Events - October 6, 2019

The exhibition Música Buena: The exhibition will focus on the rich history of traditional Hispano music from the arrival of the Spanish through the present.  Once in New Mexico, historic European traditions took on a new life and feel, blending with Native customs and reflecting the land, time, and place where these folkloric songs and traditions developed.

Diego Romero vs. the End of Art will be a dynamic exploration of a Cochiti Pueblo artist’s journey through life as depicted through his work.  For decades, California born Cochiti potter Diego Romero has created renowned historical and autobiographical artworks. Acclaimed for his neo-Mimbres pottery illustrating Pueblo Indian history, his father’s Korean War stories, and his relationships with women, family, substances and art, Romero’s work lays bare the life of one Native artist and Native history.  The exhibition narrative will be a biographical and culture history in conjunction with a conflict against a shadowy figure known only as the End of Art. Throughout the exhibition video presentations will feature interviews with the artist and others detailing his path and the evolution of his art. This will be one of the largest assemblages of Romero’s ceramic works and his lesser known multi-media drawings. Per conversations with the artist, several family members will be included as part of his story and as necessary allies in his battle with the nebulous nemesis, the End of Art. In an effort to engage a younger audience and the non-traditional museum visitor, the catalog will be a hybrid of a traditional volume combined with elements of a graphic novel. This method will convey Romero’s stories of cultural and personal endurance. It is hoped that Native youth in particular will relate to their story through art.  The goals of this exhibition are to share Romero’s unique and engaging stories of life and struggle through a cultural and pop culture lens, and the visitor will learn of Native survival and ultimately celebration.

Diego Romero vs. the End of Art will be a dynamic exploration of a Cochiti Pueblo artist’s journey through life as depicted through his work. 

Join us for this Free Family Friendly public exhibit opening from 1-4pm with Music, food and dances. Everyone one is encouraged to come in their fancy Fiesta dress:

• Matachines de Bernalillo will dance outside on Museum Hill Plaza staring at 1:00 pm


• Cipriano Vigil performs NM Folk Music from 1:00-2:30 pm


• Lone Piñon performs NM Folk Music from 2:30 – 4:00 pm


• Corn Husk doll making activity with Becky Dickens from 1:00 – 4:00 pm


• Enjoy refreshments provided by the Museum of New Mexico Women’s’ Board from 2:00 – 4:00 pm


• Big Jim Farms from Corrales, will be roasting and selling green chile


• Herbalist and ethnobotanist, Tomás Enos owner of Santa Fe’s Milagro Herbs will demonstrate the use of local  medicinal plants and offer a variety of products for sale.

Join us in the Bartlett Library & Archives for a look at "The Art of Gravestone Rubbings". Glimpse cemeteries remote in place and time through the stone rubbings from the library’s unusual collection.

Discover the Bartlett Library & Archives at the Museum of International Folk Art through our 2019 Open House  series, featuring pop-up exhibits exploring the world of folk art and the history of the Museum.  Events take place from 10 am – 2 pm.  PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE FREE EVENTS!

Join us in the WOW (Wonder on Wheels) van located in front of the museum on Lincoln Avenue to explore space related learning, see an Apollo space suit, pop culture toys from the Apollo 11 days, astronaut food, touch a moon and mars meteorite .......and much more.  Then come inside the museum to scratch a petroglyph in clay, just like Native Sky watchers did during the 1066 celestial event.

All ages welcome, free.