SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Coiled Basketry Demonstration

with Lynette Etsitty

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8

GranMary’s Place Storytelling

GranMary’s Place is a storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that is dedicated to celebrating the memory of Docent Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, children, and telling stories to children visiting the Museum.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14

Yucca Cordage Weaving Demonstration

with Mary Weahkee

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15

David Bradley Exhibit Opening & Reception

INDIAN COUNTRY: THE ART OF DAVID BRADLEY kicks off on Sunday, February 15 at 1pm.

• 1:00pm and 2:30pm: Jemez Buffalo dancers perform


• 1:30pm and 3:00pm: Panel discussion with Native American contemporary artists led by Dr. Suzan Harjo, a recipient of the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom


• 2:30 - 3pm: Exhibition book signing with Bradley, Harjo, and exhibition curator Valerie Verzuh.

A reception will be held from 2 - 4pm by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico.

As always, New Mexico residents receive free admission to the museum - and programs - on Sundays.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Let’s Take a Look

Curators Look at Your Treasures

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.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Countering Native American Stereotypes Lecture

With Erin Fehr (Yup’ik), Archivist, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Erin Fehr (Yup’ik) presents an illustrated lecture drawn from the Hirschfelder-Molin Native American Stereotypes Collection at the Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

"Noble Savages, Indian Princesses, Drunken Indians and Vanishing Americans: Resources for Countering Stereotypes and Prejudices," a lecture Fehr first delivered at the 2014 annual meeting of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, presents and examines just a few dozen of the 1500 objects collected over 40 years by scholars Arlene Hirschfelder, who worked at the Association on American Indian Affairs for 20+ years, and Paulette Fairbanks Molin (White Earth Ojibwe), the former director of American Indian Educational Opportunity Program at Hampton University.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15

GranMary’s Place Storytelling

GranMary’s Place is a storytelling program at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture that is dedicated to celebrating the memory of Docent Mary Sudbrink. Mary loved life, children, and telling stories to children visiting the Museum.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18

Let’s Take a Look

Curators Look at Your Treasures

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.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19

Collector Helene Sage Presentation (FIA Event)

Helene Sage Shares Her Dazzling Native American Horse Gear Collection

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A FRIENDS OF INDIAN ART EVENT AND MEMBERSHIP IN FIA IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. CALL 505-982-6366 OR VISIT THE FIA SITE FOR MORE INFO.

Not only has Helene Sage had an illustrious career as a research scientist in cell biology, but she has also had a passion for horses from an early age. Sage has amassed one of the most distinguished collections of historical Native American horse gear and has written two books on the subject. She will share her immense knowledge and dazzle the FIA with beautiful examples from her own collection.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

Forest Archaeologist Michael Bremer Lecture (FIA Event)

Northern Rio Grande Ancestral Pueblo World - A Historical Perspective

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A FRIENDS OF INDIAN ART EVENT AND MEMBERSHIP IN FIA IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. CALL 505-982-6366 OR VISIT THE FIA SITE FOR MORE INFO.

Forest Archaeologist Michael Bremer will provide insight and perspective into early Puebloan populations beginning in the 12th century. He will discuss the relationship of these people to the wild landscapes surrounding their developed communities and will share the similarities these communities ay have had with today’s management of wild land and its interface to adjacent large urban centers.

Currently with the Santa Fe National Forest, Mike is excited to share his perspective of the ways of native ancestral people with you!

THURSDAY, MAY 21

An Afternoon at the Pueblo of Pojoaque (FIA Event)

An Art & Culture Tour with Governor George Rivera

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A FRIENDS OF INDIAN ART EVENT AND MEMBERSHIP IN FIA IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. CALL 505-982-6366 OR VISIT THE FIA SITE FOR MORE INFO.

Spend an afternoon with the FIA and interntionally known Native American artist George Rivera. The afternoon begins with a private tour of the art collection at Buffalo Thunder, followed by a tour of the Pueblo of Pojoaque and Rivera’s studio, where he creates his monumental stone and bronze sculptures. The trip wraps up with a visit to see his newest work at the Poeh Museum and Cultural Center, and will end back at Buffalo Thunder.

THURSDAY, JUNE 18

The Jewelry of Marvin & Marcus Slim, Isaiah Ortiz, and Joe & LeJeune Chavez (FIA Event)

Under the Portal

THURSDAY, JULY 16

Visit the Home/Studio of Margarete Bagshaw (FIA Event)

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A FRIENDS OF INDIAN ART EVENT AND MEMBERSHIP IN FIA IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. CALL 505-982-6366 OR VISIT THE FIA SITE FOR MORE INFO.

Join the FIA for a rare opportunity to visit Margarete Bagshaw in her homw and studio. You’ll gain important insight into this important Native American artist’s work, which is highly recognized for its color, composition, and texture. Her monumental canvases honor her mother, Helen Hardin, and her grandmother, Pablita Velarde. The family is a testament to the place would hold in the world of art!

In addition to Margarete’s work, the private art collection she and her husband Dan McGuinness have built is not to be missed!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

What’s Hiding in the Basement???

Behind the Scenes Tour at MIAC

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A FRIENDS OF INDIAN ART EVENT AND MEMBERSHIP IN FIA IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND. CALL 505-982-6366 OR VISIT THE FIA SITE FOR MORE INFO.

FIA members are in for a rare treat with this event, which will take attendees behind the scenes to view a treasure trove of Native American art, culture, and history hiding in MIAC basement. Participants will meet with museum curators for coffee and croissants and then break into intimate groups to "go where few have gone before." Some great surprises await attendees in museum storage!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15

Rose B. Simpson – Thinking and Creating Outside the Box!

Friends of Indian Art

Friends of Indian Art (FIA) invites their members to a program presenting Rose B. Simpson, a native of Santa Clara Pueblo, who was raised among an extended family of artists. Her mother, Roxanne Swentzell, is a well-known Indigenous ceramic sculptor, and her father, Patrick Simpson, was a contemporary artist working in wood and metal. Rose’s artistic expression has taken forms including sculpting, printmaking, drama and creative writing, as well as music and dance. Being of both Indigenous and Anglo descent, her work often signifies the continual struggle between the two worlds many modern Indigenous people experience. Rose is currently studying Automotive Science at Northern New Mexico College and sees this path as her personal passion and new direction. Not a FIA member? Join by calling 505-982-6366 ext. 100.