February 2025

• IAIA alum Shane Hendren (Navajo) ’91 was featured in the Smithsonian Folklife magazine
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) read from her memoir Whiskey Tender in an event hosted by UC Merced Library’s Native and Indigenous Student Coalition
• IAIA community member Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation) was named winner of the 2025 Caldecott Medal with illustrations in her first book, Chooch Helped
• IAIA community member Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) ’16 was recently featured in IAIA MFACW Chapter House Journal
• IAIA community member Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) Teaches Poetic Thinking in her new MasterClass
• IAIA alum Elee Kraljii Gardiner ’20 was named Poet Laureate of Vancouver, Canada, serving a three-year term
• IAIA Land-Grant Extension Educator Melanie Kirby (Tortugas Pueblo) has been named an honoree of The Explorers Club 50 Class of 2025
• The American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and the Pacific Northwest Trail Association, is seeking Native artists to design a new service mark logo for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, ensuring it respectfully represents Indigenous cultures along the trail
• IAIA Research Center Archivist Ryan Flahive and IAIA alum Jennifer Juan (Tohono O’odham) ’19 presented at the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Webinar, Pitch Perfect: Stepping Up to Submit a Successful ATALM2025 Conference Session Proposal
• IAIA community member Jason Garcia (Okuu Pín and Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa) has been named 2025 Artist in Residence at Los Luceros Historic Site, where he will develop his creative practice and offer public programs
• IAIA alum Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) ’09 was recently featured in an interview for IAIA MFACW Chapter House Journal’s Storyteller’s Corner, conducted by editor Rey M. Rodríguez and MFA student Oona Uishama Narváez
• IAIA alum Terran Kipp Last Gun (Piikani) ’16 and IAIA community member Jordan Ann Craig (Northern Cheyenne) A-i-R ’19 received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2024 Biennial Award
• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) passed away on January 24, 2025, at the age of 85. IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Director Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation) calls her “One of the most consequential artists in the contemporary art world.” Please join us in holding her in memory and honoring her life and work

January 2025

• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Director Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation) and IAIA alum were featured in the most recent episode of the Travels with Darley podcast, highlighting the Santa Fe Indian Market, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and iHeart
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) was selected as a 2024 National Book Award Finalist for her book Whiskey Tender 
• IAIA alum Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe) ’05 has an exhibition opening in January at the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, New Hampshire
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Director Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation) and Chief Curator Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man were featured in Liberal Education on Indigenous student success in higher education
• IAIA alum Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 will be featured in Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always in February, the River Valley Arts Fellowship from July to October, and an NEA-funded project at the North Dakota Museum of Art
• IAIA alum Vivian Mary Carroll (Cherokee Nation) ’20, will read from her debut poetry collection, Talking Leaves Scrapbook, at Geronimo’s Books on January 18
• IAIA adjunct professor Camille LeFevre has recent publications in The Dodge, Brevity Blog, and Electric Literature, with poems in Unleash Lit in February and a Fall 2025 residency at Wupatki National Monument
• IAIA community members Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake (Giduwa and Mvskoke) and Kira Hayen (Caddo Nation) ’23 won the 2024 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award for fiction
• IAIA community members Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsáan and Laguna Pueblo) and Christine Day (Upper Skagit) will headline the 2025 Fort Collins Book Fest
• Chief Communications Officer Jason S. Ordaz was interviewed for the Pasatiempo article “In the Market for Gifts?” in support of the IAIA Holiday Art Market, and he was recently appointed to the Craft in America Advisory Committee
• IAIA alum Charine Pilar Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21 co-produced a short documentary film, Winding Path, that will premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival

December 2024

• IAIA alum and current student Bryson Meyers (Chippewa Cree) ’21 designed the 2025 Gathering of the Nations Powwow cover art
• IAIA community members Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) and Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) ’16 have both been named to Time Magazine’s “100 Must-Read Books of 2024”
• IAIA community members Marcus Amerman (Choctaw) ’83, Tony Abeyta (Diné) ’86, and Diego Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) A-i-R ’19 participated in a conversation titled “Finding an Artistic Path in the 1990s” at the Wheelwright Museum on December 6
• IAIA community members Tash Terry (Diné) ’91 and Elena Higgens (Maori and Samoa) won Best Vocal Performance for their song “Round and Round” by musical group Indigie Femme at the 2024 New Mexico Music Awards
• IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Mentor Anna Hoover’s (Norwegian and Unagax̂) A-i-R ’20 documentary Sands of Time has been released by GBH, Vision Maker Media, and NOVA as part of a six-documentary series titled Legacy of the Land
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) was selected as a 2024 National Book Award Finalist for her book Whiskey Tender
• IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Mentor Heidi K. Brandow (Native Hawaiian and Diné) participated in an artist residency with the 2024 Nomadic Art Camp in Kyrgyzstan
• IAIA community members Rico Worl (Tlingit and Athabacan) A-i-R ’19, Major Robinson (Northern Cheyenne), Tally Monteau (Hunkpati Dakota), and Calvin Crosby (Cherokee) were guests on Native America Calling on December 4
• IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Mentor Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa) was profiled in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
• IAIA community member Ryan Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Okanogan, Arrow Lakes) A-i-R ’17 was featured in The Seattle Times

