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Article: ART REFLECTS LIVELY THEME FOR 'DAY OF THE DEAD'.(LIVING)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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- October 30, 1997
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Byline: Jerry Stein Post staff reporter
The very title of Mexico's ''El Dia de los Muertos,'' or ''The Day of the Dead,'' might seem intimidating or morbid.
But an exhibition at the folk-art gallery called ''only artists'' in the Over-the-Rhine Main Street art colony immediately dispels anticipated gloom with the color and humor of its art objects created for All Souls' Day, observed each Nov. 2.
Much of the art comes from spending sprees in Mexico by co-owners Annie Jansen and Kymberly Henson. They brought back laughing demon masks, skulls made from molded sugar, yarn paintings from Huichol Indians, grinning cherubs and smiling skeletons, ...