Events & Exhibitions
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Annual Book Sale
Meem Auditorium at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 am
Thousands of books will be sold on Saturday, November 8 and Sunday, November 9, 2008 to support the Library of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. Book sale hours are 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. both days and admission is free.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Annual Book Sale
Meem Auditorium at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 am
Thousands of books will be sold Saturday, November 8 and Sunday, November 9, 2008 to support the Library of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. Book sale hours are 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. both days and admission is free.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
MIAC Sunday Lecture Series
TEWA TALES OF SUSPENSE
2:00 pm
Comic Art Indigene artist Jason Garcia Ceramic artist of the Santa Clara Pueblo
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23
MIAC Sunday Lecture Series
SPECIAL Thanksgiving week lecture
2:00 pm
"Chocolate Heaven and Tobacco Saints: Indian Adaptations to Colonialism in Mesoamerica." Presented by Marcy Norton, Professor of History, George Washington University Followed by a book signing of "Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World" , and by a drinking chocolate tasting by Kakawa Chocolate House of Santa Fe
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7
MIAC Sunday Lecture Series
Winter Traditions
2:00 pm
"Pueblo Recollections- The Life Paa Peh" Joe Sando of Jemez Pueblo, renowned Pueblo Historian and author of Pueblo Recollections . Followed by a book signing of this autobiographical book and his other famous books
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7
Winter Traditions
1:00 pm
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture will be celebrating winter pueblo traditions on December 7th, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. There will be a dance performance by The Herreras (Cochiti Pueblo), storytelling (Discovery Center), bookmaking (guest artist Pamela Smith) and ornament activities (guest artists: Bill and Steven Lockwood, Oke Owingeh Pueblo) in the classroom, and a lecture at 2 pm in the museum theater by Joe Sando of Walatowa (Jemez Pueblo), "Pueblo Recollections" followed by a book signing of his autobiography.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11
MIAC Sunday Lecture Series
"All The Names: Locating Self and Culture in Pueblo Pottery"
2:00 pm
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Curator of Anthropology for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos , in conjuction with our newest exhibit 'A River Apart'
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Opening reception for Native American Picture Books of Change
The Art of Historic Picture Book Editions
2:00 pm
Lecture at 2pm in the Theater by Rebecca Benes, author and co-curator of Native American Picture Books of Change Followed by a book signing of Native American Picture Books of Change
SUNDAY, MARCH 15
MIAC Sunday Lecture Series
“The Painted Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos”
2:00 pm
J. J. Brody, Professor Emeritus UNM and renowned Art Historian Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos, in conjuction with our Exhibit 'A River Apart'
SUNDAY, APRIL 5
MIAC Sunday Lecture Series
A River Apart
2:00 pm
Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos, in conjuction with our Exhibit 'A River Apart'
Current Exhibitions
A River Apart
October 19, 2008 through June 6, 2010
Two major rivers and their tributaries - the Colorado River and the Rio Grande - have shaped both the landscape and the distribution of indigenous villages. Neighboring New Mexico pueblos on the banks of the northern Rio Grande - just a river apart - the communities of Cochiti and Santo Domingo share a ceramic tradition extending back almost 1,500 years. This permanent collection - A River Apart - preserves these iconic cultural representatives.
Comic Art Indigène
May 11, 2008 through January 4, 2009
Comic Art Indigène looks at how storytelling has been used through comics and comic inspired art to express the contemporary Native American experience.
Native Couture
December 16, 2007 through February 21, 2010
Santa Fe style represents a state of mind, it is not just jewelry and clothing but a feeling inside, a sense of place and that total belief in the Navajo saying, “Walk in beauty.”
The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
on long-term display
The Buchsbaum Gallery features each of the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona in a selection of pieces that represent the development of a community tradition. In addition, a changing area of the gallery, entitled Traditions Today highlights the evolving contemporary traditions of the ancient art of pottery making.
Here, Now and Always
on long-term display
Here, Now, and Always is a major exhibition based on eight years of collaboration among Native American elders, artists, scholars, teachers, writers and museum professionals. Voices of fifty Native Americans guide visitors through the Southwest's indigenous communities and their challenging landscapes. More than 1,300 artifacts from the Museum's collections are displayed accompanied by poetry, story, song and scholarly discussion.