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2011 santa fe international

Railyard celebration

Peace Corps at 50

Indigos global reach

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365 days of Folk Art

Bertha MedianCarved Gourds from Peru

Irene AguilarCeramic Figures from Mexico

Luis & Maria BlancoCeramic Figures from Mexico

Other Folk Art:Luz Maria AndrangoWeaving from Ecuador

Alejandrino Fuentes VasquezWood Carving from Mexico

Jose SantiagoWeaving from Mexico

Casa GunginnWool Rugs from Mexico

Faustina Sanchez

Embroidery from Mexico

2820 Cerrillos Rd.(505) 471-8539

6400 San Mateo Blvd.(505) 349-0970

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Opening Reception: Thursday July 7th 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Featuring world-renowned master Indigo artist, Aboubakar Fofanaand ethnic textiles from around the world. Fofana uses the traditional

Malian vegetable and mineral dyes and hand spun fibers to create elegant

textiles rooted in the traditional styles of mudcloth and indigo.

The Art of Living and Living with ArtTableware Bedding Furniture Accessories Textiles Fine Art Jewelry

530 South Guadalupe @ the Railyard 505. 983. 8558 www.casanovagallery.com


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2011 Santa Fe International FOLKART Market 3

328 S. Guadalupe Street Santa Fe, NM 505.438.8198 www.peruvianconnection.com

Artisan apparel for nomads and romantics

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THANK yOU TO OUR mORe Than

1,600 AMAZING & DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS!

AdmissionsDoug Holen, Co-ChairKathleen Nichols, Co-Chair

AmbianceMichael Mullins, Chair

Ambiance SalesAlexis Girard, Co-ChairLaurie Morgan Silver,

Co-ChairErnie Sulpizio, Set Up

Artist HospitalityValerie Baugh, Artist Meal

Services, ChairAmy Conway, Friday

Dinner, ChairZella Cox, Artist Departures,

Co-ChairMarisol Navas Sacasa,

Artist LocalArrangements, Chair

Melinne Owen, ArtistDepartures, Co-Chair

Benita Vassallo,Arrivals, Chair

Artist SelectionSuzanne Seriff, Ph.D., ChairBarbara AndersonMarsha Bol, Ph.D.Felicia Katz-HarrisDiana NDiayeMelinne Owen

Art TeamShelley Horton-Trippe, ChairMary Mill

Artist Training &ColloquiumAhdina Zunkel, Staff ChairJoni ParmanJean Zunkel

Best of the Best BoothSheila Ellis, Chair

Booth PhotographyPaul Giguere, Chair

Booth SuppliesJamie Douglass, Co-ChairSusan Henoch, Co-Chair

Education OutreachSarah Alley Manges, ChairAurelia Gomez, Museum of

International Folk ArtPatricia Sigala, Museum of

International Folk Art

EntertainmentNeal Copperman, Co-ChairJamie Lenfestey, Co-Chair

Food & WaterBrian Graves, Co-ChairFernando Gallegos, Co-Chair

Hospitality RoomMary Ann Shaening, Chair

Information BoothAndrea Fisher, Co-ChairMara Harris, Co-Chair

Line HostsDavid Loren Bass, Co-ChairJohn Scott, Co-Chair

Market SalesReconciliationHelen Lyons, Co-ChairRich Moore, Staff Co-ChairJohn Stafford, Co-Chair

Passport ProjectDonna Rosingana, Co-ChairZenia Victor, Co-ChairAnne FullertonJill Markstein

Regional CoordinatorsMara Harris, Co-ChairMarisol Navas Sacasa,

Co-ChairJudith EspinarNyira GitanaPat KutaySteve KutayBarbara MauldinSylvie ObledoSylvia SeretDavid SoiferLea SoiferDeborah WeinbergBelinda Wong-SwansonBill Zunkel

SignageEllen Andes, Co-ChairAlan Karp, Co-Chair

Transportation,Parking & SafetyLaura Lovejoy-May,

Co-ChairKelly Waller, Staff Co-ChairJon Bulthuis, Transit Division

Director, Santa Fe TrailsMike Kelly, Director of

Operations, Santa Fe Trails

Andy Perea,Security, Museumof International Folk Art

Michael Trujillo

VIP CoordinationTom Maguire, ChairThea Witt

Visitor SurveyLaura Sullivan, Staff ChairHeather Tanner

Volunteer Coordination& TrainingPrudy Krieger, Volunteers,

ChairMelinne Owen, Volunteer

Chair CoordinatorSarah Taylor, Artist

Assistants, ChairJohn Arnold, Artist Assistant

Training & On-SiteSupervision, Co-Chair

Lynn Arnold, Artist AssistantTraining & On-SiteSupervision, Co-Chair

Peter Greene, LocalInterpreters, Chair

Don Goldman,Artist AssistantCalling Committee, Chair

Volunteer HospitalityJoan Chodosh, Co-ChairMarlene Schwalje, Co-ChairPaul Schwalje, Co-Chair

Water TeamAna Chamberlain, Co-ChairLiam Dixon, Co-Chair

MARKET COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP

SpecIal thankS to new MexIcoS congreSSIonal delegatIon, governor MartInez, n ew MexIco State legISlatorS,Mayor davId coSS, Mayor pro teM rebecca wurzburger, and the Santa Fe cIty councIl, and all theIr Invaluable StaFF.

List as of June 1, 2011

every eFFort haS been Made to Include a coMplete and accurate lISt oF donorS, SponSorS, and volunteerS. pleaSe notIFyuS oF any oMISSIonS and we InvIte correctIonS.

In partnership with the City of Santa Fe,

New Mexico Department of CulturalAffairs,

Museum of International Folk Art, and

Museum of New Mexico Foundation

EVENT SPONSORS

Blue Alchemy Premiereat the LensicLensic Performing

Arts CenterSanta Fe Weaving Gallery

Market Opening PartyDonna & Robert Bruni

One World DinnerSt. Johns CollegeEileen Wells

!Felicidades!Farewell DinnerCharmay Allred

Sarah Alley Manges

Artist SponsorshipEventsCharmay AllredJoAnn & Bob BalzerCharlene CernySheila & Kirk EllisSarah Alley Manges

Atalaya Elementary SchoolBelizean GroveBreakthrough Santa FeCity of Santa Fe Parks,

Parking, Police,& Fire Departments

First Baptist ChurchFlying Star CafeGood Water CompanyImmaculate Heart of Mary

Retreat CenterMuseum of Indian Arts

and CultureMuseum of International

Folk ArtMuseum of Spanish

Colonial ArtsMuseum Hill CafNew Deal Films, Inc.New Mexico Department

of TransportationNew Mexico

Property Control DivisionOffice of Senator

Jeff Bingaman

Office of Senator Tom UdallPeace Corps Association of

America and New MexicoRio Grande SchoolDesert Academy LeosSanta Fe Railyard Community

CorporationSanta Fe TrailsWheelwright Museum of the

American IndianWilliam Siegal Gallery

CONTRACT/

SEASONAL STAFF

Laurie Bloyer

Nyira GitanaStaci GolarPeter GreeneClare HertelMaureen HillHelen LyonsDavid MooreJeffrey PerrenBob SmithEmily SouderVictoria Spencer

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONSSPECIAL EVENTS

Community Celebrationat the Santa Fe RailyardSuby Bowden, Chair

International Folk ArtsWeek & Blue AlchemyPremiereNancy Benkof, Chair

Market Opening PartyMartha Alexander, Co-ChairLeigh Ann Brown, Co-ChairJudith Espinar, Co-Chair

One World DinnerSue Ann Snyder, Co-Chair

Deborah Spiegelman,St. Johns College

Robert Pevitts& Beverly Byers-PevittsVivianne & Joel PokornyCaroline Ramsay Merriam

in memory ofJudith Heintz

Carol Robertson Lopez& Jeff Case

Marilyn Rosenfeld Thomas& David Ullman

Monique RyserBecky SawyerWilliam Singer

& Joanne CicchelliSusie Smidinger Brown

& Doug BrownClare SmithSarah & Jim TaylorTracy & Christopher

Thomas-FlindersJulia ThompsonDiane Tipton VeirsJane WilnerSharon Q. Young

SUPPORTERS

Anonymous (3)Martha & Mark AlexanderPatricia AntichBill & Julie AshbeyJan & Thomas BaileyJanice E. BakerRonni BalloweSusan BellJohn & Barbara

