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[Booklet: Realidades Mexicanas and La Muerte Vive] (open access)

[Booklet: Realidades Mexicanas and La Muerte Vive]

Catalog of two exhibits from the Austin, Texas. One exhibit was called "La Muerte Vive" and the other was named "Realidades Mexicanas" and showed off Mexican and Mexican American artworks. The catalog also includes information about the Mexic-Arte Museum, the exhibits and other topics.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard: Mexic-Arte Museum Invites Betty Horton to the Austin Annual]

Postcard invitation to the Austin Annual 1985. It included information about the location and when the open reception will be, how long the art exhibition will run through and information about the sponsors. This was sent to Betty Horton.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Día de los Muertos] (open access)

[Día de los Muertos]

Pamphlet of the Mexic-Arte Museum invitation to the Day of the Dead a Multi-Disciplie Art Celebration event. It includes the schedule of the event, a history of the Day of the Dead holiday, and Day of the Dead illustrations.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Outside of the Arts Warehouse]

Photograph of the Arts warehouse from the outside. There are five cars parked on the side of the road. The title "the Arts warehouse" is painted on the side of the building. There are two signs near the corner of the building directing towards the entrance.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Attendees at an Art Exhibition]

Photograph of people attending the art exhibition. There are three artworks hanging on the wall in the background. In the foreground, there is a middle-aged man, an older man and a middle-aged woman (from left to right). The older man and woman are facing the camera, but the other man is looking away.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Admiring Artworks]

Photograph of four people standing shoulder to shoulder in front of a large painting. They all have their arms around the person or people beside them. There are two other artworks in the shot, one on the wall and the other learning on the large painting in front of which the people are posing.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Admiring Artworks]

Photograph of two men in a room with many framed artworks hanging on the wall. They are standing in the corner of the room. One is looking at a painting and the other and looking towards the camera.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Carved Watermelons]

Photograph of two watermelons side by side. They both have words carved out of them. The words are all capitalized, raised and are made of the green rind. The rest of the watermelon was cut off and the red meat of the watermelon can be seen. The watermelon on the left reads "Mexicarte Greening" and the one on the right reads "The Austin Culture." The watermelon on the right has fruit and flowers behind and on it.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Organizing Día de los Muertos Mailers]

Photograph of six people in a room with four rows of papers on the floor, a box of more papers in the middle of the room and a few large piles of papers in the foreground on the floor. They are organizing the mailers into their own specific place.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two People in Costume and Sugar Skull Make Up]

Photograph of a man and woman in vintage-style clothing. The man is on the left and the woman on the right. She is wearing a black dress, a pearl necklace and a black head piece. He is wearing a grey suit, gold wallet chains, and a white hat. Both have their faces painted to look like sugar skulls. They are posing in front of a cemetery.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Artwork Hanging on a Wall]

Photograph of artworks hanging on a wall at the Mexic-Arte Museum. There are four full pieces in the picture and one on the far right that is cut off. The pieces all feature Hispanic females.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Young Girl Looking Up at Piñatas]

Photograph of a young girl in a short red shirt that shows her stomach and a blue skirt. She has her hands joined above her head and is stretching towards piñatas that are hanging up. She is standing up on her tip toes.
Date: 1985
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Devil and Skeleton Dancers]

Photograph of two dancers dressed as a skeleton and a devil onstage under red lighting; the set piece behind them features a building and several skulls.
Date: [1985..1987]
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People Laughin at Exhibit]

Photograph of a woman wearing a skull mask and three people standing next to her and laughing; there are other people looking at various artworks and exhibits in the background.
Date: [1985..1987]
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Devil and Woman in Veil]

Photograph of a dancer wearing a veil holding her arm out to another dancer dressed as a devil and holding a pitchfork; both dancers are on a stage against a red backdrop and two other dancers are visible on the side of the stage.
Date: [1985..1987]
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Skeleton Sculpture]

Photograph of a large skeleton sculpture towering over two performers dressed as skeletons looking up at it.
Date: [1985..1987]
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man in Skull Mask]

Photograph of a man wearing a skull mask posing in front of a large crowd of people and a banner in the background.
Date: [1985..1987]
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man in Skeleton Costume]

Photograph of a man wearing a black skeleton costume with another man sitting at a table painting on the white bones while a security guard sits behind him and watches. A finished skeleton costume is laying on the floor in the foreground and there are other tables and objects in the background.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Man in Skeleton Costume Blurry]

Photograph of a man wearing a black skeleton costume with another man sitting at a table painting on the white bones while a security guard sits behind him and watches. A finished skeleton costume is laying on the floor in the foreground and there are other tables and objects in the background. The image is somewhat out of focus and the people appear blurry.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men and Skeleton Sculpture]

Photograph of a man holding an abstract sculpture of an animal skeleton made of white tubing while a man (on the left) and a boy (on the right) watch him.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Skeletons and Shrine]

Photograph of an art installation consisting of two skeletons in traditional embroidered Mexican dresses on either side of a shrine with candles, skulls, and other small objects; there are colorful paper banners and a devil's head on the wall and various paintings and other exhibits are visible in the background.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mariachis]

Photograph of a small mariachi band of four men playing and singing in a warehouse; a man in the center wearing a cowboy hat is playing the guitar while a man on the right plays violin and the other two men standing in the background sing.There seem to be more people behind a display on the left side and there are several large objects in the background.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Die de los Muertos Sign]

Photograph of a typewritten sign that reads "Dia de los Muertos MexicArte."
Date: [1985..1987]
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[People in Gallery]

Photograph of several small groups of people and individuals standing and talking or looking at artworks in a gallery; there are several sculptures on the left side in the foreground and paintings and other exhibits in the background.
Date: 1985
Creator: Mexic-Arte Museum (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History