Please join the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) artist Laine Rinehart (Taos Pueblo and Tlingit [Alaska Native]) for dinner and an open studio event to learn more about his practice and current projects. 

Dinner is served from 5–6 pm, and the artist visit takes place from 6–7 pm. Located in the A-i-R Studio in the Academic Building, this event is free and open to the public. 

Laine Rinehart (Taos Pueblo and Tlingit [Alaska Native]) is an artist whose Tlingit name is Neech Yannagut Yéil. He is from the Teeyhítan clan of Wrangell, Alaska, and is also a child of the Kagwaantan through his father’s side. On his mother’s side, he maternally descends from Taos Pueblo. In the summer of 2010, Rinehart began weaving in Kay Parker’s Ravens Tail class and has since worked with Lily Hope and her mother, Clarissa Rizal. He is deeply grateful for the opportunity to participate in a tradition that is generally unavailable to men. Rinehart strives to honor the practices and traditions of Chilkat weaving, utilizing materials such as mountain goat hair (jaanwu) and yellow cedar bark to craft his unique weaving style.

For more information about the IAIA A-i-R program, please contact Maia Filippi, A-i-R Program Manager, at maia.filippi@iaia.edu or call (505) 424-2369.

If you are an individual with a disability and in need of any auxiliary aid or service to attend events, please contact IAIA’s ADA Office at least seven calendar days before the event or as soon as possible at adaoffice@iaia.edu or (505) 424-5707.