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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.
MIAC’s 2017 Living Treasure - Jody Naranjo - is on site with her mother Dolly to demonstrate the traditional pottery firing process. Free with museum admission. Sponsored by Charles and Edwina Miller.
Please join the MIAC family for the premiere of the 2017 Native Youth Film Camp’s student shorts, produced between June 5 and ... the morning of the event! The red carpet will be rolled out for our 14 filmmakers and refreshments will follow the (approximately) one hour program. Free and open to the public!
Free hands-on workshops for all ages! Program runs every hour, on the hour, from 10am to 2pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult. PROGRAMS BEGIN ON THE HOUR To reserve a space please call Joyce Begay-Foss 505-476-1272 joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us ON JUNE 15, ENJOY NATIVE AMERICAN BOOKS! Museum admission is free for participants during Arts Alive! […]
Free hands-on workshops for all ages! Program runs every hour, on the hour, from 10am to 2pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult. PROGRAMS BEGIN ON THE HOUR To reserve a space please call Joyce Begay-Foss 505-476-1272 or email joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us ON JUNE 13, ENJOY NATIVE AMERICAN FOODS! Museum admission is free for participants during […]
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), a Sundance Alumnus, visits MIAC to screen a selection of his short films, followed by a Q&A. With accolades from more than a dozen renowned film festivals, his work was recently featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.
In Search of Nampeyo presents new information on Nampeyo’s early life as a Hopi potter in the 19th century. Working with the British trader Thomas Keam, she single-handedly saved Pueblo pottery from obscurity and created a new art movement, the Sikyatki Revival, by re-interpreting designs from the past. Mr. Elmore’s discovery of Nampeyo’s early ceramics […]
Free hands-on workshops for all ages! Program runs every hour, on the hour, from 10am to 2pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult. PROGRAMS BEGIN ON THE HOUR To reserve a space please call Joyce Begay-Foss 505-476-1272 or email: joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us ON JUNE 8, ENJOY FABRIC STAMPING! Museum admission is free for participants during Arts […]
Free hands-on workshops for all ages! Program runs every hour, on the hour, from 10am to 2pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult. PROGRAMS BEGIN ON THE HOUR To reserve a space please call Joyce Begay-Foss 505-476-1272 or email: joyce.begay-foss@state.nm.us ON JUNE 6, ENJOY MAKING POTTERY! Museum admission is free for participants during Arts […]
Friends of Indian Art members and invited guests, please join us for an exciting presentation of Michael Roanhorse. While an accomplished painter and sculptor, his knowledge and experience carries over into his signature silversmilthing, which is often referred to as three dimensional sculpture. Michael will have work available for sale at the event. For more […]
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (MIAC) celebrates the 13th Annual Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, a nationally-recognized Native art show and benefit in Santa Fe, NM on Memorial Day weekend, May 26-28, 2017. The festival is an event of major importance that promotes living Native artists, sustains tribal culture, and supports MIAC’s exhibitions and […]
Native Treasures is one of the premier Native American art shows in the United States and attracts more than 6,000 knowledgeable collectors and art enthusiasts every year. The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) invites more than 200 Native artists to participate and sell museum-quality artwork. MIAC proudly promotes living Native artists and contributes […]
Native Treasures artists, 2017 MIAC Living Treasure Judy Naranjo and event sponsors come together for a special celebratory event kick-off and opportunity to purchase unique “Shared Stories” themed artwork made exclusively for this evening. The festival is an event of major importance that promotes living Native artists, sustains tribal culture, and supports MIAC’s exhibitions and […]
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