Breakfast with the Curators 2011 Indian Market Highlights

Features breakfast with Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, followed by a talk about the 2011 Indian Market Highlights. 

Bernstein comes to SWAIA as former Board of Directors member.  He is a curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. From 1997 to 2005, Bernstein served as the Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Previously he was the Director and Chief Curator at Santa Fe's Museum of Indian Arts and Culture; his directorship oversaw the building and installation of the Bloch Wing and the permanent exhibition, "Here, Now and Always." He has also held positions at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, and the University of New Mexico's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. He has published and curated exhibitions widely on American Indian art. He and his wife, Landis Smith, have two children, Elliot and Isabel.

Breakfast with the Curators, a series of lectures and artists presentations, will be held over three weeks in August at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on Museum Hill. This popular program provides an opportunity to meet and learn about Native American Artists and arts through talks, tours of our exhibits, or behind the scenes with MIAC curators, scholars and artists. Reservations are required for all Breakfast with the Curators presentations and seating is limited.  Please call 505- 476-1247 or 476-1271 for more information.

NEW this year to purchase tickets online go to ticketssantafe.org or call the Lensic box office at 505.988.1234 (All topics subject to change, please call to confirm)

*8:30-10:30 am *Beginning with Breakfast at the New Museum Hill Café, followed by programs at the Museum.

*Cost is $35 per person, or $30 per person for MNMF members. MNMF members should call 505-988-1234 for their membership discount, discount cannot be applied online. Museum admission included.