• Shaped by the Loom “A Map is Not the Territory”: Documenting the Navajo Nation through Visual Storytelling

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    "For this event, Diné photographer and curator Rapheal Begay and Bard Graduate Center/American Museum of Natural History Postdoctoral Fellow Hadley Jensen will discuss their work on land-based and relational practices of Navajo weaving." Jensen curated the upcoming BGC/AMNH digital exhibition, Shaped by the Loom, launching online in Spring 2022, and opening at the Museum of […]

  • Let’s Take a Look – November 2021 In-Person and Online Event

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    On November 17, 2021, MIAC staff are returning to the museum’s virtual lobby to look at your treasures for Let’s Take a Look. Bring a weaving, ceramic, piece of jewelry (or something else!) to our Zoom meeting, and curator of ethnology Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo), curator of archaeological research collections Julia Clifton, and other […]

  • Virtual Tour: Alexander Girard’s Nativities

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    During this festive holiday season, the Museum of International Folk Art is pleased to present a new virtual tour, "Alexander Girard’s Nativities". On the tour you will be treated to folk art Nativity sets from around the world collected by Alexander and Susan Girard.  The tour includes historical background, fun facts about Girard’s original Nativity […]

  • Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Enchanted with MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries?  Here’s an opportunity to tour  —virtually— Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel. Join us Tuesdays at 11am Mountain Time. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 […]

  • Virtual Tour: Alexander Girard’s Nativities

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    During this festive holiday season, the Museum of International Folk Art is pleased to present a new virtual tour, "Alexander Girard’s Nativities". On the tour you will be treated to folk art Nativity sets from around the world collected by Alexander and Susan Girard.  The tour includes historical background, fun facts about Girard’s original Nativity […]

  • Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Enchanted with MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries?  Here’s an opportunity to tour  —virtually— Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel. Join us Tuesdays at 11am Mountain Time. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 […]

  • CLEARLYL INDIGENOUS Conversations on Glass Art—Larry “Ulaaq” Ahvakana (Inupiaq) and Tony Jojola (Isleta Pueblo)

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Breaking the boundaries of what is deemed traditional Indigenous art, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s new exhibition, Clearly Indigenous, examines how Native artists reinterpret cultural narratives and designs in new mediums. The two-pronged exhibition focuses on how Native artists have melded ancestral ways with new methods and materials in glass, while concurrently examining the historical narrative of […]

  • Friends of History Wednesday Lecture Series The Valles Caldera, Then, Now, and to Come

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    This talk is drawn from the new, revised and expanded edition of Valles Caldera, A New Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve, by William deBuys and Don J. Usner, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2021. Usner and deBuys will present a photo-talk on the Valles Caldera National Preserve highlighting the main events, political and ecological issues, of the […]

  • Gustave Baumann’s Book of Saints: A Conversation with Tom Leech and Carmella Padilla

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Join us for a talk with Tom Leech, Director of the Press at the Palace of the Governors, and award-winning author, Carmella Padilla. The two will discuss their collaboration on a new limited edition book, Gustave Baumann’s Book of Saints, featuring the Baumann’s never-before-seen woodcuts and an unpublished essay by Mary Austin.   Click Here to […]

  • Virtual Tour: Alexander Girard’s Nativities

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    During this festive holiday season, the Museum of International Folk Art is pleased to present a new virtual tour, "Alexander Girard’s Nativities". On the tour you will be treated to folk art Nativity sets from around the world collected by Alexander and Susan Girard.  The tour includes historical background, fun facts about Girard’s original Nativity […]

  • Virtual Tour: Folk Art Focus on Five

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Enchanted with MOIFA’s Girard Wing with its 10,000 pieces of vibrantly colored and fantastically arranged folk art from dozens of countries?  Here’s an opportunity to tour  —virtually— Alexander Girard’s last massive art installation from the comfort of your home or hotel. Join us Tuesdays at 11am Mountain Time. The five “stop” tour lasts about 45 […]

  • Native Pottery Demonstration Series Rose Pacheco (Santo Domingo) and Billy Veale

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Although her works are considered contemporary, Rose describes herself as a traditional potter. Her clay is made from materials she sources from the hills of Kewa Pueblo (Santo Domingo Pueblo) and her homemade paints are created from plants such as prickly pear and prunes. Rose hand coils her bowls to shape them and then decorates […]