November 2024

• IAIA community members Dr. Robert Martin (Cherokee Nation) and Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 received 2023 National Humanities Medals on October 21 at the White House
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsáan and Laguna Pueblo) was named to Time magazine’s “100 Must-Read Books of 2024” for her book Whiskey Tender and is also longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. She will discuss Whiskey Tender as part of the American Indian College Fund’s Native American Heritage Month 2024 Book Club series on November 26
• IAIA community member Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) ’16 was named to Time magazine’s “100 Must-Read Books of 2024” for his book Wandering Stars and has been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
• IAIA community member Sasha LaPointe (Nooksack) ’17 has been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
• IAIA alum Jontay Kahm (Plains Cree) ’23 was announced as the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards 2024 Emerging Talent recipient in October
• IAIA alum Graci Horne (Sisseton Wahpeton and Hunkpapa Lakota/Dakota) ’24 is featured in a Hyperallergic article titled “Meet the People Cultivating the Indigenous Art of Puppetry”
• IAIA alum Ramona Emerson (Diné) ’15 participated in a panel at the Portland Book Festival on November 2 featuring her book Exposure
• IAIA alum Terran Last Gun (Piikani) ’16 presented his work in solo exhibition at the University of Northern Colorado from October 16–November 2
• IAIA community members Mario Caro (Colombian Mestizo) and Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation) participate in a panel conversation on Indigenous art education as part of Embassy at Asia Society in New York City on November 16
• IAIA alum DezBaa’ (Diné and Basque, Spanish, and Mexican descent) ’21 was featured at an Indigenous Ways Wisdom Circle on November 2
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing Mentor Pam Houston performed a reading of her book Without Exception at multiple locations as part of the Utah Book Festival in October

October 2024

• IAIA alum Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe) ’05 has been named 2024 Distinguished Artist of the Year by the Santa Fe Rotary Club and was featured in an article on the front page of Pasatiempo from The Santa Fe New Mexican on October 11
• 2023 IAIA Honorary Doctorate of Humanities recipient Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent) presented The Spirits Are Laughing (2024), a public art installation that displayed projections onto various NYC landmarks throughout September
• IAIA community members Jean LaMarr (Northern Paiute and Achomawi [Pit River]), Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich (Koyukon Denaa and Iñupiaq) ’24, John Feodorov (Diné), and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota) A-i-R ’16 have received the 2025 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship
• IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Mentor Raven Chacon’s (Diné and Chicano) exhibition Aviary was commissioned for the North Gallery of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where it is on view through July 3, 2025
• IAIA alum Dyani White Hawk’s (Sičangu Lakota) ’08 exhibition Bodies of Water is on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, MD, through December 1
• IAIA alum DezBaa’ (Diné and Basque, Spanish, and Mexican descent) ’21 will be featured at an Indigenous Ways Wisdom Circle on November 20
• IAIA alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 was featured at an Indigenous Ways Wisdom Circle on September 18
• IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Mentor Tanya Lukin Linklater (Alutiiq) is featured in an article titled “Tanya Lukin Linklater Opens Up a Space of Contemplation” in Hyperallergic
• IAIA alum Al Hubbard (Arapaho and Navajo) is featured in an article titled “Wyoming’s Al Hubbard Defining New Past-Modern American Indian Art Movement” in the Cowboy State Daily
• IAIA community members Jason Baerg (Métis), Orlando Dugi (Diné) A-i-R ’18, Jontay “Kahm” Kahmakoatayo (Plains Cree) ’23, Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe), Jamie Okuma (Luiseno, Shoshone-Bannock, Wailaki), and Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) participated in PST ART x The Autry: Fashioning Indigenous Futurism organized by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation) at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA on September 30
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan Nation, Laguna Pueblo, Chicana) presented a reading of her book Whiskey Tender at New Mexico State University (NMSU) as part of the Nelson-Boswell Reading Series on September 27 and will discuss her book Whiskey Tender as part of the American Indian College Fund’s Native American Heritage Month 2024 Book Club series on November 26
• IAIA MFA in Studio Arts Director Dr. Mario Caro (Colombian Mestizo) facilitated a Public Dialogue on September 16 at Site Santa Fe on the exhibition Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson

