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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.
Pueblo Indian pottery has long been exhibited and interpreted in the academic and museum worlds through singular, often generic, points of view: as ethnographic remnants of the archaeological past or as fine art examples aligned with milestones in Western art history and culture. But the launch of a unique traveling exhibition featuring over 100 historic […]
Breakfast with the Curators is a series of lectures and artists presentations hosted by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture at Weldon’s Museum Hill Cafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tickets include a full breakfast and admission to the museum afterwards. Reservations are required. Tickets are $35/person ($30/person for MNMF members). Ticket proceeds directly support the museum’s exhibitions and educational […]
Painted Reflections with Joe Traugott Never before the subject of a museum exhibition, Painted Reflections offers new insights into the study of Pueblo art through an analysis of the visual structure of ceramic design. The exhibition also demonstrates the ways in which contemporary Indigenous artists are using isomeric design in their work, placing ancestral ceramics in conversation with […]
Join Grounded in Clay community curators Donna and Shirley Pino (Tamaya/Santa Anna Pueblo) for a pottery making demonstration at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on August 7th, from 1-3 pm. Donna Pino (Tamaya/Santa Ana) is a potter, seamstress of traditional shirts and dresses, embroiderer of kilts, and a teacher of all. Shirley Pino […]
The weekend will feature demonstrations and a panel discussion with Native community elders discussing the history, background, and cultural interpretations of the Native American Hoop Dance, culminating in two days of youth dance competition events. For more information, visit www.lightningboyfoundation.com/hoop-dance-competition
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture debuts a traveling exhibition that features more than 100 historic and contemporary works in clay. The project, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery is a unique exhibition curated by the Native American communities it represents. Organized by the School for Advanced Research, the Vilcek Foundation, opening at […]
Sunday July 3 10 a.m. Welcome and artist demonstrations with Jared Tso (Diné), Ruby Panana (Zia Pueblo), Louie Garcia (Piro Manso Tiwa), and Franklin Peters (Acoma Pueblo) 11 a.m. Sky City Buffalo Ram Dancers (Acoma Pueblo) 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Musical performances by Malcom Yepa (Jemez Pueblo), followed by Marlon Magdalena (Jemez Pueblo) 1:00 […]
Saturday July 2 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Welcome and artist demonstrations with Sharon Naranjo Garcia (Santa Clara Pueblo), Karen Abeita (Hopi-Tewa), Martha Arquero (Cochiti Pueblo), Jacob Frye (Tesuque Pueblo), and Gary Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo) 11:00 a.m. Cellicion Zuni Dancers (Zuni) 12:00 p.m. Pueblo feast-style catering by Rena Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo) 1:00 p.m. […]
When the first iteration of Here, Now and Always opened in 1997, it was considered revolutionary. It was the first exhibition of its kind to a museum space, moving authority away from historically non-Native academics and scholars. Led by a primarily Indigenous curatorial team, it centered the voices, perspectives, and narratives on the Indigenous people […]
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 – Scratch Art Raven https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKXCOaHRzHB-Fsj9SsqsAo10Dw2S2EX-O1mPi4hrdHymimAw/viewform?usp=sf_lin Thursday, June 9, 2022 – Clay Ornaments – New Mexico Iconic Shapes https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclaBrbIXWiEFK6fOctVZCrhx3WBnT8bx9fMkFQXjVQhYp-Hg/viewform?usp=sf_link Tuesday, June 21, 2022 – Metal Tooling Concho Belt Section Inspired Ornament https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyn3Ft70ntGwLeUUbX0DT__rfVM69Ilb7kJSvywveZ0UsDjg/viewform?usp=sf_link Thursday, June 23, 2022 – Weaving on a Cardboard Loom https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7XaxtfF2plkkx42vbRvtPWN0_AC1_qVIxKXg4xzuAd92iYw/viewform?usp=sf_link
Carly Feddersen was born and raised in Wenatchee, Washington and comes from a long line of creative people. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and of mixed European decent. Humor and irony are important elements in her work which is rooted in material culture and traditional stories of […]
The event coincides with Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies, an exhibition currently on view at the Laboratory of Anthropology, and celebrates the importance of birds across the Southwest. The event schedule will be family friendly and includes live demonstrations and exhibit tours with the curator, as well as a visit with live raptors from […]
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