BerkenfieldDavid Bernstein

& Erika RimsonDeborah BradfordLynee BradleyIngrid BucherJane & Bill BuchsbaumShirley BurtonBarbara CarmichaelGeorgia Catasca

in honor of John CatascaCara & Robert ChapmanBruce Chemel

in honor of Edd& Carole Stepp

Carnell ChosaHarriet & Frank ChristianElaine ClaymanAnne Coller & Bill WhiteJanelle ConawayBetsy & Jay DalglieshMary E. DarmstaetterAnn Dehart & Robert

MilneRichard & Dianne

Del PizzoLarry & Angie Delgado

Rene DonaldsonBrenda EdelsonSusan Feiner

& Peter WhitmanMrs. Patricia

Head-FergusonAnthony Foltman

& Terese LyonsCharles & Nancy ForestBarbara Forslund

in honor of Bob& Barbara Griffith

Jennifer & Roberts FrenchRobin & Jim Gavin

Heidi Hahn & PhilGoldstoneBarbara Hadley

& John BurkePeter & Francie

HandlerHaila HarveyJudy & Michael

HerrmannAudrey & Don

HinsmanBarbara & Bud HooverDebra & Jeffrey HulingLeslie HyltonMarney & Larry JanssSuzi JuarezTom & Lynda KellahinBob KemblePatricia & William

KenneyNadine KoenigPatricia& Grant La Farge

in honor of Ramn& Nance Lopez

Lynne LoshbaughSteve & Meredith

MachenJan & Creve MaplesMarilyn Masters Levine

& G. B. LevineBarbara MauldinTom & Vicki McGuffyCathy & Scott MillerTom ODonnell

& Karen Tischerin memory of Virginia& Elmer Novotny

Louis & Janice Oienin memory ofJames Laird

Anne Pedersen

& Mark DonatelliAnnet PellikaanSandra PennGerald & Yara PitchfordSharon & Jim PorterMick & Genie RamseyJean RancLisa & Karl RayTina ReesMozelle & Judy

RichardsonAnn SacksSelena SermenoAnn ShaferPatricia ShapiroBeth & Walter SimpsonMarjorie SitterIrma & Robert SmithRobert & Donna

Spina Helmholz

Julie Strassburgerin honor of Don& Sharon EttingerMcLaughlin

Kim StrausJoan & Carl StrutzPeggy SwovelandWilliam UlwellingJean & Bob VogelJames VoorheesKay WilleLee WittArthur H. Wolf

& Holly M. ChaffeeLinda Zwick


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TABLE OF CONTE NTS

P u b l i s h e d J u l y 6 , 2 0 1 1

Maps

8 Downtown map

16 Where to park

30 Booth locator map

Schedules

18 Events for International Folk Art Week

19 At the market: all the goings on

Features

10 The excitement of market returns to Santa Fe.

15 Getting the most out of market.

21 Peace Corps celebrates 50 years with Railyard party.

27 Exhibits link market and folk art museum.

32 Indigo movie raises money, involves community.

36 Folk arts long and complicated traditions

38 Meet the artists

MARKETFOLKART

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Railyard Plaza

Railyard Park

1. Plaza

2. Loretto Chapel

3. San Miguel Chapel

4. Cathedral Basilica

5. Manhattan Project Office

6. Sena Plaza

7. Cross of the Martyrs

8. The Santa Fe New Mexican

9. Padre Gallegos House

10. U.S. Courthouse

11. Palace of the Governors12. New Mexico History Museum

15. Georgia OKeeffe Museum

16. Santa Fe Community

Convention Center

13. New Mexico Museum of Art

14. Lensic Performing Arts Center

17. Post Office

18. Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

19. State Capitol

20. Bataan Memorial Museum

21. Santa Fe Childrens Museum

22. Center for Contemporary Arts

23. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art

24. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

25. Milner Plaza

26. Museum of International Folk Art27. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

28. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

29. Site Santa Fe

30. Santa Fe Farmers Market

31. Santa Fe Depot/Vistor Center

32.Warehouse 21

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BY POLLY SUMMAR

Its a bit like having the biggest circus in the world come to town. Even if you never buy

a thing (which is unlikely!), the admission price to the Santa Fe International Folk Art

Market is well worth the color, the excitement, the decorations, the entertainment, the sheer

international flair and, of course, the folk art masterpieces.

This years market begins with a new community celebration at the Santa Fe Railyard on Thursday (July 7),with a market opening party the following night, Friday (July 8) on Museum Hill. Then comes two days of

market on Saturday and Sunday (July 9, 10), a feast for the senses, featuring the worlds best folk artists, all

on Museum Hill. Considered the largest international folk art market in the world, more than 22,000 people

attended the weekend event last year, along with 132 participating artists. This year, there are 180 artists

60 percent of them new to the market participating, representing 49 countries.

There are four countries and a territory new to the market this year: Algeria, Cambodia, Cameroon,

Madagascar and Puerto Rico. And Cuba is back, said Ernesto Torres, artist coordinator for the market.

And this year, we believe the artists themselves are coming.

ARTTRANSCENDENT

Details

The 2011 Santa Fe International Folk Art Market begins

with a free community celebration from 5-9 p.m.

Thursday (July 7) at the Santa Fe Railyard.

From 6:30-9 p.m. Friday (July 8) the action moves to

Milner Plaza on Museum Hill, with the market opening

party with early shopping, dancing, international

music, food and drink ($125 a person, $75 tax-

deductible). There will be no public parking on

Museum Hill this year. See parking and shuttle story fo

information on how to take a free shuttle to the party.

Early Bird market runs from 7:30-9 a.m. Saturday (July

9), with tickets $50 (which includes all day). Regular

market hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ($15 advance; $20 at

the gate). Sunday (July 10) is Family Day with tickets

$5 in advance and $10 at the gate. Youth 16 and under

are free both days. Market weekend events also are on

Museum Hill.

The world comes together on folk art weeken

PHOTO BOB SMITH PHOTO JUDITH HADEN PHOTO JUDITH

PHOTO JUDITH HADEN PHOTO JUDITH HADEN PHOTOS ABOVE AND FACING PAGE MEGAN BOWERS


Facing page, Republic of PeruBerthaMedinaAquinoBoo


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Popular returning artists also include papier-mch artists from Haiti, embroidery

artists from India, jewelers from Niger, felters from Kyrgyzstan and rug weavers from

Uzbekistan. Besides the art, marketgoers can enjoy live entertainment ranging from

Latin rock to music and dance from Oman or Senegal.

This years humanitarian booth will be called Shine on Pakistan, spearheaded by

market board members JoAnn Balzer and Sylvia Seret. Last year it was raising money

for Haiti, Seret said. When the floods happened in Pakistan at the end of July last

year, we decided we wanted to dedicate this booth to Pakistan.

Seret said the devastating floods have had minimal new coverage. I can imagine

people saying, What is that disaster? And yet that disaster affected more people than

Haiti and the earthquake in Japan combined. At the cash-and-carry, Shine on Pakistan

(booth 111), 100 percent of every sale will go directly to disaster relief.

With the help of the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Pakistan Trade

Authority and others donors, folk art from textiles and lacquerware to jewelry,

ceramics and more will be available at the booth for affordable prices, starting at $5and up, Balzer said.

Market Executive Director Charlene Cerny said the market really does bring out the

best in people, and not just through the unlikely coupling of cultures Israelis and

Pakistanis, Kyrgystani and Uzbeks, Tibetans and Chinese.

Since we started the market, it has been full of surprises, Cerny said. We

didnt expect, for example, that marketgoers would find so much meaning in their

encounters with the artists. Friendships develop and peoples lives are changed on both

sides of the equation. We didnt anticipate how much the market would give us hope

for this troubled world we live in.

Last years market generated more than $2 million in sales, with 90 percent of that

going home with the artists. That money brought huge consequences to the artists and

their communities. The Lila Handicraft womens collective in Pakistan, which brought

traditional Ralli quilts to the market, used the money to build a new school. Kandahar

Treasures, an embroidery group in Afghanistan, used the money to rescue women

begging on the streets and teach them traditional needlework in order to earn a living.

