• Gustave Baumann’s Book of Saints: A Conversation with Tom Leech and Carmella Padilla

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Join us for a talk with Tom Leech, Director of the Press at the Palace of the Governors, and award-winning author, Carmella Padilla. The two will discuss their collaboration on a new limited edition book, Gustave Baumann’s Book of Saints, featuring the Baumann’s never-before-seen woodcuts and an unpublished essay by Mary Austin.   Click Here to […]

  • Virtual Tour: Alexander Girard’s Nativities

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    During this festive holiday season, the Museum of International Folk Art is pleased to present a new virtual tour, "Alexander Girard’s Nativities". On the tour you will be treated to folk art Nativity sets from around the world collected by Alexander and Susan Girard.  The tour includes historical background, fun facts about Girard’s original Nativity […]

  • Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Enchanted with MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries?  Here’s an opportunity to tour  —virtually— Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel. Join us Tuesdays at 11am Mountain Time. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 […]

  • Native Pottery Demonstration Series Rose Pacheco (Santo Domingo) and Billy Veale

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Although her works are considered contemporary, Rose describes herself as a traditional potter. Her clay is made from materials she sources from the hills of Kewa Pueblo (Santo Domingo Pueblo) and her homemade paints are created from plants such as prickly pear and prunes. Rose hand coils her bowls to shape them and then decorates […]

  • Bunad in a Multicultural Norway

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    This program is in conjunction with the exhibit Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia Dress helps us fashion identity, history, community, and place. Dress has been harnessed as a metaphor for both progress and stability, the exotic and the utopian, oppression and freedom, belonging and resistance. Dressing with Purpose examines three Scandinavian dress traditions—Swedish folkdräkt, […]

  • Organ Concert in St. Francis Auditorium

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    St. Francis Auditorium $15 general, $10 NM residents, $7.50 MNMF New Mexico Museum of Art Celebrated organist Maxine Thévenot will perform a concert on the recently-restored Frederick R. Haas Pipe Organ in the St. Francis Auditorium. The concert will include traditional holiday music as well as a selection of organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, […]

  • Fashioning Identities: A Companion to Dressing with Purpose.

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Fashioning Identities: A Companion to Dressing with Purpose. This display in Lloyd’s Treasure Chest Gallery serves as a companion to Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia by offering more examples from our permanent collection of Sámi duodji, textile-making tools, and regional clothing from Northern Europe. December 12, 2021 - February 19, 2023. 

  • Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    By the 20th century, many in Sweden worried about the ravages of industrialization, urbanization, and emigration on traditional ways of life. Norway was gripped in a struggle for national independence. Indigenous Sámi communities—artificially divided by national borders and long resisting colonial control—rose up in protests that demanded political recognition and sparked cultural renewal. Within this […]

  • Virtual Tour: Alexander Girard’s Nativities

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    During this festive holiday season, the Museum of International Folk Art is pleased to present a new virtual tour, "Alexander Girard’s Nativities". On the tour you will be treated to folk art Nativity sets from around the world collected by Alexander and Susan Girard.  The tour includes historical background, fun facts about Girard’s original Nativity […]

  • Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Enchanted with MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries?  Here’s an opportunity to tour  —virtually— Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel. Join us Tuesdays at 11am Mountain Time. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 […]

  • Let’s Take a Look – December 2021

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    On December 15, 2021, MIAC staff are returning to the museum’s virtual lobby to look at your treasures for Let’s Take a Look. Bring a weaving, ceramic, piece of jewelry (or something else!) to our Zoom meeting, and curator of ethnology Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo), curator of archaeological research collections Julia Clifton, and other […]

  • ENGAGING THE FUTURE: Conversations with Goodman Fellowship Artist David Naranjo (Santa Clara, San Juan and Cochiti)

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    His work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Singular Couture Gallery, FarahNheight Gallery, and has been featured in the Surface Design Journal and on the cover of Local Flavor Magazine 2018 August issue. Symbols and iconography depicted on pottery and embroidery are not only for ornate decorative purposes, but carry great […]