About this Event
Description:
Assemble is excited to present Sugar Skull Decorating, as led by Zena Ruiz!
Sugar skulls are used as an offering and welcoming practice in Mexico as part of Dia de los Muertos celebration, a time when our loved ones who have passed return to the land of the living. We will decorate sugar skulls in their honor, to be placed at your ofrenda, or home altar. Please join us for a night of rememberance, art, and love!
21+ Nights include instruction, materials, snacks, and drinks! Free tickets are available for Garfield residents, with a selected number of scholarship tickets also available to anyone for whom full-price tickets are prohibitive!
Ticket prices cover the cost of staff time, materials, and food & beverages. Any amount made beyond these expenses goes towards supporting Assemble’s free STEAM programs, such as afterschool and summer camps!
About Zena:
Zena Ruiz (she/they) is a nurturer living in North Braddock with family roots in Tampico, Tamaulipas. Mx. Zena’s craft is BEING with people as an artist and program designer facilitating curiosity and healing in natural environments, artistic expression, and cultural lineage explorations. Zena’s works vibrantly weave their Tejane cultural experience with the current community and happenings in the Monongahela Valley and Pittsburgh.
Zena offers gifts as a Teaching Artist; Community Activist; Community Facilitator, Pollinator and Advocate for Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka and the Homewood-Brushton YMCA. They're a Council Person for North Braddock Borough, a member of the Greater Valley Coalition Against Violence, #notwhite collective, and Beautiful Constellations.
About Assemble:
Located at 4824 Penn Avenue in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh’s east end, Assemble is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization with the mission to unite artists, technologists, and makers with our neighbors of all demographics and provide a platform for experiential learning, opening creative processes, and building confidence through making.
Founded in 2011, Assemble envisions a diverse community that creates, connects, and learns through the experience of art and technology.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Assemble, 4824 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 40.00
