Be first to see Pottery of the U.S. South: A Living Tradition, which showcases stoneware rooted in British and German traditions and is characterized by earthy local clays and surprising wood firing effects. Meet and mingle with Laura Addison, Curator of European & American Folk Art Collections, and co-curator Karen Duffy. First Looks are designed exclusively […]

Foundation members are invited to be first to see Pottery of the U.S. South: A Living Tradition at the Museum of International Folk Art. The exhibition features traditional stoneware from North Carolina and Georgia, characterized by earthy local clays, salt and ash glazes and surprising effects of wood firing. Crucial to agrarian life in the […]

Join the Friends of Archaeology for tours of the Center for New Mexico Archaeology. This is your chance to throw an atlatl, learn how to flint-knap and grind corn. A family-friendly event. Free! Please check here and here for updates. To become a FOA member, click here.

The Friends of Indian Art (FIA) invite you to meet Martha Hopkins Struever, a scholar of historic and contemporary Pueblo Indian pottery and Pueblo and Navajo jewelry. A primary focus of her career as an art dealer has been to identify and encourage talented Indian artists. She sponsored the first exhibitions of Gail Bird and […]

Join members of The Circles at the Governor’s Circle level and above at the home of Lora and Bob Sandorini. View the Sandorini’s extensive collection of Native American beadwork, which has been featured in Western Art and Architecture, Su Casa, Western Art Collector and Cowboys and Indians. By invitation only. Offered to Governor’s Circle level […]

Legacy and Founders Society members are invited to attend a number of tours and talks featuring curators, librarians and registrars from the Museum of International Folk Art and Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, followed by a cocktail reception in the Museum of International Folk Art’s atrium. Reservation is required by Friday, September 26 to laura@museumfoundation […]

Join the Friends of Indian Art (FIA) for an evening with renowned artists Marian Denipah (Navajo/Tewa) and Steve Wikviya LaRance (Hopi-Assiniboine) as they discuss their careers as artists and cultural ambassadors. This award-winning, dynamic-duo have won awards in many mediums including painting, sculpture and jewelry. They have been invited to exhibit their works in Germany, […]

Foundation members at the Family/Grandparents level and above are invited for behind-the-scenes tours of Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography and the Photo Archives at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors, and Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Click here for more information.

Join the Friends of Indian Art as they get to know Ed Archie NoiseCat, a talented artist who works in many mediums from carving and portrait masks, to etching and molding scluptural glass. Drawing inspiration from his parents’ cultures in British Columbia’s regions of both the mountains and coastal forests, many of his pieces incorporate […]

Members of The Circles, Legacy and Founders Society, and the Business Council, as well as Exhibitions Development Fund and Director’s Leadership Fund donors are invited to be first to see Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World, which features 35 17th- and 18-Century paintings from Spain’s three colonial capitals: Peru, Mexico and […]

Foundation members are invited to see Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World on Saturday, June 28 from 6 to 7 p.m. at the New Mexico History Museum. 35 paintings will be on display that reveal how faith sustained Spanish colonists in harsh and remote frontiers and how their religious art evolved. Wine […]

Join the Friends of Indian Art (FIA) and renowned Cochiti jeweler Cippy CrazyHorse and son Waddie, a recent Stanford University graduate, as they discuss the influence of Terecita and Joe H. Quintana, the famed master-silversmith parents of the elder CrazyHorse. Now flowing three generations, working with silver runs deep in the roots of the CrazyHorse […]