In partnership with the Museum of International Folk Art, IFAM is offering a workshop where attendees will be able to make their own Uchiwa, or traditional Japanese fan. Uchiwa’s were originally crafted from leaves and animal hair, today they are typically made from bamboo and paper and used to cool off.

Gasali Onireke Adeyemo hails from the small rural village of Offatedo, located in Osun State, Nigeria. Born to a trader and a farmer, Gasali describes his family as rich in spirit and culture. These influences fed his artistic potential earlier on, Gasali shares “From a very young age, I would attend social gatherings, such as weddings, naming and burial ceremonies, and other cultural parties offering to sketch portraits of the guest, for a small donation. My sketching career combined with long, hard days working on the village farms provided adequate income to successfully complete my academic education through high school.” In 1990, Gasali discovered the Nike Center for Arts and Culture, where he would remain for a total of six years mastering the arts of batik paining, indigo dyeing, quilt making, embroidery, applique, and batik painting on rice paper. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

When you're finished dancing to Delgrès at the IFAM Night Market, keep the party going with DJ Rashaan at Opuntia!

9PM-12AM

$10 Cover - All proceeds go to the International Folk Art Market

Late night food and drink menu available.

Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.

Ivy Ross is the Vice President of Design for Hardware Products at Google, where she leads a team that has created over fifty products, winning over 225 design awards. Philip Fimmano is a trend analyst and consultant, contributing to Trend Union’s forecasting books, magazines and strategic studies for international companies in fashion, textiles, interiors and lifestyle. In 2011, Fimmano co-founded Talking Textiles with Li Edelkoort.

Carla Fernández is a fashion house based in Mexico City dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the textile legacy of Indigenous and mestizo communities of Mexico. The brand’s vision in regards to manual methods proves that ethical fashion can be innovative, avant-garde and progressive. An agency of change and innovation, bringing new meaning to luxury fashion, the Carla Fernández team travels the throughout Mexico visiting communities of artisans who specialize in handmade textiles and centuries-old Indigenous techniques. The approach of the brand to these communities is contributing to sustaining ancient Indigenous techniques and the people who collaborate with it.

“The Japanese Yōkai Train departs and returns to the Santa Fe Depot. Each ticket includes a seat in our enclosed train cars, a complimentary champagne welcome as the adventure begins, and live entertainment! Additional snacks and drinks can be purchased.”

Caleb Sayan is the co-founder of Textile Hive and the son of Andrea Aranow. Sayan conceived, assembled, and led the team responsible for the digitization of the Andrea Aranow Textile Design and the creation of a visual database that houses the collection online. Sayan's deep appreciation for the history, intricacies, and tactile nature of textiles, combined with his passion for technology and its application in enhancing interactions with cultural material, led him to create Textile Hive. Currently, Sayan consults through Visual Archiving Solutions on large-scale digitization projects. Visual Archiving enhances and augments large physical collections, transforming them from static to dynamic assets, and serves institutional, private, and corporate collections.

Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood (Quechua Nation, Peru) is an artist born in Taos, NM (1996) and raised in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru. He studied sculpture at the Art University Bellas Artes Diego Quispe Tito in Cusco, Peru and is currently getting his BFA in sculpture at the Institute of American Indian Art (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM. He has participated in several art shows in Cusco. His sculpture is mixed media and is currently focusing on bronze casting. Suni’s inspiration comes from his Quechua ancestry and the wisdom of Andean worldview important in his life. Suni is a member of the Kusi Kawsay Educational Community, and a musician of the Kusi Ñan traditional Cusqueña music group. His work explores new ways of seeing and understanding. He transmits messages that awaken a balance between living immersed in this world of modernity without separating from ancestral roots in order to emerge with dignity, and to build a collective destiny.

Caroll Dunham, co-creator of Around the World in 80 Fabrics is a medical anthropologist, Buddhist chaplain, and social entrepreneur. Carroll has called Nepal home for thirty years and is the founder of Wild Earth, a company that promotes Himalayan plant wisdom and provides work for women. National Geographic Expeditions leader and author of four books, she has worked on over 12 film projects for National Geographic, BBC, PBS, Channel 4. Fascinated by the natural history of textiles, with an anthropological storytelling lens, Carroll is interested in the relationship of nature, culture, and people in the creation of fibers as we look to what we might wear as a species post-petroleum.

Mexican Senator Susana Harp has advocated for, and successfully sponsored, the most comprehensive legislation for the protection of Indigenous intellectual property rights available internationally. In conversation with Heritage by Hand owner, Heidi McKinnon, they will discuss how this legal protection against plagiarism of traditional designs was achieved and its global importance for cultural heritage.