Events

There’s always something exciting happening at the Museum of International Folk Art! Join us for our many programs listed below.

NM RESIDENT FREE SUNDAY
Family

NM RESIDENT FREE SUNDAY

May 1, 2022
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

New Mexico residents admitted FREE the first Sunday of each month. Youth 16 and under and Museum of New Mexico Foundation members are always free. We are open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Come Explore our engaging exhibits!

 

 

About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org

706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, NM 87505. (505) 476-1200.

Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human creativity and shape a humane world. The museum holds the world’s largest international folk art collection of more than 150,000 objects from six continents and over 150 nations, representing a broad range of global artists whose artistic expressions make Santa Fe an international crossroads of culture. For many visitors, fascination with folk art begins upon seeing the whimsical toys and traditional objects within the Girard Collection. For others, the international textiles, ceramics, carvings and other cultural treasures in the Neutrogena Collection provide the allure.  The museum’s historic and contemporary Latino and Hispano folk art collections, spanning the Spanish Colonial period to modern-day New Mexico, reflect how artists respond to their time and place in ways both delightful and sobering. In 2010, the museum opened the Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience, where exhibitions encourage visitors to exchange ideas on complex issues of human rights and social justice

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What Goes on in a Box of 100 Yōkai? A conversation between monster makers
Lectures and Talks Featured Event

What Goes on in a Box of 100 Yōkai? A conversation between monster makers

May 4, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

FREE wtih museum admission

Junya Kōno is a yōkai scholar and artist. He teaches Yōkai Tourism at Kyoto’s Saga University of the Arts. In 2008, Kōno founded the yōkai student art collective Hyakuyōbako (Box of 100 Yōkai), and has since organized yōkai-themed events in Kyoto, such as Ichijō Hyakki Yagyō, an annual yōkai costume parade that emulates the famous Hyakki Yagyō emaki (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons scroll painting). In 2018, Kōno began working as a collaborator on MOIFA’s exhibition, Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.

Misaki Yasaka is an artist, a member of the yōkai art collective, Hyakuyōbako (Box of 100 Yōkai), and a recent graduate of Kyoto’s Saga University of the Arts. She collaborates with Kōno to create yōkai-themed events in Kyoto and and performs as a yōkai at haunted spaces. She has exhibited her artwork in Japan and currently in MOIFA’s exhibition, Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan. She is also featured in the exhibition’s immersive Japanese ghost house performing traditional Japanese ghost stories.

Junya Kōno is a yōkai scholar and artist. He teaches yōkai tourism as a lecturer in the Department of Tourism Design at Kyoto’s Saga University of the Arts. In 2008, Kōno founded the yōkai student art collective Hyakuyōbako (Box of 100 Yōkai), and has since organized yōkai-themed events in Kyoto, such as Ichijō Hyakki Yagyō, an annual yōkai costume parade that emulates the famous Hyakki Yagyō emaki (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons scroll painting), the Raiden Yōkai Train; and the Mononoke Art Market, a festive market for yōkai arts and crafts. In 2018, Kōno began working as a collaborator on MOIFA’s exhibition, Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan. He involved his students in writing and filming traditional Japanese-style ghost storytelling performances for the exhibition and he played a pivotal role in helping to develop ideas for the exhibition’s obake yashiki (monster house). In 2019, he spent three weeks in Santa Fe creating life-size paper mâche and clay monsters to populate the monster house. Kōno also wrote the chapter, “Yōkai: An Artist’s Perspective,” for the exhibition book, Yōkai: Ghosts, Demons, & Monsters of Japan

Misaki Yasaka is an artist, a member of the yōkai art collective, Hyakuyōbako (Box of 100 Yōkai), and a recent graduate of Kyoto’s Saga University of the Arts. She collaborates with Kōno to create yōkai-themed events in Kyoto and and performs as a yōkai at haunted spaces. She has exhibited her artwork in Japan and currently in MOIFA’s exhibition, Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan. She is also featured in the exhibition’s immersive Japanese ghost house performing traditional Japanese ghost stories.

Photo credits: Junya Kōno with his creation Ao Bōzu. Photo courtesy of Junya Kōno.

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Folk Art Flea Donation Days
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA)

Folk Art Flea Donation Days

May 7, 2022 through May 8, 2022
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Bring your tax-deductible folk art donations to MOIFA rear parking lot, 706 Camino Lejo, or call 505-476-1201 to make other arrangements.

Proceeds from the Folk Art Flea support education and exhibition programs of the Museum of International Folk Art through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation (MNMF), a private 501c3 nonprofit organization.

