A visit to the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture is an excellent introduction to the complexity and diversity of the Native American cultures of the region. Here, you can listen to the stories and songs that tell of origins and the long history of the Native people of the Southwest, witness the development of new forms of art, or learn about the contemporary lives and lifeways of the Southwest's indigenous populations. HOURS Open Daily 10am-5pm from May through October Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm from November through April. Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25th, January 1st, and Easter Sunday
This Navajo shoulder blanket was made sometime between 1870 — 1900. Shoulder blankets of this nature are designed to be worn over the shoulders, as their designs reflect. This particular blanket was last on display at MIAC for Spider Woman's Gift: Navajo Weaving Traditions (2006–2008). #PeekInsideMIAC
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Congratulations to Native actor Wes Studi on his Academy Award!
The Last of the Mohicans actor is the first Native American actor to be honoured with an Oscar.
Turquoise is the gemstone of the Southwest, a stone that, especially when paired with silver, symbolizes the region for people around the world.
Learn more about the stone and it's meaning here:
http://turquoise.indianartsandculture.org/
Photo: Shonto Begay (Navajo, b. 1954)) Gift of Doris and Arnold Roland.
Take a read... Canada calls its Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) problem "genocide," for which the country itself is responsible.
A long-anticipated report into the killings and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls also called for changes to the criminal code.
This fragment of a ceramic figurine was found during the Nusbaum Excavations at Pecos. This artifact, commonly referred to as the "Pecos Cat," is a cat eating a mouse while the mouse fights back. What is interesting about this figurine is that it was made from mold, meaning multiple copies of this figurine could have been made. MIAC is the state repository for archaeological material in New Mexico. #PeekInsideMIAC (MIAC 31505/11 )
Celebrate the closing of two great exhibitions here at MIAC: "Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans" and "Hweeldi: The Woven Tribute Commemorating The Long Walk" on Sunday, June 2 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
We will have Dinetah Dancers, a Southern Athabaskan Language Lecture with guest speakers Oliver Enjady (Mescalero Apache) and members of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, hands-on family activities, and light refreshments. Free for NM Residents!
Image: Rug Navajo, ca.1920’s Gift of Earl C. Kauffman 45506/12 Photo courtesy: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Today MIAC is remembering Senator John Pinto (Navajo), who was a WWII Code Talker, educator, and longtime champion of Native Americans in the State Senate.
John Pinto, a Navajo Code Talker in World War II who became one of the nation's longest serving Native American elected officials as a New Mexico state senator, has died. He was 94.
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A very special thank you to all the artists and patrons who came out to Native Treasures over the weekend! What did you purchase? Share a photo below!
Get the most out of your travels in New Mexico with the Cultural Atlas of New Mexico - a free cross-platform mobile app and website is a free guide to the historic and cultural points of interest throughout in the state, organized by region, proximity and topic.
Download the New Mexico Culture Atlas at http://atlas.newmexicoculture.org.
Modern art history, popular culture, and Indigenous people commingle in David Bradley’s imagination of the Southwest in idiosyncratic ways. Read about Santa Fe through the eyes of Minnesota Chippewa Artist David Bradley.
Modern art history, popular culture, and Indigenous people commingle in David Bradley’s imagination of the Southwest in idiosyncratic ways.
This is an early 20th century Akimel O'odham carrying basket from Arizona. Previously referred to as a burden basket, this kind of basket is called Kiaha by this tribe of O’odham. The long sticks seen in this photo are only used when the basket is not being carried, as they allow the basket to stand on its own while an individual is collecting. #PeekInsideMIAC
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Slowly but surely...
Professional sports teams and big college sports programs have often resisted calls to rethink their names and logos. But at local levels, lawmakers have had more success.
Native Treasures: Indian Arts Festival is coming up on Memorial Day Weekend, May 25 & 26, 2019. You are not going to want to miss this nationally-recognized art market, bringing together over 200 of today’s most prominent Native American artists at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center!
Saturday Early Bird: 9:00-10:00am
Saturday: 10:00am-5:00pm
Sunday: 9:00am-4:00pm
ADMISSION
Saturday and Sunday: $20.00
Saturday only: $15.00
Sunday only: $10.00
EARLY BIRD ADMISSION
Saturday 9:00am–10:00am; includes full day Saturday and Sunday: $40.00
More information can be found here: http://nmculture.org/nativetreasures/
Butterfly Dancer, Mateo Romero, 48x60”, mixed media on canvas (mm/c), 2018. Photograph by Karl Duncan.
And just like that, 65 newly minted graduates are off and running in the art world!
Published May 21, 2019 65 Degrees and Certificates Conferred on May 18, 2019 SANTA FE, N.M. — The Institute of American Indian Arts held their 2019 commencement ceremony at 11:00 am on Saturday, Ma…
Celebrating the 10th summer of Blue Star Museums, the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families announce that museums nationwide, including New Mexico’s eight state-run museums and Historic Sites under the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), have signed on to provide free admission to our nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families this summer.
