Events for Oct. 13, 2024

Join us for a look into the world of museum collections care and preservation.  This lecture will explore the unique methods and complex challenges in stewarding the Museum of International Folk Art’s 160,000 objects!  

Kate Macuen is the Director of Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art. She has worked for MOIFA since 2021. Prior to relocating to Santa Fe, NM, Macuen spent over a decade working for the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office and Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. She brings decades of experience working in the museum field and specializes in collection stewardship and preventative conservation. Registration is free for FOFA Members.  All participants must be current members of the FOFA.  A Single membership allows access to one ticket. A Dual membership allows for two tickets. 

Registration will open on Sunday, September 21st.

For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

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

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

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.