Empowering
Women:
Artisan Cooperatives
That Transform Communities»
July 4, 2010 to May 8, 2011
This inaugural exhibition in the Gallery of Conscience
is devoted to the examination of issues that threaten
the survival of the traditional arts, bringing them to
the attention of our visitors." All of the cooperatives
featured in the exhibit participated in the 2010
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market». Exhibition
highlights include weaving, beadwork, painting, baskets,
embroidery and other traditional folk arts from Bolivia,
Rwanda, Peru, Swaziland, India, Kenya, Laos, South Africa,
Morocco and Nepal.
A Century of Masters: The NEA National Heritage Fellows
of New Mexico
Each year, the
National Endowment for the Arts» honors
folk artists, storytellers, performers, and musicians
throughout the United States for their contributions to
traditional art forms. The National Heritage Fellows demonstrate
artistic excellence and a commitment to their art forms
through their processes, techniques, and transmission
of the knowledge to others that strengthens and enriches
their communities. New Mexico residents are well-represented
in this distinguished group of talented artists, especially
given the size of the state's population.
Material
World: Textiles & Dress From the Collection. Material
World presents a tantalizing glimpse into the Museum
of International Folk Art's largest collection of textiles
and costumes stored in 57 closets and numerous trunks
and drawers. The 138 rarely-seen items in this exhibition
highlight the remarkable breadth and depth of 20,000 objects
ranging from everyday household articles to elaborately
detailed ceremonial wear in the Museum's textile collection.
Gee's
Bend Quilts and Beyond:
Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph,
Thornton Dial & Lonnie Holley»
Bartlett Wing, November 16, 2007 to May 11, 2008
This
exhibition takes an in-depth look at the creative vision
of a master quilt-maker, Mary Lee Bendolph, and the intersecting
artistic worlds in which she participates. This exhibit
examines Bendolph's inspiration and creative process as
well as her profound connection to the cultural practices
and expressive traditions from which her work arises.
Twelve dramatically designed, richly colored, improvisational
quilts created by Mary Lee Bendolph and her family members;
her mother Aolar Mosely, her daughter, Essie B. Pettway,
and her daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph, are presented
alongside complex and evocative found object sculptures
by noted African American self-taught artists Thornton
Dial and visionary "yard art" artist Lonnie
Holley. Intaglio prints by Mary Lee Bendolph and her daughter-in-law
Louisiana P. Bendolph, (Photo above: Mary Lee
Bendolph in front of the intaglio print "To Honor
Mr. Dial")
Textile
Resources | NM Fiber
Arts Trails|2004
Quilts|Curriculum
A Saint in the City:
Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal.
Bartlett Wing from June 28, 2007 to September
30, 2007. The first exhibition devoted to contemporary arts of Islamic Africa,
and to the life of an African Saint. Developed by the
Fowler Museum at UCLA», as Passport to Paradise, the traveling
exhibition coveys the ongoing creative spirit and artistic vitality of Africa
today. The exhibition presents a striking range of 20th and 21st century art forms
associated with the Mouride movement, a Sufi sect in Senegal with a rapidly expanding
diaspora throughout the world, especially in American cities.
Village
of Painters
The patuas»
of West Bengal, India, have a long and contested social history in the region.
Traditionally, they wandered from village to village singing their own compositions
while unrolling painted scrolls on themes divided into three genres: religious
songs, social commentary, and personal experience narratives. The exhibit shows
a wide range of scrolls and examines how the patuas are keeping their art alive
in today's changing world of West Bengal. The exhibition opened October 29, 2006
and closed April 29, 2007; was curated by Dr. Frank J. Korom, and accompanied
by an exhibition catalog».
Power Dressing:
Men's Fashion & Prestige in Africa»
A
traveling exhibition organized by the
Newark Museum», Newark, New Jersey that was on display in Santa Fe from
December 16 2006 through February 18 2007. The Museum of International Folk Art
was the only venue west of the Mississippi. Power Dressing
brings
together over forty outstanding examples of male attire from the throughout the
continent and spanning a period from the 19th century to the present-day.
Dream
On Beds From Asia To Europe» exhibition to examine boutis
quilting, felt and other textile traditions highlighted in the exhibition; design
your own dream bed». Whether people sleep on coarse woven mats or
under luxurious embroidered silk sheets, sleeping is a common human experience
expressed through diverse cultural traditions. On display in the Neutrogena Wing
from December 16, 2005 through October 1, 2006
Arte
y Amistad (Art and Friendship): Selections from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
of Contemporary Hispanic Art » A promised gift to the Museum of International
Folk Art, the exhibition highlights the relationship between artists and collectors,
and issues in contemporary Hispanic Arts through the works of twelve New Mexican
artists. Although Sandy Besser and his late wife Diane collected many things--Art
& Antiques magazine named the couple as one of the top 100 collectors
in the US in 2002-- their carefully selected works of contemporary Hispanic art
stand out as one of the most intriguing, vibrant, aesthetic, political and passionate
groupings in their home. The exhibition opened March 12, 2004 and closed September
4, 2005. Enter Arte Y Amistad»
Vernacular
Visionaries: International Outsider Art in Context
On
exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art from October 21, 2003 through
August 7, 2004. Some people consider "outsider or raw art" to be a glimpse
at the artist's interior and private world. The term also refers to the art of
marginalized people on the fringe of society and is commonly used to describe
the art of those unschooled artists who live and work at a distance from prevailing
artistic trends and styles. Annie Carlano, Curator of European and North American
Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art and a team of international
scholars brought together five twentieth center visionary artists whose work is
steeped in culture and profound spiritual context. They are: Gedewon, Martín
Ramírez, Hung Tung, Anna Zemánková and Carlo.
See Vernacular Visionaries»