Events for May. 2022

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.