A Saint in the City:
Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal.
Opened on June 28, 2007
and closed in Santa Fe
September 30, 2007.
The first exhibition devoted to contemporary arts of Islamic
Africa, and to the life of an African Saint. Developed
by the
Fowler Museum at UCLA», as Passport to Paradise,
the traveling exhibition coveys the ongoing creative spirit
and artistic vitality of Africa today. The exhibition
presents a striking range of 20th and 21st century art
forms associated with the Mouride movement, a Sufi sect
in Senegal with a rapidly expanding diaspora throughout
the world, especially in American cities.
Village
of Painters
The patuas»
of West Bengal, India, have a long and contested social
history in the region. Traditionally, they wandered from
village to village singing their own compositions while
unrolling painted scrolls on themes divided into three
genres: religious songs, social commentary, and personal
experience narratives. The exhibit shows a wide range
of scrolls and examines how the patuas are keeping their
art alive in today's changing world of West Bengal. The
exhibition opened October 29, 2006 and closed April 29,
2007; was curated by Dr. Frank J. Korom, and accompanied
by an exhibition
catalog».
Power
Dressing:
Men's Fashion & Prestige in Africa»
A traveling exhibition organized by the
Newark Museum», Newark, New Jersey that was
on display in Santa Fe from December 16 2006 through February
18 2007. The Museum of International Folk Art was the
only venue west of the Mississippi. Power Dressing
brings together over forty outstanding examples
of male attire from the throughout the continent and spanning
a period from the 19th century to the present-day.
Arte
y Amistad (Art and Friendship): Selections from the Diane
and Sandy Besser Collection of Contemporary Hispanic Art
» A promised gift to the Museum of International
Folk Art, the exhibition highlights the relationship between
artists and collectors, and issues in contemporary Hispanic
Arts through the works of twelve New Mexican artists.
Although Sandy Besser and his late wife Diane collected
many things--Art & Antiques magazine named
the couple as one of the top 100 collectors in the US
in 2002-- their carefully selected works of contemporary
Hispanic art stand out as one of the most intriguing,
vibrant, aesthetic, political and passionate groupings
in their home. The exhibition opened March 12, 2004 and
closed September 4, 2005. Enter
Arte Y Amistad»
Vernacular
Visionaries: International Outsider Art in Context
On
exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art from
October 21, 2003 through August 7, 2004. Some people consider
"outsider or raw art" to be a glimpse at the
artist's interior and private world. The term also refers
to the art of marginalized people on the fringe of society
and is commonly used to describe the art of those unschooled
artists who live and work at a distance from prevailing
artistic trends and styles. Annie Carlano, Curator of
European and North American Collections at the Museum
of International Folk Art and a team of international
scholars brought together five twentieth center visionary
artists whose work is steeped in culture and profound
spiritual context. They are: Gedewon, Martín Ramírez,
Hung Tung, Anna Zemánková and Carlo.
See Vernacular Visionaries»