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» |