Events

There’s always something exciting happening at the Museum of International Folk Art! Join us for our many programs listed below.

Cancelled: Family Mornings at Folk Art
Workshop Family

Cancelled: Family Mornings at Folk Art

April 5, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Join us on the First FREE Sunday of the Month for our all-ages program featuring storytime, Hands-on art activity and explorations in the galleries.

Sunday, April 5 - “Earth Day – Recycled Art”

 FREE for all NM residents . Funded by Museum of New Mexico Foundation Education Fund

About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/

Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human creativity and shape a humane world. The museum holds the world’s largest international folk art collection of more than 150,000 objects from six continents and over 150 nations, representing a broad range of global artists whose artistic expressions make Santa Fe an international crossroads of culture. For many visitors, fascination with folk art begins upon seeing the whimsical toys and traditional objects within the Girard Collection. For others, the international textiles, ceramics, carvings and other cultural treasures in the Neutrogena Collection provide the allure.  The museum’s historic and contemporary Latino and Hispano folk art collections, spanning the Spanish Colonial period to modern-day New Mexico, reflect how artists respond to their time and place in ways both delightful and sobering. In 2010, the museum opened the Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience, where exhibitions encourage visitors to exchange ideas on complex issues of human rights and social justice.

 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, NM 87505. (505) 476-1200.

Hours: 10 am to 5 pm daily, May through October; closed Mondays November through April, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day. First Sunday of Every Month is free to NM Residents.

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Our Fair New Mexico: A VIRTUAL Concert Series Featuring Musicians Living In New Mexico
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Our Fair New Mexico: A VIRTUAL Concert Series Featuring Musicians Living In New Mexico

April 10, 2020
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Join us on MOIFA’s Facebook Page as The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), in partnership with our state museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions, announces a series of VIRTUAL concerts – Our Fair New Mexico – featuring musicians living in New Mexico on Friday evenings, beginning April 10, 2020.

What: Our Fair New Mexico – A Virtual Concert Series presented by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA). 

Who: Rob Martinez

When: Friday, April 10, 7 p.m. (MDT)

Where: MOIFA’s Facebook Page and other DCA-affiliated Facebook pages

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Our Fair New Mexico: A VIRTUAL Concert Series Featuring Musician Lara Manzanares
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Our Fair New Mexico: A VIRTUAL Concert Series Featuring Musician Lara Manzanares

April 24, 2020
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Join us on MOIFA’s Facebook Page as The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), in partnership with our state museums, historic sites, and cultural institutions, announces a series of VIRTUAL concerts – Our Fair New Mexico – featuring musicians living in New Mexico on Friday evenings, beginning April 10, 2020. on Friday night join: Lara Manzanares is a bilingual singer-songwriter of Northern New Mexican heritage.

What: Our Fair New Mexico – A Virtual Concert Series presented by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA). 

Who: Lara Manzanares 

When: Friday, April 24, 7 p.m. (MDT)

Where: MOIFA’s Facebook Page and other DCA-affiliated Facebook pages 

Lara Manzanares is a bilingual singer-songwriter of Northern New Mexican heritage. In addition to singing the traditional New Mexican canciones of her sheep-ranching childhood, Lara also composes her own style of music in both English and Spanish. Through a combination of storytelling and songs both playful and sincere, Lara draws on her rural New Mexican roots and her urban experiences across the U.S. and abroad as she sings about love, loss, a sense of place, and her own connection to the land.

After several years spent living across the U.S., in 2016 Lara returned to New Mexico with her guitar and several original songs in tow. In 2017 she recorded her first original album at Santa Fe’s The Kitchen Sink Studios with producer and sound engineer Jono Manson, backed by a phenomenal cast of musicians including Mark Clark, Justin Bransford, Jono Manson, Jordan Wax, Char Rothschild, Felix Peralta, and Rafael Herrera. The album, Land Baby, contains original songs in both English and Spanish. It received several nominations at the 2018 New Mexico Music Awards and went on to win Album of the Year.

Just like Lara’s upbringing and New Mexico itself, her music is a complex yet deeply cohesive mixture of cultures and sounds: deeply rooted but never still, heartfelt and humorous, simultaneously ancient and innovative. She continues to explore her New Mexican musical heritage and write and record songs while living in the Albuquerque area. Her most recent single, "Dear John," was nominated as a finalist in the Americana category at the 2019 New Mexico Music Awards. You can listen to her music learn more about Lara by visiting her website, laramanzanares.com

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CANCELLED:Folk Art Flea Donation Days
Members Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) Family

CANCELLED:Folk Art Flea Donation Days

April 25, 2020

Donations of folk art for the Folk Art Flea cannot be accepted at the Museum of International Folk Art until the museum reopens to the public. Pick-up of folk art donations is currently suspended.

Please be patient and hold on to the folk art that you plan to donate. We DO want it. At the moment, everything is on hold, but there will be donation days in the Fall.

The Flea phone line is being monitored: 505.476.1201

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cancelled--Folk Art Afternoons at the Libraries
Workshop Family

cancelled--Folk Art Afternoons at the Libraries

April 28, 2020
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Instead Join our Educator Kemely Gomez online for Libros en Espanol in partnership with Santa Fe Public Libraries on their SFPL Youtube Channel

Produced In Partnership with Museum of International Folk Art and Santa Fe Public Library. For more information, please contact Kemely Gomez at 505-476-1215.

About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/

Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human creativity and shape a humane world. The museum holds the world’s largest international folk art collection of more than 150,000 objects from six continents and over 150 nations, representing a broad range of global artists whose artistic expressions make Santa Fe an international crossroads of culture. For many visitors, fascination with folk art begins upon seeing the whimsical toys and traditional objects within the Girard Collection. For others, the international textiles, ceramics, carvings and other cultural treasures in the Neutrogena Collection provide the allure.  The museum’s historic and contemporary Latino and Hispano folk art collections, spanning the Spanish Colonial period to modern-day New Mexico, reflect how artists respond to their time and place in ways both delightful and sobering. In 2010, the museum opened the Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience, where exhibitions encourage visitors to exchange ideas on complex issues of human rights and social justice.

 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, NM 87505. (505) 476-1200.

Hours: 10 am to 5 pm daily, May through October; closed Mondays November through April, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.

First Sunday of Every Month is free to NM Residents.

16 and under always FREE

NM Seniors FREE on Wednesdays

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