Events for Mar. 2024

Special event for the Girard Legacy Endowment Fund.

Take the chill off winter and join fellow folk art fans at the festive World of Treasures Auction and Party. During our silent auction, you will be able to bid on more than 60 rare and high-value folk and fine art treasures from around the world.  Enjoy international food and beverages and an after-hours viewing of Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, the Alexander Girard collection. 

An enticing “Buy It Now” boutique, open throughout the evening, will offer more one-of-a-kind treasures, from ethnographic clothing to folk art pieces. “Buy It Now” shopping means it’s all yours once chosen and purchased!

Registration will be open to the public on January 25, 2024. Ticket price is $50 for members and $75 for non-members.  Tickets will go fast, so purchase early. Purchase tickets for the World of Treasures Auction and Party at: https://WorldOfTreasures.eventbrite.com

For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.

Join us for our monthly Family Mornings at Folk Art program featuring storytime, art activity, and explorations in the galleries. FREE program!

This month’s theme: Let’s Make Music with Musician Charlie Lockwood

ASL Interpretation is provided for this program.

Following Dates:

• April 14 - Earth Day for All with Artist Gasali Adeyemo
• May 12 - Paper Art with Papier Mâché
• June 2 - Summer Time!

SOLD OUT!

The Friends of Folk Art invite you to join us for a magical trip to Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico. March 16-23rd

The focus of this trip is to explore the wondrous state of Chiapas, understand its splendid past, honor and appreciate its present, and make a cultural connection from the past to the present.  We are going to use different approaches to understand Chiapas-- from archaeology to folk art, traditional medicine, and popular religiosity.   This trip experience will take you through 3000 years of history.

The trip itinerary includes:  nine days and eight nights.  We will visit four archaeological sites: La Venta, Palenque, Bonampak and Yaxchilan.  Enjoy three indigenous villages: Zinacantan, Tenejapa, San Juan Chamula. Visit museums specializing in textiles, traditional medicine, archaeology, and history.  Stay in the beautiful colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas for four days.  Share with a local family at the Lacandona jungle.  Tour the Sumidero Canyon by boat and enjoy a private concert with the Nandayapa family.  Enjoy a gastronomical experience with the indigenous chef, Claudia Santiz, exploring the flavors of traditional regional cuisine, which differs from other parts of Mexico.

This trip is for FOFA members ONLY.  FOFA members will receive an invitation by email which will include all of the details and the price. A single membership allows access to one ticket. A dual membership allows for two tickets.

For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.

For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

FREE with Museum Admission. Reserve Seats Here

Join us for a screening of " Henry Glassie: Field Work" followed by a Q & A with Henry Glassie, moderated by Carrie Hertz, Curator of Dress and Textiles. Dr. Glassie shares a long history with the Museum of International Folk Art and has worked on multiple projects over the years, including authoring "The Spirit of Folk Art" and curating a major exhibition of Turkish Folk Art in 1991

From Director Pat Collins, ‘Field Work’, is a portrait of the celebrated folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie and is an immersive and meditative film set among the rituals and rhythms of working artists in Brazil, Turkey, North Carolina and Ireland. The film displays the director’s trademark eye for details and the process of the artist’s work is awe-inspiring. Glassie’s subject is folklore and art but his deep abiding love for the people who create it resonates throughout the film. “I don’t study people” Glassie says, “I stand with people and I study the things they create.” Artists like the sculptor Edival Rosas from Salvador in Brazil describe their practice as one where body and spirit are integrated, where in Glassie’s words the creative act brings “a momentary fulfilment of what it is to be human.”

ASL interpretation is available by request. Please e-mail Patricia Sigala by March 13th at: patricia.sigala@dca.nm.gov 

Award-winning travel journalists and Santa Fe residents Judith Fein and Paul J. Ross invite you to experience New Mexico in a completely different way. Their new book, Slow Travel, reveals the secret to opening doors, meeting people, participating in surprising events, experiencing joy, and making each trip — no matter how short or long — deeper, richer, and an adventure that is uniquely yours.

Crisscrossing New Mexico, Judith and Paul present unforgettable adventures readers can personally experience, such as painting with an abstract artist on the Navajo Reservation, visiting a wolf refuge, cruising in a lowrider, hiking in a volcano, gourmet dining at Zuni Pueblo, seeing a ghost, tracking the true Billy the Kid . . . and so much more.

MEET SOME OF THE STARS of Slow Travel New Mexico at a celebration Saturday, March 16, 1 pm — 3 pm at the Museum of International Folk Art auditorium. Judith and Paul will engage and delight as they illuminate how to show up in a place and let it reveal itself to you — on its own terms. It’s not about going off the beaten path. It’s about going off the beaten mental path by learning to look, see, open up, and explore differently. It’s a guide to unforgettable experiences.

Join us for two talks on Folk Art by two Folk Art Scholars and co-authors of Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian. A book signing with the authors will follow their talks.

FREE with Museum admission. Reserve Seats Here

Dr. Henry Glassie, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has written twenty books, based on fieldwork in the United States, Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Brazil. Three of his books, Passing the Time in Ballymenone, The Spirit of Folk Art, and Turkish Traditional Art Today, were named among the notable books of the year by the New York Times. The film by Pat Collins, Henry Glassie: Field Work, was named the best Irish documentary of the year in 2020.  Dr. Glassie also curated  a major exhibition for MOIFA of Turkish Folk Art in 1991.

Dr. Pravina Shukla, Provost Professor, has won six teaching awards including the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is the author of The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India, winner of the Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies and the Davenport Award of the Costume Society of America. She also wrote Costume: Performing Identities through Dress and co-authored The Individual and Tradition.

Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian (Indiana University Press, 2023) Book Description: Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.

What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan.

This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.

ASL Interpretation is provided for this event.

Join us for a screening of Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi, a film by Michael Conti and produced by Holly Mititquq Nordlum. Presented in conjunction with   Protection: Adaptation and Resistance, the film focuses on traditional Inuit tattooing as a way to find identity, healing, and strength in the face of Western society.

Free admission to film. Reserve Seats Here