Letters from Africa – Artists’ Feedback on their Market Experience
Friday, August 27, 2010
The days of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market can fly by, for volunteers, artists and staff alike, and it’s only after things have returned to ‘normal’ that we can reflect on the experience of those few days in July.
Here are extracts from messages artists and organizers sent us when they got back to Africa which show how much the 2010 Market meant to them.
First, notes from Nozipho Zulu, Development Officer at The African Art Centre in Durban, South Africa, who travelled to New Mexico with several South African artists:
“It was on our return to South Africa that we realised the extent to which the market was an extraordinary experience. We have never sold that amount of stock in three days; the ceramic pots, the wire baskets, embroidered textiles… We always had cheerful customers in our booths, never did we encounter an unfriendly customer, they were all smiling.
