Jerry Vigil's Day of the Dead art.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF - Brief article

Jerry Vigil is a self-taught artist who specializes in art for the holiday of Dia de los Muertos--a.k.a. Day of the Dead. "It seemed to be stuck in tradition," says Vigil of the art forms he saw when he started in the 1990s. "It wasn't making the move to contemporary." Vigil sought to "jazz it up" with his handcarved wood depictions of skeletons doing everyday things and skeletal masks, but he keeps the potentially morbid subject matter "very satirical and light." Adds Vigil, who is involved in Dia de los Muertos...