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06/03/2026
Only a few more days to RSVP for our *free* film screening and Q&A with Ofelia and Rosanna Esparza!
🗓️ Saturday, June 6, 2026
🕒 3:00 pm
📍Getty Center and Online
🔗 RSVP to attend in person or online: https://gty.art/4umwXsz
Long recognized for their role in helping establish and sustain Día de los Mu***os traditions in the city, Ofelia Esparza and her daughter, Rosanna Esparza Ahrens, have shaped the practice of creating ofrendas, or altars, as both a communal ritual and a contemporary art form.
In the short film, "Ofelia and Rosanna Esparza: Made to Remember" (11:55 min), they reflect on the ofrenda as both cultural obligation and art: a bridge between the living and the dead, and between the stories of generations past and those yet to come.
Following the screening, Ofelia and Rosanna Esparza will join Los Angeles County's Civic Art Conservation and Collections Manager Laleña Vellanoweth for a conversation on the conservation of their work and audience Q&A.
This film is part of the Artist Dialogues series.
🖼️ "Raíces Cósmicas" (Cosmic Roots) by Ofelia Esparza, 2018.
📸 Courtesy of the Artist and the Vincent Price Art Museum
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