Northern Sierra Foothills Altar Show |
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The first "Altar Show in Nevada County" took place in 1997, inspired by the Sacramento art show, "Altares del Mundo." Based on Indo-Hispanic "Dia de los Muertos" traditions, artists created beautiful altars to honor beloved people who had passed on. The show was so powerful for both altaristas and viewers that it has become an annual event with up to sixty altars. The altars have evolved to include contemporary three-dimensional art with diverse topics, techniques, and media, as well as memorials in the historic tradition. Join us to celebrate and reaffirm the human experience. We hope you discover in our altars, as we do when we create them, a sense of healing, solace, joy, insight, relief, refreshment, renewal - perhaps even truth. |
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| 2005 Community Altar by Annie Clinton |
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Our Mission Statement |
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| "The Altar show, Renewal and Remembrance, is a community based non-profit arts organization. This annual exhibition, inspired by Days of the Dead, Is a gift from the Altaristas to the community. Altars are created as site-specific installations. Traditionally, altars were made to honor departed loved ones. Our Altar show altars, with themes limited only by the creators' imaginations, encompass a full spectrum, from serious to playful, provoking laughter and tears. The Altar Show provides altar makers and viewers a safe place to renew and remember, and an opportunity to be part of a sacred space." |
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