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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
Escape frigid Santa Fe and join the Friends of Folk Art for a trip to sunny Phoenix. Highlights include the spectacular Musical Instrument Museum, the Heard Museum’s internationally-acclaimed Native American collections and an evening tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s westerm home and studio. Phoenix collectors of Navajo rugs, art glass, and folk art […]
The varied cultural mix found throughout the vast region of Brazil not only draws from the original indigenous inhabitants, but also from the Portuguese colonists who began to settle there in the sixteenth century, as well as the enslaved Africans brought by the Europeans. The majority of work in the exhibit was from the twentieth […]
An exploration of the dawn of world cuisine as we know—and consume it— today opened last year at the Museum of International Folk Art with New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más, on view through January 5, 2014. Digging deeper into the topics covered in New World Cuisine will be FUZE.SW 2013. […]
Join the Friends of Folk Art as they travel to Taos to explore the lives of two remarkable women, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Millicent Rogers, as seen through the eyes of their biographers, Lois P. Rudnick and Cherie Burns. Visits to the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House and Millicent Rogers Museum, talks by the biographers, […]
Members of The Circles are invited to shop the Foundation Shops Tent Sale one night before the public from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 4 on Milner Plaza (located between the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art). Shop and save 25 to 80 percent off […]
The Friends of Folk Art invite their members and prospective members to Zocalo, the brilliant residential complex designed by world-renowned architext Ricardo Legoretta. Tour homes by several collectors, learn about Legoretta and Zocalo design, greet fellow FOFA members and enjoy refreshments. Not a member of the Friends of Folk Art? Join here!
1:00-2:00pm Panel discussion with exhibition artists about what is happening in communities, AIDS advocacy, education and awarenessCabordino Mustafá Jethá, Mozambique Janet Nkubana, Rwanda Roberto Domingo Gil Esteban, Cuba Claudio Jimenez Quispe, Peru Diana Moya Lujan, New Mexico2:00-4:00pm- Hands-on community art projects protest signs and story boxes
1-2pm Panel discussion about the Use of folk arts to commemorate, memorialize and celebrate people who hve died from, or are living with HIV/AIDS with participating artists:abordino Mustafá Jethá, Mozambique Lulama Sihlabeni, South Africa Roberto Domingo Gil Esteban, Cuba Claudio Jimenez Quispe, Peru Andrew Montoya, New Mexico 2-4pm Hands-on community art art making projects iron […]
Mikio Toki Demonstrates Making Japanese Kites in conjunction with Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan. Hands-on Project for all ages. Museum Visitors are invited to help construct a kite to be flown at the Community Celebration Thurday evening July 11 at the Railyard Park.
Let’s Talk About This: Folk Artists Respond to HIV/AIDS opens in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience on July 7, 2013 in conjunction with the International Folk Art Market – Santa Fe. This is the fourth in a series of annual exhibitions in the gallery and runs […]
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