Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond:
Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph, Thornton Dial, and Lonnie Holley
November 15, 2006 - May 11, 2007
Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond took an in-depth look at the creative vision of a master quilt-maker, and Mary Lee Bendolph, and the intersecting artistic worlds in which she participated. The traveling exhibition opened November 15, 2006 and closed May 11, 2007.
Learn MoreTrasteros and Trunks from the Permanent Collection
January 3, 2007 - November 30, 2008
During the early Middle Ages the Spanish adopted the Moorish use of chests, low stools, and benches are the predominant furniture items being placed around the edges of rooms.
Learn MoreNeedles + Pins:
Textiles & Tools
March 27, 2008 - February 15, 2009
Needles and Pins: Textiles and Tools was as much about textiles and the many processes of creating them as it is the tools themselves. Rare and never before seen textiles were displayed in Needles and Pins: Textiles and Tools selected from the Museum of International Folk Art’s vast collection of more than 20,000 textiles. Spinning wheels, looms, needles, sewing boxes, and adrinka stamps, among many other tools of the trade, will also come from the Museum’s rich holdings.
Learn MoreA Chair For All Reasons
June 29, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Sitting is a universal experience. Throughout the world, people settle into chairs, stretch out on benches, perch on stools, sink into sofas or cushion themselves with a pillow, marking the body’s state as being both stationary yet dynamic.
Learn MoreNuevo México: El Corazón de la Cultura
in Lloyd's Treasure Chest
December 24, 2008 - September 27, 2009
Nuevo México: El Corazón de la Cultura, or New Mexico: The Heart of Culture, at the Museum of International Folk Art, showcased the best of Hispano/Latino arts of New Mexico from the early colonial period to 2008. This exhibition presented a unique opportunity to view these works of art up close and personal in Lloyd’s Treasure Chest while the Hispanic Heritage Wing underwent renovations from December 2008 to September 27, 2009.
Learn MoreDancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia
Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia
March 8, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Wayang kulit performance of Indonesia is among the oldest and greatest story telling traditions in the world, is said to lie at the heart of Javanese culture. Wayang kulit are flat, elaborately painted and intricately carved and perforated leather shadow puppets that cast dazzling shadows through a cotton screen. Traditional performances last all night, beginning in the evening and lasting to dawn. Wayang Kulit performances are always accompanied by a gamelan orchestra—a traditional Indonesian musical ensemble that includes a variety of instruments such as gongs, drums, metallaphones, xylophones, stringed instruments, and vocalists.
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Writing With Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities
Traveling exhibition
May 15, 2009 - August 16, 2009
Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, featured a rare collection of entire ensembles of women’s, men’s and children’s ceremonial dress, baby carriers, quilt covers, festive and religious vestments, silver jewelry, embroidered silk valences, and wax-resist dyed curtains, plus a loom, weaving tools, and embroidery cases.
Learn MoreA Century of Masters:
The NEA Heritage Fellows of New Mexico
September 27, 2009 - January 31, 2011
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.
Learn MoreMaterial World:
Textiles and Dress from the Collection
December 20, 2009 - August 7, 2011
Material World presented 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 highlighted 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.
Learn MoreSilver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
June 6, 2010 - January 6, 2011
Nearly two hundred examples of Pineda’s acclaimed silver work were displayed in Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda, a traveling exhibition from the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Learn MoreEmpowering Women:
Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities
July 4, 2010 - May 8, 2011
All of the cooperatives featured in this exhibit had artist booths at the 2010 Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Exhibition highlights included weaving, beadwork, painting, baskets, embroidery and other traditional folk arts from Bolivia, Rwanda, Peru, Swaziland, India, Kenya, Laos, South Africa, Morocco and Nepal.
Learn MoreLloydÂ's Treasure Chest: Folk Art in Focus
On long-term display
Lloyds’s Treasure Chest: Folk Art in Focus is a participatory gallery that encourages the exploration of folk art and contemplation of what is meant by “folk art.” Temporary, thematic displays are drawn from, and highlight the museum’s permanent collection of folk art, which is the museum’s “treasure.”
