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STORAGE FACILITY Lloyd's
Treasure Chest provides visitors with the opportunity to interact
with works not on display in the gallery, providing a context for further appreciation
and understanding of folk heritage, traditions, and aesthetics. Here, visitors
have the opportunity to experience the behind-the-scenes museum activities and
gain insight into aspects of preservation and conservation relating to the diverse
works, and see videos about the collection. Nuevo
México: El Corazon de La Cultura in Lloyd's Treasure
Chest, through December 31, 2009 Nuevo
México: El Corazón de la Cultura, or New Mexico: The Heart of Culture, showcases
the Hispano/Latino arts of New Mexico from the early colonial period to present.
This exhibition presents a unique opportunity to view these works of art up close
and personal in Lloyd's Treasure Chest while the Hispanic Heritage Wing undergoes
renovations. Lloyd's Treasure Chest offers visitors interactive displays about
collections and how museums care for collections. All genres from metal smithing,
weaving, and new media to straw appliqué, tin work, art made from recycled materials,
and items traded and artifacts that would have come on the Manila galleons are
also included. El Corazón de la Cultura promises to have something for
everyone of all ages. (Photo:Sacred Heart, woodcarving by Nicholas Herrera,
1990's. Gift from Susan M. Hall to Museum of International Folk Art, MNM, DCA)
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
FEATURING THE NEUTROGENA COLLECTION
The
inaugural exhibition, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, was co-curated
by donor Lloyd Cotsen and independent curator Mary Hunt Kahlenberg. The exhibition
and new wing opened in August 1998. A catalogue on the collection, The Extraordinary
in the Ordinary has been published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Essays focus on
various aspects of world traditions in Africa, Asia and the Americas, with topics
ranging from ceremonial cloths of the Congo, to court robes of China, and to Venetian
gondola prows. (Photograph right by Kitty Leaken, installation of The
Extraordinary in the Ordinary)

The second exhibition drawn from the collection opened in the Summer of 2000.
Curiouser and Curiouser: A Walk Through The Looking-Glass presents
objects in a setting inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland and
Through the Looking Glass. The Curator and Exhibition Designer collaborated
to display objects in ways that challenged visitor's perceptions. For example,
one room is a library of giant-sized books (photograph Curiouser & Curiouser
exhibition by Paul Smutko, right) to invite visitors to leaf through textile
"books". Innovative theatrical lighting and other techniques delighted
children, and the young at heart. Museum educators collaborated with the Santa
Fe Public Library in presenting summer reading programs, Read 'Round The World
(Summer 2000) and Once Upon A Planet (Summer 2001). School age students
participating in the program had art and writing workshops at the museum and at
the libraries. The Summer Reading program was highlighted with Museum program
with play & puppet performances, all ages art activities, and readings by
the participants themselves. The exhibition closed March 30, 2002.
The
third exhibition drawn exclusively from the collection was Gathering Threads:
The Heart of the Neutrogena Collection. The exhibition showcased the variety
and range of human ingenuity and ability, which extends across cultures and time,
all within the medium of textiles. Textiles have the ability to connect us- they
are the common ground upon which we all stand (or sleep under, or wrap ourselves
in). When these connections become visible, we can begin to understand how we
are all part of the global community, linked by a common thread.

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