The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art proudly presents 

21st Annual Winter Spanish Market

Santa Fe, NM – The rich Hispanic culture of New Mexico and Southern Colorado will be celebrated at the 21st annual Winter Spanish Market, Saturday and Sunday, December 12 and 13, 2009 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 live music and dance, 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. FREE admission. 

The traditional art forms featured each year at Winter Market include the following: 

• Santos – depictions of religious figures in the form of bultos (carvings in the round) retablos (paintings on wooden panels), and gesso and wood relief-carved panels
• Straw Appliqué – crosses, chests and boxes decorated with applied straw
• Textiles – hand-woven on looms using handspun yarns
• Furniture – usually made of pine using mortise and tenon joints
• Hide Paintings – religious images painted on deer or elk hide
• 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 and 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 animal antlers and bone
• Ramilletes – decorative paper garlands

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. 

Winter Spanish Market is organized and produced by the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, which supports Hispanic artists through educational programs, grants, and the production of Spanish Market in July and Winter Market in December. These two major exhibition and sales events give visitors a rare opportunity to meet some of the best traditional Hispanic artists working in the region today. The Society’s collection of more than 3500 art objects is housed in the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art at 750 Camino Lejo (Museum Hill) in Santa Fe. The collection includes Spanish colonial art forms covering four centuries and four continents. 

For complete information on Spanish Market, Winter Market or the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, please contact 505-982-2226 or info@spanishcolonial.org. 

Winter Market is funded in part by Qwest, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and 1% Lodgers’ Tax, New Mexico Arts, and the New Mexico Department of Tourism. 
 

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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