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Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

GENERAL INFORMATION

General Information

About the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: http://miaclab.org/

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, under the leadership of the Board of Regents for the Museum of New Mexico. Programs and exhibits are generously supported by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, through the generous support of donors.

As the 19th century closed, one of the Southwest’s major “attractions” was its vibrant Native American cultures. In response to unsystematic collecting by Eastern museums, anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett founded the Museum of New Mexico in 1909 with a mission to collect and preserve Southwest Native American material culture. Several years later, in 1927, John D. Rockefeller founded the renowned Laboratory of Anthropology with a mission to study the Southwest’s indigenous cultures. In 1947 the two institutions merged, bringing together the most inclusive and systematically acquired collection of New Mexican and Southwestern anthropological artifacts in the country.

 

710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87504, Phone: (505) 476-1269.Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, May through October; closed Mondays November through April, closed Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. Events, news releases and images about activities at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and other in divisions of the Department of Cultural Affairs can be accessed at media.newmexicoculture.org.

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Santa Fe, NM 87557 United States
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EXHIBITIONS

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EVENTS

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May 15, 2023

Celebrate the 19th annual Native Treasures Art Market at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture on Memorial Day Weekend

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...

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April 27, 2023

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture presents “Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles”

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...

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April 10, 2023

“Down Home” opens at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture to celebrate MIAC 2023 Living Treasure Anthony Lovato (Kewa/Santo Domingo Pueblo)

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)...

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January 27, 2023

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture announces 2023 Living Treasure and Legacy award recipients

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...

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September 23, 2022

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Welcomes New Director of Education

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...

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August 25, 2022

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture receives grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art

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...

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July 19, 2022

Native youth of all ages will come together for the Nakotah LaRance Memorial Youth Hoop Dance Competition August 6 and 7, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe.

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...

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July 18, 2022

“Grounded in Clay” exhibition at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe debuts July 31; travels to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2023

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...

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May 18, 2022

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture celebrates Native lives and histories with its new permanent exhibition, Here, Now and Always

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,...

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April 12, 2022

Celebrate MIAC’s 18th annual in-person Native Treasures Art Market this Memorial Day weekend

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...

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April 11, 2022

Celebrating 2022 Living Treasure Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), MIAC opens ReVOlution

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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February 8, 2022

Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate, presented by Museum of New Mexico Foundation and Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on March 2

Santa Fe, NM - Join the Museum of New Mexico Foundation and Museum of Indian Arts and Culture...

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December 13, 2021

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Opens “Painted Reflections: Isomeric Design in Pueblo Pottery”

Santa Fe, NM —...

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November 10, 2021

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Announces 2022 MIAC Living Treasure

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 ...

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September 14, 2021

MIAC Announces Opening of “Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies” 

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...

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PHOTOS/IMAGES

Photos/Images

This votive gourd bowl is an early example of the technique used in Huichol yarn painting. The interior is decorated with wool yarn pressed into beeswax. Gourd bowls are prayers for health, success, or bountiful crops. The 1803 silver coin in the center of this bowl is a request for prosperity. Tuxpan de Bolaños, ca. 1934. 20.0 x 7.0 cm. Robert M. Zingg collection, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology









 

Pueblo Drum with Cloud Designs (Reverse)

Wood, animal hide and paint

Gift of Drs. Norman C. & Gilda M. Greenberg, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe

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Photo by Blair Clark


 

Reverse of 56299


Jolene Nenibah Yazzie (Navajo)

Growing up, Jolene Yazzie and her younger sister Janene pored over issues of Wonder Woman, impressed by her powers, abilities, and her long black hair. As a skater girl, Jolene went through high school sustained by a diet of comic books and thrasher magazines. Now, as an emerging artist and entrepreneur, Jolene is creating her own images of inspiration, Navajo women warriors and heroes. As symbols of strength, survival and womanhood, these are in a justice league of their own.

These richly decorated Huichol votive gourd bowls were made in 1934 for anthropologist Robert M. Zingg, the first anthropologist to conduct fieldwork in the community of Tuxpan de Bolaños. They are precursors to the art of modern Huichol yarn painting. Zingg called gourd bowls, given to the gods as prayers and offerings, the most beautiful of all the Huichol arts. Tuxpan de Bolaños, ca. 1934. Diameters range from 10.8 to 21.6 cm. Robert M. Zingg collection, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology,

Journalist Jenni Monet

Micah Bazant and Kandi Mosset created the 12″ x 16″ protest poster “No Pipelines on Indigenous Land” at the Standing Rock Reservation during the NoDAPL protests.  

Bracelet, 1920–30, Navajo. Silver, Fox Mine turquoise. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (10189). Photograph by Blair Clark.

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