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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.
Join us for Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival, Santa Fe’s only museum-quality Indian art show and sale. More than 200 Native American artists participate, each of whom is specially invited by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, to represent the best and brightest of the Indian art world. Many of the artists at Native Treasures are […]
Join us for Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival early-bird admission at 9 a.m. for $20 (Saturday only). 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 & Culture, to represent the best and brightest of the Indian art […]
Attend the 2014 Native Treasures Benefit and Pre-Sale Party at the at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Friday, May 23 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Mingle with the Native Treasures artists and enjoy hors d’oeuvres and an open wine and champagne bar. Artists have been asked to create pieces with the theme of “Journey," […]
Jennifer Moquino, Santa Clara/Kiowa, is able to imbue each piece of her pottery with a perfect balance of creativity and natural beauty. Breathing life into the animals, insects and birds which are etched into the clay surface of her vessels.
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 […]
Join us for breakfast with 2014 MIAC Living Treasures Artists Joe and Althea Cajero at Museum Hill Café. Meet Joe and Althea and listen as they discuss their works and participation in this year’s MIAC Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival. Tickets: $35 for Foundation members, $40 for non-members available MIAC Shop, For questions, please call […]
"Prehistoric" the first of a five part lecture series. Speaker will be Joan Mathien. Dr. F. Mathien is a retired National Park Service Archaeologist who has conducted world-class research over the past 30 years on Chaco Canyon and on the ancient use of turquoise. This lecture is free with museum admission.
This is a rare opportunity to visit this site in the Cerrillos District, which include the Tiffany and Castillian mines. People should wear sensible shoes for walking on hillsides, bring sun screen and water. There are no toilet facilities at the site. Also, although unlikely to be encountered, there are rattlesnakes and rodents, and all […]
"Turquoise Rose" is a coming of age story about a Navajo girl from Arizona. Raised in Arizona, "T" attends college, and is interning as a photojournalist at the local paper and has plans to vacation in Europe. When her Grandmother falls sick everything changes. The film will be shown at 1:00pm and then again at […]
Native artists from different Southwest tribes, will discuss and demonstrate different techniques, clays and styles of pottery. Dina Velarde is a Jicarilla Apache Artist who has been awarded for both her mediums of micaceous pottery and photography. She is a fourth generational potter who has learned to work with the micaceous clay process from digging and cleaning her own […]
Darryl Begay is a well known master jeweler. He has taken the art of tofa carving and casting, which he learned from his uncle, Bobby Begay, to new levels never seen before. He has been a Best-of-Show winner at the Santa Fe Indian Market.
Navajo Nation Museum’s Director, Manny Wheeler, "This film comes to Santa Fe through a museum-to-museum partnership, between the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Navajo Nation Museum. The mission of the film is simple and hopefully will shed light on the importance of language preservation." The film will show at 1:00pm and again […]
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