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        • 2021 Muertos en Westwood
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        • 2021 Festival del Tamal y Atole
          • Festival del Tamal y Atole - First Friday
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          • TAMALIDAY SALE
        • 2021 Holiday Edition Events
          • 12/17 Veggie Viernes - Holiday Edition
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        • 2021 D3Arts "On A Sunday Afternoon"
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  • ABOUT
  • HW Events
    • UPCOMING EVENTS
      • 2025 Saigon Azteca
    • Past Events
      • 2025 Events
        • 2025 Cinco de Mayo en Westwood
          • 2025 Cinco Padrinos
      • 2024 Events
        • 2024 Muertos en Westwood
          • Muertos en Westwood Workshops
          • Panteon de Westwood
          • Muertos Sponsorships
        • 2024 Noche de Darksss
        • 2024 Saigon Azteca Night Market
        • 2024 Festival del Mole
        • 2024 La Noche de Frida
        • 2024 Veggie Viernes
        • 2024 Cinco de Mayo en Westwood
        • 2024 Festival del Pozole
      • 2023 Events
        • 2023 Las Posadas
          • Las Posadas Sponsorship
        • 2023 Muertos en Westwood
          • Muertos en Westwood Workshops
          • Muertos en Arte Artist Residency
          • Muertos Street Festival
          • Calaveritas
          • Sabores y Recuerdos
        • Salsas de Westwood
        • 2023 Laza Raza Park Day
        • 2023 Saigon Azteca Night Market
        • 2023 Festival del Mole
        • 2023 La Noche de Frida
        • 2023 DAM Lowrider Show & Shine
        • 2023 Veggie Viernes
        • 2023 Cinco de Mayo en Westwood
        • 2023 Festival del Pozole
        • 2023 Mujer Mercado
        • 2023 RISE Westwood BIPOC Mayoral Forum
        • 2023 Mercadito de Amor
      • 2022 Events
        • Mujer Mercado - Holiday Edition
        • Westwood de Noche - Holiday Edition
        • Festival del Tamal y Atole
        • Muertos en Westwood
        • 2022 Veggie Viernes
        • Westwood de Noche
          • 10-14 Westwood de Noche
          • 8-19 Westwood de Noche
          • 8-26 Westwood de Noche
          • 9-2 Westwood de Noche
          • 9-9 Westwood de Noche
          • 9-23 Westwood de Noche
          • 10-7 Westwood de Noche
        • Festival de la Milpa
        • Salsas de Westwood
        • 2022 LA RAZA PARK DAY
        • 2022 Domingos en Westwood
        • 2022 Festival del Mole
        • 2022 Frida Kahlo
        • 2022 Cinco de Mayo
        • FIRST FRIDAYS IN WESTWOOD
          • April First Friday "Selena"
          • March First Friday "Juanita"
        • 2022 Festival del Pozole
        • 2022 Mujer Mercado
        • MARCH FIRST FRIDAY "CITY LOVE"
        • 2022 Amor
          • 2022 Mercadito de Amor
          • 2022 Noches de Amor y Chocolate
          • 2022 Amor Eterno Exhibit
          • 2022 Love Eternal at D3Arts
      • 2021 Events
        • 2021 MES DEL AMOR Y LA AMISTAD
          • Cenas de San Valentin
          • Mercadito de Amor
          • Valentine's Day Sale
        • 2021 Festival del Pozole
        • 2021 Mujer Mercado
        • 2021 CINCO DE MAYO - PEACE & PRIDE WESTWOOD
        • 2021 MOTHER'S DAY GARDEN BAZAAR + MERCADITO
        • 2021 COMIDA CORRIDA
        • 2021 Frida Kahlo - A Celebration of Life & Resistance
          • FRIDA KAHLO COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
          • LAS NOCHES DE FRIDA
        • 2021 MIKAILHUITL
        • 2021 Veggie Viernes
          • 9/17 Veggie Viernes
          • 8/21 Veggie Viernes
          • 7/16 Veggie Viernes
          • 6/18 Veggie Viernes
          • 5/21 Veggie Viernes
        • 2021 Muertos en Westwood
          • 10-31 Domingos en Westwood
          • 11/5 First Friday
        • 2021 Festival del Tamal y Atole
          • Festival del Tamal y Atole - First Friday
          • Festival del Tamal y Atole - Saturday
          • Festival del Tamal y Atole - Sunday
          • TAMALIDAY SALE
        • 2021 Holiday Edition Events
          • 12/17 Veggie Viernes - Holiday Edition
          • 12/18 Mujer Mercado - Holiday Edition
          • 12/19 Domingos en Westwood - Holiday Edition
        • 2021 D3Arts "On A Sunday Afternoon"
      • 2020 Events
        • 2020 Cinco de Mayo
        • 2020 SUNSET FRIDAYS
        • 2020 LAS NOCHES DE FRIDA
        • 2020 DOMINGOS EN WESTWOOD
        • 2020 Colorful Colorado Collaborations
        • 2020 CLASES DE COCINA
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      • ¡Corre La Voz!
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      • Entre dos Mundos
      • SAIGON AZTECA COMMUNITY ART SHOW
      • El Tapiz de Westwood
  • HW Youth Programs
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Hecho en Westwood helps create community focused events in Westwood that are culturally relevant and accessible.

