Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

Rapheal Begay (Diné), Spider Rock (Tseyi—Canyon de Chelly, Chinle, AZ) (detail), 2021. Digital photograph. Courtesy the artist.

A Diné Horizon

By Dr. Michelle J. Lanteri A horizon connects multiple planes of existence by way of light, and experiencing [...]

The Trade and Exchange section features a reconstruction of a trading post featuring jewelry and silversmithing.

Full Circle

By Kim Suina MelwaniPhotographs by Tira Howard When I was young, my family had a subscription to National [...]

Foreground: Jar, Acoma or Laguna Pueblo, ca. 1910. Clay, crushed potsherd temper, mineral and carbon paint, slip. 12 × 11 11/16 inches. Gift of Juan Olivas. MIAC Collection: 12024/12. Background: Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo), Ancestral Awakening, 2019-2022. Photograph by Tira Howard.

Evoking Empowerment

By Lillia McEnaney As visitors enter the Arts section of the Here, Now and Always at the Museum of Indian [...]

Kathleen Wall (Jemez) discusses her choice of pottery in the video portion of the Grounded in Clay exhibition, directed by Adam Shaening-Pokrasso.

Clay Community

By Almah LaVon Rice Their heads are tilted back, casting praise skyward. Eyes closed to everything but [...]

Collecting Culture

By Ross Altshuler In 1932, Dr. Harry Percival Mera (1875-1951), curator at the Laboratory of Anthropology, [...]

Joe Feddersen, 2019. Photograph by Charles Froelick and courtesy Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

Glass is the Memory of Light

By Almah LaVon Rice Where does glass come from? From the Phoenicians, ancestors of the alphabet in modern-day [...]

Ghost Shirt, 2014. Glass and rebar. 34 ½ × 51 ½ × 18 in. Accession/catalog no. CHP-187, collection of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Photograph by Eric Wimmer. Courtesy the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

Story Tellers in Glass

By Dr. Letitia Chambers Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass is a groundbreaking exhibition [...]

Sheila Antonio (Navajo), figurine, ca. 2000. Glass seed beads and leather. 2 ½ × 1 ¾ × 1 ½ inches. MIAC Collection: 59954/12. Gift of Yara and Gerald Pitchford. Photograph by Addison Doty.

Collaboration, Multivocality, and Authority

by Felicia Garcia and Lillia McEnaney When the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture opened its flagship [...]

Finding Her Place in Clay

By Lillia McEnaney with Charlotte Jusinski In the 1960s, potter Helen Cordero (Cochiti Pueblo) turned to her [...]

Leaving the Ladder Down

BY DIANE BIRD As a kid, I never would have imagined today. I will leave the ladder down behind me so girls of [...]

The Punchline at the End of Art

BY EMILY WITHNALL One of Diego Romero’s favorite activities is watching people react to his art. He keeps a [...]

Vessels of a Truth Obscured

BY BRUCE BERNSTEIN, ERIK FENDER, AND RUSSELL SANCHEZ This past summer, at the Museum of Indian Arts and [...]

Return of the Chongo Brothers

BY EMILY WITHNALL For Mateo and Diego Romero, being named the 2019 recipients of the Museum of Indian Arts [...]

Gone but Not Conquered

BY C.L. KIEFFER AND DEVORAH ROMANEK Most exhibits take years to plan, which is antithetical for museums that [...]

The Captive

BY PAUL ANDREW HUTTON The Mexican soldiers came late in the Spring of 1855. The people saw them in the [...]

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