Events

FREE Family Program! Join us for our monthly Family Mornings at Folk Art program featuring storytime, art activity, and explorations in the galleries. 

February 16 - Spectacular Kites & Celebration! Come welcome the Persian New Year, Nowruz, join us to celebrate the spring equinox. Make a kite and spring egg. 

*ASL Interpretation Provided

Following Dates:

• March 16 - Pysanky Ukrainian Easter Eggs
• April 13 - Earth Day for All!

Included with Museum Admission | RSVP in Advance Here

ASL Interpretation Provided

Join us for a public talk with Dr. Andrea L. Mays, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico. 

Creative and expressive arts, and the politics of such arts, are extensions of the societies from which they emerge. Through telephone wire weaving, South African artists have mobilized traditional aesthetics, imaginative aspirations, and married impulses with function and form in creative expression to arrive at vibrant articulations of usable, and useful, art. This talk explores the relationship between art, resistance, and cultural resiliency through the original South African material form of telephone wire weaving.  Dr. Mays unpacks the political landscape behind this unique cultural form, US history, and both popular and entertainment culture of the time, to explore the relationship between the arts and resistance across the Atlantic during South African Apartheid.

Andrea L. Mays, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her work focuses on African American and Black Atlantic Culture and Politics, Visual Culture Studies, and Black Feminist Studies. Her research interests include Black Atlantic expressions of critical and resistance politics in visual and literary culture. Mays’ forthcoming essays include "Allan Rohan Crite Reporting from the Pantheon of American Racial Politics" and "How to Recognize a Hostage Situation When You’re in It: The Politics of Blackness and Black Atlantic Being", which undertakes questions of Black peoples’ investments in nation-states politics, and the cost and limits of such investments.  

Mays’ public scholarship includes essays and articles published in USA Today, The Albuquerque Journal, The Santa Fe Reporter, IKON Feminisms Commemorative Digital Archive, and the Morgan State University Global Journalism Review.

Vernick Auditorium

Cultural appropriation and flagrant violations of intellectual property rights are ubiquitous across all international fashion and design industries. Borrowing patterns and designs or developing collections that are "inspired by" a community’s cultural heritage is commonplace. However, how do we know what appropriation is and what it isn’t when we are not all professional art historians and curators? Let’s discuss how we can be more conscious of these issues and make respectful choices with our wallets and in our daily lives.

Heidi McKinnon Bio

Heidi McKinnon is a museum consultant and business owner who has worked for twenty years to support cultural heritage as a curator, writer, public speaker and social entrepreneur on issues of historical memory, indigenous history, human rights and cultural heritage throughout Latin America.

In 1996, Heidi began her career working with artisans and culture bearers for the Smithsonian Center for Folklife Studies and the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival program. She then joined the curatorial team at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, working on the inaugural exhibitions for the museum from 1999-2004.

After the Smithsonian, Ms. McKinnon spent several years working in Latin America on both curatorial and economic development projects in Guatemala, Chile, and Panama. She was the founding Director of Exhibitions and Planning and inaugural curator for the Museum of Freedom and Human Rights, which opened in Panama City in 2019.

Most recently, Ms. McKinnon has taken her museum experience to the retail arena by opening Heritage by Hand in Sena Plaza, where she mixes her personal interests in cultural heritage, economic development and environmental sustainability by working with artists across Latin America to bring a fresh perspective on handmade design to Santa Fe.

Registration is free for FOFA Members. All participants must be current members of FOFA. A Single membership allows access to one ticket. A Dual membership allows for two tickets.

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

Unit B by Chocolate Maven | 821 W San Mateo Rd.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Join Yagody, one of Ukraine’s most charismatic folk bands, for a special evening performance located offsite at Unit B, 821 W San Mateo Rd., and presented by AMP Concerts. Founded in Lviv, Ukraine, in 2016 by Zoryana Dybovska, Yagody (meaning “berries” in Ukrainian) is rooted in Ukrainian and Balkan musical traditions. However, the ensemble has created its own modern and gripping sound by showcasing theatrical singers supported by musicians playing on drums, percussion, guitar, bass, and accordion. Yagody conceive their musical stage show according to dramaturgical principles—a concert is like a performance in one act, self-described as a musical trance based on the pulse of humanity.

Yagody’s visit and performance at Unit B are presented in collaboration with MOIFA’s Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine.

Back Parking Lot

Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea.

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 TO FOFA’S SPRING DONATION DAYS

Saturday, April 5 & 26, and May 10

10 am 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.

Back Parking Lot

Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea.

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 TO FOFA’S SPRING DONATION DAYS

Saturday, April 26 and May 10

10 am 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.

Back Parking Lot

Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea.

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 TO FOFA’S SPRING DONATION DAY

Saturday, May 10, 10 am 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.

The fabulous Folk Art Flea is back!  Once again, the much beloved and anticipated Flea will be at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds at 3229 Rodeo Road featuring hundreds of curated folk art pieces from collectors and artists around the world.  The donated art benefits educational programs and exhibitions at the Museum of International Folk Art, through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, a private nonprofit organization.

Admission is free and members of Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) enjoy early admission to the Flea from 9 to 10 a.m. Public admission is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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