September 2024

• IAIA Alum Adrian Wall (Jemez Pueblo) ’14 received the IAIA Distinguished Alumni Award at the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) Indian Market
• IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Jackson Taffa’s (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) book Whiskey Tender has been longlisted for a 2024 Nation Book Awards in Nonfiction
• IAIA Community Members Delbert Anderson (Diné) A-i-R ’23 and Mikayla Patton (Oglala Sioux Lakota) ’19 have been awarded the 2024 Forge Project Fellowship
• IAIA Alum Kathleen Wall’s (Jemez Pueblo) ’14 exhibition Activating Oga Po’ogeh Land Acknowledgment was displayed off of the Santa Fe Rail Trail May 31–August 31
• IAIA Community Members Emerald “noquisi” Goingsnake (Giduwa [Cherokee] and Mvskoke [Creek]) and Kira Hayen (Caddo Nation of Oklahoma) ’23 have received the 2024 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award
• IAIA Alum Chaz John (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, and European) ’19 celebrates his ongoing solo exhibition Redhorn, which runs through September 22 at smoke the moon, with an artist reception on September 18
• IAIA Community Member Delbert Anderson (Diné) A-i-R ’23 served as a guest curator at ART123 Gallery in Gallup from June 8–July 6 and was featured in the article “Delbert Anderson’s Musical Journey Home” in New Mexico Magazine
• Former IAIA Indigenous Liberal Studies Faculty Emeritus Stephen Wall (White Earth Nation) discussed his book American Indian Tribal Governance: A Critical Perspective on Native America Calling on Tuesday, July 23
• IAIA Alum Aimee Inglis’ (WahZhaZhe [Osage]) ’24 essay “We Connect Whole Families” is published in Forging Journal
• IAIA Alum Earl Biss (Crow Tribe of Montana) is featured in the article “Earl Biss: The Spirit Who Walks Among His People” in Cowboys & Indians
• IAIA Alum Paige Busick (Chickasaw Nation) ’23 is a featured artist at the Chickasaw Visitor Center in Sulphur, OK, through January 15, 2025
• IAIA Alum Courtney Michele Leonard’s (Shinnecock Nation) ’00 exhibit “Breach: Logbook 24/Scrimshaw” is on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, through November 3
• “Artic Highways” at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) is recognized by the Observer in an article titled “Where to See Art Created and Curated Via Indigenous Perspectives”
• IAIA Faculty Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation) was interviewed by New Mexico Magazine in the article “New Mexico Sets Western Style Trends”
• IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) discusses her book Whiskey Tender on the MFA Writers Podcast
• IAIA Alum Nancy Oakley (Mi’kmaq and Wampanoag) ’92 is featured by the Canada Council for the Arts in an article titled “Weaving Stories in Clay: The artistic Odyssey of Nancy Oakley”
• IAIA Community Members Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo), Michaela m.s. Red Cherries (Northern Cheyenne Nation), Lily Philpott ’24, and Julianne Warren ’24 will be featured during An Evening with the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) as part of the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival at Books Are Magic Montague Street in Brooklyn, NY, on September 23
• IAIA Alum and former IAIA MFACW Director Santee Frazier (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) ’06 was the summer 2024 resident for the Amant Residency Siena
• IAIA Community Members James Thomas Stevens ’90 (Akwesasne Mohawk), Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake (Giduwa [Cherokee] and Mvskoke Creek), and Carmen Wiley (Mvskoke Creek) will perform readings at Generational IAIA: An Alum and Two Rising Poets on September 15 at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse in Santa Fe, NM
• IAIA Alum Migizi Pensoneau (Ponca and Ojibwe) ’16 was interviewed by High Country News about Reservation Dogs’ four Emmy nominations
• IAIA Alum Blackhorse Mitchell (Diné) passes away (March 5, 1943–May 6, 2024)

May 2024

• 2023 IAIA Honorary Doctorate of Humanities recipient, Jeffrey Gibson (member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent) represents the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale
• IAIA community members Penny Singer (Diné) ’96 and Orlando Dugi (Diné) featured in Vogue’s “Five Artists to Know From the Inaugural SWAIA Native Fashion Week”
• IAIA alum Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11 one of ten winners of the Herb Alpert Foundation’s 30th annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, which recognizes mid-career artists with grant funding and a residency at CalArts
• IAIA Assistant Professor Brian Fleetwood’s (Mvskoke Creek) ’12 exhibition, Place/Holding, at Axle Contemporary featured in New Mexico Magazine’s “Five Things to Do This Weekend,” along with IAIA’s Land Healing and Restoration Celebration for Earth Day
• IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Jackson Taffa’s (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) featured in the Los Angeles Times
• IAIA Alum Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17 featured in The New York Times’ “A Bronx Teacher Asked. Tommy Orange Answered.”
• IAIA Alum Patricia Michaels’ (Taos Pueblo) ’89 featured in Pasatiempo’s “Patricia Michaels’ material world”
• IAIA Alum Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05 a featured artist on Visit California’s official website

April 2024

• IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Jackson Taffa’s (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) book, Whiskey Tender, featured in The New Yorker’s “Briefly Noted”
• IAIA Alum Tahnee Ahtone (Kiowa, Muscogee, Seminole) ’15 joins the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City as Curator of Native American Art
• IAIA Community members Tracy Abeyta, Jennifer Elise Foerster (Muscogee [Creek] Nation of Oklahoma), Ibe Liebenberg (Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma), and Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) present An Evening of Indigenous Storytelling at Green Apple Books
• IAIA Alum Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05 to present the 12th annual Keynote Lecture for the Medium Festival of Photography on April 26, 2024 at the San Diego Central Library
• The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation names IAIA Alum Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Rosebud Sioux) ’08 among the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
• Three IAIA museum studies students, Jaime Herrell (Cherokee Nation and European) ’24, Isabella Cox (Navajo) ’24, and Ixel Lindstrom (Descendant of White Earth Nation) ’25 have been accepted into the 2024 summer cohort of interns at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC
• IAIA alum Carrie Dada (Cherokee) ’19 was selected amongst hundreds of applicants and attended her first artist residency in one of the top 10 residencies in the world at Chateau Orquevaux in France
• IAIA Student of the Year Bell Edmo (Pyramid Lake Paiute, Shoshone Bannock, and Blackfeet) featured in the Santa Fe New Mexican’s Pasatiempo

