The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery exhibits nearly 300 vessels created by outstanding ceramic artists of the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona, from the inception of pottery-making in the Southwest up to the present. A study center for serious scholars, collectors, and visitors to the region, the gallery opened in 1997 through the generous […]
Breath. It is one of the first things we do in life and one of the last, but in between we generally don’t give it much thought. In this exhibition, contemporary artists find inventive ways to express this fundamental and elusive act by measuring it, scanning it, enclosing it, evoking it, and reminding us of […]
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 […]
Hands-On Activity Kit for Spring Break Fun! Make your own Seashell Mosaic, Sailor’s Valentine! FREE art activity kits provided by the Museum of International Folk Art. Kits will be available for pick up at the Southside Library starting March 16th during the library’s regular curbside hours. Tues the 16th, Wed the 17th, Thurs the 18th, & […]
Film Synopsis: "And Those Who Dance it Surrender Their Hearts to Each Other is a portrait of Lone Piñon, a Northern New Mexican string band celebrating their region’s cultural roots. With fiddles, upright bass, accordions, vihuela, mandolin, guitars, jarana huasteca, and vocals in Spanish, English, Nahuatl and P’urepecha, they play a wide spectrum of the traditional […]
Carlsbad Caverns is one of New Mexico’s most renowned geological locations. Following its designation as a National Monument in 1923, painter Will Shuster, true to his adventurous spirit, was one of the first artists to capture the magnificence of the caves. The next year, he and fellow artist Walter Mruk made the trip to Carlsbad […]
When we think of New Mexico history, we sometimes forget that the humans in the narrative have often been dependent on their equine companions. The influence of New Mexico on the history of the horse in the Americas is both fascinating and profound. From the pre-historic ancestors of the horse found here millions of years […]
Kits de arte Biblioteca de Southside / 6599 Jaguar Dr, Santa Fe, NM 87507 Martes, miércoles, jueves y sábado de 12-5: 30 PM (6 al 10 de abril) Museum of International Folk Art / 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Viernes 9 de abril de 12 a 5 PM Erik Speyer es un artista […]
Grab-and-Go Kits Southside Library / 6599 Jaguar Dr, Santa Fe, NM 87507 (April 6th - 10th) Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday from 12:00- 5:30pm Museum of International Folk Art / 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505 (Staff Parking Lot) Friday, April 9th from 12-5 pm Erik Speyer is a watercolor artist who writes and illustrates children’s […]
Jacob Thomas Frye was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is an enrolled member of Tesuque Pueblo. He is a fourth-generation potter and painter. Frye comes from a diverse ethnic background that is true New Mexican. Frye’s mother is a traditional potter from Tesuque Pueblo, and his father is an artist from Ft. Collins, […]
Dr, Foster is is the author of The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore (2015), Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai (2009) and numerous articles on Japanese folklore, cultural heritage, and media. He also co-edited The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World (2016) and UNESCO on […]
At the turn of the 20th Century, most of the arid land east of Las Cruces, New Mexico was ranch land. Cattle, sheep, and goat ranches filled the Tularosa Basin, the Oscuro Range, and the surrounding countryside. Most of these ranches were small, privately owned pieces of land supplemented by large parcels of federal and […]
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