The 2019 program begins earlier than past years, starting Saturday, May 18, 2019, Armed Forces Day, ending Monday, Sept. 2, 2019, Labor Day. Military families can find the list of participating museums at arts.gov/bluestarmuseums.
“After a decade of participation, it remains a privilege for New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs museums and historic sites to serve members of the military and their families through this National Endowment for the Arts program,” said DCA Cabinet Secretary Debra Garcia y Griego. “It’s a small token of our esteem and a ‘thank you’ for the sacrifices they make every day and a wonderful opportunity for military families to share a memorable experience exploring New Mexico’s outstanding cultural treasures.”
Celebrate the closing of two great exhibitions here at MIAC: "Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans" and "Hweeldi: The Woven Tribute Commemorating The Long Walk" on Sunday, June 2 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
We will have Dinetah Dancers, a Southern Athabaskan Language Lecture with guest speakers Oliver Enjady (Mescalero Apache) and members of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, hands-on family activities, and light refreshments. Free for NM Residents!
Image: Rug Navajo, ca.1920’s Gift of Earl C. Kauffman 45506/12 Photo courtesy: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
The New Mexico CulturePass is your ticket to New Mexico's exceptional Museums and Historic Sites!
From Indian treasures to space exploration, world-class folk art to awesome dinosaurs—our museums and monuments celebrate the essence of New Mexico every day.
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This may just look like a pile of sherds, but it is actually part of the indispensable H. P. Mera collection in MIAC’s Archaeological Research Collections. Dr. Mera collected sherds on the surface of numerous sites along the Rio Grande. Archaeologists still use this collection to get an idea of last known occupancy for sites and nearby areas. These sherds are specifically from the site of Puaray in Sandoval County. #PeekInsideMIAC
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MIAC is thrilled to announce that its exhibit "Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans" is the winner of a 2019 Award of Excellence from the American Association for State & Local History (AASLH). With only 50 winners nationwide, the prestigious award recognizes this educational and aesthetically beautiful exhibit. "Lifeways" closes on June 2, though, so this is your last chance to see it!
Some good news out of UNM... The Center for Native American Health said more than 50 Native American students are graduating with a health science degree this year.
The 2019 graduating class at the UNM School of Medicine featured a record-number of Native American students.
The Navajo Nation has lost another treasure. With the death of Fleming Begaye, only seven code talkers remain.
At the 2017 ceremony meant to honor code talkers, President Trump angered many by mocking Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”
In her Hollywood Star speech, Anne Hathaway pays tribute to the Tongva People, who still inhabit land in the area today.
The Tongva are Indigenous people from the territory we now know as Los Angeles.
Native Treasures weekend is coming up on Memorial Day weekend! Have you made reservations to our Friday night artist celebration on Museum Hill? Did you know you can also buy tickets for the weekend show online? Check out all the details here.
This shiny rock is not an ordinary river rock. It is a dinosaur gizzard stone (or gastrolith) from Wyoming. Some animals (including dinosaurs and birds) digest food in their gizzards with the help of swallowed stones of grit. The shininess comes from the rock rolling around presumably in stomach acid! #PeekInsideMIAC
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Looks like lawmakers are saying "hold up" when it comes to drilling at Chaco...
The court said the federal agency could have foreseen the collective impact of thousands of wells in the region.
Please take a moment to read this note from Senator Tom Udall on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). MIAC will honor MMIW on Sunday, August 4 with a related mural project facilitated by Diego and Mateo Romero.
Following Sunday’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Day of Awareness, I hope you’ll join me this week in calling attention to the epidemic of violence against Native women and re-committing ourselves to ending it.
The statistics are staggering. Eighty-four percent of Native women have experienced violence in their lifetime. There are more than 5,000 known cases of missing Native women – including at least 78 in New Mexico – and many more cases go unreported. And in some areas of Indian Country, Native women are murdered at a rate ten times the national average.
These aren’t just numbers. These are real people. And this is a real crisis.
We cannot accept this as the status quo. We must do more to make sure Tribes have the tools they need to keep their communities safe. Here in Congress, I’m working hard to enact measures to do just that, including calling for a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act that includes key provisions I have championed to protect Native women.
Over the next five years, the “Creating Tradition: Innovation and Change in American Indian Art” exhibition will be on display inside The American Adventure pavilion at Disney's Epcot.
It will feature new artifacts and refreshed displays, incorporating pieces from more of the 573 American Indian tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Image: Beaded Bracelet, 1998, Marcus Amerman, Choctaw, Beads, leather.
