Join us for the continuation of our popular Pueblo pottery series with Martha Arquero (Cochiti Pueblo). Arquero specializes in handmade clay sculptures like mermaids, frog storytellers, nativities, and traditional storytellers. Arquero still uses all natural materials, including vegetal and mineral dyes.
Visitors can get a close look at the Bisti Beast without the loud dinosaur roar. Bright flashing lights that are normally used in some of the museum’s exhibits will be turned off. The sound in “The Land of the Volcanoes” and “Origins” exhibits will also be turned off. The museum will show a sensory friendly […]
Co-curators of the upcoming San Ildefonso pottery exhibition - Bruce Berstein, Russell Sanchez (San I Pueblo), and Erik Fender (San I Pueblo) - host breakfast followed by a special tour of the new groundbreaking exhibition. Breakfast starts at 8:30am at the Museum Hill Cafe. Program is $35 general admission / $30 for Museum Foundation members. […]
Join the Museum of Indian of Arts and Culture and the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation for presentations plus Q&A highlighting environmental challenges affecting Native peoples, and the creative work being done through arts and cultures to shift narratives, change public policy, and bring healing to Native communities.
Summer Letters from the Reservation is a series of letters and oral histories read in chronological order, to represent the lives of the people on the Bosque Redondo Reservation, as well as the policies employed by the U.S. government toward Navajo and Mescalero Apache people from the summer months of June, July, and August 1863 […]
Learn more about the traveling exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art through October 27th, 2019: Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe http://www.internationalfolkart.org/exhibition/3815/alexander-girard-a-designer-039s-universe About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/ Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human […]
Public Notice: The museums Portal Artists will re-locate to the courtyard for the duration of Indian Market weekend. Please enter through the Blue gate on Lincoln Ave to visit with the artists.
Learn the truth about turtles! Not all turtles are slow and our turtles from the Naturalist Center can prove it! Meet “Crunch” our box turtle who survived a dog attack and has been a long term resident at the Museum. Then join Kelly Jo Design by Wine to paint your own turtle work of art. Supplies will be […]
MIAC Curators gather in the lobby of the Museum on the third Wednesday of each month awaiting whatever treasures may walk through the door. This is your opportunity to bring a family heirloom, something special from your collection, or a piece you know nothing about. Naturally, they prefer items from the American Southwest (in keeping […]
You are invited to join a lecture given by Beth Laura O’Leary, Ph.D., who will speak on one of humanity’s most extraordinary archaeological sites –Tranquility Base on the Moon created by two Apollo 11 astronauts on July 20, 1969. Today there are more than 200 metric tons of cultural materials on the lunar surface. We […]
Bill and Uschi Butler have been collecting Native art for over 35 years. Uschi first became interested in Native art and culture as a teenager in Germany and introduced Bill to it when they married. Over time, they have built a wide-ranging contemporary collection across many media. When they decided to move to Santa Fe […]
Join MIAC’s 2019 Native Treasures Living Treasures, Diego Romero and Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo), and curator Lillia McEnaney for breakfast, followed by an intimate tour of The Brothers Chongo: A Tragic Comedy in Two Parts. Breakfast starts at 8:30am at the Museum Hill Cafe. Program is $35 general admission / $30 for Museum Foundation members. […]
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