character.
The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden will present Autumn at the Arboretum: Mundo México.This year's festival transforms more than 110,000 pumpkins, gourds, and squash into an unprecedented celebration of Mexican living culture, contemporary art, and cross-border biodiversity,.
At the heart of ¡Mundo México! are eight monumental sculptures from Spirit Guides: Fantastical Creatures from the Workshop of Jacobo and María Ángeles. Based in San Martín Tilcajete, a Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexico, Jacobo Ángeles and María del Carmen Mendoza create vibrant hybrid animal figures that draw from Zapotec cosmology. Their work is rooted in the concepts of the tona and nahual - spiritual beings believed to guide individuals based on birth date and character.
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Included with garden admission.