MEET OUR RESIDENT ARTISTS

AALYCIA RODRIGUEZ

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   Aalycia Rodriguez is a 20 year old local Chicana artist from Southwest Denver. Aalycia has been an art instructor for In Lak’ech Denver Arts for 1 year, she is passionate about teaching youth to love and embrace their culture through art. She creates her artwork to empower the people of her community with representation in her paintings. 
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Aalycia will be creating a photo stand-in that will be hand painted by herself and with the help of local youth artists. The theme of this photo stand in will be inspired by our neighborhood in Westwood, also representing the ones we have lost. Aalycia will also be creating a life size coffin. She will paint a life size skeleton inside which will be in her own image. This is going to be a piece to think about the mortality aspect of muertos and what it means to her.

ANA MARINA

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Ana Marina, a Denver-based jewelry designer and metalsmith originally from Mexico City, draws from her unique journey as an immigrant to shape her identity as a passionate Mexican American woman. Her artistry is fueled by her deep love for Mesoamerican art, culture, and history. Each of her handcrafted jewelry pieces tells a story, representing a distinct facet of her rich heritage and the intricate tapestry of her experiences as an immigrant in the United States. Through her creations, Ana Marina seeks to connect her ancestral roots to collectors, fostering bridges between ancient traditions and modern fashion. 
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As part of Muertos en Westwood, Ana Marina will craft a unique line of acrylic jewelry dedicated to Mexica deities like Izpapalotl and Cihuateteo. These adornments will serve as a bridge to ancestral traditions, commemorating the Day of the Dead while establishing connections with those who continue to honor ancient beliefs. During the Muertos en Westwood street festival, the jewelry will be worn by the Hecho en Westwood Danza Mexika youth.

ISAAC LUCERO

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Isaac Lucero is a local Xicano tattoo artist from Southwest Denver who specializes in black and grey tattoos. Isaac’s style of art is influenced by his love of graffiti and his Mexican and Xicano cultural heritage. He has been tattooing for 15 years and currently works at Rose Lady Tattoo Collective on West Colfax.
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For his Muertos in Westwood art installation, Isaac has chosen to honor the rich cultural traditions practiced in central Mexico by constructing an 3d tumba within a panteón, demonstrating an accurate depiction of a decorated grave site in a cemetery that you would see in the state of Oaxaca. During Dia de los Muertos, families traditionally gather in cemeteries to clean and decorate their loved ones final resting place. They adorn graves with food, flowers, and candles, spending the entire night singing, eating and celebrating the memories of their ancestors. Isaac will be using materials such as paper mache, craft foam, acrylic paint, and plywood to bring this creation to life, carefully molding and carving each piece from scratch for this sacred art piece installation.

JULIO MENDOZA

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Julio Mendoza (Juls) is a Denver-based multi-disciplinary artist who celebrates his heritage through art. His art style "Surrealismo Cultural" or "Cultural Surrealism" focuses on Cultural Identity, Community and Social Justice.
Born in El Paso, TX and raised in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Juls’ style is defined greatly by his Mexican heritage and Latino culture and has created large-scale murals around Colorado, Europe and Mexico. For Juls, the greatest gift is to get inspired by one’s own traditions, food, people and colors and it’s a blessing to be able to put all these into an art piece and inspire others.
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The mural he is creating will be a representation of “La Máscara de las tres etapas de la vida''. This is a Mayan mask that represents the three stages of life. The mask has three faces, each one is a stage of life. The inner face represents birth, the middle face is the most important as it represents the adult stage, when the person enters their maximum capacity and most of life’s experiences occur. The third or external face represents the end of life. Death.

METZLI ARAGON

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My name is Metzli, I am a mama, Xicana, Mitotiani, Popoxcihuatl, Pochteca, artist and co-creator of Xicano Tribe. 

Xicano Tribe is a family of mitotianis and artists. We create pre-Hispanic Mexica instruments, precious stones, crystals,  mineral jewelry, atuendos & Xicano art.  When we create Mexika paintings, jewelry and instruments it reconnects us to our ancestors and heals us in the process. 

My installation art piece for Muertos en Westwood is to recreate a 6ft version of  Huey Tzompantli or “great skull wall”. 