Learn MoreFolk Art of the Andes
April 17, 2011 - March 10, 2013
Folk Art of the Andes was the first exhibit in the United States to feature a broad range of folk art from the Andean region of South America, showcasing more than 850 works of Andean folk art primarlity from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Learn MoreThe Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Natural Disaster
in the Gallery of Conscience
July 3, 2011 - April 29, 2012
The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Natural Disaster explored how folk artists helped their communities recover from four recent natural disasters: the Haitian Earthquake; Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast; Pakistani floods; and the recent volcanic eruption of Mt. Merapi in Indonesia. The exhibition opened July 3, 2011 in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Gallery of Conscience and closed April 29, 2012.
Learn MoreYoung Brides, Old Treasures
Macedonian Embroidered Dress
October 1, 2011 - January 6, 2013
Macedonian ethnic dress has it all – it is full of meaning and significance, visually stunning, quite possibly overwhelming, and embodies the skill, expectations, hopes and fears, creative use of materials, and aesthetic sense of the individuals who made and wore it. Saturated with cultural meaning, these many-layered ensembles rank among the best examples of textile art anywhere.
Learn MoreNew World Cuisine
The Histories of Chocolate, Mate Y Más
December 9, 2012 - January 5, 2014
An exploration of the dawn of world cuisine as we know—and consume—it today. New World Cuisine explored how foods around the world developed from mixing the old and the new, and how many of the tastiest dishes and desserts came to be associated with New Mexico. The exhibition was complemented with interactive gallery activities including a scent station, magnetic world map, and a special selection of chocolate and cuisine in the Museum Gift Shop.
Learn MorePlain Geometry Amish Quilts
March 3, 2013 - September 2, 2013
Plain Geometry Amish Quilts explored the origins and aesthetics of a tradition that has evolved in a changing world. These remarkably crafted textiles illustrate the influence of religious proscriptions, westward migration, and interaction with "English" neighbors. The exhibition opened March 3, 2013 and closed September 2, 2013.
Learn MoreTako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan
June 9, 2013 - July 27, 2014
Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan, an exhibition of more than 200 Japanese kites.
Learn MoreLet's Talk About This:
Folk Artists Respond to HIV/AIDS
July 7, 2013 - January 5, 2014
The Gallery of Conscience focused on folk artists’ responses to HIV/AIDS, both here in New Mexico, and around the world. The artists and community special programs for International Folk Arts Week»—with equal parts humor and pathos and love.
Learn MoreBRASIL & ARTE POPULAR
November 17, 2013 - January 5, 2015
A fascinating of unique and vibrant folk traditions were presented in BRASIL & ARTE POPULAR, the exhibition opened Sunday, November 17, 2013 and closed January 5, 2015.
This show featured over 300 pieces from the museum’s rich Brazilian collection: woodblock prints, colorful ceramic and wood folk sculptures, toys and puppets, religious art, festival costumes, and more.
Learn MoreWork in Progress:
Folk Artists on Immigration -- Exhibition Lab
March 10, 2014 - June 1, 2014
Work in Progress: Folk Artists on Immigration was the prototype for the exhibition lab, preceeding the “official” exhibition opening with a convening of international and local artists at MOIFA, in conjunction with the International Folk Art Market| Santa Fe, July 2014.
Learn MoreWooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico
April 6, 2014 - February 15, 2015
One of the most far-reaching exhibits of New Mexico animal wood carvings, Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, debuted at the Museum of International Folk Art on April 6, 2014 with 107 artworks made by such masters as Felipe Archuleta, Patrociñio Barela, and José Dolores López. The exhibition closed February 15, 2015.
Learn MoreBetween Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience
in the Mark Naylor & Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience
July 6, 2014 - April 3, 2016
The Gallery of Conscience is an experimental space where the public is invited to help shape the content and form of the exhibition through interactive elements and facilitated dialogues. The gallery changes in response to community input, and is temporarily closed for interim changes.
