A World of Art Family Workshop at the Fowler Museum on Candle-Making
A World of Art Family Workshop: Candle-Making. Make a decorative candle as a holiday gift or for a home altar. Event is held in conjunction with the "Botanica Los Angeles: Latino Popular Religious Art in the City of Angels" Exhibition, Sept. 12, 2004 - February 27, 2005.
Saturday, December 11, 2004
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
UCLA campus
Westwood and Sunset
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Part spiritual center, part religious supply house, and part alternative healthcare facility, the botanica is fast becoming a key feature of LA's sacred, social, and visual landscape. Opening with an eye-catching recreation of a typical botanica, chock-full of sacred objects generally offered for sale, the exhibition continues with a series of elaborate altars dedicated to deities associated with Espiritismo, Afro-Cuban Santeria., Catholicism, and other traditions that showcase both the diversity and commonalities among botanicas in Southern California. Come explore these fascinating venues, the objects in them, and their role in transmitting, transforming, and critiquing traditional systems of belief.
For directions, maps, and parking information, please visit
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/?content=cm&cm=maps
Cost: Free for museum members; $5 materials fee for non-members. Reservations required: 310-825-8655.
Special Instructions
If you would like to visit the exhibits at the museum, it is open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Thursday until 8 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Admission to the museum is FREE; parking is available for $7 in lot 4. Museum tours: School and group tours in English and Spanish are free to the public and can be arranged by calling the Museum's Education Department at 310-206-5663 or emailing the Education Department, trini3@arts.ucla.edu For parking, maps, etc., please see above.
For more information please contact
Fowler Museum of Cultural History Tel: 310-825-8655
fowlerws@arts.ucla.edu
www.fowler.ucla.edu
Sponsor(s): Fowler Museum at UCLA
