Portland Center Stage is at risk of closing. Help us raise $2.5 million by August 31 to keep the lights on.

Portland Center Stage logo
128 NW Eleventh Ave, Portland, OR 97209 · 503-445-3700 · www.pcs.org
Portland Center Stage logo

Art Exhibit: Dia de Muertos Oregon presents Mictlán and Catrina del Teatro

Event Details
The Armory: Main Lobby

This event's date or start time has passed.

View Upcoming Events

Día de Muertos Oregon presents an art installation and gallery exhibit titled Mictlán in partnership with artist Alejandro VI Barragan, featuring a Catrina statue art installation and a group exhibit of folkloric art. 

This event will be on display from October 17 - November 5, 2023, to highlight the culture and history of Mexican communities to celebrate how the Day of the Dead brings families, friends, and communities together to honor the past. The essence of respect, love, unity, and humor are infused in this celebration and embraces any person, connecting us with the varied forms of love that answer the question of what it means to be human.

In this exhibit, artists share their interpretations of the cultural roots and evolution of the Day of the Dead tradition, from its pre-Hispanic origins to colonial and modern times. Mictlán is the underworld in Nahua and Mexican cosmology. This exhibit features paintings, printmaking, photography, and sculpture installations by Hispanic artists from Mexico, Oregon, and Alaska. It also includes two oil paintings from Victor Miguel Barragán from his Universes inverted series.

Meet Indra Arriaga
Meet Indra Arriaga

Indra Arriaga is a Mexican Artist based in Alaska. Painter, writer, film director, researcher.

Meet Alejandro IV Barragán
Meet Alejandro IV Barragán

Multimedia, Filmmaker and photographer. Alejandro is the Director of the Dia de Muertos Project and Propulsion Network. No artist has more skeletons in the closet than him. Literally!

Meet Victor Miguel Barragán

Mexican painter whose work today is in private collections. The two paintings in this exhibit belong to a series inspired by pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican mythologies. The Barragan family was able to acquire two of his paintings from a collector in Chicago for the exhibit at the Armory.

Meet Palma Corral and Ithea Engum Corral
Meet Palma Corral and Ithea Engum Corral

Palma Corral (American/Mexican, b. 1974 in Chihuahua, Mexico) creates conceptual multidisciplinary art installations using images, objects, organic substances, sounds, text, and video. Her work studies the existential issues of the human experience and its permutations in contemporary life, at times using her own life experience as a metaphorical example of the human condition. She takes both a phenomenological and psychological experimental approach to her installation work and incorporates ideas and symbolic images from history, language, mythology, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, and art.

Palma holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Marylhurst University, and a Master of Arts degree in Mental Health Counseling from Lewis & Clark College. She has a private practice at Evolving Self Integral Counseling as a Professional Counselor Associate.

Ithea Engum-Corral is a musician, painter, and recent graduate of the University of Oregon with a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts in Romance Languages and French. She is also a musician: she started a band Rev with her friends in high school, and together, they recorded an EP, Dancing on the Blacktop.

Meet Eduardo Cruz
Meet Eduardo Cruz

Oregon multimedia Artist and Performer. Director, Founder, and Leader of the group Huecha Omeyocan, featuring Mexican heritage, Chichimeca Aztec Music and Dance.

Meet Indio Sin Dios 
Meet Indio Sin Dios 

Mexican Artist and Printmaker, better known as Indio sin dios, Fernando Romero started printmaking as a means of self-expression. 

Portland Center Stage is committed to identifying & interrupting instances of racism & all forms of oppression, through the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility (IDEA).

Learn More

Season Superstars

Season Supporting Sponsors