Learn MorePottery of the U.S. South:
A Living Tradition
October 24, 2014 - November 15, 2015
Pottery was crucial to agrarian life in the U.S. South, with useful forms such as pitchers, storage jars, jugs, and churns being most in demand for the day-to-day activities of a household and farm. Today, a century after that lifeway began to change, potters in the South continue to make vital wares that are distinctively Southern. The Museum of International Folk Art celebrated this “living tradition” of American regional culture with the exhibition
Learn MoreThe Red That Colored The World
May 17, 2015 - September 13, 2015
As a symbol and hue, red has risen to the pinnacle of the color spectrum. Yet few know of its most prolific and enduring source: Cochineal.
Learn MoreFLAMENCO: From Spain to New Mexico
In the Hispanic Heritage Wing
November 22, 2015 - September 10, 2017
Passionate, fiery, sensual, intense In-depth examination of the history and culture of flamenco dance and music.
The Museum of International Folk Art presents Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico, the most comprehensive exhibition to celebrate and study this living tradition as an art form. The exhibition opened November 22, 2015 and runs through September 10, 2017. More than 150 objects are featured. Among them, items once used by renowned artists Encarnación López y Júlvez “La Argentinita”, José Greco, and Vicente Romero and María Benítez (both from New Mexico). In addition to other stunning loans from private collectors will be those from the museum’s expansive permanent collection.
Learn MoreSacred Realm: Blessings & Good Fortune Across Asia
in the Cotsen Gallery, Neutrogena Wing
February 28, 2016 - March 19, 2017
What more can we ask than for blessings and good fortune? Whether perceived as miraculous boons or a response to ceremonious prayer, blessings and good fortune come in many forms and bring joy, comfort, and balance to our lives. God, deities, nature spirits, and other unseen forces exist in human belief, which can bring both great harm and great fortune to people on earth.
Learn MoreThe Morris Miniature Circus: Return of the Little Big Top
April 3, 2016 - December 31, 2016
Built over the course of forty years by W.J. “Windy” Morris (1904–1978) of Amarillo, Texas, the Morris Miniature Circus is a 3/8”-scale circus model that was acquired by the museum in 1984 and exhibited in 1986. In 2016, the museum will restore and install the Circus once again.
Learn MoreNo Idle Hands: The Myths & Meanings of Tramp Art
March 12, 2017 - September 16, 2018
Tramp art is the product of industry, a style of woodworking from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that made use of discarded cigar boxes and fruit crates that were notched and layered to make a variety of domestic objects.
Learn MoreNegotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in Today's Global Marketplace
in the Mark Naylor & Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience
June 4, 2017 - July 16, 2018
The Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience is an experimental gallery inside the Museum of International Folk Art where the public is invited to help shape the content and form of the exhibition in real tme.
Learn MoreArtistic Heritage: Syrian Folk Art
on Display in Lloyd's Treasure Chest
June 4, 2017 - July 29, 2018
Folk Art is a treasure, and Lloyd’s Treasure Chest offers a participatory gallery experience highlighting the Museum’s permanent collection of over 136,000 objects of international folk art from over 100 countries, representing thousands of unique cultures. Because the entire collection can never be on view at the same time, collections are carefully stored and cared for in rooms such as our Neutrogena Vault, which visitors can view from the Treasure Chest gallery.
Learn MoreQuilts of Southwest China
July 9, 2017 - January 21, 2018
Chinese quilts have received little attention from scholars, collectors, or museums. The examples featured here offer an introduction based on new research by a bi-national consortium of American and Chinese museums, including participation by the Museum of International Folk Art. Embodying layers of history, identity, and expertise, these quilts reveal new insights into the contemporary lives of minority communities adapting to a period of great change in China.