For those of you gearing up for the big @Santa Fe Century bike ride events on May 19th– be glad your bike seats are more comfortable than this one! MIAC is the state repository for archaeological material in New Mexico. This artifact was uncovered in San Miguel County. #PeekInsideMIAC
The New Mexico CulturePass is your ticket to New Mexico's exceptional Museums and Historic Sites!
From Indian treasures to space exploration, world-class folk art to awesome dinosaurs—our museums and monuments celebrate the essence of New Mexico every day.
Get yours here: nmculture.org/visit/culturepass
KRQE News 13's Cultural Atlas segment recently interviewed the 2019 Living Treasures artist award recipients, Diego and Mateo Romero. Watch the interview and join us for our new event: the Living Treasures Artist Celebration on Museum Hill on Friday evening, May 24.
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FttBTkRoRZM&feature=youtu.be
This is a Navajo bow guard probably dating to around or prior to the 1930s. Bow guards were worn to protect the arm the released string of a bow. While initially utilitarian, bow guards eventually became an aesthetic accessory with varying degrees of ornateness. #PeekInsideMIAC
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Congratulations to Hollis Chitto and the other Indigenous artists selected by Vogue for its recent piece on Native bead art!
“It is our responsibility as younger Natives to keep the tradition alive.”
This Chickasaw student is making waves with his high school - which refuses to let him wear Native American garb to graduation. This fall, he heads to the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)!
The teen and his mother are fighting back.
The Mid-Century Santa Fe collaboration presents the 2019 Student Art and Design Competition application deadline has been extended to April 26, 2019!
The categories for the competition are as follows:
- Textiles
- Fashion
- Visual Art
Cash prizes will be awarded for best in show as well as first place in each category. Student submissions will be accepted from March 20 to April 26, 2019. Winners will be announced at a reception on May 17, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ Project Lab.
Mid Century Santa Fe proudly announces these three themes as competitive categories for the student competition, to run in tandem with the collaboration and IAIA’s Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art.
This contest is sponsored by American Home Furniture and Mattress.
More information at http://media.newmexicoculture.org/release/904/the-mid-century-sant. #midcenturysantafe
Yesterday we posted a close up of this Pomo basket from Northern California. The basket was donated to the museum by Ina Sizer Cassidy, who wrote a monthly column, "Art and Artists of New Mexico." For over twenty years she was a major influence in promoting and encouraging young artists of the Southwest. She served as state director of the WPA New Mexico Writers Project during the late 1930s and as president of the New Mexico Folklore Society in 1948. #PeekInsideMIAC
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This week MIAC invites you to guess what object this is a close up of. Bragging rights to those who can also correctly identify the culture it is from. Check back tomorrow when we reveal the answer! #PeekInsideMIAC
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The Mid-Century Santa Fe collaboration presents the 2019 Student Art and Design Competition, taking place from March 20 to April 19, 2019. The winning works will be on view from August 1 to August 20, 2019.
The collaboration celebrates the works of Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee), Alexander Girard, and Georgia O’Keeffe for their influence and contributions to New Mexico’s textile, fashion, and visual art landscape.
Mid Century Santa Fe proudly announces these three themes as competitive categories for the student competition, to run in tandem with the collaboration and IAIA’s Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art.
This contest is sponsored by American Home Furniture and Mattress.
More information at http://media.newmexicoculture.org/release/904/the-mid-century-sant. #midcenturysantafe
Don't expect to find a resource using the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress method at this library! They have taken a cataloging approach that aims to decolonize the collections. It's a fascinating project.
Xwi7xwa library in British Columbia is working to decolonize the way libraries organize information.
This vessel was reportedly collected from Largo Canyon, New Mexico area in the 1950s-1960s. The vessel was probably looted from a rock shelter based upon the blades of grass, soil, and packrat feces on the rim.
Packrat middens are gold mines for archaeologists and environmental recinstructionists due to the animal’s tendency to collect vegetation and objects and preserve them by urinating on them. MIAC is the state repository for archaeological material in New Mexico. #PeekInsideMIAC #ScienceFriday
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In case you missed it - despite losing a significant number of decent paying jobs to the decision, the Navajo Nation voted this week to end coal extraction and turn its focus to renewable energy.
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The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture is located on beautiful Museum Hill at 710 Camino Lejo off Old Santa Fe Trail in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The museum is open Daily from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. May through October, and open Tuesdays through Sundays 10:00am to 5:00pm. November through April, Our admission prices are listed here http://www.indianartsandculture.org/hours . We are always free for youth and children 16 and under. Free for NM residents on Sundays and Free for NM seniors on Wednesday. Free Parking on Museum Hill. If you are looking for more information about the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, please visit http://www.indianartsandculture.org/.
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We're so excited that the teepee for our new exhibit Beyond Standing Rock is finally assembled in the gallery! Check out this short time-lapse video showing the three-hour process in just eight seconds.
