Amerind Museum

10/01/2026

Reminder to all riders and racers register by midnight tonight to take advantage of the Early Bird pricing!
To register: https://bit.ly/TCMBR27.
Or, for more information, visit our website: www.amerind.org/events

Amerind puts the Fun in FUN RIDE!
Join us for the 8th Annual Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride on Saturday, January 30, 2027.

Participate in the Amerind Fun Ride: a beautiful, non-technical 6.2-mile course that covers much of Amerind's property. Riders will challenge themselves on the dirt roads around Amerind while taking in the sights.
E-bikes, mountain bikes, and gravel bikes are all welcome for the Fun Ride. Start time: 10:20 AM.
This non-competitive ride will not have awards; participation medals are given to all registrants. Youth pricing available.
Open to ages 8-99.

Little Tykes Fun Loop: Kids 8 and under can have a blast rolling around a short course of approximately 0.25 miles under mom and dad’s watchful supervision. This is non-competitive and entirely to let the kids get in on the day’s fun. Medals will be given to all little riders!
Start Time: 10:30 AM.
FREE to participate!

It's a fun day at Amerind; we hope you will join us!

Photos by: GoatOGRAPHER

10/01/2026

Racers- just a reminder to register by midnight tonight to save!!

For our 8th Annual Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race and Fun Ride on Saturday, January 30, 2027. Take advantage of the early bird discount and register by September 30th.
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/TCMBR27
or go to our website: www.amerind.org/events
Last year we opened our newer, more exciting racecourse. If you missed the event last year, join us this January to experience this thrilling course for yourself. We have two race options to choose from:

The Fulton Full Course: Where racers will do four laps (42 miles) of jeep trails and single track through the incredible boulders of Texas Canyon. Start time: 10:00 am.

The Lockett Rocket Short Course: Racers will do two laps (21 miles) of jeep trails and single track. Races open to ages 12+. Start time: 10:10.

Want a more leisurely, non-competitive ride? Participate in the Amerind Fun Ride: a beautiful non-technical 6.2 mile course that covers much of Amerind's property. Open to ages 8-99.

Little Tykes Fun Loop: Kids 8 and under. FREE to participate!
For more details on the Fun Rides visit our website at : www.amerind.org/events

After the race, check if you placed and pick up your medal; then grab a well-deserved bite from one of the food vendors; then show your bib to explore the Amerind Museum and Art Galleries. Admission to the museum is included for all participating cyclists.

We hope to see you at the start line!!
Photos: Bev Parks

09/30/2026

Amerind Free Online Artist Talk
Thursday, October 15, 2026
12:00 pm (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline10152026Rivera
or visit our website at: www.amerind.org/events

Join us on Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online interview with Poet and Emerging Artist in Residence Mariana Rivera.
Mariana will be reading some of her poetry.

Mariana Rivera is an Indigenous artist born and raised in the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Tucson, Arizona. She is a 2026 Fellow of Indigenous Nations Poets, has interned for local open-mic groups such as Tucson Youth Poetry Slam (TYPS) and The Reading Series, and has served as community curator for a multi-media art exhibition in collaboration with the Arizona State Museum, and showcased at the Amerind. Mariana encourages community connection through the arts using the experience gained as a working artist in Tucson to imagine spaces and opportunities within the reservation and her community. Mariana’s passion stems from advocating for the marginalized communities she is part of.

We hope you will join us.

09/29/2026

Amerind Autumn Fest artist, Maria Arvayo (Pascua Yaqui) was featured on a past episode of Arizona Illustrated (Season 2024-Episode 11) https://www.pbs.org/video/flowers-and-bullets-1rvkmg/
Check it out if you want to learn a little more about this talented artist. We invite you to come out to Amerind's annual Autumn Fest on Saturday, October 24th from 10 am - 4 pm where you can meet Maria and many other artists who will be showing and selling their work. Along with the artist booths, we will have scholarly talks, live music and food throughout the day. To learn more visit www.amerind.org/events.

Artist María Arvayo, Carla Fabris - Harpist, Flowers and Bullets.

