There’s always something exciting happening at the Museum of International Folk Art! Join us for our many programs listed below.
Canceled- Sepetember 1st Family Morning at Folk Art.
Look for our next Family Morning returing November 3rd!
+ Read More“HOW MEXICO INSPIRED ALEXANDER GIRARD”
Join us for a unique look into Alexander Girard’s Multiple Visions and the Vitra exhibition, A Designer’s Universe, with a specially designed FOFA tour led by MOIFA docent, Ann Murdy, a photographer, author, and frequent traveler to Mexico. The tour will focus on the influence of Mexican folk art on Alexander Girard’s designs. FREE with admission!
Sunday, 15 September. 1:30 – 2:30pm. Meet in the Girard Lounge area (across from the auditorium)
+ Read MoreMuseum Hill Community Day
September 22, 201910:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Come to Museum Hill for FREE Native dances, live music, storytelling, hands‑on activities, artist demonstrations, food, and more!
Admission and all hands-on activities are FREE for New Mexico residents and guests alike. For more info and a full schedule of events, visit MuseumHill.net/CommunityDay.
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Tuesday Sept. 24th – Tin Frames & Ornaments
Join us for free folk art family programs! Learn about folk art and cultures around the world through hands-on art making. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Please take note of the specific dates and activities. All events take place from 3:30-4:30pm.
+ Read MorePopular Arts As National Stand-ins: Mexico's 1968 Cultural Olympiad
September 25, 20195:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Museum of International Folk Art welcomes Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky of Mexico City’s Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas to discuss folk art and dipolomacy.
This lecture explores the exhibition of folk arts prepared by the Olympic Organizing Committee for the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968, and the ways popular craft was used as a form of cultural diplomacy from 1940-1970. Nearly 50 years after the original exhibition, in 2016, a group of students and curators at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) revived the exhibition, highlighting its history and the shifting definition artisanal design, craft, folk art and arte popular
Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky is a full-time tenured researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM and a professor of historiography of art history, history of Mexican ethnographic photography and gender and visual cultures 1920-1950 in the Art History Graduate Program at the same university.
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