Museum of International Folk Art

multi-colored round telephone wire weaving

Weaving New Meanings

By Elizabeth Perrill, with Muziwandile Gigaba and Lillia McEnaney Without traffic, it only takes thirty [...]

black and white, historic photograph of a politician holding up a stack of papers

The Art of Survival

By Stephanie Joyce The engraving on the side of the cup is painstakingly scratched out of the silver metal. [...]

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico 1942-1946. U.S. Department of Justice photograph, PAMU.233.2. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), Neg. No. HP.2014.14.2948

Monuments of Mutuality

By Almah LaVon Rice The documentary begins with a close-up view of an apparent snowscape. The camera eye [...]

Unidentified Artist, Chicano Beauty from the Barrio, date unknown. 15 1/2 × 16 in. National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum Permanent Collection, 2019.30.130. Photo by Addison Doty.

Love Pa’ Mi Gente Shine Through Me

By Jimmy Santiago Baca There was a time when you would have never caught me in a museum. At most, I had maybe [...]

Bobby Qalutaksraq Brower (Iñupiaq, Utqiag˙vik), Melissa Ahnoorik Ahlooruk Ingersoll (Iñupiaq, Nome), Cassandra Tikasuk Johnson (Unalakleet), Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer (Iñupiaq, Kotzebue), Beverly Tuck (Unangaxˆ, St. Paul Island), Healing Stitches, 2021. Cotton and polyester. Sarah Ayaqi Whalen-Lunn (Iñupiaq), Solidarity, No More Stolen Sisters, and Black Lives Matter, 2020. Digital illustrations on aluminum. Photograph by Blair Clark. Courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art.

Grief’s Outline, Memory’s Shape

BY ANNIE WENSTRUP Amber Webb’s Memorial Qaspeq is a permanent work in progress. Webb is a Yup’ik artist [...]

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