Learn MoreCrafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru
December 3, 2017 - July 17, 2019
This exhibition explores the new directions taken by current Peruvian folk artists during the recent decades of social and political upheaval and economic change. The exhibition will highlight the biographies and social histories of contemporary artists along with examples of work that preserve family tradition, reimagine older artforms, reclaim pre-Columbian techniques and styles, and forge new directions for arte popular in the 21st century.
Learn MoreBeadwork Adorns the World
April 22, 2018 - February 3, 2019
Extraordinary how a small glass bead from the island of Murano (Venice, Italy) or the mountains of Bohemia (Czech Republic) can travel around the world, entering into the cultural life of people far distant.
Learn MoreCannupa Hanska Luger: Every One
August 11, 2018 - September 16, 2018
Every One is a work of art and activism about gender violence in indigenous communities.
Learn MoreA Gathering of Voices: Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collection
December 16, 2018 - September 8, 2019
A Gathering of Voices celebrates the promised gift of the folk art collection of Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg. Comprising primarily ceramic traditions from Mexico, Spain, France, Hungary, Morocco, and numerous other countries, the collection also includes rich holdings of New Mexico santos, Latin American retablos, and metalwork, furniture and textiles from around the world. The exhibition brings together the various voices of international cultures and living traditions, through the vision of one collector.
Learn MoreVIRTUAL Community through Making From Peru to New Mexico
PROGRAMA VIRTUAL Comunidad a través de la Creación De Perú a Nuevo México
January 6, 2019 - May 4, 2020
Community through Making brought together local and Peruvian artists to explore how art shapes healthy and vibrant communities. The installation was a conversation across borders, highlighting three collaborative projects that paired local artists and artists from Peru for 10-day residencies in conjunction with the exhibition Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. This exhibition in the Gallery of Conscience experimented with community curation, filling the gallery with video, stories, and artworks as created and told by museum program participants over the course of 18 months.
Learn MoreVIRTUAL Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe
May 5, 2019 - October 27, 2019
Alexander Girard was one of the most influential interior and textile designers of the 20th century. Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe is the first major retrospective on Girard’s work, organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. With this new VIRTUAL TOUR open a door to his creative universe and shows his close relationships with contemporaries such as Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Andy Warhol, Rudi Gernreich, and many others. Featured are Girard’s designs in textiles, furniture, and sculptures, as well as numerous sketches, drawings, and collages never shown before.
Learn MoreGirard's Modern Folk
in the Lloyd's Treasure Chest
May 5, 2019 - January 26, 2020
Girard’s Modern Folk examines the particular ways in which renowned mid-century American designer Alexander Girard looked to the motifs, patterns, palettes and compositions of traditional arts for his distinctive textiles.
Learn MoreMúsica Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico
In the Hispanic Heritage Wing
October 6, 2019 - September 5, 2022
The exhibition Música Buena: The exhibition will focus on the rich history of traditional Hispano music from the arrival of the Spanish through the present. Once in New Mexico, historic European traditions took on a new life and feel, blending with Native customs and reflecting the land, time, and place where these folkloric songs and traditions developed.
Learn MoreYōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan
December 8, 2019 - November 5, 2023
Vivid in Japanese art and imagination are creatures that are at once ghastly and comical. Yōkai is a catchall word that generally refers to demons, ghosts, shapeshifters, and “strange” and supernatural beings. Yōkai are prevalent in Japanese popular and expressive culture; you find them in manga (comics), anime (animation), and character-based games such as Pokémon (“pocket monster”).
Learn MoreFrom Combat to Carpet: The Art of Afghan War Rugs
January 12, 2020 - September 5, 2021
The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) presents From Combat to Carpet: The Art of Afghan War Rugs, opening January 12, 2020 and running until August 30, 2020. From Combat to Carpet is a traveling exhibition curated by Enrico Mascelloni and Annemarie Sawkins and features more than 40 handwoven rugs with war-related iconography collected over the past forty years.
