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Museum of Spanish Colonial Art The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art features objects from throughout the Spanish Colonial world, housed in a historical building designed by John Gaw Meem. Current exhibitions include New Deal Art: CCC Furniture and Tinwork , San Ysidro Labrador / St. Isidore the FarmerTransformations in Tin: Tinwork of Spanish Market Artists and Recent Acquisitions.www.spanishcolonial.org MOSCA on facebook
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
At the Museum of Indian
Arts & Culture, encounter Native cultures and artifacts of the
Southwest from ancestral to contemporary times in exhibitions from the collection of more
than 70,000 works of art and material culture. Current exhibitions include They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets, Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules , and Woven Identities. http://www.indianartsandculture.org MIAC on facebook
Museum of International Folk Art
Experience the color and excitement of the world's cultures, and see an unparalleled collection of toys, textiles, miniatures and folk art from over 100 countries in Alexander Girard's exhibition Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. Changing exhibitions include Folk Art of The Andes and New World Cusine: the Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Mas, www.internationalfolkart.org MOIFA on Facebook
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
New Mexico's oldest private non-profit museum, the Wheelwright Museum
of the American Indian, emphasizes important Native American art in an
eight-sided building inspired by a traditional Navajo hooghan. “I think the fundamental success in creating something has to come from a certain fire.”—Mary Cabot Wheelwright. When Mary Wheelwright established the House of Navajo Religion (now the Wheelwright Museum), her purpose was to create a repository for materials that fostered the study and practice of Navajo ceremonialism. Assisted by Hastiin Klah and numerous scholars, artists, and collectors, Wheelwright filled her museum with weaving, artworks, archives, and other items selected to document and preserve one of the world’s great religious traditions. But Mary Wheelwright had other interests as well, and was a key figure in the development of Santa Fe’s renowned arts community. Her collections of Native American and Spanish Colonial arts enrich museums throughout the region. In 2012 the Wheelwright Museum celebrates its 75th anniversary with A Certain Fire: Mary Cabot Wheelwright Collects the Southwest, an exhibition featuring exquisite textiles, metal work, wood carving, and pottery from Santa Fe’s premier institutions including the School for Advanced Research, the Museum of International Folk Art, and the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. Accompanying these treasures will be Mary Wheelwright’s own photographs and writings documenting her love of New Mexico, where she found “the time and space to breathe.” The exhibition runs through April 14, 2013. Regular events include Looking at Indian Art Saturdays at 10:15AM. Free admission! For details visit www.wheelwright.org wheelwright on Facebook
