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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 Painted Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos” J. J. Brody, Professor Emeritus UNM and renowned Art Historian Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos, in conjuction with our Exhibit 'A River Apart' Art Historian J.J. Brody in ‘A River Apart’ examines and […]
GranMary’s Place is a storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that is dedicated to and celebrating the memory of Docent, Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, loved children, and loved telling stories to children visiting the Museum. Please join us for a Series of family Story Hours of Native American Tales during […]
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 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 but […]
GranMary’s Place is a storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that is dedicated to and celebrating the memory of Docent, Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, loved children, and loved telling stories to children visiting the Museum. Please join us for a Series of family Story Hours of Native American Tales during […]
Birthday Celebration of Lloyd Kiva New with Opening of our new exhibit in the Lloyd Kiva New GallerySunday, February 15, 2009 · 1:00 – 4:00 PM1:00 – 4:00 Make your own picture book (hands-on) GranMary’s Place (storytelling) 2:00 – 3:00 Lecture and book signing by Rebecca C. Benes, author of Native American Picture Books of […]
Native American Picture Books of Change—is an exhibition of original works by Hopi, Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo artists who illustrated children's books in the 1920's through today. Based on the book of the same title by Rebecca Benes, the exhibition focuses on illustrations in Native American children’s books of the last century. Emerging Indian artists […]
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 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 but […]
"All The Names: Locating Self and Culture in Pueblo Pottery" Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Curator of Anthropology for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos, in conjuction with our newest exhibit 'A River Apart' Focusing principally on Native American communities […]
"Pueblo Recollections- The Life Paa Peh" Joe Sando of Jemez Pueblo, renowned Pueblo Historian and author of Pueblo Recollections. Followed by a book signing of this autobiographical book and his other famous booksJoe Sando was born in 1923 at Jemez Pueblo. He taught Pueblo Indian History at the University of New Mexico, the Institute of […]
Storytelling is an important tradition in American Indian cultures. It is used to pass on cultural knowledge. For centuries, Native Americans have gathered around campfires telling stories about the world around them including tales about animals and mystical beings. Traditionally, the winter season is the only time appropriate to tell these stories. In New Mexico […]
"Chocolate Heaven and Tobacco Saints: Indian Adaptations to Colonialism in Mesoamerica." Presented by Marcy Norton, Professor of History, George Washington University Followed by a book signing of "Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World", and by a drinking chocolate tasting by Kakawa Chocolate House of Santa Fe Ask […]
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