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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.
This program, which takes place on October 26, 28, and 29th is offered by the 1Earth Institute. For full details, CLICK HERE, where you will find a detailed description and registration information.
For more information on Into the Future, please visit the highly detailed exhibition page HERE
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s Archaeological Research Collection Staff and the Office of Archaeological Studies invites you to their annual open house for International Archaeology Day. Many of the day’s activities will be thematically in line with CNMA’s new exhibit “Points Through Time,” which focuses on projectile points in New Mexico. Tours of the […]
Projectile points are one of the most iconic images of archaeology in the American Southwest. This exhibition focuses on some of the projectile points that are commonly found here in New Mexico from Paleoindian times (13,500 years ago), through the Archaic, and into Puebloan times (1,260 to 110 years ago) as well as some of […]
When is a pat on the shoulder more appropriate than a handshake? Why is it rude to maintain direct eye contact with certain tribal members? Milton Bluehouse, Jr. will help us understand better the inadvertent “faux pas” one culture may make when dealing with another -- without even realizing it. Mr. Bluehouse is a Navajo […]
This Free First Sunday program is offered in collaboration with the Tom Lea Institute (El Paso, TX) during its annual Tom Lea Month. Lea spent almost three years in Santa Fe, and the surrounding area, in the early 1930s. One of his posts as a New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist was at the Museum of […]
The popular Museum Hill Community Day returns for the third consecutive years, but this year involves a few twists! It just so happens to be the 30th anniversary of the museum, itself; and the 80th anniversary of the Laboratory of Anthropology! Concurrent with the day is our annual Collectors’ Sale, which will be held in […]
The seventh annual Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2017, from 10am to 5pm at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. The sale is free and open to the public with early bird shopping from 9am to 10am on Saturday for a $25 admission fee. A percentage […]
The seventh annual Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2017, from 10am to 5pm at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. The sale is free and open to the public with early bird shopping from 9am to 10am on Saturday for a $25 admission fee. A percentage […]
Friends of Indian Art members and their invited guests may join us for a private curated tour of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) by museum director Patsy Phillips and chief curator Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man. MoCNA holds the premier collection of contemporary Native American art by Native Americans, First Nations, and other indigenous […]
Join Curator Maxine McBrinn for breakfast at the Museum Hill Cafe and a special tour of Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Three years in the making, this exhibition of sandals, moccasins, and other Native footwear opens August 27, so you’ll be the first to receive the VIP tour! Meet the minds behind […]
Footwear is evocative. The shoe tells us if the wearer was a child or an adult, and can often tell us whether they were an adult man or woman, based on size and style. Shoes retain signs of the wearer, showing imprints of toes and heels and repairs made as much-needed or much-loved footwear became […]
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