Sculpture Horse and Rider Patrocinio Barela (ca 1900-1964) Taos, New Mexico 1950's Museum of International Folk Art   The Contemporary Hispano and Latino collection covers the time period of roughly 1900 to the present and is made up of a significant number of art works that cross and blur many fronteras (borders). At this time, the objects are predominantly from New Mexico and the US Southwest. In the 21st century the collection will expand its focus to include works by artists of Spanish, Indigenous, Mexican, Central American, Caribbean and South American decent who are working and residing in the United States. Active collecting will take place in the Border States and other areas with significant and increasing Latino populations. The museum also will add to its WPA-era New Mexico art collection. The Museum of International Folk Art welcomes the opportunity, through its collecting and programming, to address issues of cultural identity and how “Latino” artists from many different backgrounds and communities articulate the diverse nature and realities of themselves and their experiences. Such an inclusive approach allows for comparisons and acknowledges the multiplicity and complexity of Latino artistic and cultural identity in the United States and Puerto Rico. The collection includes paintings, drawings, digital prints, paño (handkerchief) and other prison arts, mixed media, ceramics, and the contemporary and traditional arts of Spanish New Mexico and Southern Colorado including religious works, furniture, tin, weaving, embroidery and mixed media, painted and unpainted bultos and retablos. Bulto San Acacio Horacio Valdez Dixon, New Mexico 1976 Museum of International Folk Art Ceramic Tribute a Emma Tenayuca, 1916-1999 Elizabeth Geronimo Uresti San Antonio, Texas 2001 Gift of Friends of Folk Art Trastero Abad Lucero Albuquerque, New Mexico 1999 International Folk Art Foundation Retablo Cristo en Nueva York Nicholas Herrera El Rito, New Mexico 2002 International Folk Art Foundation Oil painting Red Flowers Pedro López Cervántez Texico, New Mexico 1937 International Folk Art Foundation Watercolor panel on hide Matachines on Canyon Road Monica Sosaya Halford Santa Fe, New Mexico 2002 International Folk Art Foundation About the Collections   Curators   Collections African   Asian & Middle Eastern Contemporary Hispano & Latino   European & North American   Latin American   Spanish Colonial   Textiles & Costumes