The Diversity Activities Board, the Hispanic Organization for Leadership and Achievement and local artist Monica Vega hosted sugar skull making on Wednesday night in celebration of Dia de los Muertos. (Davis Narey/TommieMedia).
Linda Nzabamwita, the president of DAB, helped the event and had some fun skull decorating as well. (Davis Narey/TommieMedia)
A student works off of a blank skull in the Create Space Wednesday.
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A group of Tommies decorate their skulls with plastic jewels and frosting as part of Dia de los Muertos festivities. (Davis Narey/TommieMedia)
Local artist Monica Vega poses with her skull masterpiece. She uses her talent and love for Dia de los Muertos to teach students the tradition of sugar skull decorating. (Davis Narey/TommieMedia)
Monica Vega’s decorated sugar skull. Vega said a skull like this can take over two hours to decorate. (Davis Narey/TommieMedia)
The traditional display for Dia de los Muertos featuring Vega’s skull was colorful and eye-catching. The event ran from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, and students could come decorate their own sugar skulls.
A student fine-tunes her sugar skull. DAB and HOLA provided all the materials to allow students to be as creative as they wanted. (Davis Narey/TommieMedia)
Photographer Davis Narey captured the sights Wednesday in the Anderson Student Center as students gathered to decorate sugar skulls, a tradition associated with Día de los Muertos.
Davis Narey can be reached at nare9806@stthomas.edu.