2023 Middle School: Día de los Muertos Exhibition

Every year, the Tyler Museum of Art holds a student exhibition for 5th through 8th grade middle school students in the East Texas area. The goal of the exhibition is for students to learn about the cultural festivities of Día de los Muertos. Then, the students create artworks that exhibits the cultural iconography of the holiday. When the artworks are completed, the teachers will select the pieces that will be exhibited in the education gallery.

This year, we had 27 schools, 35 teachers, and a total of 687 students from 7 counties in the East Texas area who participated in the exhibition. Their work ranged from three-dimensional ofrendas to two-dimensional compositions that depict the iconography and art historical themes of Día de los Muertos.

The school that participated in this year’s exhibition are:

All Saints Episcopal School
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School
Bullard Middle School
Chapel Hill ISD: Kissam Intermediate School
Chapel Hill Junior High School
Cumberland Academy
Grand Saline Middle School
Jacksonville Middle School
Kilgore Middle School
Lindale Junior High School
Longview ISD: Foster Middle School
Mount Pleasant Junior High School
Pollok ISD: Central Junior High School
Tyler ISD: Birdwell Bilingual Dual Language Immersion School
Tyler ISD: Bonner Elementary School
Tyler ISD: Boulter Middle School
Tyler ISD: Clarkston Elementary School
Tyler ISD: Dixie Elementary School
Tyler ISD: Griffin Elementary School
Tyler ISD: Hubbard Middle School
Tyler ISD: Jack Elementary School
Tyler ISD: Moore MST Magnet Middle School
Tyler ISD: Owen Elementary School
Tyler ISD: Ramey Elementary School
Tyler ISD: Three Lakes Middle School Campus
Whitehouse ISD: Holloway 6th Grade Campus
Whitehouse Junior High School

The exhibition opened on October 29, 2023, and it will closed on November 5, 2023. Additionally, the museum held an opening reception for the student exhibition on October 29, 2023.