Events

The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) and the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) are proud to partner with the 2025 International Folk Art Market (IFAM) to offer a special admission discount in honor of this extraordinary celebration of world folk art.

IFAM ticket holders will enjoy reduced admission—just $6! That’s a $1 savings for New Mexico residents and seniors, and a $6 discount for out-of-state visitors.

When: Discount available July 10–31, 2025

How: Simply present your 2025 IFAM ticket at the admissions desk at MOIFA or MIAC.

Don’t miss this opportunity to extend your Folk Art Market experience with two of Santa Fe’s most inspiring museums—where tradition, creativity, and cultural stories come to life.

Visit the International Folk Art Market | July 11–13

We invite you to attend the International Folk Art Market (IFAM), taking place at the Santa Fe Railyard from Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13. Artwork by featured artists from iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa will be available for purchase.

Ntombifuthi (Magwaza) Sibiya

Bongeleni Mkhize

Hlengiwe Dube

MOIFA at IFAM: Hands-on Activity | Sunday, July 13, 10:00am - 3:30pm

Museum educators will host a hands-on wire weaving activity at the Market, inviting visitors of all ages to explore this extraordinary art form. Inspired by the work of the KwaZulu-Natal Weavers, participants will learn basic techniques and discover the creativity behind every loop and coil.

Join us in the Bartlett Gallery for wire weaving demonstrations by artists Bongeleni Mkhize, Ntombfuthi (Magwaza) Sibiya, and Hlengiwe Dube.

These artists carry forward a dynamic legacy of innovation, transforming traditional basketry into colorful, coiled forms made from recycled telephone wire. Each piece tells a story—rooted in rural KwaZulu-Natal and woven with imagination, resilience and generational knowledge.

Included with Admission | RSVP Here!

Join us for a public talk with Addison Nace, Ph.D. Candidate in Design Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the 2025 Museum of International Folk Art Summer Research Fellow.

As part of her six-week fellowship at MOIFA this summer, she will explore strategies for preserving Mayan textile traditions in Zinacantán, Mexico, and Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, while examining their role in economic development.             

Nace’s research focuses on textile history, sustainable design, decolonial museum practices, and the protection of Indigenous knowledge through craft. In 2023, Nace received the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship to investigate these topics. She has a strong track record of exhibitions, including her award-winning 2022 exhibition, Uncut Attire: How Weaving Informs Wearables, which earned the Costume Society of America’s Richard Martin Exhibition Award. Nace is originally from Santa Fe, NM, and holds a BA in Anthropology and Spanish from Antioch College. 

Lecture Included with Admission | RSVP Here!

ASL Interpretation Provided

This event is offsite

One of the perks of a Friends of Folk Art membership is the annual tour of private homes in Santa Fe with outstanding folk art collections. The tour is free and available only to FOFA members.

This year’s tour features three beautiful homes in the Historic Eastside neighborhood of Santa Fe. These generous homeowners will showcase their personal collections of textiles, ceramics, paintings, sculptures, photography, basketry, tin work, bronzes, and more. Visitors will enjoy the works of Taos and other New Mexican artists, Polish folk art, Central Asian textiles and carpets, 19th century Mexican retablos, as well as religious art from many places. Other featured items include Mexican ceramics, Native American baskets, and cowboy collectibles. You will enjoy your tour in each of these unique homes.

Refreshments will be served at one of the homes. Small van transportation will be provided.

There is no charge for registration. All participants must be current members of FOFA. A Single membership allows access to one ticket. A Dual membership allows for two tickets. For details on how to become a FOFA member click here.

For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com.

Offsite

We begin our custom tour in Montréal, the second largest French-speaking city in the world—after Paris. This bilingual, cosmopolitan city was the first in North American to be designated a UNESCO City of Design by the Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity. We will have a comprehensive city tour, visit Montréal’s renowned museums, see the Gardens of Light at the Botanical Gardens, visit a folk art studio, experience the international gastronomy of Montréal, and see the AURA Show at Notre Dame Basilica.

Leaving Montréal, we will travel to Québec by motor coach via the Eastern Townships with a stop in Magog to visit the Musée d’Art Naïf and have lunch in picturesque North Hatley.

We will then arrive in Québec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Old Québec, with its cobblestone streets and well-preserved old-world architecture, is the hub of French Canadian culture and a top foodie destination.

After a comprehensive city tour we will take a short ride to Wendake, home to the Iroquoian-speaking Huron-Wendat Nation. Included is a traditional Indigenous dinner. Just minutes outside of Québec, we will follow the Beaupre coast to the 278’ Montmorency Falls (taller than Niagara Falls). Visits to museums, a behind-the-scenes folk art tour and meeting local artists will be topped off with a local tastes-of-Québec food tour and lunch at the historic Hôtel Château Frontenac.

You must be a current member of Friends of Folk Art or using the membership of a member who is not traveling with us to join. For more information visit: https://canadatrip.eventbrite.com

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