Events for Sep. 2023

FOFA is seeking folk art donations of gently used textiles, clothing, ceramics, masks, wood carvings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and décor items to be sold at the 2024 Folk Art Flea. If you have folk, tribal, fine art, decorative art, clothing with an ethnic or folk art look, or art books that you are ready to recycle to other art lovers then please join us for our fall donation days.

Each year patrons, collectors and folk art lovers donate a variety of folk art items to be sold at the annual Folk Art Flea, organized by the Friends of Folk Art, to raise funds for the educational and exhibition programs of the Museum of International Folk Art.

Anyone can donate!  If you have friends who are Spring cleaning, downsizing, or holding an estate sale, please let them know about this special opportunity to make a difference at one of Santa Fe’s most celebrated institutions by recycling their art items to the Flea.

Fall Donation Days

Saturday, September 9

Saturday, October 7

Saturday, October 21

All 11 am to 2 pm

Drive to the back of the Museum of International Folk Art parking lot and look for the pods. 

All folk art donations are tax deductible.

If you can’t come by our donation days but still would like to donate then call 505.476.1201 for pick-up or drop-off information.

Free admission.

Come celebrate seventy years of community engagement at the Museum of International Folk Art. We will be serving birthday cake and punch, with family activity tables, docent-led tours, and live music & dance performance by Compañía Chuscales & Mina Fajardo Flamenco, made possible by the generous support of Friends of Folk Art. 

The Labyrinth Resource Group of Santa Fe will hold a walk titled "Ever Changing " from 1:00- 2:00 pm.

The Wonder on Wheels Mobile Museum will also be parked on Milner Plaza for everyone to explore their current exhibit.

The Friends of Folk Art are sponsoring a unique two-day trip to historic Las Vegas, NM beginning on Wednesday, September 13, with a short stop at San Miguel del Vado to see their historic plaza, and then onto the historic Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Villanueva to view the restored narrative embroideries inside.

Lunch following the Villanueva stop will be in Las Vegas at the Plaza Hotel, called the Belle of the Southwest. In the afternoon, we will enjoy a guided tour of Las Vegas’ historic Rail district, the Harvey girl dormitory, and a sampling of the 900+ historic buildings in town.

Dinner will be at the Castañeda Hotel, a historic Harvey House in Las Vegas, where a block of rooms has been reserved at the hotel for the night.

Thursday’s itinerary offers a visit to the campus of United World College, to tour two significant buildings: Montezuma Castle, a 90,000 square-foot Queen Anne-style hotel and the Dwan Light Sanctuary, a quiet space with prisms instead of windows. The tour will conclude there but we will have plenty of time for shopping, lunch, etc., before heading home.

This event is for FOFA members ONLY. FOFA members will receive an invitation by email which will include more details and the price. A single membership allows access to one ticket. A dual membership allows for two tickets, but each member must register separately.

 For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.

 For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

Join the Friends of Folk Art to hear the personal stories of Roxanne Swentzell. Roxanne will take us through her gallery and explain the symbolism and meanings of her work.  She will also talk about the installation of her work at the Poeh Cultural Center.  Roxanne focuses a lot on interpretative female portraits attempting to bring back the balance of power between the male and female, inherently recognized in her own culture. Additionally, she increasingly uses a powerful sense of humor to communicate. Her figures represent a full range of emotions and irrepressible moods.  Though steeped in her own culture, Roxanne’s work demonstrates an astounding universality, speaking to people of all cultures.

This event is for FOFA members ONLY.  FOFA members will receive an invitation by email which will include more details and the price. A single membership allows access to one ticket. A dual membership allows for two tickets, but each member must register separately.

For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.

 For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

Celebrate 70 years of the Museum of International Folk Art! It’s our birthday and we invite you to join us virtually.  Want to know more about 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 re-tour—virtually—this massive folk art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel with fantastic MOIFA docents. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 minutes. Please note tour runs on Mountain Time!

Sep 26, 2023 01:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

 Register here: https://nmculture-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlc-2ppjwuHt1XCIAcJ0po4kQQzjl7sNqq