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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.
Saturday & Sunday, August 18 & 19, 10am-5pm Santa Fe Indian Market. See the exciting new exhibits featuring Indian baskets, Navajo saddle blankets, and contemporary paintings by Margarete Bagshaw and works by Native Treasures Living Artist Tony Abeyta at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
Saturday & Sunday, August 18 & 19, 10am-5pm Santa Fe Indian Market. See the exciting new exhibits featuring Indian baskets, Navajo saddle blankets, and contemporary paintings by Margarete Bagshaw and works by Native Treasures Living Artist Tony Abeyta at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
2012 MIAC Breakfast with the Curators: Breakfast with Terrol Dew Johnson (Tohono O’odham), award-winning basket maker, teacher, and activist along with Valerie Verzuh, MIAC exhibit curator, followed by a talk about native basketry of today, his contemporary pieces and the Tohono O’odham Community Action basketry co-op.Terrol Dew Johnson, Tohono O'odham, started basketry weaving at the age […]
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. […]
2012 MIAC Breakfast with the Curators: Breakfast with Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, followed by a talk about the artists who have had an indelible mark in the Native Art World and have advanced the understanding of Native arts and culture. Dr. Bernstein will sign copies of his new book, Santa Fe Indian Market: A […]
2012 MIAC Breakfast with the Curators: Breakfast with Margarete Bagshaw, modernist painter and artist, followed by a talk and tour of the stunning new retrospective exhibit featuring her large monumental canvases. Breakfast with the Curators, a series of lectures and artists presentations, will be held over three weeks in August at the Museum of Indian Arts […]
Sunday Artist Royce Manuel will be doing public demonstrations in our Exhibit Woven Identities, free with admission. Basketry Artist and knowledge holder Royce Manuel (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community) will demonstrate working with the the Kiaha (traditional burden basket) back to life for the Aw-Thum . This type of basketry is a knotted rope basketry made […]
Basketry Artist and knowledge holder Royce Manuel (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community) will lead a full day workshop on Saturday entitled "Binding Our Future to the Past: Agave Workshop". Mr. Manuel has worked to bring the Kiaha (traditional burden basket) back to life for the Aw-Thum and shared his knowledge teaching community workshops. This workshop […]
Our July event will be an afternoon field trip to Albuquerque and a visit to the studio of the multi-talented artist, Tammy Garcia. Brought up in a family steeped in the pottery-making tradition, Tammy's work continues to push creative boundaries. Her works in clay, glass, metals and jewelry design delight and amaze her many collectors. […]
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. […]
Saturday & Sunday, July 7 & 8, 10am-5pm. Trunk Show and Sale by Indian art expert Terry DeWald featuring Indian baskets from the Southwest and California and Navajo saddle blankets in conjunction with Woven Identities and They Wove for Horses at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
Sunday, July 8, 2-4pm Indian basket expert Terry DeWald will lead a discussion among basket weavers from Arizona, Alaska, Panama and South Africa. In conjunction with Woven Identities and the International Folk Art Market.
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