March 2024

• IAIA Community Members Tiffany Adams (Chemehuevi, Koyoomk’awi, and Nisenan) ’19, “Ofuskie” George Alexander (Muscogee Creek) ’15, Terrance Clifford (Lakota) ’16, Leah Mata Fragua (Yak Tityu Tityu Yak Tiłhini (Northern Chumash)), Sabrina Saleha (Diné) ’23, and Anangookwe Wolf (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe, Fort Peck Assiniboine, and Dakota) ’19 named among the 2024 First Peoples Fund Cultural Capital and Artist in Business Leadership Fellows
• IAIA Alum Tommy Orange’s (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17 book, Wandering Stars, and IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Jackson Taffa’s (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) book, Whiskey Tender, featured in The New York Times’ 17 New Books Coming in February List
• IAIA Alum Vivian Mary Carroll (Cherokee Nation) ’20 to read poetry at the premiere of 2022–2023 Taos Poet Laureate Joshua Concha’s film, Taos Poetry in Motion, at the Harwood Museum on April 27 at 7 pm
• IAIA Alum Jonathan Loretto (Jemez and Cochiti) ’22 featured in exhibition, Reflective Presence: The Art of Jesse Littlebird & Jonathan Loretto, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with an opening reception on Friday, March 15 from 6–8 pm
• IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Jackson Taffa’s (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) book, Whiskey Tender, featured in the Santa Fe Reporter
• Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945–1975, MoCNA’s traveling exhibition, opens at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, on view February 16–May 26, 2024
• 2024 Santa Fe International Literary Festival to feature several IAIA Community members, including Ramona Emerson (Diné) ’15, Jamie Figueroa (Boricua) ’16, Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) ’16, Arthur Sze, and Luci Tapahonso (Diné)

February 2024

• Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet, storyteller, and friend N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) passes on (February 27, 1934–January 24, 2024)
• Creative Capital names IAIA community members Nanibah “Nani” Chacon (Diné and Chicana), Jordan Ann Craig (Northern Cheyenne), Chris Eyre (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes), Chaz John (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, and European), Erica Lord (Athabaskan), and Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Rosebud Sioux) ’08 among 54 artists who received the 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awards in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image
• IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Kwatsaán and Laguna Pueblo) featured in Elle’s “The Best (and Most Anticipated) Nonfiction Books of 2024, So Far”
• IAIA Land-Grant Extension Educator Melanie Kirby (Tortugas Pueblo) appointed by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsak, to the inaugural Pollinator Subcommittee of the National Agriculture Research, Extension Education, and Economics Advisory Board, managed by the Office of the Chief Scientist for the USDA
• IAIA Alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 pays tribute to N. Scott Momaday in The Washington Post
• Gallery Hózhó opens Heart of Glass: New Works in Glass, an exhibition featuring original glass work by Russell Frye (Pueblo of Tesuque) ’15, Ira Lujan (Taos Pueblo and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo), and Adrian Wall (Jemez Pueblo) ’14
• Professor Emerita Charlene Teters (Spokane) ’86 to give School of Art & Design Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation and Lecture at the University of Illinois on Thursday, Mar 21, 2024
• IAIA Community member Sydney Freeland (Navajo) featured in the Los Angeles Times’ article “Sydney Freeland grew up with powwows and comic books. In ‘Echo,’ she brings them together”
• IAIA alums Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 and Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05 featured in Ucross Art Gallery’s exhibition, Celebrating Complexities, which includes work by the recipients of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists in 2022 and 2023
• IAIA Alum Vivian Mary Carroll (Cherokee Nation) ’20 to present poetry at Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, highlighting poets from Casa Urraca Press
• Marvel Entertainment’s special private screening of Hulu and Disney+ series Echo for IAIA students featured in Char-Koosta News’ story “Native American Representation Debuts in Marvel Entertainment’s ‘Echo’”
• Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, an exhibition originating at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) which features work from the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ (MoCNA) permanent collection by Tony Jojola (Isleta Pueblo), is currently on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum
• IAIA alum Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 featured in the Winter 2023 issue of Hand Papermaking
• IAIA Land-Grant Extension Educator Melanie Kirby (Tortugas Pueblo) a featured guest on KSFR’s The Garden Journal, a local radio project of the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardeners
• MoCNA’s 2024 Winter Exhibitions, Inuk Silis Høegh: Arctic Vertigo and Womb of the Earth: Cosmovision of the Rainforest, featured in New Mexico Magazine

January 2024

• IAIA Alum Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) ’89 named the 2024 Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) Living Treasure
• IAIA Alum Tommy Orange’s (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17 book, Wandering Stars, named among TIME Magazine’s 25 Most Anticipated Books of 2024 list
• IAIA Alum and MFACW Student Charine Pilar Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21 co-produced a short documentary film, Winding Path, that will premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival under the Documentary Short Film Program
• IAIA’s MFA in Creative Writing (MFACW) program featured in the SF Reporter
• Performance Santa Fe presents The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place, a multimedia storytelling experience conceived and created by Indigenous Performance Productions, which features MFACW Director Deborah Taffa (Quechan [Yuma] Nation and Laguna Pueblo)
• IAIA Alum Melissa Melero-Moose (Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe) ’09 to lead a 2024 Summer Arts Workshop, Abstracting Landscape with Mixed Media Painting, at University of Nevada’s Holman Arts & Media Center
• IAIA’s MFA in Studio Arts (MFASA) program featured in Hyperallergic
• Former IAIA Board of Trustees Member and Chair, Robert “Bob” H. Piestewa Ames (Hopi), passes away (February 26, 1929–December 5, 2023)

