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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.
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 […]
Please join us for a Series of Story Hours of Native American Tales, for all ages. Programs are at 2:00 pm and repeated again 3:00 pm. This Sunday January 9th our storyteller will be Arnold Herrera of Cochiti Pueblo, so bring the whole family up to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on Museum […]
During this time, 12noon-2pm, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your unidentified treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They prefer to work with objects from the Southwest […]
A talk and booksigning: Turquoise :The World Story of a Fascinating Gemstone Authors Joe Dan and Joe P. Lowry begin at 2:30pm with their talk and the book signing will be from 3:00 to 4:00pm The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Theater Their wonderful new book, Turquoise focuses on the latest information inscience and […]
A special community holiday celebration featuring Pueblo children's book author/storyteller Emmett "Shkeme" Garcia, Navajo ribbon and basket dance performances by Diné Tah’ Dancers, Tewa Woman’s Choir (Ohkay Owingeh) and hands-on arts-and-crafts activities. Free with admission.The schedule:1-4 pm:Holiday hands-on ornaments with Bill and Steven Lockwood (Ohkay Owingeh), MIAC classroom. Make your own ornaments.1 pm: Diné Tah’ […]
During this time, 12noon-2pm, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your unidentified treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They prefer to work with objects from the Southwest […]
Please join us for a lecture series by Huichol scholars and anthropologists to accompany the exhibition Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. Sunday November 14 at 2pm Dr. Stacy B. Schaefer speak on Huichol Weaving: The Zingg Collection. All lectures will be held in the O’Keeffe Theater at the Museum of Indian Arts […]
Please join us for a lecture series by Huichol scholars and anthropologists to accompany the exhibition Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. Sunday November 7 at 2pm: Dr. C. Jill Grady and Dr. Peter T. Furst will speak on Huichol Art and Culture. All lectures will be held in the O’Keeffe Theater at the […]
Please join us for a lecture series by Huichol scholars and anthropologists to accompany the exhibition Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. The series starts Sunday October 31at 2pm: Dr. Hope MacLean will speak on The Origins of Huichol Yarn Paintings. All lectures will be held in the O’Keeffe Theater at the Museum […]
oin us for the best book sale around the weekend of October 23rd and 24th from 10am-4pm. This fundraiser benefits and sustains the operations of the renowned LOA Library. The book sale includes a fine selection of quality out-of-print, used, collectible, rare and new books including Greater Southwestern, Latin America, Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Native American, […]
Join us for the best book sale around the weekend of October 23rd and 24th from 10am-4pm. This fundraiser benefits and sustains the operations of the renowned LOA Library. The book sale includes a fine selection of quality out-of-print, used, collectible, rare and new books including Greater Southwestern, Latin America, Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Native American, […]
During this time, 12noon-2pm, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your unidentified treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They prefer to work with objects from the Southwest […]
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