Costumes, Rituals and Pageantry: Halloween & Mexico’s Day of the Dead: A Live, Virtual Illustrated Lecture with Photographer Phyllis Galembo, Author of Mexico, Masks & Rituals

Name: Costumes, Rituals and Pageantry: Halloween & Mexico’s Day of the Dead: A Live, Virtual Illustrated Lecture with Photographer Phyllis Galembo, Author of Mexico, Masks & Rituals — Morbid Anatomy
Start: 2021-10-25T19:00:00-0400
End: 2021-10-25T20:30:00-0400

Monday, October 25, 2021
7:00 PM 8:30 PM 19:00 20:30

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Time: 7 pm EDT
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Tonight, join artist/photographer Phyllis Galembo for a very special evening devoted to costumes, rituals and pageantry associated with Halloween and Mexico’s Day of the Dead, illustrated with her own photographs, as featured in her recent books Mexico: Masks (published by Radius books and DAP), Rituals and Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes & Masquerade. She will also talk about her experiences in the field, the festivals she attended, mask making, the specifics of her photography, and much more!

Phyllis Galembo has published several monographs. Sodo, Haiti: 1997-2001, was published by Datz Books this year. Other publications include Mexico: Masks, Rituals (Radius books and DAP, 2019), Maske (2016), Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes & Masquerade (2002), Divine Inspiration: from Benin to Bahia (1993), Vodou: Visions and Voices of Haiti (1998) and Pale Pink (1983).

Galembo was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2014 as well as a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in 2016, 2010, and 1996. She earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1977.

Galembo has had solo exhibitions at the Boca Rotan Museum of Art, Florida, the International Center for Photography (ICP), New York, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., the Tang Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History, New York, among other venues and has appeared at the Venice Biennale and in several group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Art, International Center for Photography (ICP), New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Yale University Art Gallery, Library of Congress among others. Her work has been widely reviewed and published in print and other media.

Ms. Galembo is currently represented by Axis Gallery, NY.