December 2023

• IAIA’s groundbreaking ceremony shared in multiple local news sources, including the Santa Fe New Mexican, KSFR, KRQE, KOAT, and the Los Alamos Daily.
• IAIA community members RYAN! Elizabeth Feddersen (Okanogan/Arrow Lakes) and Ursala Hudson (Tlingit) named among NDN Collective’s 2023–2025 Radical Imagination cohort
• IAIA Alums Charine Pilar Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21 and Sabrina Saleha (Diné) ’23 named among the Native American Media Alliance’s (NAMA) fifth annual Native American Animation Lab Fellows
• IAIA Performing Arts Students Montana Miller (Navajo) and Isaiah St Cyr (Ho-Chunk) present at the Society for American Theatre Research in Providence, RI
• IAIA Alum Joy Harjo’s (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 poem, I Am a Prayer, featured in The New Yorker
• IAIA Alum Nathaniel Fuentes (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’20 featured in Taos News for his film, NEW: ART is Culture, CULTURE is Art, which will premiere at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, on Thursday December 7, with a special Q&A
• IAIA Alum Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07 and ’18 featured in Artsy’s “Rose B. Simpson Harnesses the Power of Community in Life-Sized Clay Sculptures”
• IAIA Alum and current MFACW Student Charine Pilar Gonzales’ (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21 film, River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh), received the Achievement in Short Filmmaking Award presented by the Native American Media Alliance at the LA Skins Fest Award Gala
• IAIA MFASA Mentor Raven Chacon (Diné) featured in Hyperallergic’s “The Many Voices of Raven Chacon’s While Hissing”
• IAIA Alum Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) ’16 featured on PBS’ “Chicago Tonight”
• IAIA Alum Monica Silva Lovato (San Felipe and Santo Domingo Pueblo) ’23 a featured artist in Experimental Clay: Exploring 3D Printed Ceramics, an exhibition at UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning Gallery showcasing work that was created during a series of artist residencies hosted at the Hand and Machine Lab

November 2023

• “A Holographic Poemsong”: Joy Harjo on Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue” by IAIA Alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 featured in Vanity Fair
• IAIA graduating senior Simona L. Rael (Chicana from Peña Blanca) ’23 commissioned to paint a Free Flow* New Mexico box, which provides feminine products to the public in need, and is located outside of the Santa Fe Public Library’s Oliver La Farge Branch
• IAIA Alum Patricia Michaels’ (Taos Pueblo) ’89 custom-made silk feather dress worn by actress Tantoo Cardinal at the international movie premiere for Killers of the Flower Moon
• IAIA Alum and Adjunct Faculty Margarita Paz-Pedro (Mexican-American, Laguna Pueblo, and Santa Clara Pueblo) ’23 featured in Medium + Support in Southwest Contemporary, Vol.8–FW 2023
• IAIA Alum Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07 and ’18 featured in Harper’s Bazaar’s “Three Indigenous Artists on Why Community-Building is Inherent to Their Work”
• IAIA Alum and MFACW Student Charine Pilar Gonzales’ (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21 short film, River Bank (Pō-Kehgeh), screens at the Santa Fe International Film Festival
• The Open Society Foundations names Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11 among the recipients of the 2023 Soros Arts Fellowships
• Through My Eyes, a documentary short by IAIA alum DezBaa’ (Diné) ’21 is an LA Skins Fest official selection and will screen November 19, 2023 at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatres, on Hollywood Boulevard, the film will also be a part of the Native American Media Alliance Unscripted workshop for 2023
• IAIA Alum Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock) ’00 featured in Forbes
• IAIA Alum Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota) ’19 a guest curator for In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now at the Minneapolis Institute of Art—the show, which is on view October 22, 2023–January 14, 2024, features work by multiple IAIA community members, including Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05 and Ryan Young (Ojibwe) ’19
• IAIA Alum Vivian Carroll (Cherokee Nation) ’20 has two poems included in Taos Journal of Poetry’s online issue #13
• IAIA faculty member Neecy Twinem (Sac and Fox Nation) and Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian) to give an IAIA Continuing Education Artist Talk on Saturday, November 18, 10 am–12 pm in the IAIA CLE Commons, sharing their journeys in writing, illustrating, and publishing children’s books
• IAIA Faculty Sheila Rocha (Tarasco) and Adjunct Faculty and MFASA student Leah Mata Fragua (Yak Tityu Tityu Yak Tiłhini (Northern Chumash)) present at the Cautionary Tales: Climate Crisis and Indigenous Arts Symposium at the Museum of International Folk Art

October 2023

• IAIA Alum Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Rosebud Sioux) ’08 and IAIA MFASA Mentor Raven Chacon (Diné/Chicano) named among the 2023 MacArthur Foundation Fellows
• The Land Carries Our Ancestors, an exhibition curated by Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) opens at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, featuring several IAIA community members, including George “Ofuskie” Alexander (Muscogee Creek) ’15, Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa) ’96, Teri Greeves (Kiowa) ’96, Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidasta, Arikara, Lakota) ’11, Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw) ’65, Chris Pappan (Kaw, Osage, Cheyenne River Sioux, Scottish) ’92, Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05, Diego Romero (Cochiti Pueblo) ’86, Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07 and ’18, Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) ’92, among others. The exhibition is on view September 22, 2023 – January 15, 2024
• IAIA Alum Fransisco Fraire, Jr. (Pascua Yaqui) ’20 to be a featured artist in the Our Song Is Our Strength exhibit, set to open December 1, 2023 at the Richey Resource Center—the exhibit is part of the They Don’t Love You Like I Love You: Indigenous Perspectives on Sovereignty exhibition at the University of Arizona’s Arizona State Museum, curated by IAIA alum Jennifer Juan (Tohono O’odham) ’19
• IAIA Financial Services Controller, Aimee Balthazar, selected for the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ (NACUBO) 2023­–2024 cohort of the Emerging Leaders Program, a professional development experience for promising mid-level managers in higher education business and finance
• IAIA Alum Frank Buffalo Hyde (Nez Perce and Onondaga) ’95 featured on Native America Calling: Native in the Spotlight
• IAIA Land-Grant Extension Educator Melanie Kirby (Tortugas Pueblo and Mestiza) and former IAIA Trustee Princess Daazhraii Johnson (Neets’aii Gwich’in), named among seven Indigenous Climate Fixers in nonprofit media organization Grist Grist’s annual list of 50 leaders in climate and justice
• IAIA Alum Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07 and ’18 featured in Cowboys & Indians
• Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945–1975, MoCNA’s traveling exhibition, opens at Aurora University’s Schingoethe Center
• Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination, an exhibition at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art, which features multiple IAIA community members including 2023 Honorary Doctorate of Humanities recipient Jeffrey Gibson (member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent), Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidasta, Arikara, Lakota) ’11, Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw) ’65, 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Humanities recipient James Luna James Luna (Pooyoukitchum, Ipi, Mexican-American), Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee), Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) ’92, and Dyani White Hawk (Sicunga Rosebud Sioux) ’08 on view through November 26, 2023
• IAIA MFACW Mentor Bojan Louis (Diné) among the winners of the Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Awards
• IAIA Alum Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidasta, Arikara, Lakota) ’11 to open solo exhibition, Speechless, on view at the Nevada Museum of Art October 7, 2023–June 2, 2024
• IAIA Alum Hal Homer (Oneida Nation Turtle Clan) passes on (August 25, 1973–September 17, 2023)