Folk artist Janet Nkubana used part of the money to support the cooperative shes a

part of in Rwanda that helps Hutus and Tutsi come together to weave peace baskets.

The other part Nkubana used to start new community vegetable gardens and to buy

mosquito nets to help fight malaria.

The market is set up on Milner Plaza atop Museum Hill, just outside the doors of

Santa Fes popular Museum of International Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Artsand Culture, and continues down the hill to include both market and food booths.

And just like a three-ring circus, this extravaganza is serious business. It might be

one of the few events that actually decreases the number of booths not the artists

to make the shopping easier for the attendees. This year were aiming for 135 artist

booths, Torres said. Last year we were over 140 booths. Were trying to lessen the

overwhelm.

Facing page clockwise from top left, Bhutan Karma Lotey, Republicof PeruFlora Callaaupa, Nilda Callaaupa, Niger Elhadji Koumama Oman Shagaila Ghali Al Senaidi (Al Najoom Dance Troupe)

PHOTOS FACING PAGE MEGAN BOWERS AVINA

As a cooperative, we buy school shoes for 12 orphans in our community and created a backyard garden for fresh

vegetables. We also put windows to our soup kitchen, which is built for us by a Peace Corps volunteer in 2008. My mother

has sugar diabetes and I cannot afford to take her to the hospital, so she was using traditional herbs. After Santa Fe,

I took her to the hospital for a medical checkup for the fi rst time in my life. I also bought one cow.

PHEZKWEMKHONO BOMAKENCHEKA, NESI THEMBENI MDLULI; MBABANE, SWAZILAND

Swaziland NurseThembeni Mdluli Mongolia Panama

Haiti Israel Cameroon India


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The overwhelm maybe, but not the spectacle or surprise. We tend to have 50

percent returning artists, and 50 percent new artists and new artwork, Torres s aid.

But this year its 60 percent new artists and artwork.

That can be a tough call. People want to see their favorite artists again each year,

after all. But continuing to be in the market each year is not a sure thing. In order

to really provide a different enough experience for people to come, we had to set this

goal, Torres said. Its a balancing act between sustaining and renewing.The market continues to work on expanding its reach into the world. There are

a lot of folk artists who havent yet made their way to our market, Torres said. But

through finding various cooperatives, the market is increasing that reach.

For example, artists from a weaving cooperative in Guatemala will be attending,

as well as a cooperative from the East Flores island of Indonesia whose artists make

a very distinctive ikat. Their co-op has 789 members 759 women and 30 men,

Torres s aid.

And were having a very isolated indigenous group from Russia this year, Torres

said. They were brought to us through a professor from NMSU the Yaoun Yakh,

Iugan Kahnty Native Minority. Its a Siberian minority group and theyre the reindeer

culture. The cooperative 125 women, 100 men makes such items as coiled split

cedar root baskets, fur purses and boots, and birch bark boxes.

One of the market standards is that the work be highly authentic to the culture, but

the market staff also looks at marketability. Theres a serious investment on their part

and our part, Torres said. But you dont know how people will respond, you dont

really know. Fur can be an issue for people, but this is really part of their lifestyle.Theyre not doing something as a luxury item.

Market staffers, however, definitely have a handle on old favorites among the folk

artists who are still showing. There are artists who have been with us since near the

beginning, Torres said, including Ousmane Macina of Mali who lives in Santa Fe and

makes three-dimensional traditional Mali jewelry in silver and brass. His cousin, Fatim

Diallo, does Tuareg painted leatherwork often made into pillows and bags.

Another group, MonkeyBiz of South Africa, which does popular beaded animals,

didnt make the cut for the 2010 event, but they are back this year. When they didnt

come last year, we heard about it, Torres said. Frankly, they didnt present their be

work in their application it didnt really show what they were doing very well.

And whether youre redecorating the house or just buying an item or two, youll b

doing it under a veritable canopy of what might be the most unique decorations the

market has seen, according to market co-founder and creative director Judith Espin

Every year we get an idea and we work around that, but we reuse all the things we

have bought over the years, Espinar said, so the theme becomes kind of an overlayand it ties it together.

This years theme? Expect to see an extravaganza of white paper doves everywher

you look and colorful giant paper flowers, some up to 4-feet wide.

The white dove symbolizes the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, Espinar sa

This is being done because there are a lot of return Peace Corps volunteers in New

Mexico and they have a very active group.

Espinar said there will be hundreds of white doves. Theyre all being made in th

workshop of a very famous paper artist in Mexico, Pedro Ortego, outside Mexico C

she said. He is very involved with the traditional paper arts of Mexico. The doves

will include three-dimensional ones and two-dimensional ones, too. Marketgoers c

purchase similar doves, ranging in price from $5 to $30.

Were also using an overlay this year of paper flowers and theyre extraordinary,

Espinar said.

The flowers are all made by a Mexico City artist who uses just one name, Sara, an

also makes terracitas, crowns of flowers. We bought as many flowers for the marke

ambiance booth as we bought to decorate because theyre so beautiful, Espinar saidThe flowers range in price from $5 to $12 for those 2-feet wide; a smaller number o

the 4-foot-wide flowers will be available for sale.

Espinar said when she first began going to markets in Mexico City nine years ago

many booths were dedicated to flowers and paper decorations. When you go there

now, the only paper things you see are those mass-produced expanding paper thing

like paper pineapples, she said. These flowers were going to have for sale are som

of the most beautiful examples of paper work still being done in Mexico. Its really a

wonderful representation of this tradition.

PHOTO BOPHOTO JUDITH HADEN


MexicoAngel Ortiz Gabriel, Jos Angel Ortiz Arana MongoliaNarantsetseg (Nara) Sambuu South AfricaMonkeybiz

PHOTO STEVE GREEN


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Get the most out of market

With some basic tips, you can be well-prepared for shopping this years Santa Fe

International Folk Art Market. The goal? Limit the number of surprises so that your

visit to market is an experience to remember.

Chapstick,sunscreenand water.Thats the advice from Kate Wall Ganz, a textile

enthusiast and collector whos been attending every year since the markets first

year in 2003. Take the heat seriously, and if youre especially fair, wear a hat. The

market offers water refills courtesy of the Good Water Company, so make sure to

bring a bottle from home.

Takethe bus! See how on page 16.

Heres the schedule for shuttles.

On Friday (July 8) for the market opening party, buses depart both locations,

beginning at 6 p.m.; the last bus departs Museum Hill to return to the parking areas

at 9:15 p.m. There is no public parking on Museum Hill.

On Saturday(July9) buses leave both shuttle locations at about 7 a.m. for the

Early Bird Market. Regular market-goers can begin boarding buses at about 8 a.m.

On Sunday(July 10) buses depart both locations at 8 a.m. and run throughout the

day. On both Saturday and Sunday, the last buses leave the two shuttle locations at

4 p.m.; the last buses from the market to the shuttle locations leave at 5:15 p.m.

Ride yourbike! Bike Santa Fe is providing a free bike valet service, starting at

8 a.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday. Donations are happily accepted. If you ride

your bike, though, you have to enter Camino Lejo from Camino Corrales for safety

reasons. Camino Lejo is one-way (north) during the market to allow the quickest

and safest travel for the public shuttles.

Buyyourtickets ahead of time. Call the ticket coordinator at 1-888-670-3655 or

505-984-0799 or go online to www.folkartmarket.org. There is a $1 processing and

handling fee per ticket. Tickets may also be purchased at any of the five Museum of

New Mexico shops in Santa Fe, the museum shop at the National Hispanic Cultural

Center in Albuquerque, or at one of the five Los Alamos National Bank branch

locations three in Santa Fe, two in the Los Alamos/White Rock area.

Leave Fido at home. No pets are allowed on Milner Plaza by state ordinance.

Assistance dogs are allowed, however.

Rain?The market is a rain-or-shine event. No ticket refunds. Most activities take

place under cover in tents, anyway.

Dont forget the museums. Market admission also includes admission to the twomuseums on site, Museum of International Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Arts

and Culture.

Shopping. If youre just looking, you dont have to read this one. But our serious

shopper, Wall Ganz, had this advice: I would tell them to get the publication that

comes out on Wednesday before market (thats this one) that tells a little story

about each artist and the country theyre from and the goods theyre selling.

