Sharing Our Identity and Keeping Warm
By Dr. Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi Every time I see a sea otter pelt, I instinctively want to run my hands across [...]
Museum of International Folk Art
Tutto il Mondo è Paese
By Rachel Preston More than one of New Mexico’s great stories starts with a broken wheel… and the account [...]
The Home that Lives in the Heart
By Laurann Gilbertson At its most basic level, clothing provides warmth and protection from the elements. But [...]
Distorted Memories and New Threats to the Realm
By Elizabeth Lillehoj A colorful painting on a wooden tablet in the Museum of International Folk Art features [...]
Looming Helicopters, Drones, and Globalism
BY ANNEMARIE SAWKINS War rugs are a unique genre of contemporary art that teach a wealth about Afghanistan, [...]
Supernatural
BY JULIA GOLDBERG The demon’s white face first appears subsumed with rage, a fearsome figure with [...]
Where Worlds Collide
BY DAVE HERNDON In the fifties and sixties, Alexander Girard’s status as both a Modernist designer and a [...]
¡Buenas Melodías!
BY NICOLASA CHÁVEZ Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico, at the Museum of International Folk Art [...]
For the Love of the Little
BY LAURA ADDISON / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KITTY LEAKEN For thirty-seven years, Multiple Visions: A Common Bond has [...]
Spoon to City
BY LAURA ADDISON In a 1953 letter to friends back in Michigan, designer Alexander Girard enumerated what [...]
When Georgia Met Sandro
BY KATE NELSON In the Museum of International Folk Art, curator Laura Addison opens a nondescript flat file [...]
A Dazzling Denizen
BY JESS MULLALY Alexander Girard might be thought of as the man at the beginning of the rainbow. As [...]
The Right to Remember
BY EMILY WITHNALL In 1990, at the height of Peru’s war, Wari Zárate and other artists in the Andes began [...]
The People’s Art
BY CHARLENE CERNY A Gathering of Voices: Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collection, [...]
Presents Rich with Provenance
BY NICOLASA CHÁVEZ The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) regularly displays recently acquired items [...]
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