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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.
Dawn Jackson’s painting style reflects the bold and colorful imagery of classic animation, using cel vinyl paint and painting in reverse on layers of clear acctate to create striking depth and dimension.
Native artists from different Southwest tribes will discuss and demonstrate different techniques, clays, and styles of pottery.
Dawn Jackson’s, Saginaw Chippewa, painting style reflects the bold and colorful imagery of classic animation, using cel vinyl paint and painting in reverse on layers of clear acetate to create striking depth and dimension.
The third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. During this time, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to […]
Breakfast with the Curators Get a rare behind-the scene peek of Native American art with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s annual Breakfast with the Curators. This series of five breakfasts paired with talks, tours, and artist presentations in an exciting opportunity to meet artists curators, and scholars in an informal setting. 8:30am-10:30am. Full […]
Steve LaRance(Assiniboine/Hopi)and Marian Denipah(Navajo/Ohkay Owingeh) create jewelry, paintings, and sculptures as individuals and as partners. Their tufa-cast silverwork creates jewelry that are tiny sculptures, set with precious and semi-precious stones, including high-grade turquoise. They use traditional Native design to make pieces that feel creatively contemporary.
Breakfast with the Curators Get a rare behind-the scene peek of Native American art with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s annual Breakfast with the Curators. This series of five breakfasts paired with talks, tours, and artist presentations in an exciting opportunity to meet artists curators, and scholars in an informal setting. 8:30am-10:30am. Full […]
Breakfast with the Curators Get a rare behind-the scene peek of Native American art with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s annual Breakfast with the Curators. This series of five breakfasts paired with talks, tours, and artist presentations in an exciting opportunity to meet artists curators, and scholars in an informal setting. 8:30am-10:30am. Full […]
"Navajo," the fourth lecture of a five part series. Speaker Fritz Casuse is Navajo, and an award-winning artist known for his sculptural, contemporary jewelry. He shares his skills by teaching at the Poeh Arts Program while continuing to create jewelry, paintings, sculpture and more. This lecture is free with museum admission.
We’re surrounded by turquoise, especially in Santa Fe. Before you buy, learn what you should be looking for. Seminar given by Jim Kissock of Kings Trading Company, Santa Fe
Breakfast with the Curators Get a rare behind-the scene peek of Native American art with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s annual Breakfast with the Curators. This series of five breakfasts paired with talks, tours, and artist presentations in an exciting opportunity to meet artists curators, and scholars in an informal setting. 8:30am-10:30am. Full […]
Native artists from different Southwest tribes will discuss and demonstrate different techniques, clays, and styles of pottery.
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