Events

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

MAKE & TAKE @ MOIFA
Family

MAKE & TAKE @ MOIFA

November 3, 2024 through December 8, 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Join us in the Hands-on Studio at MOIFA for art projects, coloring sheets, and self-guided treasure hunts. Add to your explorations at the museum with fun art making, facilitated by our fantastic MOIFA docents. 

Date and Time: 

November 3rd | Make a Notched Frame, inspired by Tramp Art

November 10th | Make a Notched Frame, inspired by Tramp Art

December 1st | Make a Szopki Pop-up Cards

December 8th | Make a Szopki Pop-up Cards

The program is free with Museum Admission. Museum admission is always free for Kids and Members.

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An Enduring Spirit: Ukrainian Voices Through Art and Film
Featured Event

An Enduring Spirit: Ukrainian Voices Through Art and Film

November 8, 2024 through December 13, 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

FREE 

Join us for this compelling five-part Friday Film series, presented in conjunction with Center for Contemporary Arts, and experience a cinematic journey through the heart of Ukraine’s struggle. Echoing the themes of Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine, this film series deals with topics of loss, resilience, and the prevailing spirit of human creativity. Each film provides a unique perspective on the lives affected by the ongoing conflict, highlighting personal stories of hope, defiance, and the quest for solace amidst destruction. Film series schedule provided below with film trailers linked.

In the Rearview (2023) | Director: Maciek Hamela | Friday, November 1, 2024 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) | MOIFA

A small van traverses war-torn roads, becoming a fragile sanctuary for Ukrainians fleeing their homes. Through intimate confessions and shared fears, this film captures the transient refuge and relentless hope of those seeking escape from the ravages of war.

Rule of Two Walls (2023) | Director: David Gutnik | Friday, November 8, 2024 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) | MOIFA

This raw and atmospheric portrait documents the lives of artists who remain in Ukraine. Their creative practices, whether in visual art, music, or performance, become acts of survival and defiance, offering a glimmer of hope and resilience in the face of adversity.

Intercepted (2024) | Director: Oksana Karpovych | Friday, November 22, 2024 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) | Center for Contemporary Arts

Pairing compositions that capture the unsettled aftermath of invasion with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families back home, this film starkly contrasts Ukrainian’s everyday reality with Russia’s brutal propaganda machine, highlighting the callous disregard for civilian lives.

20 Days in Mariupol (2023) | Director: Mstyslav Chernov | Friday, December 6, 2024 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) | MOIFA

Trapped in besieged Mariupol, a team of Ukrainian journalists documents the atrocities of the Russian invasion. Their harrowing footage—dying children, mass graves, and the bombing of a maternity hospital—captures some of the war’s most defining and devastating moments.

Porcelain War (2024) | Directors: Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev | Friday, December 13, 2024 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM) | MOIFA

Amidst the chaos in war-torn Kharkiv, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind, defiantly creating beauty while defending their homeland.  Their story showcases the indomitable human spirit and sustaining power of art, proving that even amidst war, the passion for life and creation prevails. 

Image: Still from Porcelain War

We are grateful to the International Folk Art Foundation, Friends of Folk Art, and donors to the Museum of New Mexico Exhibition Development Fund, including Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn, Gwenn and Eivind Djupedal, Rosalind Doherty, Barbara Forslund, David Vogel and Larry Fulton, The Gale Family Foundation, and TOKo Santa Fe for their support of Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine and its related programming.

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Folk Art Flea Fall Donation Days
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA)

Folk Art Flea Fall Donation Days

November 9, 2024
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea.

FOFA is seeking folk art donations of gently used textiles, clothing, ceramics, masks, wood carvings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and folk art décor items to be sold at the 2025 Folk Art Flea. If you have folk, tribal, fine art, decorative art, clothing with an ethnic or folk art look, or art books that you are ready to recycle to other art lovers then please join us for our spring donation days.  All folk art donations are tax deductible. Anyone can donate!  If you have friends who are cleaning out, downsizing, or holding an estate sale, please let them know about this special opportunity to make a difference at one of Santa Fe’s most celebrated institutions, the Museum of International Folk Art, by recycling their art items to the Folk Art Flea.

BRING YOUR FOLK ART DONATIONS TO FOFA’S FALL DONATION DAYS:

Saturday, November 9, from10 am to 2 pm

Drive to the back of the Museum of International Folk Art parking lot and look for the storage pods.  WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THEN!

FOFA IS NOW ACCEPTING DONATIONS YEAR-ROUND.

If you are unable to make one of the donation days, call 505.476.1201 to arrange pick-up or drop off information.

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