Learn MoreSewing Stories of Displacement
February 16, 2020 - May 1, 2021
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, moments of violence, political upheaval, and natural disaster have led to the displacement of entire communities. Since the 1960s, displaced people throughout the world—women, men, and children—have embroidered the stories of their forced migrations, new transitions, and memories of more stable lives. Through these textiles, they have been able to document their experiences, share their perspectives, and often, supplement their income during desperate times.
Learn More#mask: Creative Responses to the Global Pandemic
May 30, 2021 - January 15, 2023
Face masks have become daily attire for people around the world. More than a Personal Protective Device that keeps ourselves and others safe, face masks have become a creative outlet for many. They are representations of self-expression, political stance, fashion, and a symbol of humanity’s hope and care for one another. This exhibition is an ode to the face mask, and to the artists and every day citizens making their way through the COVID-19 crisis.
Learn MoreGlass: selections from the collection
Glass display
June 27, 2021 - October 31, 2021
From small beads and mirrors to sculpted works, people work with glass all over the world. The Museum of International Folk Art presents a selection of glass works and works with glass from the collection. The display will be on view in Lloyd’s Treasure Chest this summer.
Image caption:
Olive oil storage jar by Tawfiq Natsheh. 2010. Hebron, West Bank, Palestine. Dimensions: 11 5/16 x 6 1/8 in. IFAF Collection (FA.2010.36.2ab).
Learn MoreDressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia
December 12, 2021 - February 19, 2023
Dress helps us fashion identity, history, community, and place. Dress has been harnessed as a metaphor for both progress and stability, the exotic and the utopian, oppression and freedom, belonging and resistance. Dressing with Purpose examines three Scandinavian dress traditions—Swedish folkdräkt, Norwegian bunad, and Sámi gákti—and traces their development during two centuries of social and political change across northern Europe.
Learn MoreFashioning Identities: A Companion to Dressing with Purpose.
December 12, 2021 - February 19, 2023
Fashioning Identities: A Companion to Dressing with Purpose. This display in Lloyd’s Treasure Chest Gallery serves as a companion to Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia by offering more examples from our permanent collection of Sámi duodji, textile-making tools, and regional clothing from Northern Europe. December 12, 2021 - February 19, 2023.
Learn MoreBetween the Lines: Prison Art & Advocacy | A Community Conversation
March 31, 2023 - November 5, 2023
Along with exploring exhibition themes, aesthetics, materials and artists, visitors will have the opportunity to provide their input in this initial iteration of the upcoming exhibition Between the Lines: Prison Art and Advocacy. This six-month exhibition will ask visitors to reflect on individual pieces and installation themes through a series of prompts, talk back boards and a dialogue lounge, while offering opportunities for community members to share their personal stories related to the show.
A series of community dialogues is also planned for the space, which in concert with visitor input, will help inform the final exhibition set to open in the Cotsen Gallery in 2024.
Purse, artists unknown, 2018-2020, Cibola County Correction Center, Milan, New Mexico. Made from chewing gum wrappers. MOIFA Collection, gift of Santa Fe Dreamers Project.
This purse was made by an asylum-seeking transgender artist, for wear in a prisoner-organized fashion show inside this ICE detention center.
Learn MoreGhhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka
May 21, 2023 - April 7, 2024
Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm explores the art of the parka, a garment made for survival in the harsh environments where Alaska Native peoples live and thrive.
Learn MoreProtection: Adaptation and Resistance
December 3, 2023 - April 7, 2024
The traveling exhibition Protection: Adaptation and Resistance presents the work of more than 45 Alaska Native artists who explore the themes of climate crisis, struggles for social justice, strengthening communities through ancestral knowledge, and imagining a thriving future.
The diverse works in the exhibition range from regalia to images of traditional tattooing, graphic design, and posters for public health and well-being. Iñupiaq artist Amber Webb’s 12-foot-high qaspeq (a cloth hooded overshirt) features the drawn portraits of more than 200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Alaska since 1950. This Memorial Qaspeq makes visible the scale of loss and grief the tragedy of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) has in Indigenous communities, and with this installation, Webb calls for a solution to violence against women and healing for Native communities.
