Events

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

Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi Film
Featured Event

Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi Film

March 23, 2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Join us for a screening of Paaqtuq: A Tupik Mi, a film by Michael Conti and produced by Holly Mititquq Nordlum. Presented in conjunction with   Protection: Adaptation and Resistance, the film focuses on traditional Inuit tattooing as a way to find identity, healing, and strength in the face of Western society.  

Free admission to film. Reserve Seats Here

Michael Conti is a photographer and filmmaker living and working in the land of the Dena’ina people in Anchorage, Alaska. He earned a BFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and an MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design. His video work has been shown at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, South Korea, ContainR at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada and won awards at the Anchorage International Film Festival.  In 2016 he mounted a solo exhibition at the Anchorage Museum entitled “Stick and Puck.”   He has been included in numerous juried and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as 20 solo shows. He received a project award from the Rasmuson Foundation in 2006, 2015 and 2022. He is a Connie Boocheever Fellow from the Alaska State Council on the Arts in 2011. He is a term instructor of photography at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Owner of Naniq Design, Holly Mititquq Nordlum is an artist, a graphic designer, public art contractor, traditional Inuit tattooer and a hopeful social justice insister. Using many mediums: .printmaking, painting, filmmaking, and tatooing  to express her ideas about life and issues of native people in todays world. Nordlum received a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Graphic Design and Photography from the University of Alaska Anchorage.   Nordlum was named a Time Warner Fellow with the Sundance Film Festival, and received an Art Matters grant, and a Humanities Forum grant for her work documenting the Tupik Mi Project (traditional Inuit tattooing) – which was also featured in the New York Times Lifestyles Section Summer 2018, a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award, and was named to the Smithsonian’s Nation Museum of The American Indian’s Artist Leadership Program.  

ASL interpretation is available by request. Please e-mail Patricia Sigala by March 19th at: patricia.sigala@dca.nm.gov 

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DONATE FOLK ART ANYTIME TO THE FOLK ART FLEA!
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA)

DONATE FOLK ART ANYTIME TO THE FOLK ART FLEA!

April 6, 2024 through April 7, 2024
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea.  Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) are accepting donations of gently used decorative art, ethnic clothing, and jewelry throughout the year. Please call the Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) information line at 505-476-1201 or send an email to friendsoffolkart@gmail.com to arrange a pick-up or delivery time. Donations are tax deductible and benefit educational programs and exhibitions at the Museum of International Folk Art.

Drive-thru donation days will be Saturday, April 6 & Sunday, April 7 and Saturday, April 20 & Sunday, April 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Drop off is located behind the Museum of International Folk Art. FOFA volunteers will accept your folk art and present you with a tax deductible receipt.

For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

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Lectures and Talks Featured Event Demonstration

"Protection: Adaptation and Resistance" Closing Celebration

April 7, 2024
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Please join us for an afternoon with Lily Hope in celebration of the closing of Protection: Adaptation and Resistance. Lily will be hosting storytelling from 1-2pm, followed by a weaving demonstration from 2-4pm. ASL interpretation will be provided.

Please join us for an afternoon with Lily Hope in celebration of the closing of Protection: Adaptation and Resistance. Lily will be hosting storytelling from 1-2pm, followed by a weaving demonstration from 2-4pm. ASL interpretation will be provided.

Lily Hope is a distinguished artist and community leader born and raised on Lingit Aani. She is Tlingit Indian, of the Raven moiety. Following her matrilineal line, she’s of her grandmother’s clan, the T’akdeintaan. 

One of few designers of dancing blankets, her finger-twined, adapted formline, ceremonial Chilkat dancing blankets take years to complete. They document inheritance; weavings recording history like a book woven in yarn; a lineage of weavers, our nation’s current crises, and political issues. She learned Ravenstail weaving from her late mother Clarissa Rizal, and Kay Parker, both of Juneau. She also apprenticed for over a decade in Chilkat weaving with Rizal who, until her untimely passing in December 2016, was one of the last living apprentices of the late Master Chilkat Weaver, Jennie Thlanaut. She teaches both finger-twined styles extensively in person (and virtually since COVID-19), in the Yukon Territory, down the coast of SE Alaska, into Washington and Oregon. She also demonstrates internationally and offers lectures on the spiritual commitments of being a weaver. 

