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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.
Last day to see A River Apart: Santo Domingo and Cochiti Pottery at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture before it comes down. For more information about the exhibit please visithttp://miaclab.org/current&eventID=38 . The exhibit book is available at the museum gift shop and online at http://newmexicocreates.org/product-5330/A-River-Apart-The-Pottery-of-Cochiti-Santo-Domingo-Pueblos
Let’s Take a Look’ takes place 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 […]
A unique sale of Native American art straight from the homes of top collectors! Sunday, September 18, 2011, 9:00 am - 4:00 pmFind a new treasure among the spectacular array of jewelry, pottery, weavings, katsinas, baskets, sculpture and paintings.Proceeds support the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture exhibits and education. Open to the public, Free […]
A unique sale of Native American art straight from the homes of top collectors! VIP Preview Cocktail Party Saturday, September 17, 2011, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Purchase art before the show opens to the public the next day! Appetizers, cash bar $45 per ticket; for tickets visit www.ticketssantafe.org or call 505-988-1234 Find a new treasure […]
At 2pm Mary Jo McConahay uncovers Maya riches, like those in Palenque, in her new book Maya Roads: One Woman's Journey Among the People of the Rainforest. McConahay’s book is full of adventure, discovery and danger in the world of the Lacandon and Maya in Chiapas and Guatemala. By museum admission. In the MIAC theater, […]
The four state museums in Santa Fe will be open from 10am-5pm on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5, after which they will move to their winter hours, 10 am to 5 pm, Tuesday-Sunday. The switch to winter hours also marks the end of free 5-8 pm Fridays on Museum Hill for the Museum of International […]
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 8:30-10 AMeatures breakfast with renowned artists Mateo Romero, Diego Romero and John Torres-Nez, followed by a talk about the installation piece and movie ‘Searching for the Anasazi' created for our exhibit A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos.Breakfast with the Curators , a series of lectures […]
Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 2:00 pm “Who Speaks for the Ancestors”: Repatriation and Indian Identity. FREE with museum Admission. In the MIAC theater, seating is limited, first come first serve. A Panel Discussion on the current status of the repatriation of tribal ancestors and their associated funerary objects from museums to culturally affiliated tribes. […]
Features breakfast with Charles King, guest curator, pottery expert and gallery owner, followed by a tour of our newest exhibit Creative Spark! The Life and Art of Tony Da. Charles King has been a judge in various years since 1996 for pottery at the most prestigious Indian art events, such as Santa Fe Indian Market, the […]
Let’s Take a Look’ takes place 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 […]
Features breakfast with Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, followed by a talk about the 2011 Indian Market Highlights. Bernstein comes to SWAIA as former Board of Directors member. He is a curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. From 1997 to 2005, Bernstein served as the Assistant […]
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 2:00 PMCharles King, authors of The Life and Art of Tony Da, will present a lecture on the legendary San Ildefonso artist Tony Da and sign the book afterwards. Free with museum admission.
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