Theres also a map in there. I read through that and decide which booths I want

to go to, and then I circle the numbers of the booths on my map and thats where

I go first. After that, Ill meander around and see what I like.Once you find the

items you want to buy at the individual booths, you take them to a payment booth

also marked on the booth locator.This year there will be an additional payment

tent, which should ease any bottlenecks: two on the lower level, where some two-

thirds of the folk art booths are located, and one on the upper level. Each tent has

about 10 registers.

Getting it home: If you buy something so large it wont fit on the bus, the market

can help you get it home; stop by the information booth on the upper level.Pakmail is on site all weekend.

Finding food.There will be 16 international food vendors this year, and the

Museum Hill Caf is open during the market as well. Heed this advice from the

markets artist coordinator, Ernesto Torres:High noon is not the best time to visit

the food vendors, but thats when everyone goes.So try off hours if you want to

get through the line faster.

Booth will benefitflood victims of PakistanBY ZLIE POLLON

The floods in Pakistan, which began in July 2010 and ran a path of

destruction from north to south, wiped out a huge segment of the country,

and ultimately affected up to 20 million people. It is said by some to be a

worse disaster than if you combined all the other disasters Hurricane

Katrina, tsunami, earthquakes, and volcanoes together.

Inspired by a booth last year, which dedicated 100 percent of its proceeds

to helping the artisans of Haiti following their devastating earthquake, the

Santa Fe International Folk Art Market organizers decided this year to lend

a hand to people suffering in Pakistan.

Shine on Pakistan, booth 111 (upper level near the Museum of

International Folk Art), will dedicate 100 percent of its proceeds to

humanitarian work in Pakistan following the floods, and specifically to

the nonprofit group SHINE Humanity, which has been providing critical

medical care for flood victims.

The idea for the booth came after a lecture by SHINE Humanity doctor

and Santa Fe resident Jenny Hartley, who last visited Pakistan in January.Exasperated by the lack of media coverage, Hartley and others held an

event at the folk art museum to build awareness. In the audience were

market board members JoAnn Balzer and Sylvia Seret.

We were both taken. One-fifth of the country was inundated by water,

20 million people affected and 1.2 million houses damaged, and no one

was really paying

the kind of attention

that should be paid

to it. It was of such

a magnitude that I

felt there should be

something, Balzer

said. I thought the

folk art would be a

good vehicle to help,

and also to put a faceon Pakistan through

the crafts.

Balzer and co-chair

Seret worked hard

to bring together a

representative sample

of crafts from the

country, including

$10,000 worth of items donated from the Pakistan Embassy and Pakistan

Trade Authority. Most of the handicrafts, including jewelry, cotton cot

covers, hand-woven textiles, beaded bags and ceramics, have been priced

low enough for anyone and everyone to enjoy.

Hartley explains that the most difficult aspect of Pakistans recovery is

that its baseline was already so low, and poverty so extreme.

Many of those affected were barely making it to begin with, she said.

Then to be hit with flooding Its much harder for people to get back on

their feet.

As for the organization, Hartley said she was taken by SHINE

Humanitys on-the-ground capacity, and its ability to spend next to

nothing on overhead. In addition, because of its small size, it is able to

successfully partner with other groups in the area, which requires constant

monitoring and relationship building.

They say its a little organization doing the work of a big organization,

and its true, she said. Its really all about helping people in a way Ive

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Take the bus!No parking is available on Museum Hill duringthe market, including the Friday evening openingparty. There are two locations for parking to catchfree shuttle buses to the market: 1) PERA/LamyBuilding parking lots, just north of the cornerof Paseo de Peralta and Old Santa FeTrail. Newthis year is overflow parking in the State CapitolParking Deck, corner of West Manhattan Avenueand Galisteo Street; from there, its about twoblocks to the PERA/Lamy Building. 2) Park inthe lots around the Runnels Buildings of theSouth Capitol Complex and the Department ofTransportation buildings. These lots are betweenSt. Francis Drive, Cordova Road, Cerrillos Road and

Alta Vista Street. (If youre taking the Rail Runner,get off at the South Capitol Station).

Bus times:

Friday 69:15 p.m. (for Market Opening Party)

Saturday 7 a.m. (for Early Bird Market)

Saturday 8 a.m. (for Saturday Market ticket

holders) until 5:15 p.m.

Sunday 8 a.m. until 5:15 p.m.

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Check w ww.folkartmarket.org/ifaw for

updates and information on each event.

OngoingTheArts of Survival: Folk Expression

in the Face of Natural Disaster, Gallery of

Conscience, Museum of International Folk

Art, Museum Hill. Story, page 27.

Museum of New Mexico Foundation

Shops Sale for International Folk Art

Market ticket buyers, through July 10. Buy

a ticket at a foundation shop, get one item

15 percent off.

AnnLawrence Collection, 927 Baca St.,

11 a.m.-5 p.m. through July 11, an Indigo

event honoring folk artists and featuring

textiles and clothing from around the

world.

PachamamaWindowDisplayat La

Fonda on the Plaza, IndigoTreasures from

Around theWorld:A Go Indigo! Window

Display. Pachamama is at 223CanyonRoad.Seret andSons,224 Galisteo St., A Visual

Feast of Indigo-Dyed Treasures: A Go

Indigo! Window Display

ShiprockSantaFe, 53Old Santa FeTrail

(upstairson thePlaza)Indigo Dye inNavajo

Weaving:A Go Indigo! Gallery Display

SpiritClothingStore, 109 W. San

Francisco St., Japanese Folk Indigo:

A Go Indigo! Window Display

TouchingStone Gallery, 539 Old Santa

Fe Trail,Yoshitaka Hasu Pottery Exhibit,

wood-fired pottery

Travelers Market,DeVargas Center,

1538 Paseo de Peralta, Silver, Silk and

Indigo: A Go Indigo! Gallery Display

WilliamSiegal Gallery, 540 S.Guadalupe St., Display of Indigo

Weavings: A Go Indigo! Gallery Display, 10

a.m.-5 p.m. through Friday (July 8)

Wednesday (July 6)GO INDIGO! WednesdayAll day at participating locations.

A city-wide celebration of Indigo

to celebrate the U.S. opening ofBlue

Alchemy: Stories of Indigo. Participating

storefronts will be featuring indigo-dyed

clothing and art, including galleries listed

in ongoing and those below.

TheArts of Survival: Breakfast with

the Curators, Collection Tour, 8:30-10

a.m. Museum of International Folk Art,

$20 Museum of New Mexico Foundation

members, $25 Non-members. Call 476-

1207 for reservations. Felicia Katz-Harris,

Curator of Asian and Middle Eastern

Collections and Asian artists.

BellasArtes,653 Canyon Road, Shihoko

Fukumoto: MOONLIGHT: A Go Indigo!

Gallery Display, 11 a..m-5 p.m.

JohnRuddyTextiles and EthnographicArt & Taylor A. Dale Fine Tribal Art, 129 W.

San Francisco St. (Second Floor), Indigo

Blues/A Selection of FineTextiles: A Go

Indigo! Gallery Display, opening

noon-5:30 p.m.

IndigoWorkshop for Children will

Folk Art Market Artist Gasali Adeyemo:

A Go Indigo! event, Santa Fe Childrens

Museum, 1-3 p.m. 1050 Old Pecos Trail,

505-989-8359

TheArts of Survival: Folk Expression

in the Face of Natural Disaster Gallery

of Conscience, 1-4 p.m. Museum of

International Folk Art, (by admission).

Artist demonstrations and hands-on

projects, narrative scrolls and shadow

puppets.BlueAlchemy: Stories of Indigo, A

Go Indigo! Special Event, 7 p.m. Lensic

Performing Arts Center. Tickets, 988-1234.

Story, page 32.

SantaFeWeavingGallery, 124-1/2

Galisteo St.,Things Indigo! Exhibit of

Indigo Textiles: A Go Indigo! Window

Display and Talk,Talk by master weaver

Irvin Trujillo, 4 p.m. Free

Benefitfor Partners in Education

Foundation and Santa Fe Arts

Commission Artist Exhibit/ Education

Program, 6 p.m. Santa Fe CookingSchool,

116W. San Francisco St.Tickets: $250per

person.Reservations: 983-4511 or 474-0240

Thursday (July 7)TheArts of Survival: Breakfast with

the Curators, Collection Tour, 8:30-10

a.m. Museum of International Folk Art,

$20 Museum of New Mexico Foundation

members, $25 Non-members. Call

476-1207 for reservations. Dr. Bobbie

Sumberg, curator of textiles and costume

and representatives from Pakistan Quilt.

