Drop by MIAC and step into Stepping Out, our newest exhibition! Including, sandals, moccasins, and other Native footwear, this is a colorful and insightful exhibition about the last 10,000 years of "Walking the West." Enjoy yucca sandal, moccasin, and beadwork demonstration Show off your shoes! Wear your flip flops, mocs or sneakers ‘n socks. An online album […]

Enjoy breakfast at the Museum Hill Cafe with education director and curator Joyce Begay-Foss (Diné), followed by a preview of stunning objects from Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans, opening December 10. This rare opportunity to visit MIAC’s collections will be popular - so reserve early! Meet the minds behind the Museum of Indian Arts and […]

Join author Charles King, collector Eric Dobkin, and artist Nathan Youngblood (Santa Clara), collaborators on Sporken Through Clay: Native Pottery of the Southwest - The Eric Dobkin Collection. After breakfast at the Museum Hill Cafe, King and Youngblood will offer a short presentation and book signing. Meet the minds behind the Museum of Indian Arts […]

"Indigenous Resurgence is a movement of Indigenous people to remake ourselves, as people and as nations, guided by ancient knowledge and organic principles from within our cultures. It is a regeneration of our identities, our cultures and ourselves in terms of the way we relate to the earth, each other and ourselves."

Join past and current MIAC Living Treasures for a reception on the fourth floor of the State Capital - in the Governor’s Gallery, where Living Treasures A Celebration of Vision is on display.

Film screening with Jock Soto (Navajo), one of the most influential modern ballet dancers. Water Flowing Together is an intimate portrait of this remarkable American artist and will be followed with Q&A. Run time 57 mins. Free with Museum admission.

Join featured artist Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga / Nez Perce), three contemorary Native artists - Courtney Leonard, Cannupa Hanska, and Carmen Selam - and curator Valerie Verzuh for breakfast at the Museum Hill Cafe, a brief tour of I-Witness Culture, and a panel moderated by Hyde about the current state of the contemporary Native art market. […]

The transmission of knowledge, and how it implicates the structure of a society and individual agency, has been a focus of recent social science research. In archaeology, the use of practice theory, to reconstruct the communities of practice which created the material culture of the prehistoric societies being studied, has become a means of investigating […]

Enjoy breakfast on-site at the CNMA (7 Old Cochiti Road) followed by a pointed discussion about arrowheads with archaeological research collections manager C. L. Kieffer. Then, explore MIAC’s collection of projectile points. Meet the minds behind the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s newest exhibitions with this popular summer series that combines breakfast with talks […]

This lecture will cover research into the hunter-gatherers who occupied the Piedra Lumbre Valley, Rio Arriba County. Three sites on Ghost Ranch property that have occupation spanning 6,500 BCE to historic times will be discussed and compared. Stone tools and animal remains tell about the hunting techniques used which differ by site. Botanical, charcoal, and […]

The history of the ancient village of Kuaua has been interpreted at Coronado Historic Site in Bernalillo, New Mexico for over 75 years. Could it be possible that the original anthropological interpretations of the site were politically and socially influenced during its formation as New Mexico’s first state monument?  With the help of a few […]

Friends of Indian Art members and their invited guests are in for a double treat, with presentations by two young emerging artists.  Valerie Rangel (Dine) and Matagi Sorenson (Apache) are exciting and progressive artists in the fields of paper crafting and jewelry-making.  They will address the inspirations behind their work and discuss their techniques.  Work […]