Events for Dec. 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.

PROGRAM

10:30 - 11:30 am

Docent-led Tour with Ann Murdy, Scenes of Mexico in Multiple Visions: A Common Bond*

11:00 - 12:00 pm

Docent-led Tour with Chris Durlak, Nativity Scenes in Multiple Visions: A Common Bond*

11:00 - 3:00 pm

Hands-on family craft activities

11:30 - 12:00 pm

Theater Grottesco presents Pinocchia*

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Docent-led tour with Jerri Straight, Girard Design in Multiple Visions: A Common Bond*

1:00 - 2:00 pm 

Discussion and slide presentation with Vince Bravo, mid-century modern specialist and Girard collector*

2:00 - 2:45 pm

Friends of Folk Art presents music by The Jay Heneghan Project

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Docent-led tour with Edelma Huntley, Food and Folk Art in Multiple Visions: A Common Bond*

2:00 - 4:00 pm 

Refreshments served by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico

3:00 - 3:30 pm

Theater Grottesco presents Pinocchia*

3:45 - 4:30 pm

Friends of Folk Art presents music by The Jay Heneghan Project

*Provided with ASL interpretation

This event is sponsored by Museum of International Folk Art, International Folk Art Foundation, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, and Friends of Folk Art.

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.

On December 16, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Museum of International Folk Art, and the Santa Fe Botanical Gardens are back with the Winter Glow Holiday Stroll. Admission museums will be free from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Each site has offerings for the evening—ornament making, cookies, hot cocoa, and even a farolito workshop! 

Schedule of events

Museum of International Folk Art Luminarias will live the museum’s entrance, and the museum will be offering ginger cookies and hot cider.

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Make and Take Your Farolito Workshop. 

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Luminarias will line the stairway leading toward the museum. There will also be cookies, pies, and hot “Cota” tea available!

Once visitors have completed their painted ornaments, they can take their completed ornaments home or leave one on the museum’s holiday tree.

4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.: Holiday Ornament Painting – Inside the Education Classroom4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Buffalo Dance by Tesuque Pueblo. Milner Plaza Performance Circle. 

Santa Fe Botanical Gardens Walk through the Botanical Gardens lit by farolitos. Santa Fe Classic Theater will be reading from E. Bunting’s Night Tree in the Pavilion, and hot cocoa, natural crafts, ornament making, and horno firing will be happening throughout the evening. 

4:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.: Live Caroling from Santa Fe Music Works 5:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.: Performance from Bells of St. Francis

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.