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  The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art presents the

20th Annual Winter Spanish Market

December 6 & 7, 2008

Santa Fe, NM – The rich Hispanic culture of New Mexico and Southern Colorado will be celebrated at the 19th annual Winter Spanish Market, Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7, 2008 at the Santa Fe Convention Center. A destination event for residents and visitors alike, Winter Market features handmade traditional arts by over 100 Hispanic artists, continuous musical entertainment, art demonstrations and refreshments. Open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the Market provides a unique opportunity for visitors to enjoy a taste of New Mexico’s vibrant Spanish culture, both past and present. Admission is free.

The traditional artforms featured each year at Spanish Market include the following:
  • Santos - depictions of religious figures in the forms of bultos (carvings in the round), retablos (paintings on wooden panels), and gesso and wood relief-carved panels.
  • Hide Paintings - religious images painted on deer or elk hide
  • Straw Appliqué - crosses, chests and boxes decorated with applied straw
  • Textiles - hand-woven on looms using handspun yarns
  • Furniture - usually made from pine using mortise and tenon joints
  • Colcha - unique regional embroideries employing the colcha stitch
  • Tinwork - decorative and utilitarian objects of cut and punched tin
  • Ironwork - tools, fastenings, and household objects forged from iron
  • Precious Metals - silver or gold jewelry, utilitarian and devotional objects
  • Pottery - hand-sculpted bowls, pots, and other ware made from micaceous clay
  • Bonework - decorative items, anillos (rings) and tool handles carved from bones
  • Ramilletes - decorative paper garlands
  • Basketry - baskets handwoven from red and brown river willow


    At Winter Market the participating artists are also permitted to display and sell “contemporary expressions” of the traditional colonial art forms thus adding a new dimension to this popular seasonal show.


    Musical entertainment will be provided by such favorites as the Quintana Sisters, Trio Los Musicanos and Trio Jalapeño, among others.


    Exhibits: In conjunction with the Winter Market, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art will display “The Art of Spanish Market, featuring a new selection of recent works by Spanish Market artists. “Straw Appliqué: Poor Man’s Gold” will open in November and run through April of 2009.
For complete information on Spanish Market, Winter Market or the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, please contact 505-982-2226 or membership@spanishcolonial.org.


Spanish Market is also funded in part by New Mexico Arts, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission & 1% Lodgers' Tax, and the New Mexico Department of Tourism.

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For further information:
Spanish Market
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
P.O. Box 5378
Santa Fe, NM 87502-5378

Phone: 505-982-2226     Fax: 505-982-4585
Or by email
Website: www.spanishcolonial.org

Spanish Market is funded in part by New Mexico Arts, the New Mexico Department of Tourism, McCune Charitable Foundation, and the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers Tax.

 
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