Celebrating Latino and Hispanic Heritage

For four weeks from Sept. 14 to Oct. 12 (IHS is closed Sundays/Mondays), visitors can celebrate and learn more about Latino and Hispanic heritage in Indiana through art, a costume display, an exhibit and special programming! Everything is included with regular admission.

Indiana Historical Society’s traveling exhibit, Be Heard: Latino Experiences in Indiana, and a display of historical Folklorico costumes will be available for viewing in Lilly Hall.

FREE ADMISSION will be available on opening day, Saturday, Sept. 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to kick off celebrating Latino and Hispanic Heritage Month! Art, games, performances, food demonstrations and more will be available all day long for children and adults alike tied to the theme of Hoosier Latinos. Activities will end at 4 p.m. and museum exhibits will remain open until 5 p.m.

Also returning to IHS this fall is nationally celebrated artist, Justin Favela, a mixed-media artist known for large-scale installations and sculptures that draw from the American experience and are inspired by the Latino community. Justin’s work has been featured most recently at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the Denver Art Museum, the Museo de las Americas and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, among many others.

This year he is drawing inspiration from the cover of the IHS Press book, Hoosier Latinos: A Century of Struggle, Service and Success, and Indiana’s longest-running Latino Hoosier tradition, the annual Fiestas Patrias (Mexican Independence) parade, which is celebrated every second weekend in September in East Chicago, Indiana in Lake County.