Image: Montana James Miller (Diné), Smoke with Me the Land, 2024, Movie poster, digital black and white photograph

Join us for the closing reception of 2024-2025 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Kinship Woven Through Ancestral Lands on Friday, May 16 from 5:00–7:00 pm at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).

Participating graduating seniors include Nelson Alburquenque, Rylin Becenti (Diné), Montana James Miller (Diné), Savannah Morales (Tachi Yokut), Lisa Patencio (Native Village of Ruby), Jennifer Peters, Jade S. Valdéz/Pom Ché-ka-o-n-é (Picuris Pueblo), and Kayla Wanatee (Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa). 

This exhibition is co-curated by IAIA student curator Christine Adams (Tlingit) and IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Curatorial Assistant Stephanie Stewart (Navajo and Kiowa) and installed with the help of IAIA student preparator Laney Cully (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) and MoCNA intern Macy Rose (Cherokee Nation). 

For more information, please contact the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Curatorial Assistant Stephanie Stewart (Navajo and Kiowa) at sstewart@iaia.edu or (505) 428-5927.