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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.
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 them. They […]
Southern Red Drum Group preform songs and drumming for msuem visitors, MIAC Portal. Free.
Diné Weaving Demonstration by Gilbert Begay, Blommer Gallery as part of the closing weekend for the exhibit 'They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets'. Gilbert Begay is a rare male weaver and was featured in the 2008 film "Weaving Worlds". From the film 'As might be expected it is still primarily women who sit at their […]
Southern Red Drum Group preform songs and drumming for museum visitors, MIAC Portal. Free.
FREE Friday evenings at the The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art. Enjoy our Museums and dine at the Museum Hill Cafe.
Diné Weaving Demonstration by Gilbert Begay, Blommer Gallery as part of the closing weekend for the exhibit 'They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets'. Gilbert Begay is a rare male weaver and was featured in the 2008 film "Weaving Worlds". From the film ' As might be expected it is still primarily women who sit at […]
Breakfast with artist Virgil Ortiz, combining art, décor, fashion, video and film, featured in the MIAC exhibit “What’s New in New: Recent Acquisitions,” followed by the artist’s retrospective talk on his work ’eVOlution’. Artist Virgil Ortiz, the youngest of six children, grew up in New Mexico in a family of Cochiti Pueblo potters in which […]
Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists explores the narratives of Plains Indian ledger art and crosscultural feminism. Ledger artists Linda Haukass (Lakota Sicangu), Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa) and Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo) join the discussion and book signing. Talk presented by Dr. Marsha Bol, Director of MIOFA. In the MIAC Theater, seating is limited. Free. Ledger art […]
“Poetry appeals to me because it can have the grace of water and the focus of rock, even in the same piece, and it accommodates both facts and color in the same space.” --Suzan Shown Harjo A published poet for more than 55 years, Suzan Shown Harjo remembers her first published poem: “When I was […]
Showing of 30 minute film exploring the history of the Route 66 De Anza Motor Lodge, built in 1939 by Indian Trader Charles Garrett Wallace, followed by discussion with followed by discussion with Jonathan Sims (Acoma) Cinematographer and Elizabeth Chestnut, film producer, and former director of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, and today the project coordinator with the Route […]
‘In The Light Of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America & the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" Talk and Book signing with Walter Echo-Hawk. In the MIAC Theater, seating is limited, followed by book signing in the MIAC shop. Free.This book examines the proposition that Native American rights are inalienable […]
Breakfast with John Torres-Nez, Chief Operating Office of SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market followed by a talk on ‘NextGen SWAIA: Approaching the Next Century’ Dr. John Torres-Nez, Ph.D. (Diné) was recently appointed Chief Operating Officer of SWAIA. Torres-Nez previously served as SWAIA’s Deputy Director and was integrally involved in the organization’s day-to-day operations. Torres-Nez is […]
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