Past Exhibitions
Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art
July 17, 2016 through October 22, 2017
Canteen, Virgil Ortiz
Canteen
Translator: Head Commander of the Spirit World Army
Virgil Ortiz, Cochiti
2011
Clay and natural pigments
Gift of the Artist, MIAC 58070/12
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Beaded Book, Teri Greeves
Beaded Book
Kiowa Ceremonial Dance
Teri Greeves (b. 1970), Kiowa/Comanche
Brain-tanned deer hide, commercial beads
Museum Purchase, MIAC 56973/12
Sponge Bob Square Pants, Pac Man, and Curious George, all sporting a particularly Native American twist, are just a few images from popular mainstream culture seen in the exhibition, Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art.
The free to the public opening for Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is on July 17, 2016 from 1 to 4 pm and the show runs through October 22, 2017.
Featuring nearly 100 objects by more than fifty artists from the museum’s collections as well as others borrowed from collectors and artists, the work on view in Into the Future will be in such various media as traditional clothing and jewelry, pottery and weaving, photography and video, through to comics, and on into cyberspace.
Indian Bingo, Diego Romero
Indian Bingo
Diego Romero (b. 1964), Cochiti
1994
Clay and natural pigments
Museum Purchase, MIAC 54131/12
