Making Milagros in Santa Fe
One of the hands-on activities in our first SchoolArts Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe workshop of the summer, Folk Art Traditions and Beyond, was making milagros.
Milagros ("miracles" in Spanish) are small votive objects traditionally used in many countries in Latin America to describe small metal images of eyes, hands, legs, praying figures or other objects of symbolic meaning. Made of silver, tin, or mixed cast metal, milagros function as votive offerings through which the prayerful may offer petitions or thanks.
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