Downtown El Paso is getting loud and colorful this weekend as Sol Summit Music & Cultura Festival rolls into San Jacinto Plaza, bringing headliners Bomba Estéreo and The Flaming Lips along with a pop-up gallery of homegrown murals and installations. Local artists and collectives have spent weeks turning the festival grounds into a walkable love letter to the borderland, riffing on its colors, history, and hand-crafted traditions. At the center of it all will be a talavera-inspired papier-mâché longhorn skull, built from recycled cardboard, hollow inside and, according to its creators, bigger than an SUV, set to serve as the visual anchor for the whole event.
Local artists shape the festival’s look
Festival organizers say the visual side of Sol Summit is very much a local collaboration. According to Sol Summit, the art program brings together the collective Xingaderas, El Paso muralist Tino Ortega, multidisciplinary artist Gitzel Moncivais, and designer Rogelio Rosiles. Xingaderas is responsible for the towering skull sculpture and a roaming crew of puppets…..