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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.
June 10, 2016 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Arts Alive! for Families Designing with Fabric 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 […]
June 7, 2016 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Arts Alive! for Families Pottery Workshop with Jonathan Loretto (Walatowa/Cochiti Pueblo) 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 […]
Join us for the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s 12th Annual Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, Santa Fe’s only museum-quality Indian art show and sale. Over 200 Native American artists participate - each of whom is specially invited by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture - to represent the best and brightest of the Indian […]
Dr. N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) lecture at 2:00 pm Kids’ turquoise art activities including:Block printing with Alex Pena (Oklahoma Comanche); mosaic shell jewelry with Teresita Crespin (Santo Domingo Pueblo); mural painting on the plaza. Featuring a touchable turquoise station. Family-friendly turquoise exhibit tours and free turquoise sno-cones! As always New Mexico residents are free on […]
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Celebrate Earth Day at MIAC with a lecture on the recent Gold King Mine Spill. Guest speakers include Shiprock Chapter President Duane Chili Yazzie (Diné), and Shiprock Farm Board Representative Joe Ben, Jr., (Diné). PLEASE NOTE SEATING FOR THIS EVENT IS LIMITED AND EARLY ARRIVAL IS RECOMMENDED. This program is free with museum admission.
Zoë Marieh Urness is a Tlingit Alaskan and Cherokee Native whose photographic film portraits of modern Natives in traditional regalia and settings strongly emote the feeling – “We are here. And we are thriving through our traditions.” Zoe’s unique style fuses documentary and fine art, with her imagery reflecting the sensitivity and the ancestral strength […]
The lives and contributions of distinguished artists Margarete Bagshaw, Josephine Myers-Wapp, and Jeri Ah-be-hill will be celebrated at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture as part of Women’s History Month. The free with museum admission program will be on Saturday, March 26 from 1 to 4 pm. The legacies of Santa Clara artist Margarete […]
Yellow Fever follows young Navajo veteran, Tina Garnanez on her journey to investigate the history of the Navajo Uranium Boom, its lasting impacts in her area and the potential new mining in her region. She begins as a curious family member and becomes an advocate, lobbyist, activist and vocal proponent for transparency and environmental justice. […]
Join us for a Thursday afternoon tour of the stunning 140-acre campus of IAIA, the only 4-year degree fine arts institution in the nation devoted to contemporary Native American and Alaskan Native arts. The campus itself is a work of art. Graduates include Charles Loloma, Tony Abeyta, Dan Namingha, Frank Buffalo Hyde and David Bradley. […]
Public Opening on Sunday, March 20, 2016 Screening of Dan Namingha: Seeking Center in Two Worlds at 1:00p.m. Q&A with Dan Namingha at 2:00p.m. Every year at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, the museum chooses to honor an artist as a MIAC Living Treasure. This year, Dan Namingha […]
Family Archaeology Sundays at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Geared to families, this series allows visitors to learn about ancient technologies and traditional arts developed by Native peoples thousands of years ago using the natural resources around them. All four programs are on Sundays at 1pm and free with museum admission. New Mexico […]
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