For more information, go to: https://www.museumfoundation.org/events/folk-art-flea/

SHOP THE FLEA

Saturday, June 11, 10 am – 3 pm

Free Admission

Early Bird Shopping 9 am – 10 am

Friends of Folk Art members shop early to enjoy the best selection.

To join, call 505-216-0829.

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All ages Yōkai art making event
Featured Event Family

All ages Yōkai art making event

May 7, 2022
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join visiting Japanese Yōkai artists Junya Kōno and Misaki Yasaka for an all ages Yōkai hands-on art making workshop.

Drop in anytime between 2-4 pm to make your own Japanese accordian book filled wtih monsters!

FREE with Museum Admission

Junya Kōno is a yōkai scholar and artist. He teaches Yōkai Tourism at Kyoto’s Saga University of the Arts. In 2008, Kōno founded the yōkai student art collective Hyakuyōbako (Box of 100 Yōkai), and has since organized yōkai-themed events in Kyoto, such as Ichijō Hyakki Yagyō, an annual yōkai costume parade that emulates the famous Hyakki Yagyō emaki (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons scroll painting). In 2018, Kōno began working as a collaborator on MOIFA’s exhibition, Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.

Misaki Yasaka is an artist, a member of the Hyakuyōbako, (Box of 100 Yōkai) , and and a recent graduate of Kyoto’s Saga University of the Arts. She collaborates with Kōno to create yōkai-themed events in Kyoto and and performs as a yōkai at haunted spaces. She has exhibited her artwork in Japan and currently in MOIFA’s exhibition, Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan. She is also featured in the exhibition’s immersive Japanese ghost house performing traditional Japanese ghost stories.

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Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five
Lectures and Talks

Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

May 10, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Catch our last 2 virtuals tours till end of June!... Can’t wait to have a guided look at MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries? Here’s an opportunity to tour or even re-visit—virtually—Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel with fantastic MOIFA docents.  Tuesdays at 11am Mountain Time. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 minutes. Register in advance for dates with links below:

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Family Mornings At Folk Art
Family Workshop

Family Mornings At Folk Art

May 14, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Join us at the museum on the Second Saturday of the Month for our Family Mornings at Folk Art program featuring storytime, art activity, and explorations in the galleries. FREE Family Program with Free museum admission included

  • May 14th - Animals in Folk Art  

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FOLK ART FLEA DONATION DAYS
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA)

FOLK ART FLEA DONATION DAYS

May 14, 2022 through May 15, 2022
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Bring your tax-deductible folk art donations to MOIFA rear parking lot, 706 Camino Lejo, or call 505-476-1201 to make other arrangements.

Proceeds from the Folk Art Flea support education and exhibition programs of the Museum of International Folk Art through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation (MNMF), a private 501c3 nonprofit organization.

For more information, go to: https://www.museumfoundation.org/events/folk-art-flea/

SHOP THE FLEA

Saturday, June 11, 10 am – 3 pm

Free Admission

Early Bird Shopping 9 am – 10 am

Friends of Folk Art members shop early to enjoy the best selection.

To join, call 505-216-0829.

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FRIENDS OF FOLK ART PRESENTS A MEMBERS ONLY EVENT: MODERN MAYAN TEXTILES with Beverley Spears, FAIA
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) Lectures and Talks

FRIENDS OF FOLK ART PRESENTS A MEMBERS ONLY EVENT: MODERN MAYAN TEXTILES with Beverley Spears, FAIA

May 15, 2022
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) are invited hear local expert Beverley Spears share her research and knowledge of the ancient form of Guatemalan textiles. Learn how to distinguish which area textiles come from by their shape, color and weaving. Beverley will also share photographs of her extensive collection of Mayan textiles. Join in the fun and wear your favorite huipil!

All participants must be current members of the Friends of Folk Art. A Single membership allows access to one ticket. A Dual membership allows for two tickets, but each member must register separately.

If you are not a FOFA member and would like to join, please visit: https://www.museumfoundation.org/friends/friends-of-folk-art/

FOFA requires proof of vaccination and booster to attend this gathering. This gathering is subject to current COVID Protocols. Masks are required.

Beverley Spears founded Spears Architects in 1981 offering commercial and residential design, historic preservation, urban design and landscape architecture. In 2011 the firm, reorganized as Spears Horn Architects, was recognized by the American Institute of Architects as the New Mexico Firm of the Year.

