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* Museum of International Folk Art Parking (July 9 – 12) = Free parking and shuttle service at First Baptist Church (Camino Lejo & Old Santa Fe Trail)
Saturday, July 7
Artists of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market: a photographic portrait exhibit benefiting SFIFAM
Begins June 25, (Reception: Friday, June 29, 5:30 – 7:30 pm). Ongoing through July 28 during regular business hours: M-F 10 – 2:30 pm Saturday 11 – 2 pm
Back Street Bistro, 513 Camino de los Marquez, 505-982-3500
“Artists of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market” is a collection of portrait photographs, taken by local photographer Robert Smith, representing some of the hundreds of artists who have attended the Market over the past eight years. It is a colorful and insightful display of the personalities that bring their unique and skillful talents to Santa Fe each year to support their families, neighbors, and communities by offering products from their rich cultural heritage. Net sales for the exhibit will benefit the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market.
2012 Santa Fe Wine Festival
12 – 6 pm El Rancho de las Golondrinas 505-471-2261 (admission fee) July 7 & 8
Enjoy traditional New Mexican and Mexican arts and crafts, demonstrations, food, wine, and music while picnicking under the towering cottonwoods with friends and family at the historic El Rancho de las Golandrinas Santa Fe Wine Festival. Tour 34 historic buildings and see costumed villagers baking in bee-hive ovens (hornos), carding, spinning and weaving wool, blacksmithing and grinding grain employing traditional techniques brought with the settlers from Old Mexico to New Mexico.
Genghis Blues
5:30 pm Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail (admission fee) 505-982-1338
Q&A with producer Adrian Belic by Skype!
“A good-hearted, wonderfully revealing record of an arduous but triumphant journey … melds American blues music and Asian chant into a rugged Asian-American fusion.” –New York Times. One night, Paul Pena—a down-on-his-luck blind bluesman who jammed with T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, and Bonnie Raitt—heard a strange sound on his radio. It was throatsinging, from the Republic of Tuva, in the wild country between Siberia and Mongolia. After teaching himself how to throatsing, Pena was invited to perform at Tuva’s annual national competition. This incredible story of his journey takes us across the globe, introducing us to a man whose insatiable curiosity and deep love of music connects him in the most unlikely places. Winner, Sundance, Florida, San Francisco film festivals. (U.S., 2000, 88m, digital video)
Sunday, July 8
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
Exhibition Opening 1 – 4 pm
Museum of International Folk Art*, 505-476-1200
Organized by curator Delphine Hirasuna, with advisory support from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Art of Gaman showcases arts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. Internment camps during World War II. The opening reception is part of International Folk Arts Week.
- 11:30 am, Private reception for special guests
- 1 pm, Lecture by Delphine Hirasuna, Exhibition Curator & Author
- 2 – 4 pm, Reception hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico
(Ongoing through October 7, 2012. Exhibition is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm)
2012 Santa Fe Wine Festival
12 – 6 pm El Rancho de las Golondrinas 505-471-2261 (admission fee) July 7 & 8
Enjoy traditional New Mexican and Mexican arts and crafts, demonstrations, food, wine, and music at the historic El Rancho de las Golandrinas Santa Fe Wine Festival.
Monday, July 9
Breakfast with the Curator Tour: “Folk of the Andes”
8:30 – 10 am Museum of International Folk Art*, (admission fee)
Call 505-476-1224 for reservations.
Tour MOIFA’s “Folk of the Andes” exhibit with Curator of Latin America, Barbara Mauldin, Ph.D.
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artist Demonstrations
1 – 4 pm Museum of International Folk Art* (admission fee)
Demonstrations presented by Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artists:
• Sumi Takamoto, Japan, Uchiwa (fan) Demonstration
• Nomvuselelo Mavundla & Elliot Mkhize, South Africa, Wire Basket Demonstration
• Claudio Jiménez Quispe, Peru, Peruvian Retablo Demonstration
• Hands-on Project for Ages 3 – 103: Making Peruvian Retablos
Tuesday, July 10
Breakfast with the Curator Tour: “The Art of Gaman”
8:30 – 10 am Museum of International Folk Art*, (admission fee)
Call 505-476-1224 for reservations.
Tour MOIFA’s “The Art of Gaman” exhibit in the Gallery of Conscience with Felicia Katz-Harris, Curator of Asian and Middle Eastern Collections.
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artist Demonstrations
1 – 4 pm Museum of International Folk Art* (admission fee)
Demonstrations presented by Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artists:
• Sumi Takamoto, Japan, Uchiwa (fan) Demonstration
• Nomvuselelo Mavundla & Elliot Mkhize, South Africa, Wire Basket Demonstration
• Claudio Jiménez Quispe, Peru, Peruvian Retablo Demonstration
• Hands-on Project for Ages 3 – 103: Making Uchiwa (fans)
The Traveler’s Market Presents “The Art of the Shawl”
5:30 – 7:30 pm: Traveler’s Market, DeVargas Center,153B Paseo de Peralta, Phone: 505-989-7667 (RSVP)
Exhibit and Sale of Fabulous Shawls from around the world. Fashion Show & Presentation. Learn about the many uses and the social context of shawls. WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHAWL!! Reception and Raffle to follow.