Protection: Adaptation and Resistance is a project of the Bunnell Street Art Center in Homer, Alaska. It is made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The CIRI Foundation, the Alaska Community Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, and the Alaska Humanities Forum.
Protection complements the MOIFA exhibition Ghhúunayúkata/To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka, which opened at the museum in May 2023. The idea of protection is also inherent in Ghhúunayúkata/To Keep Them Warm, which examines the Alaska Native parka, a garment made for survival in the harsh environments where Alaska Native peoples live and thrive. Both exhibitions will be on display through April 7, 2024.
Learn MoreStaff Picks: Favorites from the Collection
February 25, 2024 - August 18, 2024
Staff Picks: Favorites from the Collection features objects that were selected by members of the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) staff. This is the first exhibition that MOIFA has presented with work chosen by all staff. The selections highlight the diversity of the museum’s collection and present the perspectives of staff through their favorite works. The MOIFA collection has grown to over 162,000 objects, representing more than 100 countries since its founding in 1953. Staff made their selections by touring museum storage, researching work in the collection, picking pieces from previous exhibitions, or choosing from a geographic area.
Exhibit Information Accessible PDF
Información de la Exposición PDF Accesible
Image: "BoBo bu Ko" Robotic Assemblage, James Bauer, ca. 1994, reused metal and plastic, commercial lawn chair, Alameda, CA, IFAF Collection, FA.1995.71.1V (photography by Kellen Hope)
Learn MoreLounging with Zozobra: Pop-up Exhibit
A vignette of works highlighting Zozobra’s 100th anniversary
August 20, 2024 - September 22, 2024
This year is the 100th anniversary of Zozobra, a favorite Santa Fe tradition featuring a multistory effigy/marionette that is burned each year to purge the community’s glooms. To celebrate the occasion, MOIFA will present two pop-up displays related to two of the most popular aspects of Santa Fe Fiestas, along with hands-on all-ages art programs.
“Lounging with Zozobra,” a vignette of three works highlighting Zozobra imagery, will be on view August 20 to September 22, 2024. It also includes an orginal 1920s “Quisicosa” head by Will Shuster. In Spanish, quisicosa is an enigma or conundrum, and this large-scale, quirky head is certainly enigmatic. It is one of four that MOIFA acquired in 1985 as a gift from the Santa Fe Fiesta Council. These heads were worn as part of certain Fiesta activities until 1984, when new ones were created.
Also on display “Wooden Menagerie on Parade” is MOIFA’s nod to the popular Santa Fe Fiesta event Desfile de los Niños, also know popularly as the Pet Parade. For only 15 days, August 29 to September 12, 2024, a selection of 42 carved and painted animals—all from MOIFA’s collections—will take up residence in the museum’s auditorium.
Learn MoreWooden Menagerie on Parade: Pop-up Exhibit
MOIFA celebrates the popular Desfile de los Ninos/Pet Parade
August 29, 2024 - September 12, 2024
This year is the 100th anniversary of Zozobra. To celebrate, MOIFA will present two pop-up displays related to two of the most popular aspects of Santa Fe Fiestas, along with hands-on art making for all ages programs.
“Wooden Menagerie on Parade” is MOIFA’s nod to the popular Fiesta event Desfile de los Niños/Pet Parade. For only 15 days, a selection of 42 carved and painted animals—all from MOIFA’s collections—will take up residence in the museum’s auditorium, forming a procession leading up to the stage. Many of these New Mexico animals are part of the Hispano tradition that was the focus of our popular 2014 exhibition Wooden Menagerie. Included in the animal parade will be a Felipe Archuleta giraffe, which was recently conserved and is currently the subject of a series of social media posts following her convalescence after years of suffering from a broken neck. The dates of MOIFA’s animal parade are August 29 to September 12, 2024.
Also on Display “Lounging with Zozobra,” a vignette of three works highlighting Zozobra, will be on view August 20 to September 22, 2024.
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