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The Girard Collection: Enduring Appeal It is entirely possible to be both delighted and overwhelmed by the Alexander Girard’s one-of-a-kind exhibition—even after more than twenty-five years. The vastness of the exhibit spac...
Santa Fe, NM – New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (NMDCA) proudly announces that Charlie Lockwood has been appointed to serve as executive director of Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) on Museum Hill in Santa Fe. Lockwood will begin in thi...
Santa Fe, NM- Parkas are unique garments which embody the creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation of their makers. The latest exhibition from Museum of International Folk Art explores the art ...
Santa Fe, NM – Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) presents the 12th annual Folk Art Flea Saturday, Ma...
Santa Fe, NM - The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) presents La Cartonería Mexicana...
Santa Fe, New Mexico – Musica buena means good music, and that is what the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs’ W...
Santa Fe, New Mexico - New Mexico residents will be bringing their precious heirlooms and garage sale treasures to Milner Plaza on Museum Hill on June 14, 2022, when ANTIQUES ROADSHOW arrives in the capital city....
Santa Fe, New Mexico - New Mexico residents will be bringing their precious heirlooms and garage sale treasures to Milner Plaza on Museum Hill on June 14, 2022, when ANTIQUES ROADSHOW arrives in the capital city....
For Immediate Release Santa Fe, New Mexico – The village of Magdalena will come together for an afternoon of m...
Santa Fe, NM - Museum of International Folk Art presents the 11th Annual Folk Art Flea on Saturday, June 11, with the largest and most diverse inventory in its history and a spacious new location to accommodate folk art from around the...
Santa Fe, NM – The Museum of International Folk Art is proud to present “Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia” opening in the Neutrogena Galle...
In collaboration with Museum Hill partners, a new thematic display, “Glass: Selections from the Collection,” has moved into Lloyd’s Treasure Chest at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA). This exhibi...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked a...
The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) is excited to present a virtual “charla” (chat) with filmmaker Cody Edison on his award-winning film “And Those Who Dance it Surrender Their Hearts to Each Other” at 2 p.m. on W...
The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) is excited to announce that it has been approved for a $40,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the upcoming exhibition “To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka.” MOIFA’s projec...
Explore one of the world’s largest folk art collections and much more at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA). The museum, located on beautiful Museum Hill in Santa Fe, safely reopened to the public on Feb. 4, in accordance with COV...
Germany, c. 1840
Collection Jonathan Parks
Belt or ribbon looms, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria, 17th and 19th centuries, wood. Photograph by Ricardo Martinez.
Strip cloth and heddle pulley, Baule, Ivory Coast, 20th century, cotton, wood. Photograph by Ricardo Martinez.
“Italian Villa with Boats,” Museum of International Folk Art (DCA), Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo by Blair Clark.
Mexican Kitchen
Girard Foundation Collection in the Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico, DCA, Santa Fe.
Black Rag Dolls
United States, 19th-20th century
Girard Foundation Collection in the Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico, DCA, Santa Fe.
L to R: Owl Back, Women's Rights, Medallion, Young America, Tripod 1891
Hosea Hayden, 1820-1897, Union County, Indiana
Collection Jan Petry
Storytime takes place in Welcome lounge, and Hands-on art activities take place in the museum atrium. After storytime, younger children can make your own beaded necklace, and older children make Huichol inspired beaded bowls. Then do a family treasure hunt in our ’Common Bonds’ exhibit to find horses, or explore the last day of our ’Beadwork’ adorns […]
Places of Memory, paired members of two Indigenous women-led organizations: Tewa Women United (Española, New Mexico) and the National Association of the Families of the Abducted, Detained, and Disappeared of Peru/ANFASEP (Ayacucho, Peru) to explore the culturally specific ways they use art to heal community and individual trauma. Street Art and Activism, was a convening […]
The unique installation of A Gathering of Voices reflects how Espinar has lived with folk art, animating the objects through groupings that guide the viewer to cross-cultural comparisons of certain motifs, forms, or techniques. These “inhabited spaces” are re-created in the gallery, along with deeper investigations of individual artists, their workshops, or the traditions they […]
Saturday, October 27 from 11 am to 2 pm and Saturday, November 17 from 11 am to 2 pm Bring your tax deductible donations to the Museum of International Folk Art. If you are not able to donate during these days, or have large or heavy objects, call the Folk Art Flea Hotline 505.476.1201 […]
Saturday, November 3, 2018 Join us for this Day of the Dead gala celebration—Noche de Muertos—and support the Museum of International Folk Art’s (MOIFA) exhibitions and education programs. Then stay for Post-Noche, the spirited after-party. Noche de Muertos tickets: $200 per person include: Dinner by Santa Fe’s favorite chefs Music and dancing Calavera-style face painting ($25 donation) […]
Come and decorate sugar skulls (Calaveras de azure), make paper altars (nichos), and experience Calavera face painting. Sample traditional Mexican treats and listen to Los Flores del Valle musical performance. Come dressed as a calaca (skeleton). Bring flowers, candles and/or a memento to add to our community altar. One our most popular events of the […]
Join six Museum Hill partners for a traditional Matanza pig roast, Native dances, storytelling, bead sale and exchange, hands‑on activities, artist demonstrations, refreshments, and more! Admission and all hands-on activities are FREE for New Mexico residents and guests alike. 10:00 AM • Sky City Buffalo Elk Dance Group (Acoma Pueblo). Wheelwright Museum of the American […]
In her lecture, Lisa Stone, curator of the Roger Brown Study Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will ponder German connections to American tramp art, and variations on the urge to carve and assemble, including Junkerhaus in Germany, Karl Junker’s astonishingly original tramp art-esque architectural wonder that is carved inside and […]
Santa Fe Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and participants in his social engagement and ceramic installation Every One, a work of art and activism about the more than 4,000 cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. Created in collaboration with photographer Kali Spitzer and numerous contributing individuals and organizations whose handmade beads rehumanize […]
Individuals and organization across North America participated in this social collaboration, creating a monumental portrait of loss comprised of more than 4,000 ceramic beads, each representing a missing or murdered indigenous woman in Canada.
Sunday, August 5, 2018 at the Museum of International Folk Art from 1-4pm 1-1:30pm: Free performance by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale 1:45–2:30: Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse in conversation 2:30-4:00: Hands-on plastic textile making and pop-up shop Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Funded […]
Tues, 7/24 & Thurs, 7/26 Huichol Beading Tues, 7/31 & Thurs, 8/2 Make a Weaving with Trash Tues, 8/7 & Thurs, 8/9 Glass Bead Design Group Contact: Patricia Sigala Telephone: 505-476-1212 Email: patricia.sigala@state.nm.us Museum entrance free for Arts Alive! participants during workshop hours. ALL WORKSHOPS ARE FROM 10AM–2PM Programs begin on the hour. Children must […]
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