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Future Exhibitions


Statehood: New Mexican Art 1912-2012 from the Permanent Collection
In Lloyd's Treasure Chest, Neutrogena Wing
March 13, 2012
through
March 31, 2013.
Centennial exhibition featuring objects from the permanent collection highlighting New Mexican Art and Artists in the 20th and 21st Centuries, The exhibition will illustrate traditional folk traditions as well as innovative expressions.


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The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the
Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Organized by curator Delphine Hirasuna, with advisory support from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Opens in Gallery of Conscience, West Bartlett gallery
July 8, 2012 closes October 7, 2012.
The Art of Gaman showcases arts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. Internment camps during World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, all ethnic Japanese on the West Coast—more than two-thirds of whom were American citizens by birth—were ordered to leave their homes and move to internment camps for the duration of the war; including a camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Art making became essential for simple creature comforts and emotional survival. These objects—tools, teapots, furniture, toys and games, musical instruments, pendants and pins, purses and ornamental displays—are physical manifestations of the art of gaman, a Japanese word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience. The traveling exhibition is organized by San Francisco-based author and guest curator Delphine Hirasuna, and is based on her 2005 book The Art of Gaman, published by Ten Speed Press. The exhibition closes in Santa Fe October 7, 2012. (Photo: S. Kawamoto, interned in Santa Fe, painting of the camp. Natural wood slab, wedge of of fence post, paint. Collection of Mary Tsuyuke Nakagawa. From The Art of Gaman by Deplhine Hirasuna, copyright 2005 Ten Speed. Terry Heffernan photo.)

New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Maté y Mas
In the Hispanic Heritage Wing
December 9, 2012 closing March 9, 2014.
This exhibition will tell the tale of the earliest cultural mestizaje (mixing) to take place in the Americas through food. The exhibition will highlight foods that originated in the New World and foods that were brought over from Europe via Spain and Asia via the Spanish Manila Galleons. Several special sections in the exhibition highlight specific food items. Two of these are chocolate and maté. The exhibition traces the origins of these two popular drinks, how they rose to popularity during the colonial period, and how they were introduced into European society and culture, and how they have become a strong component of popular culture today. More than 300 objects related to food harvesting, preparation, table settings, kitchen items and utilitarian and decorative implements will be highlighted to illustrate the rich culinary traditions of the Americas. (Photo: La Chocolatera (Chocolate Storage Jar) by Camilla Trujillo and René Zamora, Santa Fe, NM, 2008, International Folk Art Foundation Collection, Museum of International Folk Art (FA.2008.33.1a,b)

Brazil (working title)
In the Neutrogena Wing November 17, 2013 to August 4, 2015
This exhibition will feature MOIFA's rich collection of folk art from different regions of Brazil. It will include around 200 pieces, ranging from ceramic and wood sculptures, wood block prints, Afro-Brazilian religious items, and festival costumes and masquerades.

The Red that Colored the World (working title)
In the Hispanic Heritage Wing June 22, 2014 to January 4, 2015
From Antiquity to today, as symbol and hue, red has risen to the pinnacle of the color spectrum. Throughout art history, a broad red brushstroke has colored the finest art and expressions of daily life. Yet, while most people know red, few know of its most prolific and enduring source: American Cochineal, a tiny scaled insect that produces carminic acid. Fewer still know the story behind its explosive global spread after its first encounter by Spain in 16th century Mexico. Cochineal can already be demonstrated as a commonly used colorant in painting, sculpture, furniture and textiles from the mid 16th through the mid-19th century, when synthetic pigments were invented. Part of the 2014 Summer of color in Santa Fe, the exhibition is not restricted to folk art and will include manuscripts, paintings, sculpture, textiles and furniture from pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Mexico, Peru and New Mexico; European paintings, textiles and clothing; and textiles from Asia, India and the Middle East, along with selections from the collection at the Museum of International Folk Art. Integrating a variety of interactive, visitor friendly features and didactic materials, visitors are invited to look through the centuries to consider the central role of color in art, history and culture- as well as in their own lives.