CasaNovaGallery, 530 S. Guadalupe St.,

WWW: TheWonder of Warp andWeft, A

Go Indigo! Gallery Exhibit

TraditionalSpanishMarketArtist Self-

GuidedTour, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Find tour

information by hitting the purple linkon

the Folk Art Weeks online schedule

(www.folkartmarket.org/ifaw). That takes

you to the Spanish Colonial Arts site,

(spanishcolonial.org), and from there, hit

the calendar link and scroll down. Or, call

982-2226 for information.

Community Celebration:

50th Anniversary Peace Corps

Commemoration and Artist Procession,

5-7:30 p.m. Railyard Park. The event is free

and open to the public. From 7:30-9 p.m.

West African Highlife Band and Meet &

Greet market artists. Story, page 21.

Friday (July 8)Circo, at The Screen, 1600 St. Michaels

Drive at the Santa Fe College of Ar t andDesign, Call 505-473-6494 for show times.

Patina GalleryBreakfast Reception,

10 a.m., 131 W. Palace Ave. Join Patina

Gallery owner and international folk artist

Ivan Barnett for an intimate conversation

about his relationship with the world-

renowned collector Alexander Girard.

Tom Maguire, former director of Arts and

CulturalTourism for the City of Santa Fe,

will also give a brief talk. Ten percent of

each sale during then will be donated

the market.

HowThingsAreMade:Korean Pape

Making Demonstration Art Santa Fe an

Park Fine Art (through Sunday, July 10

at the Santa Fe Convention Center, 20W. Marcy St. Five artists from South Ko

will be demonstrating the traditional

of making Korean paper, known as Ha

TAI Gallery, 1601B Paseo de Peralta,

Nagakura Kenichi Exhibit through July2

showing a new bodyof bamboosculpt

5 p.m. Friday (July8), artist reception.

Market Opening Party, A Global

Gathering Under the Stars, 6:30-9 p.m

Museum Hill

Saturday, (July 9)Santa Fe InternationalFolkArt

Market, 7:30a.m.-5p.m.,Museum H

GalleryTalknoon,2 p.m.with exhib

artists, Museum of International Folk A

Brilliant Soil, 4 p.m.,Center for

Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old PecosTr

982-1338, documentary film screening

Followed by Q&A.

5 p.m. Travel Bug, 839 Paseo de Pera

Nigerian Indigo and Oshogbo Art: A

Go Indigo! Talk. Slide show and talk by

Victoria Scott.

Sunday (July 10)Santa FeInternationalFolk ArtMa

FamilyDay,9 a.m.-5 p.m.,Museum

GalleryTalk11 a.m., 2 p.m.with exh

artists, Museum of International Folk A

Book reading 11a.m.My Sisters Madeof Light,Travel Bug, 839 Paseo de Peralt

Jacqueline St. Joan will be discussing h

novel.

Brilliant Soil8 p.m. Center for

Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old PecosTr

982-1338.

International Folk Arts Week Schedule

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Saturday (July 9)7-9a.m.Mario Reynolds, Andean Flute

9-9:20a.m.Monks of the Drepung LoselingMonastery, opening blessing and chanting from

Tibet

9:30-10 a.m.Michiko Pierce, Japanese Shiginchant

10:15 -10:45a.m. Monks of the Drepung LoselingMonastery,Tibetan dances

11:15a.m.-noonLos Jaraneros del Valle, SonJarocho folk music from Mexico

12:30-1:40p.m.West African Highlife Band, musicfrom Nigeria

2-2:45p.m. Al Najoom Troupe, dance from Oman

3:15-4:30p.m.Savor, Cuban street music

Sunday (July 10)10-10:15 a.m. Monks of the Drepung LoselingMonastery, opening blessing

10:30-11:15a.m. Saudade, music from Brazil andCape Verde

11:30a.m.-12:15p.m.Al Najoom Troupe, dancefrom Oman

12:30-1:15p.m. Los Nios de Santa Fe, dancefrom Mexico

1:15-1:45p.m.Quang Minh Buddhist Youth LionDance Team from Vietnam

1:45- 2 p.m. Peace Corps presentation from MayorCoss 2:15-3 p.m. Goddess of Arno, Balkan folkmusic

3:30-4:30p.m.Odigba Adama, African diaspora

dance and drums

Other activities

Saturday (July 9)11 a.m.-noon Dance and Music Workshop withthe West African Highlife Band. Highlife-style songsand rhythms from Nigeria. Auditorium, Museum ofInternational Folk Art Market

Noon, 2 p.m.Gallery talk and tour with curator Dr.Suzanne Seriff and exhibition artists Gallery ofConscience, The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression inthe Face of Natural Disaster

3 p.m.Traditional Music and Dance with AlNajoom Troupe from the Ja'alan Bani Bu Ali regionof from the Sultanate of Oman. Auditorium,Museum of International Folk Art Market

Sunday (July 10)9 a.m.-4p.m. Passports for Kids! Follow the yellowfootprints to travel the world! After receiving apassport, children collect flag stickers from each of49 countries they. This program strives to awakenchildrens (and their parents!) awareness about themany countries and cultures at market.

11a.m., 2 p.m.Gallery talk and tour with curatorDr. Suzanne Seriff and exhibition artists Galleryof Conscience, The Arts of Survival: Folk Expressionin the Face of Natural Disaster

What to eatAgapaoCoffee

Anasazi Roasted Corn

Angel FireGourmet NutCo.

Annapurnas

Bernies Quick Dog

Cleopatra Caf

Cowgirl Hallof Fame

EthopianKitchen

JamboCaf

Molly's Crepe

Naths Khmer Cuisine

PizzaVanGo

PlateroFryBread

Posas

Reids Concessions

RoquesCarnitas

Taos Cow

International Folk Arts Market Entertainment Schedule

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BY ZLIE POLLON

When the National Peace Corps office set out to

organize its 50th anniversary celebration, its vision

included a handful of cities, each with an auditorium,

200 chairs and a podium for speakers, said New Mexico

Peace Corps coordinator Alan Burrus. I said, No, no,

thats not the way we do it in New Mexico! Instead,Burrus vision of the Peace Corps celebration was

right away linked with Santa Fes International Folk

Art Market, a favorite among returned Peace Corps

volunteers. Since the market began, Returned Peace

Corps Volunteers, or RPCV, have volunteered at the

market in various capacities, connecting with people

from the countries where they served, putting rare

language skills to use and bringing their dedication to

service back home to New Mexico.

The festivities in New Mexico will be the final of nine Around

the World Expos celebrating the Peace Corps 50 years in

service, and could draw volunteers from around the region.

It promises to be a raucous, four-day celebration, directly

integrated into the markets festivities. It will include an openingday procession at the Railyard with folk artists from around the

world in traditional garb (arriving by train!), out on a lawn with

ethnic food vendors, live music, followed by formal dinners

with distinguished speakers.

A commemoration sounds like a wake, so were calling it

a commemoration celebration event. Were hitting it multiple

ways, multiple days and with multiple events, Burrus said. You

can see how this isnt fitting their model of a room, a podium

and 200 seats!

By merging the commemoration celebration with the

market, the event also embodies the overarching goal of the

Peace Corps, which is the timeless work of making it a peaceful

and prosperous world, said National Peace Corps Association

President Kevin Quigley, who will be one of the distinguished

guests joining the event in Santa Fe.

The market is similarly based on a more global vision

of community, and on principles of economic and cultural

Communitycelebration

Free community celebration

5-9 p.m. Thursday (July 7) at the

Railyard Park in the Santa Fe

Railyard.

5 p.m. Peace Corps Around-the-

World Expo

6:10 p.m. Kevin Quigley, president,

National Peace Corps Association

6:40 p.m. International Folk Art

Market Artists Procession

7:30-9 p.m. West African Highlife

Band. Meet and Greet market

artists.

