Events

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

Summer 2018 Arts Alive
Members Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) Workshop Lectures and Talks Featured Event Demonstration

Summer 2018 Arts Alive

July 24, 2018 through August 9, 2018
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Want to learn Huichol Beading, how to design a glass bead or weave with trash?

Sign up for one or all of our Summer 2018 Arts Alive!  free hands-on workshops.

Tues, 7/24 & Thurs, 7/26 Huichol Beading

Tues, 7/31 & Thurs, 8/2 Make a Weaving with Trash

Tues, 8/7 & Thurs, 8/9 Glass Bead Design

Group Contact: Patricia Sigala

Telephone: 505-476-1212

Email: patricia.sigala@state.nm.us

Museum entrance free for Arts Alive! participants during workshop hours.

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE FROM 10AM–2PM Programs begin on the hour. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Groups of 6 or more, please call to guarantee free admission to the museum.

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Rivers of Plastic: A Conversation with Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) Performance Lectures and Talks Featured Event Family Demonstration

Rivers of Plastic: A Conversation with Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse

August 5, 2018
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join the Museum of International Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture for a cross cultural conversation on the invasiveness of plastic waste in Native communities and how these two artists are incorporating this material into their work in New Mexico and Peru. A performance of Latin American Baroque music by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale precedes the talk.

1:30 Free performance by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale

1:45 – 2:30 Artists Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse in conversation

2:30 – 4:00 Hands-on plastic textile making and pop-up shop

Sunday, August 5, 2018 at the Museum of International Folk Art from 1-4pm

1-1:30pm: Free performance by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale

1:45–2:30: Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse in conversation

2:30-4:00: Hands-on plastic textile making and pop-up shop

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Funded by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and the Charles and Edwina Milner Foundation.

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