MOIFA | October 2024

Cartonería Music Series: Mariachi Los Caporales

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As part of the museum’s ongoing music series in conjunction with the exhibition La Cartonería Mexicana, the museum will host the mariachi band, Mariachi Los Caporales on Sunday, October 13 for two performances at 1 p.m and 2 p.m. The concerts will be held in the gallery exhibition in the Hispanic Heritage Wing.

El Dia de los Muertos
The museum will once again offer a community celebration for El Dia de los Muertos on Sunday, October 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. The event will feature an altar installation by local artist, Stephanie Riggs, sugar skull painting, sampling of Pan de Muertos, and dance performances by Los Niños de Santa Fe.

New Bilingual Gallery Host Program

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Three Bilingual Gallery Hosts have completed 15 independent tour spots while connecting with 181 visitors exploring the exhibition La Cartonería Mexicana. This new experimental program will expand access to Spanish-speaking gallery visitors. The program was conceived and spearheaded at MOIFA this past year by Dawn Kaufmann, Education/Docent Coordinator, and made possible through an ongoing partnership with the advanced English as a Second Language (ESL) non-credit program at the Santa Fe Community College.

Visit by Contemporary Photographer Marta Syrko

Marta Syrko, Ukrainian Photography in the Time of War, 2024, Courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art, Photograph by Cousineau Studios.

Ukrainian photographer, Marta Syrko, (b. 1995), traveled from her hometown of Lviv to present two programs related to her recently commissioned series, Wrapping Art—Art of Salvation (2024) currently on view in Amidst Cries from the Rubble. On Saturday, September 14, Syrko held a masterclass for local photographers, including students from New Mexico School for the Arts. And on Sunday, September 15, she gave a public lecture, Ukrainian Photography in the Time of War, where she explored ways in which the war has affected her artistic process, and the physical and emotional transformations brought about by the conflict.

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