• Collecting Jewelry: Conversations with the Curator

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

    "Collecting Jewelry" showcases 160 pieces of jewelry made between 1880-1930 that Dr. Mera gathered. These pieces were made with rudimentary tools and without available references for style and technique. The amazing pieces created form the basis of Navajo silversmithing and inspired the generations that followed. Thank you to the Friends of Indian Art for their […]

  • Birds Spiritual Messengers of the Skies

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

    “Birds are essential in keeping down insect populations, pollinating plants, and dispersing and recycling nutrients back into the earth, but beyond their practical contributions, birds are also inspirational creatures that encourage and feed our spirits,” said Diana Sherman, collections manager, and exhibit curator. “This exhibit celebrates the greatness of birds in our world and their important […]

  • Engaging the Future: Conversations with Goodman Fellowship Artists Conversations with Valerie Jade Calabaza (Santo Domingo Pueblo)

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

    Valerie Calabaza is a jeweler embedded within her family’s longstanding artistic tradition and legacy. Her late grandparents, Joseph F. and Mary Ann Calabaza, learned to create each piece from their great-grandfather, Patricio Calabaza. He taught them how to take a simple piece of turquoise, mold it, and create a beautiful necklace. As her family began […]

  • Native Pottery Demonstration Series Franklin Peters (Acoma Pueblo)

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

    ** This event is virtual ** Here is the Facebook event link, and here is the Zoom registration link for the general public.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.  "Even though the museum is open, all programming will continue to be virtual until further notice." Thank you to the […]

  • 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 […]