September 2023

• IAIA alum Jontay “Kahm” Kahmakoatayo (Plains Cree) ’23 featured in Vogue
• Vogue’s article, “21 Artists to Know at This Year’s Santa Fe Indian Market,” features several IAIA Community members, including Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa) ’96, Hollis Chitto (Laguna Pueblo, Isleta Pueblo, Mississippi Choctaw) A-i-R ’21, Orlando Dugi (Diné) A-i-R ’18, Teri Greeves (Kiowa) ’96, Jontay “Kahm” Kahmakoatayo (Plains Cree) ’23, Jamie Okuma (Luiseno, Shoshone-Bannock, Wailaki), Golga Oscar (Yup’ik) ’20, Pat Pruitt (Laguna Pueblo and Chiricahua Apache) A-i-R ’22, and Penny Singer (Diné) ’96
• IAIA alum Tony Abeyta (Diné) ’86 receives the US Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies’ 2023 Medal of Arts Award on September 13, 2023, which was presented to him by the First Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden, at the White House
• IAIA alums Kyle “Hokona” Kootswatew (Hopi), Alica J. Mteuzi (Caddo, Cheyenne, and Arapaho) ’23, and Golga Oscar (Yup’ik) ’20 named among the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s (NACF) 2023 LIFT Early Career Support for Native Artists awardees
• IAIA alum Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 named among the 2023 cohort of Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellows
• IAIA alums Keith Brave Heart (Oglala Sioux Tribe) ’06 and Marty Two Bulls Jr. (Oglala Sioux Tribe) ’11 named the 2023–2024 Oglala Sioux Tribe Artist Laureates
• IAIA alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 and former IAIA Trustee Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar (San Felipe Pueblo, Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo) on Forbes’ “50 Over 50” list
• The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts’ (MoCNA) traveling exhibition catalog, Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, wins the New Mexico Book Association’s award for Best Scholarly and Technical Publication, and is a finalist for the History category
• IAIA alum Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota) ’19, Erica Lord (Athabaskan and Iñupiat) A-i-R ’17, and Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 featured artists at Accola Griefen Gallery for the 2023 Art on Paper Fair
• Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) names IAIA alum Betty Pasco (Suquamish) a recipient of the first-ever BIMA Recognizes Achievement in the Visual Arts (BRAVA)  Awards
• IAIA Land-Grant receives the 2023 Golden Chile Food Producer Award from the New Mexico Grown Coalition
• IAIA MFACA Director, Dr. Jessie Ryker-Crawford (White Earth Chippewa) ’00, receives the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums’ (ATALM) 2023 Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Awards “Leadership Award”
• IAIA student Tiana Martinez (Ihanktonwan Dakota, Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, Ponca) receives the 2023 Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize for her poem, “Oxtail End Song,” from the Academy of American Poets’ University and College Poetry Prize program
• IAIA alum Alica J. Mteuzi (Caddo, Cheyenne, and Arapaho) ’23 has film, REZD OUT, selected for the Minefield Film Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• IAIA alum Vivian Carroll (Cherokee Nation) ’20 has poetry published in New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023, edited by Levi Romero, former New Mexico State Poet Laureate, and Michelle Otero, former Albuquerque Poet Laureate
• IAIA alum Lindsey Renea Shakespeare (Mescalero Apache, Comanche, Kiowa-Apache, Northern Arapaho) ’01 celebrates 15 years of participation in SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market
• IAIA ILS Adjunct Faculty Richard Sanchez’s (Isleta Pueblo ancestry) book, White Shell Water Place: An Anthology of Native American Reflections on the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, receives recommendation in the Pasatiempo
• IAIA alum Elee Kraljii Gardiner ’20 published in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology and publishes a chapbook, RESIDENCE, of her experience after completing an artistic residency at the Medical Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark in April 2023
• IAIA Adjunct Faculty Camille Rendal selected to represent the United States with two Medallia artworks in an International Commemorative Medals exhibit at the Firenze Biblioteca in Florence Italy in October 2023
• IAIA Creative Writing Professor Kim Parko has story “3 Visitations,” which was originally published in Salt Hill Journal, selected for the 2023 Best Small Fictions anthology
• IAIA and MoCNA featured in Hyperallergic’s “How Does the Santa Fe Indian Market Benefit Museums?”
• IAIA alum Ria Thundercloud (Ho-Chunk and Sandia) ’19 featured in NMPBS “The American Buffalo” Speaker Series
• IAIA MoCNA featured in Pasatiempo’s “Day at the Museums”