Xicano Tribe will be creating the main Community Ofrenda (Tlamanalli) and 13 amate paintings of Mexica Teteos to be displayed on the community altar as well. 
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Tlazocahmati huey miac
Metzli

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  • ABOUT
  • HW Events
    • UPCOMING EVENTS
      • 2025 Saigon Azteca
    • Past Events
      • 2025 Events
        • 2025 Cinco de Mayo en Westwood
          • 2025 Cinco Padrinos
      • 2024 Events
        • 2024 Muertos en Westwood
          • Muertos en Westwood Workshops
          • Panteon de Westwood
          • Muertos Sponsorships
        • 2024 Noche de Darksss
        • 2024 Saigon Azteca Night Market
        • 2024 Festival del Mole
        • 2024 La Noche de Frida
        • 2024 Veggie Viernes
        • 2024 Cinco de Mayo en Westwood
        • 2024 Festival del Pozole
      • 2023 Events
        • 2023 Las Posadas
          • Las Posadas Sponsorship
        • 2023 Muertos en Westwood
          • Muertos en Westwood Workshops
          • Muertos en Arte Artist Residency
          • Muertos Street Festival
          • Calaveritas
          • Sabores y Recuerdos
        • Salsas de Westwood
        • 2023 Laza Raza Park Day
        • 2023 Saigon Azteca Night Market
        • 2023 Festival del Mole
        • 2023 La Noche de Frida
        • 2023 DAM Lowrider Show & Shine
        • 2023 Veggie Viernes
        • 2023 Cinco de Mayo en Westwood
        • 2023 Festival del Pozole
        • 2023 Mujer Mercado
        • 2023 RISE Westwood BIPOC Mayoral Forum
        • 2023 Mercadito de Amor
      • 2022 Events
        • Mujer Mercado - Holiday Edition
        • Westwood de Noche - Holiday Edition
        • Festival del Tamal y Atole
        • Muertos en Westwood
        • 2022 Veggie Viernes
        • Westwood de Noche
          • 10-14 Westwood de Noche
          • 8-19 Westwood de Noche
          • 8-26 Westwood de Noche
          • 9-2 Westwood de Noche
          • 9-9 Westwood de Noche
          • 9-23 Westwood de Noche
          • 10-7 Westwood de Noche
        • Festival de la Milpa
        • Salsas de Westwood
        • 2022 LA RAZA PARK DAY
        • 2022 Domingos en Westwood
        • 2022 Festival del Mole
        • 2022 Frida Kahlo
        • 2022 Cinco de Mayo
        • FIRST FRIDAYS IN WESTWOOD
          • April First Friday "Selena"
          • March First Friday "Juanita"
        • 2022 Festival del Pozole
        • 2022 Mujer Mercado
        • MARCH FIRST FRIDAY "CITY LOVE"
        • 2022 Amor
          • 2022 Mercadito de Amor
          • 2022 Noches de Amor y Chocolate
          • 2022 Amor Eterno Exhibit
          • 2022 Love Eternal at D3Arts
      • 2021 Events
        • 2021 MES DEL AMOR Y LA AMISTAD
          • Cenas de San Valentin
          • Mercadito de Amor
          • Valentine's Day Sale
        • 2021 Festival del Pozole
        • 2021 Mujer Mercado
        • 2021 CINCO DE MAYO - PEACE & PRIDE WESTWOOD
        • 2021 MOTHER'S DAY GARDEN BAZAAR + MERCADITO
        • 2021 COMIDA CORRIDA
        • 2021 Frida Kahlo - A Celebration of Life & Resistance
          • FRIDA KAHLO COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
          • LAS NOCHES DE FRIDA
        • 2021 MIKAILHUITL
        • 2021 Veggie Viernes
          • 9/17 Veggie Viernes
          • 8/21 Veggie Viernes
          • 7/16 Veggie Viernes
          • 6/18 Veggie Viernes
          • 5/21 Veggie Viernes
        • 2021 Muertos en Westwood
          • 10-31 Domingos en Westwood
          • 11/5 First Friday
        • 2021 Festival del Tamal y Atole
          • Festival del Tamal y Atole - First Friday
          • Festival del Tamal y Atole - Saturday
          • Festival del Tamal y Atole - Sunday
          • TAMALIDAY SALE
        • 2021 Holiday Edition Events
          • 12/17 Veggie Viernes - Holiday Edition
          • 12/18 Mujer Mercado - Holiday Edition
          • 12/19 Domingos en Westwood - Holiday Edition
        • 2021 D3Arts "On A Sunday Afternoon"
      • 2020 Events
        • 2020 Cinco de Mayo
        • 2020 SUNSET FRIDAYS
        • 2020 LAS NOCHES DE FRIDA
        • 2020 DOMINGOS EN WESTWOOD
        • 2020 Colorful Colorado Collaborations
        • 2020 CLASES DE COCINA
  • HW GALERIA
    • Current Art Shows
      • ¡Corre La Voz!
    • Past Art Shows
      • Entre dos Mundos
      • SAIGON AZTECA COMMUNITY ART SHOW
      • El Tapiz de Westwood
  • HW Youth Programs
    • Danza Mexika
      • 2025 Spring Danza Mexika
    • Hecho en Arte
      • 2025 Summer Hecho en Arte
      • 2025 Spring Hecho en Arte
  • ONLINE STORE