Railyard event honors Peace Corps volunteers, celebrates market

BRINGING IT BACK

JANE PHILLIPS

From left, Amber Gray, Peace Corps volunteer in Guatamala from 1985-1987, shares her experiences

at a 50th anniversary celebration earlier this year in Santa Fe.

PEACE CORPS MEMBERINITIATED

OR SUPPORTED BOOTHS

Mara Balvina Contento Ambuludi, La Mega

Cooperativa de Saraguro, Ecuador; Linda Belote,

Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador with the Saraguro

who has been instrumental in helping form La Mega

Cooperativa de Saraguro

Rkia Ait El Hasan and Khadija Ighilnassef, Jamaiate

Tifawin (Association of Light), Morocco; Peace Corps

member, Catherine M. LaBore

Jaakhankhuu (Janna) Grisha, Gerelkhuu Ganbold, Tuul

Sanjdorj and Narantsetseg (Nara) Sambuu, Hovsgol

Park Cooperative; Peace Corps member (retired),

Melinne Owen and family, particularly, her sister

Claudia Rector

Marie Prisca Virgini Ramanaliniaina, Association

SAHALANDY, Madagascar; Peace Corps member,

Natalie Mundy

Amina Yabis,Womens Button Cooperative of Sefrou,

Morocco; Peace Corps member (retired), Gregg Johnson

JANE PHILLIPS

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sustainability for communities around the world. It is not by chance that returned

volunteers see the market as a perfect extension of their Peace Corps work.

Remember, there is no such thing as a former Peace Corps Volunteer. Were

returned, Burrus said, and part of our goal is to continue the service developedduring our time away, and bring it back into our communities. Part of that is through

our work with the folk art market.

Take John Vavruska who volunteered in Nepal from 1983 to 1985, working in water

sanitation and supply. Twenty years later Vavruska, a chemical engineer and water

consultant for two decades, visited his former Peace Corps home and learned the

system he had put in place was in dire need of repair. Back in Santa Fe he was able to

raise the funds needed about $2,300 through private donors and an organization

called Waterlines. Two years later the system was mostly repaired and extra funds were

put into building latrines for schools in the nearby village. He says hes typical of Peace

Corps volunteers, who not only bring their service home, but often stay connected

with the site of their service. Its the love of the people, place and language that drew

Vavruska and his wife to the folk art market where, for the past two years, he has

volunteered at the booth of a Nepali womens cooperative.

These women were painting on the sides of their houses, he said. A woman

volunteering in the area got them to start painting on paper, simple scenes of fields,

elephants, daily life

Now these women are making some decent money, and theyhave gained more status in their community because they are income generators.

Vavruska says its his respect for the country and incredible rapport with the artist

that keeps him coming back to volunteer, a service hell perform as long as theyll have

us, he says.

President John F. Kennedy first presented his idea for a corps of volunteers during

a speech to students at the University of Michigan in 1960. He challenged students

to promote peace and American good will by serving their country abroad, and the

following year he signed an executive order making the Peace Corps an official arm of

the federal government.

Since then, more than 200,000 volunteers have served in 139 countries to work

in areas from AIDS education, to literacy, agriculture, technological and business

development. Todays volunteers are as likely to work in remote villages with no

running water as they might be to dress in a suit and enter a 24-story office building to

work in computer technology, said Quigley.

The average age of volunteers is 28, with 7 percent over the age of 50, and more than

90 percent of them single.The Peace Corps hit its height in the late 1960s drawing up to 16,000 volunteers

who wanted to work abroad. That number dropped to around 6,000 by the 1970s, and

the corps has been trying to rebuild those f igures ever since. The current number of

volunteers is 8,655 a high water mark serving in 77 countries, but Quigley fears

that number might be unsustainable with current federal budget cuts, which this past

November reduced the Peace Corps budget by $26 million.

The Peace Corps budget for fifty years has been a total of $7.8 billion dollars,

the same amount the Defense Budget burned through in about five days! It says

something about the priority our country spends on peaceful engagement as opposed

JANE PHILLIPS

Alan Burrus, who worked for the Peace Corps in the Tonga Islands from 1967-1970, looks back at

photos of his time there.

to supporting the military establishment,Quigley said.

Either the number of countries or the number of volunteers will most likely have

be reduced.

Were in a horn of a dilemma, he said.

Fluctuating Peace Corps numbers have often been a factor of the organization

president of the time, and the president of the United States, to whom the Peace Co

head directly reports. For example, numbers of volunteers plummeted during the

Nixon era.

Yet, despite vocal support by President Obama during his campaign he pledge

to double the Peace Corps to 16,000 by its 50th anniversary and push Congress to

fully fund this expansion, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean it seem

numbers could still fall because of budget cuts.

The impact of the Peace Corps cannot often be measured. Burrus said he return

to Tonga for an anniversary celebration many years after he completed his service

from 1967-1970. An official in charge of the program thanked the volunteers for thbuildings they built and the schools they helped create, then went on to describe w

he felt was the real benefit of the Peace Corps volunteers:

In Tonga we appreciated all the skills, but the thing we appreciated the most, wa

that you were the first people who came and lived like us and spoke our language.

What you gave us was respect and respect for ourselves, Burrus recounted.

Current budget cuts not withstanding, it seems that as long as there is a Peace Cor

there will be volunteers wanting to participate. Debbie Higgs might be typical of curr

volunteers: young people who have never ventured out of the United States, and who

would like a structured program to help them explore the world. Higgs, 20, originall

from New Jersey, both graduated from St. Johns College in Santa Fe and received her

official Peace Corps nomination in May. Shell be heading to Sub-Saharan Africa, wh

she guesses shell work in community service and AIDS-HIV prevention.

Its pretty amazing that their mission statement is to promote world peace and

friendship, she said. Thats a good thing to get involved with.

The Folk Art Market and the Peace Corps may be forever intertwined as it was a

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, inspired by the folk art she saw during her 20s inMexico and fed by her service in Peru, who helped launch the market years ago. Curre

market creative director Judith Espinar encourages and is honored by the participation

of other returned volunteers who contribute to the successful experiences of the mark

artists. It is particularly gratifying that many individuals associated with the Peace Co

look at the markets work as a premier example of the Third Goal, Bring it Home, sh

said. The market shares this honor with Returned Peace Corps Volunteers everywher

who believe in the power of the individual to make this a better world.

Remember, there is no such thing as a formerPeace Corps Volunteer.

Were returned, and part of our goal is to continue the service develope

during our time away, and bring it back into our communities.

Part of that is through our work with the folk art market.

NEW MEXICO PEACE CORPS COORDINATOR ALAN BU

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Lilybead & the Lake Atitlan WeaversLilybead is an organization which designs and creates beautiful beaded

jewelry on the shores of one of the most stunning lakes in the world.Developing a means of support for the indigenous Mayan women thatlive around the lake, Lily gets more and more women involved in creatingthese colorful beaded bracelets using the ancient weaving traditions thatthe Mayans believe connect us all!!!

A large selection of bracelets, earrings and necklaces from this groupwill be available at a special show at the Museum of International FolkArt Gift shop during the International Folk Art Market. Shop Friday,Saturday and Sunday 10:00am 5:00pm.

Global GirlfriendsStacy Edgar, author ofGlobal Girlfriends will be signing her book atthe International Folk Art Museum Book Store from 2:003:30pm onSaturday, July 9th during the market.Stacey Edgar started Global Girlfriendin 2003 as a way to provide economic security for women in need bycreating a sustainable market for their products. Stacey has been honored bythe Microsoft Corporation as a recipient of the companys Start Something

Amazingawards, and is a sought-after speaker on the topics of womenin the global economy, fair trade, sex trafficking, market and enterprisedevelopment, cause marketing, entrepreneurship, and parlaying your passioninto your career. She lives in Colorado with her family.

Huichol ArtworkHuichol artists Rosy Valadez, Cilau Valadez, Susana Valadez willbe demonstrating and presenting their artwork at the ColleenCloney Duncan Shop at the Museum of Indian Art & CultureSaturday, July 9 and Sunday,July 10 during the shop hours.

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B Y ZLI E PO LLO N

The world is certainly experiencing its share of natural disasters

these days. Tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires and record tornadoes

are the most dramatic of the events weve seen in recent months.

Other climate change events, including changing rain patterns or

prolonged drought show up in more incremental ways, thus with

less media coverage.