August 2023

• IAIA alum Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) ’89 and IAIA MFASA Mentor Raven Chacon (Diné and Chicano) win 2023 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts
• President Joe Biden appoints Johnpaul Jones (Choctaw and Cherokee), Madeline Fielding Sayet (Mohegan), Jane Semple Umsted (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07 and ‘18, and Manuelito Wheeler (Navajo Nation) to IAIA Board of Trustees—read about it in the Albuquerque Journal, Santa Fe New Mexican, and Yahoo! News
• 2023 IAIA Honorary Doctorate of Humanities recipient, Jeffrey Gibson (member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent), to represent the United States at 2024 Venice Biennale
• IAIA Indigenous Liberal Studies Adjunct Faculty and MFASA student Leah Mata Fragua (Northern Chumash) receives Best of Division in Weavings and Textiles at the Eiteljorg Indian Market and Festival for her art piece 1.6 Degrees
• Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology artists De Haven Solimon Chaffins (Laguna and Zuni Pueblos) ’90 and Mallery Quetawki (Zuni) featured in the School for Advanced Research’s (SAR) exhibition, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• IAIA alum Duhon James (Diné) ’14 opens exhibition, Above, I’ll watch you from Here, at Hecho a Mano, on view July 28–August 21
• IAIA alum Carmen Selam (14 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation) ’16 featured in Daily Lobo article, Carmen Selam Plays With Pinks, Printmaking, and Polly Pockets
• Work by IAIA alum Vivian Carroll (Cherokee) ’20 published in Yellow Medicine Review, News from Native California, and Pop Matters
• IAIA alum Daniel McCoy Jr. (Muscogee Creek and Citizen Band Potawatomi) ’17 opens exhibition, Daniel McCoy: Mvskoke Diaspora, at Hecho a Mano, on view during the month of August
• IAIA alum Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 to open solo exhibition, On the Back Road, at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Gallery Santa Fe, on view August 11–September 9, 2023
• IAIA alum Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07 and ’18 opens exhibition, Counterculture, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view June 3, 2023–August 13, 2023 and October 4, 2023–January 21, 2024

July 2023

• IAIA alums Heidi Brandow (Diné and Kānaka Maoli) ’13 and Carly Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) ’16 named among the School for Advanced Research (SAR) 2023–2024 cycle of Native Artist Fellows
• IAIA MFA in Studio Arts (MFASA) program featured in Hyperallergic’s An Indigenous MFA Program Moves Beyond “Mastery”
• IAIA alum Boderra Joe (Diné) ’18 to publish poetry book, Desert Teeth, with a book party at Gallery Hózhó on Saturday, July 15, 2023, 5–7 pm
• IAIA Land-Grant Extension Educator Melanie Kirby (Tortugas Pueblo) introduces honeybee apiary on the University of New Mexico’s UNM-Taos Klauer campus
• IAIA alum Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock) ’00 opens exhibitions, COURTNEY M. LEONARD: Logbook 2004–2023 and BREACH: Logbook 23 | ROOT, at Heckscher Museum of Art and Planting Fields Foundation
• IAIA community members Douglas Bootes (Saponi Descendant), Monika Guerra (Mexican American) ’22, and Téo Montoya (Lipan Apache) published in climate anthology, Into the Unknown, Together
• IAIA alum Carly Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) ’16 opens solo exhibition, Carly Feddersen: Deer Hearts, at the Wenatchee Valley College MAC Gallery
• IAIA alum Shane Hendren (Navajo) ’23 featured in the New York Times
• IAIA Land-Grant Extension Educator Melanie Kirby (Tortugas Pueblo) and Program Associate Teresa Quintana (Kiowa) selected as Terra Preta do Indio Tribal Fellows with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) highlighted in Marin Living Magazine’s Why Santa Fe Is a Dream Destination for Art Lovers
• Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945–1975, MoCNA’s traveling exhibition, opens at the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM)

June 2023

• IAIA alum Crystal Worl (Tlingit and Athabascan) ’13 designs artwork for an Alaska Airlines aircraft, titled Xáat Kwáani (Salmon People), the plane features Northwest Coast formline art by Worl
• IAIA alum Shane Hendren (Navajo) ’23 receives 2023 Award in Craft from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation
• Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation), Assistant Professor in Art History and Museum Studies at IAIA, co-curates Fashion Fictions exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which features several IAIA community members, including IAIA alum Jontay Kahm (Plains Cree) ’23, Jamie Okuma (Luiseño), and Orlando Dugi (Diné)
• Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023, guest curated by Former IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts (RCCNA) Director Dr. Lara Evans (Cherokee Nation) opens at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, featuring artwork by multiple IAIA community members, including Joe Feddersen (Okanagan and Arrow Lakes), Lily Hope (Tlingit) ’10, Ursala Hudson (Tlingit), Erica Lord (Athabaskan and Iñupiat) and Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe)
• 516 ARTS announces Southwest Contemporary’s 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2023, which features multiple IAIA community members, including Karma Henry (Paiute, Italian, Portuguese), Ahní Rocheleau, and Cougar “Ndoi” Vigil (Jicarilla Apache), and includes Rachelle B. Pablo (Diné) ’19 on the jury
• In Focus: New Photography, exhibition at Gallery Hozho opens, featuring work by IAIA alums Treston Chee (Diné) ’20, Boderra Joe (Diné) ’18, Derrell Lopez (Diné) ’23, and Ryan Young (Ojibwe) ’19
• IAIA alum Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) ’92 opens solo exhibition, Sky Dances Light, at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago, with an opening reception on Saturday, June 10, from 4–7 pm
• IAIA alum Carmen Selam (14 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation) ’16 named 2023 Artist-in-Residence at Risolana
• IAIA alum Terran Last Gun (Piikani) ’16 featured in the Summer Showcase Group Exhibition at Museum of the Plains Indian
• IAIA alum Benjamin Harjo Jr. (Seminole and Absentee Shawnee) ’68 passes away (September 19, 1945–May 20, 2023)

