• Summer of Baskets: O’odham Cordage Baskets Workshop

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

    Basketry Artist and knowledge holder Royce Manuel (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community) will lead a full day workshop on Saturday entitled "Binding Our Future to the Past: Agave Workshop". Mr. Manuel has worked to bring the Kiaha (traditional burden basket) back to life for the Aw-Thum and shared his knowledge teaching community workshops. This workshop […]

  • Summer of Baskets: O’odham Cordage Baskets Public Demonstrations

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

    Sunday Artist Royce Manuel will be doing public demonstrations in our Exhibit Woven Identities, free with admission. Basketry Artist and knowledge holder Royce Manuel (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community) will  demonstrate working with the the Kiaha (traditional burden basket) back to life for the Aw-Thum . This type of basketry is a knotted rope basketry made […]

  • Breakfast with the Curators Breaking the Rules: Margarete Bagshaw

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

    2012 MIAC Breakfast with the Curators:  Breakfast with Margarete Bagshaw, modernist painter and artist, followed by a talk and tour of the stunning new retrospective exhibit featuring her large monumental canvases.  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 […]

  • Breakfast with the Curators Indian Market Legacies

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

    2012 MIAC Breakfast with the Curators:  Breakfast with Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, followed by a talk about the artists who have had an indelible mark in the Native Art World and have advanced the understanding of Native arts and culture. Dr. Bernstein will sign copies of his new book, Santa Fe Indian Market: A […]

  • Breakfast with the Curators Woven Identities: Basketry Art

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

    2012 MIAC Breakfast with the Curators: Breakfast with Terrol Dew Johnson (Tohono O’odham), award-winning basket maker, teacher, and activist along with Valerie Verzuh, MIAC exhibit curator,  followed by a talk about native basketry of today, his contemporary pieces and the Tohono O’odham Community Action basketry co-op.Terrol Dew Johnson, Tohono O'odham, started basketry weaving at the age […]

  • Santa Fe Indian Market

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

    Saturday & Sunday, August 18 & 19, 10am-5pm Santa Fe Indian Market. See the exciting new exhibits featuring Indian baskets, Navajo saddle blankets, and contemporary paintings by Margarete Bagshaw and works by Native Treasures Living Artist Tony Abeyta at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.

  • Santa Fe Indian Market

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

    Saturday & Sunday, August 18 & 19, 10am-5pm Santa Fe Indian Market. See the exciting new exhibits featuring Indian baskets, Navajo saddle blankets, and contemporary paintings by Margarete Bagshaw and works by Native Treasures Living Artist Tony Abeyta at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.

  • Breakfast with the Curators They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets

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

    2012 MIAC Breakfast with the Curators: Breakfast with Joyce Begay-Foss, Co-curator and MIAC Director of Education and well-known weaver, followed by a talk about the newest exhibit with a very special viewing of additional pieces not included in the exhibit.Breakfast with the Curators, a series of lectures and artists presentations, will be held over three weeks […]

  • Speaker Series: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Preservation of the Arts Joint Hosted by SAR and MIAC

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

    Thursday, March 14, 2013, 12:00 pm, FreeLocation:   School of Advanced Research BoardroomArchaeology in the Southwest: To Collect or Not?Did you know it is illegal to collect pottery sherds and stone tools from public lands? TJ Ferguson and Don Whyte discuss how to navigate the legalities surrounding archaeology in the Southwest and whether or not there […]

  • What’s New Contemporary Native Artist Speak Jewelry with Ernest and Veronica Benally

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

    Lecture Series focusing on Jewelry with Veronica and Earnest Benally, Diné jewelers. In the MIAC theater, seating is limited.Ernest and Veronica Benally are both Diné (Navajo) jewelers. Ernest works with both silver and gold, and loves lapidary work. He is best known for his imaginative mosaic inlay work. Veronica approaches her jewelry designs with a motherly […]

  • Speaker Series: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Preservation of the Arts Joint Hosted by SAR and MIAC

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

    Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:00 pm, Free. Location: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Meem AuditoriumIs it Native American Art?: Authenticity and Self-determinationLara Evans, Art Historian, IAIA Art History FacultyIn the summer of 2012, the Southwest Association for Indian Arts hosted a lecture series on the topics of quality and authenticity. Series consultant Lara Evans […]

  • Speaker Series: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Preservation of the Arts Joint Hosted by SAR and MIAC

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

    Thursday, April 11, 2013, 12:00 pm, Free. Location: School of Advanced Research BoardroomTribal Archives: Ethics and the Right to Access Attorney Peter Chestnut talks about various issues and concerns that have impacted tribal archives and how these institutions and communities have solved or negotiated through these issues.Peter Chestnut is managing shareholder of Chestnut Law Offices in […]