Committed to co-creating as her mother was, she’s constantly looking for ways to collaborate with other artists, often spearheading multi-community projects, or managing huge campaigns, like the Weaving Our Pride project and The History & Future of Yeil Koowu, highlighting over 20 indigenous artists and bringing these artforms to the forefront. She’s also a paper collage artist, bead-worker, indigenous fashion designer, and native storyteller.

Her work is collected by Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, Burke Museum, Museum of Nature and Man (Germany), The Eiteljorg, Alaska State Museum, and in the private collection of Jeffry Gibson, Bob & Rita Moore, and a dozen other museums and private collectors. 

Lily lives in Douglas, Alaska, with her five children.

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Family Mornings at Folk Art
Family

Family Mornings at Folk Art

April 14, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Join us for our monthly Family Mornings at Folk Art program featuring storytime, art activity, and explorations in the galleries. FREE program!

This month’s theme: Earth Day for All with Artist Gasali Adeyemo

ASL Interpretation is provided for this program.

Following Dates:

  • May 12 - Paper Art with Papier Mâché
  • June 2 - Summer Time!

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR DRIVE-THRU FOLK ART DONATION DAYS!
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA)

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR DRIVE-THRU FOLK ART DONATION DAYS!

April 20, 2024 through April 21, 2024
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

DONATE FOLK ART ANYTIME TO THE FOLK ART FLEA!

Give your beloved folk art a new home by donating to the fabulous Folk Art Flea.  Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) are accepting donations of gently used decorative art, ethnic clothing, and jewelry throughout the year. Please call the Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) information line at 505-476-1201 or send an email to friendsoffolkart@gmail.com to arrange a pick-up or delivery time. Donations are tax deductible and benefit educational programs and exhibitions at the Museum of International Folk Art.

Drive-thru donation days will be Saturday, April 20 & Sunday, April 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Drop off is located behind the Museum of International Folk Art. FOFA volunteers will accept your folk art and present you with a tax deductible receipt.

For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

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The Riches of Mexican Pottery
Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) Members-only

The Riches of Mexican Pottery

April 21, 2024
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Doors open at 2:30 p.m. for Reception

Discover the riches of Mexican Pottery including the native ways and rare processes of forming, finishing and firing.

Please join us on Sunday, April 21 at 3pm in the Vernick Auditorium for a presentation on the riches of Mexican Pottery. Eric Mindling spent the decade of his 20’s sleuthing out every village in Oaxaca he could find that makes pottery. He learned the diversity of ways of forming, finishing, and firing pottery native to this land including clay harvesting, stone burnishing, the use of earth pigments and rare processes of tannin dying pottery. Eric writes, “Many of these pottery ways are on the verge of disappearing. To visit, to purchase, to publicize, to praise makes a difference.” 

Eric Mindling is the author of Fire and Clay, the Art of Oaxacan Pottery. This book is an homage to the wisdom of the ancestral indigenous potters throughout the wildly diverse state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

This event is for FOFA members ONLY.  FOFA members will receive an invitation by email which will include all the details. A single membership allows access to one ticket. A dual membership allows for two tickets.

For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.

For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

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The Fabulous Folk Art Flea is coming Saturday, May 4, 2024!
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The Fabulous Folk Art Flea is coming Saturday, May 4, 2024!

May 4, 2024
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

The fabulous Folk Art Flea is back!  Once again, the much beloved and anticipated Flea will be at the Rodeo Fairgrounds featuring hundreds of curated folk art pieces from collectors and artists around the world.  The donated art benefits educational programs and exhibitions at the Museum of International Folk Art, through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, a private nonprofit organization.

Admission is free and members of Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) enjoy early admission to the Flea from 9 to 10 a.m. Public admission is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

To become a sponsor and help make this popular community event possible, click here.

For information on joining FOFA, a membership group of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, please click here.

For questions, please email friendsoffolkart@gmail.com

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Family Mornings at Folk Art
Family

Family Mornings at Folk Art

May 12, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Join us for our monthly Family Mornings at Folk Art program featuring storytime, art activity, and explorations in the galleries. FREE program! 

This month’s theme: Paper Art with Papier Mâché

ASL Interpretation is provided for this program.

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Family Mornings at Folk Art
Family

Family Mornings at Folk Art

June 2, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Join us for our monthly Family Mornings at Folk Art program featuring storytime, art activity, and explorations in the galleries. FREE program! 

This month’s theme: Summer Time!

ASL Interpretation is provided for this program.

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