From the press release:
Former MOIFA Director & Guest Curator receive prestigious Michael M. Ames Award for Innovative Museum Anthropology
Museum of International Folk Art
In 2009, Nurse Thembeni Mdluli made her first visit to the United States as a featured artist and Phez’kwemkhono Bomake-Ncheka Cooperative representative at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Upon her return to the village with toothbrushes to give to all of the AIDS-orphaned children, one child exclaimed, “Is it Christmas today?” Swaziland, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Phez’kwemkhono Bomake-Ncheka Cooperative.
Note: Representative image at left is often cropped for display purposes. Downloaded high-resolution images are not cropped.