The Museum is currently closed due to COVID-19 precautions, please visit our online resources page for online exhibits, experiences and recources http://moifa.org/visit/online.html 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 […]
Join State Historian Rob Martinez as he mines the rich music traditions of New Mexico to present romantic music through the centuries. New Mexican, Mexican, Spanish, American and other music forms will be explored, with voice and guitar. Inditas and other folk traditions will show the deep and universal themes of love lost and found, romance […]
In 2020, with a large amount of the world’s population quarantined to their homes, an unexpected ancient tradition found its way into pop culture. It seems like everyone with a kitchen was learning the art of making sourdough bread. Join Ranger Rebecca as she explores the multicultural history of sourdough and traces its long journey […]
Please join us for the second talk in our Speaking of Traditions Virtual Winter Lecture Series, exploring the often overlooked connection and interplay between history, the environment and the resulting cultural landscapes that preserve our heritage. Tune in with New Mexico farmer and author, Stanley Crawford as he presents "Acequias, Mayordoms and Other Norteño Traditions," […]
Richard Ford, Allison Colborne, and Gary Hein have undertaken a study of Royal A. Prentice, an early volunteer who contributed valuable archaeological information to the Museum of New Mexico in the first three decades of the 20th century. Although he published several useful research papers during those years in El Palacio, the quarterly magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, Prentice remains generally unknown […]
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 […]
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 […]
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