“From Zimbabwe to Santa Fe” Screening
7 pm The Screen (admission fee)
A documentary film produced by local filmmaker Cristina McCandless, “From Zimbabwe to Santa Fe” follows the wild journey of three rural Zimbabwean folk artists in search of economic prosperity. Travel along with Matron, Sindiso and Gogo, as these three uniquely appealing women tackle a multitude of unexpected challenges on their way to the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market.
, filmmaker, 505-670-6000
Wednesday, July 11
Breakfast with the Curator Tour: “Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress”
8:30 – 10 am Museum of International Folk Art*, (admission fee)
Call 505-476-1224 for reservations.
Tour MOIFA’s “Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress” exhibit with Curator of Textiles & Costume, Bobbie Sumberg, Ph.D.
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artist Demonstrations
1 – 4 pm Museum of International Folk Art* (admission fee)
Demonstrations presented by Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artists:
• Sumi Takamoto, Japan, Uchiwa (fan) Demonstration
• Nomvuselelo Mavundla & Elliot Mkhize, South Africa, Wire Basket Demonstration
• Claudio Jiménez Quispe, Peru, Peruvian Retablo Demonstration
• Hands-on Project for Ages 3 – 103: Making Making Wire Baskets
AN EVENING WITH GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON, New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
7 pm Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 West San Francisco Street (admission fee)
Tickets: Lensic Box Office 505-988-1234
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, an expert on global women entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict regions is Contributing Editor-At-Large for Newsweek Magazine and the Daily Beast, and the deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy program.
Please join us for the pre-event cocktail party at the Coyote Cafe with the author from 5:30-6:30pm. Tickets: $125.
Folk Art Gallery Trail
Noon – 5 pm at participating locations (TBD)
Follow an exciting trail of sequentially timed presentations, talks, artist demonstrations and films held at galleries all around town, designed to explore themes of global traditional arts and culture.
Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artist Demonstrations
1 – 4 pm Museum of International Folk Art* (admission fee)
Demonstrations presented by Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Artists:
• Sumi Takamoto, Japan, Uchiwa (fan) Demonstration
• Nomvuselelo Mavundla & Elliot Mkhize, South Africa, Wire Basket Demonstration
• Claudio Jiménez Quispe, Peru, Peruvian Retablo Demonstration
• Hands-on Project for Ages 3 – 103: Making Uchiwa (fans)
Thursday, July 12
COMMUNITY CELEBRATION AT THE SANTA FE RAILYARD
5 – 9 pm The Santa Fe Railyard Park Kick off party for the 2012 Market at Santa Fe’s Railyard Park. Enjoy a FREE concert, international foods and MORE. At the center of the festivities will be the Annual Market Artists Procession. The event is free and open to the public.
Friday, July 13
MARKET OPENING PARTY, A Global Gathering Under the Stars
6:30 – 9 pm Museum Hill (offsite parking)
Shopping, dancing, international music, food and drink! Artists’ booths will be open, lighted, and ready to sell! $125.00 per person ($75 tax-deductible)
Saturday, July 14
EARLY BIRD MARKET
7:30-9 am Museum Hill (offsite parking)
Get an early morning start! $50 Ticket includes all day Saturday.
SATURDAY MARKET
9 am – 5 pm Museum Hill (offsite parking)
$15 Advance Sales, $20 day of event, children 16 and under free.
VANUATU: It Doesn’t Get More Exotic!
7:30 pm, El Museo Cultural, 555 Camino De La Familia; For information: 505-955-0712; (admission fee: $15, $12 (seniors), percentage donated to Vanuatu Kastom school for cultural preservation)
Spend a fascinating, unusual and highly entertaining evening with award-winning international travel journalists/photographers Judith Fein & Paul Ross of Santa Fe (Global Adventure) as they take you on a journey to the most exotic place they have ever visited! Through a talk, slideshow, video, music, and an authentic kava ceremony led by Vanuatu artist Zilo Bong, you will experience unforgettable sights, sounds, smells, tastes and stories. You’ll discover how women brought peace to cannibals, the meaning behind cargo cults, the lost song of Stone Age tool makers and much more.
Sunday, July 15
SUNDAY MARKET – Family Day
9 am – 5 pm Museum Hill (offsite parking)
$5 Advance Sales, $10 day of event, children 16 and under free.
Children’s Passport Program
(Activity)
After receiving a passport, children collect flag stickers from each country/artist they visit, to put in their passports. This program strives to awaken children’s awareness about the many countries and cultures represented at the Market. > Download Flyer