In 1974, after earning a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completing her internship in Houston, she moved to Santa Fe as a licensed architect.  She has been a licensed landscape architect since 1986. Beverley has lectured widely on architectural topics and is the author of American Adobes and also Early Churches of Mexico, an Architect’s View, both published by UNM Press.  Beverley received the New Mexico Architects Medal in 2000 for “contributions that have advanced the profession and the socially responsible role that architecture must perform within our greater society.”  In 2002, she was elevated to the national College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 2003, she was honored by the Old Santa Fe Association “for her contributions to the character and traditions of Santa Fe.”  The firm has received numerous historic preservation awards from the City of Santa Fe, the State of New Mexico and the American Institute of Architects.  Spears Horn Architects’ projects include the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, the Plaza Stage, the Santa Fe Public Schools Administration Building, the Academy for the Love of Learning, and Santa Fe Prep Library.

Beverley purchased her first textiles in Guatemala in 1973. Her collection grew very slowly until the turn of this century when she became more serious about collecting.  Beverley now owns 517 Mayan textiles, all of which are photographed and catalogued.  Beverley is a Research Associate of MOIFA and an avid student of Mayan textiles.

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Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five
Lectures and Talks

Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

May 17, 2022
11:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Catch our last virtual tour before we go on break!... Can’t wait to have a guided look at MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries? Here’s an opportunity to tour or even re-visit—virtually—Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel with fantastic MOIFA docents.  Tuesdays at 11am Mountain Time. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 minutes. Register in advance for dates with links below:

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Crafting New Pathways: A walking-stick-making workshop with Sámi artists Jenni Laiti and Tilde-Ristin Kuoljok

 In this workshop the Arctic Sámi craft and the New Mexican landscape meet. Participants make their own walking sticks with from locally sourced materials from Santa Fe and crafting materials from Sápmi. This workshop is led by Sámi duojárs (masters of traditional Sámi crafts) Jenni Laiti and Tilde-Ristin Kuoljok. While working, Laiti and Kuoljok will talk about Indigenous peoples of the Arctic, the Sámi and their traditional crafts, duodji.

Registration and a $10.00 fee to cover materials are required for this workshop.  To register, send an email to:  leslie.fagre@state.nm.us

You will receive an email confirmation.

The Sámi people are inhabiting their ancestral territory in the Arctic which encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and most of the Kola Peninsula in the Russian side of Sápmi in particular. The Sámi people are the only Indigenous people in the European Union and there are approximately 100,000 Sámi. Traditional Sámi livelihoods include fishing, hunting and gathering, handicrafts, and reindeer herding; these pursuits continue today, incorporating modernized ways of practicing them. 

The Sámi have been a nomadic people living in the Arctic landscape in a reciprocal way. Walking has been the most conventional way of traveling in the pre-industrial fossil free world. There are over 350 words in the Sámi language for different kinds of walking, and the walking stick has been an essential tool for moving around.

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FRIENDS OF FOLK ART MEMBERS ONLY EVENT: DAY TRIP TO ALBUQUERQUE FOR FOLK ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ART OF THE NEW DEAL
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) Travel and Tours

FRIENDS OF FOLK ART MEMBERS ONLY EVENT: DAY TRIP TO ALBUQUERQUE FOR FOLK ART, ARCHITECTURE AND ART OF THE NEW DEAL

May 26, 2022
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) are invited on a field trip for a unique day in Albuquerque to visit the Historic Los Poblanos Inn as well as the Zimmerman Library on the campus of UNM and The Tile House, a unique home covered inside and out with mosaic tile.  

Cost: $90, which covers lunch, bus transportation from Los Poblanos, and docent/guide fees. All participants are responsible for their own transportation to Los Poblanos. This trip is limited to 25 participants. 

All participants must be current members of FOFA. A single membership allows access to one ticket while a dual membership allow for two tickets, but each member must register separately. If you are not currently a FOFA member and would like to join, please visit: https://www.museumfoundation.org/friends/friends-of-folk-art/

The group will meet at 9:30 am at the Historic Los Poblanos Inn where we will enjoy a docent led tour featuring the work of architect John Gaw Meem, new deal artists such as Gustave Baumann and Peter Hurd, and the private collection of folk art collected by the Rembe family, its current owners.  We will enjoy a box lunch on the portal overlooking the lavender fields.

Following lunch, we will board our bus and head to the Zimmerman Library on the campus of UNM. Guided by Kathy Flynn, Executive Director of the New Deal Preservation Association (NDPA), we will tour the Library, one of 25 buildings that John Gaw Meem designed for the university and an example of his finest work.  There are outstanding murals and fine handicrafts throughout that were created with New Deal funding.  From there, we will stop at other buildings downtown that feature artwork, part of the New Deal legacy in New Mexico.

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