The New Mexico State Library's Southwest collection includes books that document the many facets of the Native American experience in our state. Follow them on Facebook for more information about all the great work they do!
Project Indigene artist Mateo Romero speaks about his thoughts on cultural appropriation. Learn more about Project Indigene here: www.nmculture.org/projectindigene #ProjectIndigene
Project Indigene artist Frank Buffalo Hyde speaks about the impact of social media on our contemporary lives. Hyde is part of a new generation of Native American artists who uses social media to let the world know who they are. Learn more about Project Indigene here: www.nmculture.org/projectindigene #ProjectIndigene
Get your tickets now for the New Mexico Music Commission's 2018 Platinum Music Awards Show! This fabulous annual awards show celebrates the lifetime achievement of New Mexico’s music heroes and icons. This year's event takes place on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 7:30pm at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Get your tickets by calling 505-988-1234 or by visiting www.platinummusicawards.org. Honoring: Antonia Apodaca Hummingbird Music Camp Malcom Yepa Nacha Mendez Tom Guralnick Dr. William Clark #NMPlatinumMusicAwards #NewMexicoMusicCommission
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts show "Action Abstraction Redefined", is on exhibit through December 31, 2018. Pieces and drawings featured in the exhibition are from MoCNA’s permanent collection and were created in the 1960s and 70s at IAIA. This exhibit is part of "Art of the Draw", a community collaboration which includes the New Mexico Museum of Art's exhibition "Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now from the British Museum, on exhibit through this Sunday, September 17th. Visiting these two exhibits sounds like the perfect day spent in downtown Santa Fe!
We are proud to be a part of "Be Here Now: Summer of Love Santa Fe", cultural collaboration celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love with our current exhibits "Into the Future: The Culture Power in Native Art" and "Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture" Exhibits and a series of happenings are also associated at four other cultural institutions. New Mexico History Museum - "Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest" and "Sleeping During the Day" as well as their Counterculture Reading List and Facebook Book Club (join the group at https://www.facebook.com/pg/NewMexicoHistoryMuseum/groups/) IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts - "Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art" Atrium Gallery, Baatan Building - Michael Naranjo: Touching Beauty Santa Fe Desert Chorale 2017 Summer Festival For more information, please visit http://nmculture.org/beherenow/ and then join us for a far out summer of counterculture! Partially funded by the Santa Fe Arts Commission.
"I-Witness Culture artist Frank Buffalo Hyde investigates the space where Native Americans exist today; between the ancient and the new, the accepted and the truth, the known and the unknown." We welcome you to come see this extraordinary exhibition through January 18, 2018. Find more information at www.indianartsandculture.org.
A selection of Silver Horn’s original drawings will be on view during the March 11, 2017 lecture featuring perspectives from noted Kiowa tribal historian and storyteller, Dorothy White Horse Delaune, and Dr. Candace Greene, a specialist in plains pictorial traditions. The lecture will take place from 10:00am to 12:00pm at the Kathryn O’Keeffe Theater at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Lecture is free with museum admission.
Ever wonder what fascinating attraction is just around the corner from you in the Land of Enchantment? Download the free Cultural Atlas of New Mexico and start exploring: http://atlas.newmexicoculture.org. The app makes discovering more about New Mexico's indigenous cultures easy and fun.
The Ohkay Owingeh Serpent Trail Dancers perform again at 2:30! Free Sunday today.
Native Food Sovereignty Project
Lloyd Kiva New: Native Genius. Have you seen all of the exquisite exhibits celebrating his life and legacy? At three museums in Santa Fe, on the plaza and on Museum Hill.
A glimpse into the archival world at the Laboratory of Anthropology... Today we are inventorying recordings of various Native songs.
Archaeology, Photography and Time converge in the exhibition Oblique Views. More about the exibition at http://indianartsandculture.org/current?&eventID=2613
Archaeology, Photography and Time converge in the exhibition Oblique Views. More about the exibition at http://indianartsandculture.org/current?&eventID=2613
Photography, Archaeology and Time converge in the exhibition Oblique Views. http://indianartsandculture.org/current?&eventID=2613
What's hot for the holidays? Check it out at http://nmculture.org/guide
The Art of David Bradley
...and the Jemez Buffalo Dancers will perform again a little later this afternoon. Maybe you can join their dance circle if you drop by!
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture takes the ALS ice bucket challenge in honor of our friends Steven Miller and David Bradley. We nominate the Wheelwright Museum, the Heard Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, and the Museum of International Folk Art. Take the challenge; don't be wimps!
Pull of the Moon Video. Gorgeous!
Last week to see the Vertigo installation by Virgil Ortiz and Family at MIAC! Show closes Sept. 5th.
Virgil Ortiz and family posing for photos with the new installation at MIAC . Now open until Sept. 5th.
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