Yet throughout, meaning before the sun rises and after it sets, whether it rains

or the wind blows, people who make art will continue to do so. They make art

as a means of survival, as a means of cultural preservation, and as a means of

maintaining hope.

This month, the Museum of International Folk Arts Gallery of Conscience

will open The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Natural

Disaster exploring how folk artists help their communities overcome natural

disasters. It will be the gallerys second such exhibition, following last years

Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities.

Using the four elements earth, water, wind and fire as guideposts,

curators chose to feature arts that emerged from the earthquake in Haiti; the

floods in Pakistan; Americas Hurricane Katrina, and the volcanic eruption ofMount Merapi in Indonesia.

The challenge is that we want to work with these disasters while theyre

still meaningful in everyones mind. At the same time, there has to be some

distance for the artist to have a chance to recover and to cope, said Marsha

Bol, director of the Museum of International Folk Art. So the challenge was

to select a disaster where we could actually make contact with artists or people

working with them. It is sad to say, we had so many disasters to choose from.

Indeed it is difficult to keep up with the disasters occurring around the

world. Since the choices were made, an earthquake and tsunami devastated

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OF SURVIVAL

Art from on high

At the Museum of International Folk Art, across from the

survival exhibition, is yet another amazing display of folk art.

The Folk Art of the Andes exhibition, curated by Barbara

Mauldin, was five years in the making, and includes a range of

artwork from the countries along the north and western coast

of South America, including Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia,

Chile, Venezuela and Ecuador.

Displayed are clothing, home objects, metal work, and toys; a

room on religious folk art includes portable altars, sculptures

and amulets. A wonderful collection of festival wear, including

videos, masks and an interactive spot where visitors can make

personal appeals using magnetic milagros add charm to the

exhibit.

Folk Art of the Andes, which opened in April, will run through

early October 2012.

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Folk Art of the Andes, by Barbara Mauldin (Museum of New

Mexico Press) is a comprehensive look at the artistic legacy

of the highland region of South America. With more than 400

color photographs, the book is a significant contribution to

understanding the art and artists of the Andes. Photography

is by Blair Clark. It s a wonderful keepsake of the landmark

exhibition now showing at the Muse um of International Folk Art.

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Japan, and devastating tornados blew through Southern states in the United

States. Regardless of the disaster featured, the response is what has been capture

showing examples of how folk art has helped rebuild, establish hope and

remember each catastrophe.

What Im interested in is the way in which traditional artists survive and help

each other, said exhibition curator Suzanne Seriff, also chair of the selection

committee for the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. (After disasters,)

many are left without jobs and homes. Traditional artists pick up what they have

traditionally done and use their art and creativity to try to sell their art and usetheir money for economic recovery, but also to provide warmth and comfort, to

reestablish a kind of identity, to memorialize, and in countries where they pray t

spirits, it becomes an offering, a way to pray.

In Indonesia, for example, the more recent explosion of Mount Merapi,

the iconic natural treasure and island backdrop, was integrated into local art

forms such as puppetry, an Indonesian tradition. Shadow puppets are ornately

carved from thin pieces of leather or cloth and are used to tell stories behind lit

backdrops, with performances sometimes lasting through the night.

The people and their cultural and natural artifacts are so connected, that duri

the eruption, people looked at the clouds. They noticed the cloud resembled a

popular shadow puppet figure named Petruk with a great big nose, Seriff said.

They named the 2010 eruption Hot Petruk Cloud. Tens of thousands of people

were displaced by the Hot Petruk Cloud, many moving into government camps.

In the camps, master puppeteer Ki Enthus Susmono would bring his puppets,

incorporating positive messages of hope into his performances.

He would tell people to rise up, to not let this get you down, keep going, Sersaid. Similarly, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, images of natures force became

integrated into carnival masks, quilts, scrolls and paintings. The disaster was

memorialized in documentaries and in photographs, and it has stained the resol

of all who lived through it. Hurricane Katrina also was chosen for the exhibit so

not to exoticize natural disasters by placing them far from home, Seriff said.

Haitis earthquake in early January 2010 killed an estimated 316,000, injured

300,000 more, and left up to a million residents homeless. Last year the folk

art market dedicated a booth specifically to raising funds for survivors of

the earthquake, some of whom also were market artists. When Seriff began

organizing the exhibit, she initially considered an exhibition solely about Haiti.

But how to focus on just one catastrophic event when so many were pounding

communities around the globe? In fact, 2010 was noted as having the most and

most deadly natural disasters on record. And that was before the natural disaste

of 2011 began.

Another event caught Seriffs attention, as perhaps the greatest tragedy of the

disasters cited.Beginning in late July 2010, floodwaters began to rise in northwest Pakistan.

The water moved slowly at least slowly for a 24-hour news cycle but didnt

stop rising until it had affected some 20 million people. The waters spread over

croplands, ending any possibility for a planting cycle in the agricultural region,

and forcing people, already living in dire poverty, to carry whatever belongings

they could and head to drier land.

We learned that when people fled from their homes, what they saw as most

important and what they took with them, were these ralli quilts, Bol said. They

use them as bedcovers, for warmth, for wrapping up their goods. In one of the

camps, women started making ralli quilt tops out of clothes that had been donat

to them, perhaps clothes that werent going to be appropriate for them. They wer

making quilts to sell to make some money and to try to recover.

The ralli quilts are beautiful pieces, often with geometric patterns of triangles

and squares. For many who might never return home, these quilts now are their

only means of income and possibly of warmth.

Twenty percent of the country was wiped out, including farmland and crops,so people missed their planting season. Very few people have had the resources

to rebuild and great swaths of the country are still camping out because their

homes have been destroyed, Seriff said. Besides the exhibit, a special booth at

this years market will be dedicated to raising awareness and funds for Pakistans

unprecedented and ongoing dis aster.

The Arts of Survival opened Sunday and will run through May 6, 2012. Many

of the artists will be coming for the opening of the show and then staying on to

conduct demonstrations and workshops during the week, and also participate in

the market itself.

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8 Tatiana Mikhailovna Kelmina andYegor Pavelovich Kelmin Russia9 Matluba Bazarova Uzbekistan10 Agnes Keripa Papatiti Kenya11 Bertha Medina Aquino Peru13 Amalia Gue / Ixbalamke Cooperative Guatemala14 Matron Mwembe Zimbabwe15 Javlon Khoshimov Uzbekistan16 AminaYabisMorocco18 Rustam Usmanov and Damir Usmanov Uzbekistan19 Firdose Ahmad Jan and Bashir Ahmad Jan India20 Maigualida Edith Martnez Nuez, Evelyn Martnez Medewa Cooperative Venezuela21 Shohel Abdulsattar Khatri India22 Nargis Bekmuhamedova Uzbekistan

23,24 Ral Ayala Carrasquillo, Felix Martnez and Jaime Zayas Medina Puerto Rico25 Angel Ortiz Gabriel and Jose Angel Ortiz Arana Mexico26 Somporn Intaraprayong and Ampornpun Tongchai Thailand27 Orijyn/SaobanLao PDR28 Bernardo Pedro Gonzlez Paucar Peru29 Ique Etacore de Picanerai Bolivia30 Shokir Kamalov and Shavkidin Kamolov Uzbekistan31 Mathapelo Ngaka South Africa32 Teofila Servn Barriga Mexico33 Mamur Rakhmanov Uzbekistan34 MarianoValadez Navarro Mexico35 Chamanlal Premji Siju India36 Inocencia Hernndez Ramrez Mexico37 Gasali O Adeyemo Nigeria38 Franois Fresnais and Sylvie Fresnais France39 Haiger Sana and Khadra Elsaneh Israel40 MuhammadYousafPakistan41 Bibi Shaista Pakistan42 Mireille Delism Haiti43 Mehmet Cetinkaya Gallery Turkey44 Ousmane Papa Macina and Fatim Diallo / Mali Artists Cooperative Mali45 Ida Bagus Anom Suryawan Indonesia46 Toyin Jelili Folorunso Nigeria47 Ikhtiyor Kendjaev Uzbekistan48 Lesia Pona Ukraine49 Serge Jolimeau Haiti50 Ngang Ignatius Fru Cameroon51 Moussa Albaka and Houa Albaka Niger52 AnaVarga s de Espinoza and Patricio Mamani Franciscano Bolivia53 AsatullaYuldashevUzbekistan54 Ramu Devraj Harijan India55 Akeem Ayanniyi Nigeria56 Pastora Asuncion Gutirrez Reyes andViole taVsquez Guti rrez Mexico57 Alba Rosa SeplvedaTapia and Wilfredo Alejandro Arriagada Seplveda Chile58 Macedonio Eduardo PalominoTorres and Luzmila Huarancca Guti rrez Peru59 Angeline Bonisiwe Masuku South Africa60 GuiWu China61 Yuzhen Pan China62 Rebecca Lolosoli Kenya63 Cecilia Bautista Caballero Mexico64 Tri Suwarno Indonesia65 Mairam Omurzakova Kyrgyzstan66 Octaviano Chamarra Membora and Alina Itucama Negria Panama67 Julin Pariona C.,Tefilo Araujo Choque,Vidl Guti rrez Cordero, Mabiln JimnezQuispe and Eleudora Jimnez Quispe Peru68 Jasur Allanazarov Uzbekistan70 Alisher Muzafarovich Khaydarov, Mansur Muzafarovich Khaydarov Uzbekistan71 Gurupada Chitrakar and Rupban Chitrakar India72 Naina w/o Sadhumal SurendarValasai Pakistan73 Bhutan Karma Collective Bhutan