09/29/2026

We invite you to come out to Amerind's Autumn Fest on Saturday, October 24th, from 10 am to 4 pm to meet artist Maria Arvayo. Maria is a painter and a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. Most of my work focuses on the landscape of the Sonoran Desert region, the homeland of my family. —Maria Arvayo
Maria has been featured on PBS's Arizona Illustrated. She works in oils, watercolor, acrylic, pastels, and pen & ink to capture the area's landscape. She has a BA in Studio Arts and has work in the permanent collection of the Amerind, as well as teaching workshops on painting and yoga.
Come out and meet Maria and the many other artists who will be at Autumn Fest. Along with the artist booths, we will have live music, scholarly talks, and food throughout the day, and as always, lots to see in our Museum and Art Galleries. It is a fun and educational day at Amerind!
$10 per vehicle

09/28/2026

Amerind Free Online Talk
Thursday, November 12, 2026
12:00 pm (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline11122026Shaw
or visit our website: www.amerind.org/events

Join us on Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online talk,
Our Home Is Not a Borderlands: A Book Talk, with Fantasia Shaw, PhD (Salt River Pima-Maricopa)

Our Home Is Not a Borderlands revisits the history of the US–Mexico borderlands and the politics surrounding US–Mexico border, from an Indigenous vantage. Organized around O’odham Jeveḍ––O’odham are Indigenous Peoples of the Sonoran Desert, Jeveḍ is the O’odham word for homelands––based on 15 months of archival and ethnographic research, and driven by Shaw’s positionality as Onk Akimel O’odham, this book traces colonial boundary-making and Indigenous refusals throughout O’odham Jeveḍ, in what is today known as southern Arizona, from the 1600s to the present.

Fantasia Shaw (Formerly Fantasia Painter) is an Assistant Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research, which has appeared in American Quarterly, Journal of Arizona History and American Indian Culture and Research Journal aims to rethink global borders, boundaries, and migrations from Indigenous worlds. She is an enrolled member and citizen of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
Her current book project Our Home Is Not a Borderlands, forthcoming with Yale University Press, reveals how border politics in Southern Arizona are unfolding on O’odham (Indigenous) lands.

09/28/2026

Join us for a full day of fun at Autumn Fest!

Join us for Amerinds' 15th Annual Autumn Fest on Saturday, October 24th, from 10 am to 4 pm. It is a fun day packed with lots to see and do. We are pleased to announce that we will have music from San Carlos Apache fiddle musician Anthony Belvado. We will also have scholarly talks throughout the day from Marcus Macktima, PhD (San Carlos Apache/Hopi) and others on the history and culture of the San Carlos Apache.

We have lots of artist booths, with very sought-after artists to first-time participants, with jewelry, paintings, carving, photography, clothing, marionettes, digital art, pottery, leatherwork, and more. Have fun meeting the artists, seeing their new creations, and then vote for your favorite for our annual People's Choice Artist Award.

Check out our annual book sale and see what interesting titles you can take home, partake in food from one of the food trucks, we know some of you come just for the frybread. This year we will have food from CJ's Navajo Frybread Co., La Unica Mexican food, and, for the first time, Frosty Cactus Sweets.
And there is always plenty to see in the Museum and Art Galleries.
There is something for everyone!
Saturday, October 24th, 10 AM- 4 PM
$10 per vehicle
With thanks to sponsors: Sara & Bill Burk, AZ. G & T Cooperative and Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.

09/26/2026

Don't miss the chance to meet two incredible master basket weavers this Saturday, September 26th, or Sunday, September 27th, from 10 a.m. to 4 pm, for our Comcáac (Seri) Show & Sale. This year we will be featuring the work of two incredible Master basket weavers: artists Maria Francesca Moreno and Valentina Torres. Please note that Master carver Miguel Estrella, who was initially scheduled to be here, is now unable to attend. We hope you'll come out to meet these artists, who will also bring an assortment of other Seri artists' work.

The Seri people of Sonora, Mexico, are also known as the Comcáac, the People of the Sea and Desert. With resilience in the Sonoran Desert, they have created beautiful art that they will share with us this weekend.
The event is included with museum admission. The event is free for Amerind members. With lots more to see in our Museum and Galleries.

We hope you will join us!

09/25/2026

It is shaping up to be a beautiful weekend here at the Amerind!
Looking for something to do this weekend?
The temperatures are looking good for an early Fall hike. Our trails have reopened (8:30 am - 3:30 pm) for a beautiful hike among the boulders! If interested, we are also having a Seri show in the museum Saturday & Sunday with two visiting master basket weavers from Sonora, Mexico, from 10 am - 4 pm. This is included with regular museum admission, and there are always lots of exhibits to see in our Museum and galleries.

09/25/2026

What's Happening at the Amerind! - https://mailchi.mp/amerind/whats-happening-at-the-amerind-xnc3h8zvs3

Come out this weekend for the
Comcáac (Seri) Show & Sale
Saturday & Sunday, September 26th & 27th
10 AM - 4 PM
for more click the link above.