Native American Art

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 [...]

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 [...]

Possibility and Ferocity

By Laureli IvanoffPhotographs by Kevin Lange Joy Harjo helps one to understand the concept that God, the [...]

To Market, To Market

A century of harking back and looking forward at Santa Fe’s beloved summer institution Each August, an [...]

The Element of Beings

By Chela Lujan I am grateful for the land, for my hands. Grateful for the browned earth hardened by the [...]

Collecting Culture

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

Hermosa, 2021. Archival pigment photograph. 47 ½ × 40 inches. © Cara Romero, courtesy of Gerald Peters Contemporary.

In Conversation with the Sea

By Emily Withnall Photographs by Cara Romero In Cara Romero’s black and white photograph Sand & Stone, [...]

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 [...]

Finding Her Place in Clay

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

Treading through Research

BY C. L. Kieffer My favorite aspects of working in museum collections are the inadvertent discoveries. [...]

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 [...]

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