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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.
Diné fiber artist Steiner Cody demonstrates his talent at MIAC! From Pine Hill, New Mexico, his work is unique and innovative in traditional weaving concepts, materials, and techniques. Cody will demonstrate as part of his internship requirements with the National Museum of the American Indian and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Artist Leadership […]
Dr. Chambers will welcome us to her beautiful home where she will lead a tour of her eclectic collection of contemporary sculpture and paintings. She will also speak about the role of the arts in sustaining and advancing American Indian cultures as well as her philosophy on the art of collecting. Dr. Chambers, a long […]
Take a journey between past, present, and future Indigenous artistic expressions. Explore Native works that narrate the artists’ own histories,explore their self-definition, and act as a catalyst for change. PUBLIC OPENING SUNDAY, JULY 17 · 1:00 – 4:30 PM DANCE PERFORMANCES 1:00 – 1:30 & 4:00 – 4:30 · MILNER PLAZA World Champion Hoop Dancer […]
Sponge Bob Square Pants, Pac Man, and Curious George, all sporting a particularly Native American twist, are just a few images from popular mainstream culture seen in the exhibition, Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. The free to the public opening for Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art at […]
The students of the 2016 MIAC Youth Film Camp will show the film shorts they created over the last two rigorous weeks. It is recommended that you arrive early as seating is always limited for this event!
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT WAS MOVED FROM SATURDAY, 6/25 TO 6/26 DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS. Join us for a film shorts screening with Forrest Goodluck (Diné / Mandan / Hidatsa / Tsimshian) -- followed by a Q&A. Goodluck, an alum of MIAC’s Native Youth Film Camp, recently had his breakout role (as Leonardo DiCaprio’s son) in […]
Join MIAC/NMAI Artist Leadership Program fellow Jonathan Loretto (Cochiti/Jemez) for a morning of special community storytelling with family Snowflake Flower, Ada Suina, Martha Arquero, other community elders, and a youth group.
Valerie Rangel (Dine) and Matagi Sorenson (Apache) are two exciting and progressive native artists in the fields of jewelry and paper crafting. Both young people have received considerable attention with their cutting edge contemporary work representing the viewpoint of a new generation of native artists. They will address the inspiration behind their work and their […]
June 17, 2016 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Arts Alive! for Families Loom Weaving Free Hands-on Workshops for Ages 3 to 103. All workshops are from 10 am – 2 pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Please call to reserve a place and guarantee free admission to the Museum of Indian Arts and […]
David McElroy is a Santa Fe-based silversmith and member of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma. After practicing law for nearly two decades in a variety of fields, including criminal, Federal Indian, tribal and international corporate law, David gave up his legal career to move to Santa Fe and pursue art. Now working as a silversmith, […]
One of the most interesting, exciting and creative NativeAmerican jewelry artists, Michael Roanhorse, draws from his Navajo culture while translating his creative visions into unique contemporary designs. He is an accomplished painter and sculptor, and his knowledge of these arts carries over to his jewelry, which is often referred to as three-dimensional sculpture.
June 14, 2016 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Arts Alive! for Families Native Foods Free Hands-on Workshops for Ages 3 to 103. All workshops are from 10 am – 2 pm. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Please call to reserve a place and guarantee free admission to the Museum of Indian Arts and […]
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