By Phoebe Stevens El Independiente Children with painted faces run around Armory Park in homemade costumes, while their families spread out across the plush green lawn and relax beneath the sun’s warmth. From the air that buzzes with laughter and chatter, most people would not assume that the event being held that day had anything to…
Rainbow-colored telavera animals crowd the outside of Casa Maya de Mexico in the self-described “artist colony” of Tubac where metalwork shaped into suns and moons, paper mache skeletons from Día de los muertos, and wooden religious figures join them. María Troy, who has worked at Casa Maya de Mexico for the last two years, helps bring…
Tucson holds a weekend-long celebration to remember its dead. Sedona has a small gathering in a shopping center for Día de los Muertos. And in Tubac for the first time they are celebrating at a town park, resurrecting a festival that has been largely absent for years. But no matter where they celebrate and how,…
