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Sweet Success – The Secrets of a 5th-Generation Sugar Skull Artist

Sweet Success – The Secrets of a 5th-Generation Sugar Skull Artist

by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities

  Elvira Mondragón Garcia’s cranial creations range from the size of a gumball to the size of an actual human head!   In the atrium of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, behind a row of stanchions, is an array of skulls made of compressed sugar....
The Day of the Dead and the Sugar Skull Tradition

The Day of the Dead and the Sugar Skull Tradition

by Maledicta | Nov 6, 2017 | Halloween 365

  The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is celebrated in central and southern Mexico on November 1st and 2nd. This interesting holiday is a hybrid of the modern Catholic holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days and the ancient traditions of the indigenous...

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