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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.
A special community holiday celebration featuring storytelling by Sunny Dooley (Diné); dance performances by Serpent Trail Dancers (Ohkay Owingeh), hands-on holiday activities 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm: Holiday hands-on Xmas activities 1:00 pm: Serpent Trail Dancers (Ohkay Owingeh), Milner Plaza 1:45 pm: Sunny Dooley (Diné), O’Keeffe Theatre 2:30 pm: Serpent Trail Dancers (Ohkay Owingeh), […]
A special annual program honoring our Native American servicemembers at MIAC. With film screening of Warrior Woman: The Story of Lozen, Apache Warrior and Shaman This is a FREE FIRST SUNDAY event!
Join author V R Janis for an afternoon of readings, storytelling, and a book signing. Described as Native American Harry Potter-esque, her books feature elves, dragons, fairies, and other magical creatures - perfect for this time of year! With thanks to the First Peoples Fund for underwriting. Free with museum admission.
Join us for a delightful afternoon touring the home/studio of noted Jemez Pueblo artist Estella Loretto, currently the only Native American woman sculpting in monumental bronze. Her genuine spiritual nature defines her commitment to integrity and authenticity in her art and life. Estella studied and trained with mentors from around the world as well as […]
A monthly offering at MIAC, Let’s Take a Look is your chance to bring by your personal treasures for evalauation. While curators are prohibited from assigning retail value (we have a list of external appraisers for you), our curatorial staff is great at helping determine age, origin, use, etc. of many objects. Items with Native […]
Exhibition Opening & Archaeology Open House October 15 ~ 10am to 4pm Celebrate World Archaeology Day at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology See the Miracle of Maize exhibit Watch the film "She Brings Life: Maize, a Sacred Sustenance" Tour the Southwest’s largest archaeology repository Participate in maize-related activities Throw an atlatl, build a corn […]
Using all natural material and handmade processes, he makes beautiful heishi necklaces. Nick learned the art from his parents, Ray and Mary Rosetta. The heishi artform goes back to ancestral pueblo times, long before the arrival of the Spanish in the Southwest, when Kewa stone and shell jewelry - believed by many archeologists to be […]
An annual tradition at MIAC, the Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale is a unique opportunity to purchase objects from private collections in Santa Fe and beyond! Pottery, jewelry, textiles, paintings, baskets, carvings - old and contemporary - whether you are a new or seasoned collector, come find your own treasure! Saturday and Sunday, October 8 and […]
Join Harvard professor Dr. Gary Urton for a fascinating presentation that examines the cosmologies of Native peoples of the Amazonian and Andean regions of South America. Explore the Milky Way — their principal celestial object for organizing understanding of the sky and its relationship to human affairs.
Anna Sofaer, rediscoverer of the Sun Dagger, and archaeologist Robert Weiner present their recent research results. Introduction by Brian Vallo (Acoma). This talk is presented in conjunction with Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time. Visit www.SolsticeProject.org for more on the Solstice Project.
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SCHEDULE Food Sovereignty Symposium (September 23-24 from 10 am to 3 pm). (Symposium sessions will be available via a live Facebook feed.) Friday, September 23 from 10 am to 3 pm The first day of the symposium focuses on the central role of food in traditional daily life. Speakers explore the beauty and familial […]
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