September 2010

Admission Specials ENDING LABOR DAY WEEKEND:

BLUE STAR: Active duty Military Personnel and their families admitted FREE from Memorial Day through Labor Day- Monday September 6!


Friday Evenings: Open and free from 5 to 8pm through Friday September 3, 2010

E V E N T S

Sunday, September 19, 2010
2-4pm
Flores, Folklorico y Flamenco/Flowers, Folklorico and Flamenco, An Afternoon of Dance.
Dance performances with Los Niños de Santa Fe at 2pm and The Maria Benitez Institute for Spanish Arts Youth Company at 3pm. Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda and A Century of Masters: NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico. By Museum Admission, New Mexico residents with I.D. Free on Sundays, youth 16 & under and Museum of New Mexico Foundation Members» admitted FREE!



Sunday September 26 through Thursday September 30
10AM to 4PM
Donations cheerfully accepted at the Museum of International Folk Art for the 3rd Annual Folk Art Flea Market» organized by the Friends of Folk Art. If you have large items, or more than you are able to carry, please call the folk art flea hotline at 505.476.1201 so we can make arrangements to help! Donations are tax deductible, and deeply appreciated! It is up to the donor to state the value of the donated item; remember, we can't/don't give appraisals. This is between you and your tax professional. Proceeds benefit educational programs at the Museum of International Folk Art. (Photo, above: 2009 Folk Art Flea Market, photo by Judy Haden)


Guest Lecture
Tuesday, September 28th
10:00am
Auditorium
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on Museum Hill.
The Museum of New Mexico Foundation/Friends of Folk Art present a lecture with Susan Crowley, Curator of Folk Art at the High Museum in Atlanta» talks about Southern Folk Art in conjunction with the Friends of Folk Art Fall trip. Atlanta's High Museum is dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists; the nucleus of the folk art collection is the T. Marshall Hahn Collection, donated in 1996, and Judith Alexander's gift of 130 works by Atlanta artist Nellie Mae Rowe. Other notable works include those of Reverend Howard Finster, Bill Traylor, Thornton Dial», Ulysses Davis, Sam Doyle, William Hawkins, and Mattie Lou O'Kelley. The collection of more than 750 objects also boasts extraordinary examples by artists from beyond the South, such as Henry Darger, Martín Ramírez», and Joseph Yoakum. By Museum Admission, FREE for New Museum of New Mexico Foundation Members»