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BY ZLIE POLLON

There are amazing things about indigo, the dye, the plant and the tradition, that

I never knew. Big, important things, such as the fact that indigo production

underpinned the slave trade in the American South before the Revolution; or that thecolor, in hues of deep blue, imbues health and well-being; that the Indigo Revolution

was about farmers in India refusing to cultivate the plant when so many were lacking

rice; or that in different corners of the world, people create the natural dye with

varying technique and tradition, but all with the same love and attention one would

give to attending a child.

These details and more are the subject of a new documentary by New Mexico

resident Mary Lance that will show during International Folk Arts Week as a benefit

for the Santa Fe International Folk

Art Market. Blue Alchemy; Stories

of Indigo, traces the history and

production of indigo dye, from

cultivating the plant, varying

processes of creating the dye itself, and

the importance of indigo in history, its

disappearance and now, re-emergence.

Lance follows the renewal of an indigo

movement, with people still wed

to the notion of natural products,

tradition, and the spiritual importance

of this special color blue. Some of

the practitioners are lyrical in their

descriptions of their work, as reverent and humble as the religious following God.

Take Hiroaki Murai of Japan, who wants nothing more than the compost he produces

to create a beautiful color. That is my dream. I still dont have a lot of experience

with my job, so I wonder if I am doing good work. I worry that because of my lack of

technique, the cloth dyed with this compost might fade in 50 or 100 or 200 years. I think

of that often. Perhaps I cant make a good enough color in my lifetime. But I believe that

something cared for with this much affection and love will live forever.

Lance was first inspired by indigo in the late 1980s after hearing a lecture on textiles.

The multiple-step process, the different traditions and the passion of those who

worked with the dye finally came together in her labor-of-love film, which she began

working on in 2005. Its a beautiful color that has attracted people for thousands of

years. The popularity of blue jeans demonstrates that it still attracts us, she said.

While some of its history is dark, Lance said that recent projects are being used to

improve the environment and provide paying work for people in developing countries.

The renewal of the indigo tradition is visible throughout this years market in art

displayed in booths from Thailand, Nigeria, Mali or Mexico.

In fact, Nigerian artist Gasali O Adeyemo, who lives in Santa Fe, joined Lance filming

in Nigeria and brings his beautiful blue fabrics to the market. For Adeyemo, indigo blue

is not just a color but a power, a power to heal illness and to send away bad spirits.

Sometimes people tell me that the blue from the fabric has run on my skin, I tell

them, Yes! Its good for you because the dye will send sicknesses or allergies away. If

there is something you dont want near your body, or on your skin, or in your spirit, it

will keep it away, Adeyemo said, adding that the color is also used to paint on houses

as a way to keep unwanted spirits at bay.

Thousands of miles away in Thailand, artists share a similar spiritual belief in the dye.

It has magical powers to heal, said Vichai Chinalai, who works with a womens

collective in northern Thailand. The head of the cooperative in Sakonnakorn,

Thailand, tells him that since she has been working with indigo both morning andafternoon, her mind and her behavior have become more calm and peaceful, he said.

She says its like her children, because she has to look at them every day and see

what they need. Its alive. You have to keep feeding it, and notice what it needs to keep

it alive.

From the top, Thailand Somporn Intaraprayong, Nigeria Gasali Adeyam, Mexico Remigio Mestas Revilla

Indigo at marketAboubakar Sidik Fofama, Mali, Booth 100

Samporn Intaraprayong and

Ampornpun Tongchai,Thailand, Booth 26

Gasali O Adeyemo, Nigeria, Booth 37Remigio Mestas, Mexico, Booth 103,104

Amalia Gue, Guatemala, Booth 13


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From Zimbabwe to Santa Fe: www.fromzimbabwetosantafe.com Rough draft first screening atTipton Hall

(earlier this week)Circo: firstrunfeatures.com/circo/ The Screen (Opens July 8)

Tierra Brillante (Brilliant Soil): www.brilliantsoil.org CCA: Saturday (4 p.m.) and Sunday (8 p.m.)

Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo Lensic, July 6, 7 p.m. Pre-screening party at Coyote Cantina with $75 ticket

Events schedule for International Folk Arts Week: www.folkartmarket.org/ifaw


The anthropomorphic nature of indigo echoes through Lances film, as if it is

only through its critical, attentive care that it will draw breath and come to life.

According to indigo historian Jenny Balfour-Paul, the word indigo derives

from Greek indikon, or the Latinized indicum, meaning a substance from

India. From there the dye spread across the globe eastwards to Southeast Asia,

westwards to the Middle East, then to Africa, Europe and Latin America. It

is a hue found somewhere on the spectrum between blue and violet, and has

been called by names Nil, Ai Zome and Aro. The dye is derived from the indigo

plant, which grows in hot, humid climates, and can also be extracted from

related species such as Woad, commonly used for the blue dyes in Europe.

The process is painstaking, involving numerous steps, immense time

and strength. There is mixing and stewing, chopping and brewing, plus the

additives that make cultures unique. In Mexico, a woman puts in a cloth

talisman of a baby; in Japan, a maker adds a half bottle of Sake.

Japanese methods entail creating a kind of compost, which is then soaked.

In India, it is a huge vat of water, oxygenated and then drained, the sediment

on the bottom of the pool ultimately congealing into bright cubes of blue hue.

In Nigeria, women cover balls of crushed indigo plant with wood ash and let it

sit for seven days. The variations from culture to culture are amazing, but the

devotion is exact from country to country.

The demand for indigo increased considerably during the industrial

revolution and the popularity of Levi Strauss blue jeans, which originally used

natural indigo dye. By the turn of the century a synthetic companion was

created. Demand for the natural dye plummeted.

It is in part the deep relationship between creator and product that has led to

a revival of the craft, alongside a demand for a less toxic method of production.

The revival has started small, but in as many locations as its previous life. Lance

says the ripples are spreading and the use of indigo and other natural dyes is

gaining popularity. Her film closes with producers in Venezuela wanting to

bring back a former life and culture. The return is just as much about creating

new markets such as for those whose work now appears in Santa Fe as it

is about stressing the ways that tradition binds communities.

If youre giving people the option that they can stay in their village and

celebrate their own tradition and make a sustainable livelihood, its seismic

what happens, said Nancy Benkof, coordinator for International Folk Arts

Week. Youre creating something that comes from your own family history.

Youre putting money into peoples hands and often youre putting coins

and dollars into the hands of a mother or grandmother and that translates

spectacularly into the children. The girls go off to school, instead of being soldor sent to the fields to work, and the boys go off to school. It creates stability in

the family unit and what is a village but a group of family units.

For indigo production, that seismic shift is surely about helping to enhance

communities and cultures, but for some its the belief that the power of this

natural dye can play an even greater role. As Pakistani artist Noorjehan Bilgrili

says near the end of Lances film, If anything can bind and connect the world, it

would probably be indigo.

Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday

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