Welcome to Casa de Rosado, a gallery and cultural center showcasing and preserving Michigan’s Chicanx, Indigenx and Latinx culture! Casa de Rosado creates cultural and artistic community centered programs and initiatives that foster discussions that lead to community action and the preservation and development of the finest practices in the arts and crafts of our Chicanx, Indigenx and Latinx culture and heritage in Michigan. Visit our Facebook page for our latest updates. Contact us through our Facebook page or email at: contact@casaderosado.org. Casa de Rosado is located at 204 E MT HOPE AVE, LANSING, MI 48910
CELEBRATE DIA DE LOS MUERTOS! Casa de Rosado hosts one of Michigan’s most unique and intimate Dia de los Muertos celebration. Join us for our 2020 virtual Dia de Los Muertos and watch our Facebook page for info on our free sugar skull distribution for kids!
Members of the Dia de Los Muertos Advisory Committee selected 10 households or organizations representative of Casa de Rosado’s social justice initiatives to reflect Lansing’s diverse Chicanx, Latinx and Indigena community to build ofrendas in their homes or organizations. Though we usually fill the gallery with ofrendas, this year we move online as the pandemic is encouraging other forms of community and togetherness while reducing the risk of the virus. Watch for an online version of community ofrendas on our gallery page in October and ofrenda building and sugar skull making videos. Lastley, you’ll want to join us for a Facebook live Dia de Los Muertos celebration on November 2, 2020 as we celebrate the return of our ancestors!
CASA DE ROSADO’s past events include a Black Velvet exhibit of over 80 pieces that focused on Mexican influence, a free Efren Parades interactive multi-media and video installation, a retablo exhibit, a hate crime exhibit and community discussion led by Todd Heywood, the MSU Latinx Film Fest director meet and greet, a Nora Chapa Mendoza retrospective, a MSU Big Read event, a Nani Chacon community mural discussion, regular LGBTQIA themed photo exhibits. Pop up classes and workshops include sugar skull making, enchilada, tamale and salsa cooking sessions, Azteca danza, Indigena planting, contemporary Chicanx pop art and crafts, Frida Kahlo jewelry, ofrenda building, papel picado and flores de papel and retablo making classes.
Opening in 2017, Casa de Rosado started as a social justice platform primarily focused on the Chicanx, Latinx, Indigena and LGBTQIA and other marginalized people in the greater Lansing community by hosting curated exhibits and addressing community issues that invigorate discussion and action.