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 exhibit 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 28 schools, 31 teachers, and a total of 731 students from 5 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 schools that participated in this year’s exhibition are:
- All Saints Episcopal School
- Bullard Intermediate School
- Bullard Middle School
- Chapel Hill ISD: Kissam Intermediate School
- Chapel Hill Junior High School
- Cumberland Academy Middle School
- Frankston Middle School
- Lindale Junior High School
- Mount Pleasant Junior High School
- Pollok ISD: Central Junior High School
- Quinlan ISD: CB Thompson Middle School
- St. Gregory Cathedral School in Tyler
- 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: Orr Elementary School
- Tyler ISD: Owen Elementary School
- Tyler ISD: Three Lakes Middle School Campus
- Whitehouse ISD: Holloway 6th Grade Campus
The exhibition opened on October 26, 2025, and it will close on November 2, 2025. Additionally, the museum held an opening reception for the student exhibition on October 26, 2025.
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