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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...
Marcus Amerman (Choctaw)
Working in a traditional media with an unexpected subject matter, Amerman transforms both with these meticulous mosaic style portraits of DC superhero icons. “Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world,” wrote William Moulton Marston, who created the stalwart Amazon in 1940.
Lisa Holt (Cochiti Pueblo)
Harlan Reano (Santo Domingo Pueblo)
Inspired by the Justice League cartoons — the super-powered team anchored by Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman — Lisa and Harlan have created a series of Pueblo superhero figurines. Using inspired graphic design painted on finely constructed clay figures, this dynamic duo of Pueblo pottery view these pieces as not out of place but following in the Cochiti figurative tradition of commenting on the world around them. Mysterious in its power and abilities, this Pueblo hero is ready for action.
Diego Romero (Cochiti Pueblo)
Presented here are the drawings that are the source material for the famed Diego Romero neo-Mimbres pottery pieces. Taking inspiration from the Marvel Comics of the 1960s, in particular those scripted by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby, Diego creates his ceramic pieces which speak of the history of the Pueblos and the struggles of today. The conquistador Don Diego de Vargas takes the place of Loki, the Norse trickster god in this drawing inspired by the splash page from The Avengers #1 from 1963.
Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo)
Mateo Romero is a prominent painter in the Indian art world. Recognized for his photo transfer paintings and the Bonnie and Clyde series enveloped with social commentary and celebrations of Pueblo life ways, these two comic pages represent a heretofore unseen aspect of his work; a horror story using Native themes. Graphic, raw and unapologetic, this is a unique glimpse of an artist experimenting with form, narrative and style.
Rose Bean Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Objectification portrays distinctive elements of contemporary Pueblo Indian life in bold graphic terms. The allures and pressures of assimilation, tradition, creativity and companionship are portrayed with a human face reminding us that in our lives within and beyond boundaries, we find ourselves.
Curator Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo) hosts breakfast, followed by a behind-the-scenes tour of the conservation lab with conservator Larry Humetewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo). Preview objects that will be on display in the new Here, Now and Always exhibition. Breakfast starts at 8:30am at the Museum Hill Cafe. Program is $35 general admission / $30 […]
Join the curators of Beyond Standing Rock - CL Kieffer Nail and UNM’s Maxwell Museum Curator of Exhibits Devorah Romanek - for breakfast followed by a tour of the temporary exhibition, whch focuses on the DAPL protests and other violations of Native sovereignty. Breakfast starts at 8:30am at the Museum Hill Cafe. Program is $35 […]
Leah Mata is a member of the yak tityu tityu - Northern Chumash Tribe, located on the Central California Coast. Her work focuses on living forms of regalia and jewelry, which she creates using traditional practices. Her work is also closely tied to environmental issues, sustainability, and site-specific materials. Leah holds a BA in Anthropology […]
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 […]
We are 25 years old! Help us celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Friends of Indian Art by joining us in a panel discussion of the importance and meaning of silver to three distinguished and talented artists: Preston Duwyenie (Hopi) incorporates unique silver design elements in his micaceous pottery; Jared Chavez (San Felipe) takes silver jewelry […]
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 […]
Program starts on the hour at 10am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm. Free family hands-on art activities for all ages! All participants need to reserve a space, please call or email Joyce Begay-Foss at 505-476-1272 joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us Thursday, JUNE 13: Dakota Access Pipeline (NoDAPL) Host/guest artist biography: Sheridan MacKnight (White Earth Chippewa/Hunkpapa Lakota) "I am a painter […]
Program starts on the hour at 10am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm. Free family hands-on art activities for all ages! All participants need to reserve a space, please call or email Joyce Begay-Foss at 505-476-1272 joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us Tuesday, JUNE 4: Pottery Thursday, JUNE 6: Beadmaking Tuesday, JUNE 11: Native Foods Thursday, JUNE 13: Dakota Access Pipeline (NoDAPL) […]
Program starts on the hour at 10am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm. Free family hands-on art activities for all ages! All participants need to reserve a space, please call or email Joyce Begay-Foss at 505-476-1272 joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us Tuesday, JUNE 4: Pottery Thursday, JUNE 6: Beadmaking Tuesday, JUNE 11: Native Foods Thursday, JUNE 13: Dakota Access Pipeline (NoDAPL) […]
Program starts on the hour at 10am, 11am, 12pm, and 1pm. Free family hands-on art activities for all ages! All participants need to reserve a space, please call or email Joyce Begay-Foss at 505-476-1272 joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us Tuesday, JUNE 4: Pottery Thursday, JUNE 6: Beadmaking Tuesday, JUNE 11: Native Foods Thursday, JUNE 13: Dakota Access Pipeline (NoDAPL) […]
Utilizing traditional European glass-blowing techniques, Preston has transformed animal spirits, shamanism and the mystical sand-carved Tlingit designs of the Northwest into signature, internationally acclaimed glass sculptures. His one-of-a-kind pieces are coveted by private collectors and included in museum collections such as The British Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); the Corning Museum of Glass; […]
Preston Duwyenie says “I was born in a clay vessel,” speaking of his birth in an adobe house in a Third Mesa village. He senses pots as an animate presence in Hopi life that embody the land, the spirit of its people, intimately connecting Hopi to their environment and their history. Preston has many years […]
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