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Santa Fe, NM – Visit the 19th annual Native Treasures Art Market at the Santa Fe Convention Center this Memorial Day weekend, May 26 – 28, 2023. Each year, the Museum of Indian Arts & Cu...
Santa Fe, NM - The horizon line is both a point of connection between sky and earth and a separation of space. Horizons: Weaving Between th...
Santa Fe, NM- The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) is pleased to announce the 2023 Living Treasure award exhibition, Down Home: Anthony Lovato (Kewa/Santo Domingo Pueblo)...
Santa Fe, NM – Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Living Treasure and Legacy Awards. These aw...
Santa Fe, NM – Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) is excited to welcome Marita Hinds as the new Director of Education for the museum. She started in the role on...
Santa Fe, NM - Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) is pleased to announce that the museum has received a $75,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to su...
Santa Fe, NM – The Lightning Boy Foundation, a non-profit organization founded to honor the life of Valentino ‘Tzigiwhaeno’ Rivera and the legacy of his mentor Nakotah LaRance, will hold the...
Santa Fe, NM - Museum of Indian Arts & Culture will debut a traveling exhibition that features more than 100 historic and contemporary works in clay, debuting on July 31, 2022. The project, Grounded in Cl...
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, will unveil its brand new permanent exhibition, Here, Now and Always,...
Santa Fe, New Mexico – Join the in-person Native Treasures Art Market at the Santa Fe Convention Center this Memorial Day weekend, May 28 – 30, 2022. Each year, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) pe...
Santa Fe, New Mexico – On Sunday, May 1, 2022, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) will celebrate its 2022 Living Treasure, Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) with an artist talk at 1pm, a book signing at 2pm, and entertainme...
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SANTA FE – The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) is pleased to announce Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) as the 2022 recipient of the MIAC Living Treasure award. This award is part of the annual ...
Birds are one of the earth’s greatest treasures. Acting as spiritual messengers between sky and earth, they have been held in the highest regard in Native American culture, both in the past and in the present. The Museu...
Tile
Tewa Tales of Suspense No. 44
Jason Garcia (Okuu Pin), Santa Clara
2015
clay with natural pigments
Museum Purchase, MIAC 59470/12
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Tray, c. 1920
Akimel O’odham, c. 1920
Construction: coiling
Foundation: cattail bundle
Weaving elements: willow, devil’s claw seedpod
Museum collection, 36720
Annie Healing Nampeyo, Hopi/Tewa, Gift of Henry Dendahl
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, 7987/12
Photography by Addison Doty
Both of these pieces, made for sale in the first half of the twentieth century, reflect the inseparability of ceramic art and water in the Native Southwest. On its exterior, the Santa Clara polychrome jar holds an avanyu, the Tewa horned water serpent, emblematic of clouds, rain, and lighting. In contrast, the canteen’s form, though now frequently produced for the tourist market, was originally developed to carry water. The canteen is reflective of Native peoples’ remarkable ability to flourish in the dry, arid Southwest.
End of the Santa Fe Trail, 1992
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 in.
Gift of Ernest J. and Edith M. Schwartz, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 57876
Turtle made for the 1974 Santa Fe Indian Market. Around the sides are sgraffito deer and lizards alternating with nine inset Indian Mountain turquoise. The three bands of shell hei-shi and single strand of turquoise define the edge of lid. The lid is one piece with a sculpted lizard rising off the surface and two pieces of turquoise inset on its back. Signature: DA, Lid: DA Santa Fe Indian Market 1974. 10”w x 8”w x 8”h. Collection of Roz and Gene Meieran. Photo by Charles King.
Congresswoman Deb Haaland, NM-1
1-LKN-ACC-002
Photography by Blair Clark/DCA.
Ceramic vase by Autumn Borts (Santa Clara).
Border Lands (N.D.)
Mixed media
48 x 36 in.
Museum Purchase, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 59069
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