Events for Oct. 2024

FOFA is seeking folk art donations of gently used textiles, clothing, ceramics, masks, wood carvings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and folk art décor items to be sold at the 2025 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 spring donation days.  All folk art donations are tax deductible. Anyone can donate!  If you have friends who are cleaning out, 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, the Museum of International Folk Art, by recycling their art items to the Folk Art Flea.

BRING YOUR FOLK ART DONATIONS TO FOFA’S FALL DONATION DAYS:

Saturday, October 19 &  Saturday, November 9, 2024 from 10am to 2 pm

Drive to the back of the Museum of International Folk Art parking lot and look for the storage pods.  WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THEN! 

FOFA IS NOW ACCEPTING DONATIONS YEAR-ROUND.

If you are unable to make one of the donation days, call 505.476.1201 to arrange pick-up or drop off information.

Sofika Zielyk, an American-born daughter of Ukrainian refugees, began making pysanky and ceramics when she was six years old. What started as a family tradition has blossomed into an extensive career. Zielyk’s work has been exhibited in major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of Arts and Design, as well as in international cities including Paris and Rome. Zielyk, a member of the prestigious Association of Folk Artists of Ukraine, became a 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar, spending eight months in Kyiv, Ukraine researching folk art as the inspiration and muse for early 20th century Ukrainian artists. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Zielyk engaged in cultural diplomacy using her artistic talents and ethnographic expertise to support Ukraine. Zielyk’s projects have been featured in major media outlets including CNN, TIME Magazine, and The Washington Post.

We are grateful to the International Folk Art Foundation, Friends of Folk Art, and donors to the Museum of New Mexico Exhibition Development Fund, including Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn, Gwenn and Eivind Djupedal, Rosalind Doherty, Barbara Forslund, David Vogel and Larry Fulton, The Gale Family Foundation, and TOKo Santa Fe for their support of Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine and its related programming.

Image courtesy of Sofika Zielyk.

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