Mexic-Arte Museum

📣Save the date of October 24th for Mexic-Arte Museum’s 43rd Annual Viva La Vida Festival & Parade!

The Vendor, Volunteer, and Parade participant forms are NOW OPEN! Sign up to be part of Austin’s largest and longest-running Día de los Mu***os (Day of the Dead) celebration!🕯️🏵️

Learn More🔗https://mexic-artemuseum.org/event/43rd-annual-viva-la-vida-festival-parade/

The festivities of Viva La Vida will start with a Grand Procession at noon on Saturday, October 24th, at 4th Street and Congress Avenue. The Festival will run until 6pm and includes: Mariposa Plaza with hands-on art activities and artist demos, traditional foods, Mu***os Mercado with local artists and retail booths, a low-rider exhibition, live performances, and so much more!

Join Mexic-Arte Museum for a two part Family Day!
Explore Austin's waterways, cultural history, and ecological imagination through walking tours and a clay sculpture workshop with artists Allison Lash and Chance Ramirez!

🗓️ Sunday, June 28
🕚 11am - 4:30pm
📍 Mexic-Arte Museum - 419 Congress Ave Austin, TX 78701

🔗Free RSVP: https://ClaySculptingFamilyDayJune2026.eventbrite.com

This workshop will take participants from the Museum's galleries, along the 5th St Mexican American Cultural District, to the banks of Lady Bird Lake, then into sculpting with clay at the Museum, weaving together Austin's ecological landscape, Mexican American and Indigenous history, and the transformative world-building of contemporary artist Saya Woolfalk.

Part 1: Reading The River
Participants will meet outside Mexic-Arte Museum at 11am to walk to Republic Square, where they will study the Blackbird sculpture (a monumental grackle sculpture by Kincannon Studios honoring the Mexican American community displaced from the neighborhood in the 1920s), and then continue to Lady Bird Lake to observe the watershed, sketch the landscape, and collect natural texture tools.

Part 2: Sculpting The Zanate
Participants will return to the museum to build their own terracotta clay hybrid guardians from their field observations: chimeric figures that are part human, part zanate (Great-tailed Grackle), part myth, and part future, imagined as permanent inhabitants of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) future tunnel.

This workshop is part of a larger public art project by artist Saya Woolfalk, commissioned by the Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment Art in Public Places program for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.