20th Annual International Folk Art Market
July 11-14, 2024
Santa Fe, New Mexico | Railyard Park
167 Folk Artists from more than
50 countries for 3 days for the
20th Anniversary Market!
EARLY BIRD
July 12, 2024
NIGHT MARKET
July 13, 2024
ALL ACCESS
Enjoy ALL ACCESS to IFAM 2024
July 11 - 14, 2024
FRIDAY
July 12, 2024
SATURDAY
July 13, 2024
SUNDAY
July 14, 2024
Building on Tradition:
A World United by Folk Art.
Relive the Magic of IFAM 2024
ETERNAL PRESENT
The 2024 IFAM Speaker Series:
Twenty Years of Folk Art Excellence
The 2024 IFAM Speaker Series is a different way to experience the Market and learn more from some of folk art’s most important voices of our time.
To attend the IFAM Speaker Series, purchase a general admission ticket to the Market or an All-Access ticket. All Market and Speaker Series tickets can be purchased in advance through our ticketing website.
The Speaker Series is held at SITE Santa Fe (1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501).
Enhance your experience.
Go beyond the Market.
Friday, July 12, 2024: TIME & PLACE
Time is intricately tied to place and influences agriculture, cultural traditions, and handmade techniques. Join us for Day 1 of the Speaker Series, where we'll explore the profound connection between identity and place through communities, artists, textiles, and natural dyes.
Saturday, July 13, 2024: SHARING WISDOM
In our handmade future, education and sharing wisdom will be key. Knowledge will inspire students, empower makers, and inform clients about collections. Craft techniques will carry narration and information. Artists will also become teachers through their work, sustaining products and production in communities globally.
Sunday, July 14, 2024: CONNECTING GENERATIONS
The craft continuum is a powerful time measurement, illustrating how knowledge can span decades or even centuries. It honors generational links, sometimes upending gendered conventions, and envisions a future of making that is interwoven with both the past and the present.
10 AM Panel: TIME & PLACE
Panelists: Kavita Parmar (India), fashion designer and co-founder of XTANT; Aboubakar Fofana (Mali), multidisciplinary artist and textile designer
Kavita Parmar is a fashion designer and co-founder of XTANT and the IOU Project. She focuses on transparency and traceability in the fashion industry and has won awards for her work. Aboubakar Fofana is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work in revitalizing West African indigo dyeing techniques. He is involved in creating a farm in Mali focused on Indigenous West African indigo.
2 PM Keynote Speaker: Shradha Kockhar
Shradha Kochhar, is a prominent Indian textile artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her hand-knitted sculptures using organic cotton. Kochhar's work is focused on South Asian narratives linked to women's work, invisible labor, and grief, making her keynote address a unique opportunity to gain insights into these themes. She received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design, New York, and has been featured in various publications. For more information, you can visit shradhakochhar.com.
10 AM Panel: SHARING WISDOM
Panelists: Rachna Sachasinh, founder, Tikkiwallah (Laos / Thailand);, Tikkiwallah (Laos / Thailand)
Rachna Sachasinh founded Tikkiwallah, an artisan textile studio in Thailand and Laos that creates functional textiles in small batches using indigenous fibers and traditional craft skills. With three decades of experience in the artisan sector and as a freelance journalist, Sachasinh combines her expertise with her passion for eco-friendly travel. Learn more at tikkiwallah.com.
2 PM Keynote Speaker: Natalie Chanin, fashion designer & co-founder of Project Threadways
Natalie “Alabama” Chanin is an American fashion designer and founder of Alabama Chanin, The School of Making, and Project Threadways. Her non-profit operates as a clothing manufacturer focusing on the zero-waste fashion movement, using organic cotton fabric and an open-source design philosophy. The organization values quality, integrity, and sustainability and believes in creating products that age with the wearer and last a lifetime. You can find more information at alabamachanin.com.
2 PM Keynote Speaker: Angel Chang, fashion designer
Angel Chang is an American womenswear designer known for focusing on Indigenous craftsmanship and traditional knowledge as a response to climate change. She started her career designing for Donna Karan Collection in New York and Chloé (See by Chloé) in Paris. Disillusioned by the fashion system, she moved to a remote village in China to learn ancient fabric-making techniques. She has since become the first recipient of Pernod Ricard China’s Le Cercle Fund and has spoken at TED about fashion, climate change, and Indigenous knowledge.
angelchang.com | @angelchang
The 2024 IFAM SPEAKER SERIES at SITE Santa Fe
MODERARED BY: PHILIP FAMMANO
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Philip Fammano
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Angel Chang
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Natalie “Alabama” Chanin
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Rachna Sachasinh
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Shradha Kockhar
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Aboubakar Fofana
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Kavita Parmar
