Upcoming Events

Create a memory of your visit to MIAC! Step into the mobile photo booth In the Lloyd Kiva New Gallery and an automatic digital photo will be produced. You are invited to add one print to the Community Gallery.

Native artists from different Southwest tribes, will discuss and demonstrate different techniques, clays and styles of pottery.

Erik J. Fender of San Ildefonso has been experimenting with different materials and techniques to reproduce traditional stone polished polychrome ware. He is trying to perfect the almost lost techniques of San Ildefonso.

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 or historic object presented to them.

The event is always FREE and open to the public. Federal and State regulations prohibit the curators from appraising any artifact.

We are surrounded by turquoise, especially in Santa Fe. Before you buy learn what you should be looking for.

Garrick Beck from Natural Stones, Santa Fe, will be doing the seminar.

"Zuni": this is the third of a five part series. This lecture is free with museum admission.

Native artists from different Southwest tribes, will discuss and demonstrate different techiniques, clays and styles of pottery.

Pam Quintana from Cochiti Pueblo was taught as a child, the historic art and her family’s tradition of making story tellers by her parents Pablo and Margaret Quintana. Pamela hand forms and fires in a kiln. She uses micaceous clay "so that it glitters."

Breakfast with Estella Loretto, (Jemez Pueblo) who is currently one of a few Native American women working in monumental bronze sculpting. She has studied and trained with mentors including her mother, her grandmother, and most notably with Native American sculptor Allan Houser.

Apache Indian artist Allan Houser is a renowned sculptor, painter and teacher, whose work is featured in museums and in private and corporate collections worldwide.

Native artists from different Southwest tribes will discuss and demonstrate different techniques, clays, and styles of pottery.

Enjoy breakfast with and a presentation by Lee Marmon, Laguna Pueblo Photographer. Lee’s photographs are featured in Native American Portraits: Points of Inquiry. Lee will share stories of early Southwestern photographers, highlights of his career as the first Pueblo photographer, and the changes in the Native communities

We’re surrounded by turquoise, especially in Santa  Fe. Before you buy, learn what you should be looking for.

Seminar given by Jim Kissock of Kings Trading Company, Santa Fe  

"Navajo," the fourth lecture of a five part series. Speaker Fritz Casuse is Navajo, and an award-winning artist known for his sculptural, contemporary jewelry. He shares his skills by teaching at the Poeh Arts Program while continuing to create jewelry, paintings, sculpture and more. This lecture is free with museum admission.

Breakfast with Maxine McBrinn, curator of "Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning." The exhibit highlights the museum’s extensive collection of Southwestern turquoise jewelry and presents all aspects of the stone from geology, mining, and history, to questions of authenticity and value. Hundreds of necklaces, bracelets, belts, rings, earrings, silver boxes and other objects illustrate the stone’s use and its deep significance to the people of the region

Dallin Maybee (Northern Arapaho/Seneca) was raised on the Cattaraugas Indian Reservation in Western New York, home of the Seneca Nation. Dallin is currently Interim Chief Operating Officer for the Soutwestern Association  of Indian Arts (SWAIA). In addition to being an award-winning artist, international performer and lecturer, Dallin has a Juris Doctorate from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU.

Steve LaRance(Assiniboine/Hopi)and Marian Denipah(Navajo/Ohkay Owingeh) create jewelry, paintings, and sculptures as individuals and as partners. Their tufa-cast silverwork creates jewelry that are tiny sculptures, set with precious and semi-precious stones, including high-grade turquoise. They use traditional Native design to make pieces that feel creatively contemporary.

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 or historic object presented to them.

The event is always FREE and open to the public. Federal and State regulations prohibit the curators from appraising any artifact.

Dawn Jackson’s, Saginaw Chippewa, painting style reflects the bold and colorful imagery of classic animation, using cel vinyl paint and painting in reverse on layers of clear acetate to create striking depth and dimension.

Dawn Jackson’s painting style reflects the bold and colorful imagery of classic animation, using cel vinyl paint and painting in reverse on layers of clear acctate to create striking depth and dimension.

Boy is a 2010 New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission. In New Zealand, the film eclipsed previous records for a first week’s box office takings for a local production. Boy went on to become the highest grossing New Zealand film at the local box office. The film will be shown at 12:00pm and 3:00pm     

Films are free with museum admission. Museum members are always free!

On The Ice, is a suspenseful feature-length drama about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive. The shocked boys stumble through guilt-fueled days, avoiding the suspicions of their community as they weave a web of deceit. With their future in the balance, the two boys are forced to explore the limits of friendship and honor. The film will be shown at  12:00pm and 3:00pm Films are free with museum admission. Museum members are always free.

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 or historic object presented to them.

The event is always FREE and open to the public. Federal and State regulations prohibit the curators from appraising any artifact.

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell’s travels, spoken word performances and politics. Film will be shown ar 12:00pm and 3:00pm Films are free with museum admission. Museum members are always free!

"Contemporary": the fifth lecture in a five part lecture series. The speaker for the fifth lecture is N. Scott Momaday(Kiowa), renowned poet and novelist. Dr. Momaday was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 1969 for his novel, House Made of Dawn. He is considered a founder of the Native American Renaissance, was named Centennial Poet Laureate of Oklahoma, and awarded a National Medal of Arts in 2007. Momaday is also the founder of the Rainy Mountain Foundation and the Buffalo Trust, a nonprofit organization workig to preserve Native American cultures. 

This lecture is free with museum admission.

Native and other musical acts in a day long performance. Taiko drummers, Pow Wow drum groups. and Native dancers.