Events

There’s always something exciting happening at the Museum of International Folk Art! Join us for our many programs listed below.

Rivers of Plastic: A Conversation with Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) Performance Lectures and Talks Featured Event Family Demonstration

Rivers of Plastic: A Conversation with Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse

August 5, 2018
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join the Museum of International Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture for a cross cultural conversation on the invasiveness of plastic waste in Native communities and how these two artists are incorporating this material into their work in New Mexico and Peru. A performance of Latin American Baroque music by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale precedes the talk.

1:30 Free performance by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale

1:45 – 2:30 Artists Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse in conversation

2:30 – 4:00 Hands-on plastic textile making and pop-up shop

Sunday, August 5, 2018 at the Museum of International Folk Art from 1-4pm

1-1:30pm: Free performance by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale

1:45–2:30: Aymar Ccopacatty and Nora Naranjo Morse in conversation

2:30-4:00: Hands-on plastic textile making and pop-up shop

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Funded by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Hutson-Wiley Echevarria Foundation, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and the Charles and Edwina Milner Foundation.

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ARTIST TALK: Flex Your Activism with Cannupa Hanska Luger
Lectures and Talks Featured Event

ARTIST TALK: Flex Your Activism with Cannupa Hanska Luger

August 16, 2018
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Santa Fe Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and participants in his social engagement and ceramic installation Every One, a work of art and activism about the more than 4,000 cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. Created in collaboration with photographer Kali Spitzer and numerous contributing individuals and organizations whose handmade beads rehumanize the statistics of gender violence. Free with museum admission.

Santa Fe Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger and participants in his social engagement and ceramic installation Every One, a work of art and activism about the more than 4,000 cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada. Created in collaboration with photographer Kali Spitzer and numerous contributing individuals and organizations whose handmade beads rehumanize the statistics of gender violence. Free with museum admission.

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