May 2023

• IAIA graduating senior Jontay Kahmakoatayo (Plains Cree) ’23 named one of ten designers to participate in the 2023 Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) Indigenous Fashion Show
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Director Patsy Phillips (Cherokee) elected to the American Alliance of Museum’s (AAM) board of directors
• IAIA alum Terran Last Gun (Piikani) ’16 opens solo exhibition, Terran Last Gun: Future Cosmic Energy, at the Missoula Art Museum—on view April 17, 2023–August 12, 2023—and is featured in the Santa Fe Reporter’s cover story, Branching Lines
• IAIA alum Dakota Mace (Diné) ’13 named an artist-in-residence at Bosque Redondo Memorial through New Mexico Arts and New Mexico Historic Sites
• IAIA alum Monty Little (Diné) ’15 wins the 2023 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize from the University of Wisconsin–Madison—his solo exhibition, Premonitions: New Works by Monty Little, will be on view at the Chazen Museum of Art (Chazen) April 17, 2023–July 10, 2023
• IAIA alum Frank Buffalo Hyde (Nez Perce and Onondaga) ’95 featured in New-York Historical Society’s In-Appropriate #1: Frank Buffalo Hyde on His Gwen Stefani Painting
• IAIA alums Joy Hario (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 and Layli Longsoldier (Oglala Lakota) ’09 featured in The New York Times Style Magazine article, What a U.S. Poet Laureate Wants to Pass Down
• MoCNA exhibit, Rick Rivet: Journeys, Mounds, and the Metaphysical, featured in Hyperallergic’s Rick Rivet Evokes His Arctic Origin and Pasatiempo’s Coming From a Dark Place
• MoCNA traveling exhibition, Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, currently on view at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California, featured in Hyperallergic’s 10 Art Shows to See in LA This May
• MoCNA exhibition, Art of Indigenous Fashion, featured in itsnewstoyou
• IAIA alum Michael McCabe (Diné) ’84 passes on (February 8, 1961–April 3, 2023)

April 2023

• IAIA alum Razelle Benally (Oglala Lakota and Diné) ’17 named among the inaugural cohort for Amazon Studios and IllumiNative’s Episodic Directors Program
• IAIA alums Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’18, Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) ’92, and Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) ’08 featured in W Magazine article Doing It Their Way
• Former IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts (RCCNA) Director Dr. Lara Evans (Cherokee Nation) guest curating Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023, an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which includes artwork by multiple IAIA community members, including Joe Feddersen (Okanagan and Arrow Lakes), Lily Hope (Tlingit) ’10, Ursala Hudson (Tlingit), Erica Lord (Athabaskan and Iñupiat) and Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe)
• IAIA alums Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11 and Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’18 featured in season 11 of Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century series
• IAIA alum Kathleen Wall (Jemez Pueblo) ’14 featured in Southwest Contemporary
• IAIA alum DezBaa’ Henderson (Diné) ’21 named an artist-in-residence at Bosque Redondo Memorial through New Mexico Arts and New Mexico Historic Sites
• IAIA Alum Ken Williams, Jr. (Arapaho/Seneca) featured in Western Art & Architecture
• IAIA alum Tania Larsson (Gwich’in) ’17 featured in Chatelaine’s “5 Indigenous Makers On What Sustainability Means To Them”
• IAIA alum Jason Asenap (Comanche and Muscogee Creek), ’17 featured in Alta Live’s “An Indigenous Response to Land Art with Jason Asenap”
• Former IAIA Artists-in-Residence RYAN! Feddersen (Colville) and Joe Feddersen (Okanagan and Arrow Lakes) featured in Creations of Spirit, an exhibition at the High Desert Museum in in Bend, Oregon

March 2023

• IAIA receives grant from Hauser & Wirth Institute to expand digital access to its archives
• IAIA alum Frank Buffalo Hyde (Nez Perce and Onondaga) ’95 a contestant on The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist, a MTV docuseries where seven rising artists compete for $100,000 and a career-defining exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which premiered March 3 on MTV
• IAIA President Dr. Robert Martin (Cherokee) and MFA in Creative Writing Director Deborah Taffa (Quechan Nation, Laguna Pueblo, and Chicana) featured in Publisher’s Weekly discussing IAIA’s new Fellowship partnership with MacDowell
• IAIA alum Layli Longsoldier (Oglala Lakota) ’09 discusses the joys of creative liberation with guest host Mira Jacob on Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers by Lit Hub Radio
• IAIA alum Joy Hario (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 wins Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry
• IAIA Students participate in the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) annual conference
• IAIA student Ethan Nopah honored among American Indian College Fund’s 35 Tribal College Students of the Year at AIHEC
• There There, by IAIA alum Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17 selected as Maryland Humanities’ 2023 One Maryland One Book
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts named among USA TODAY 10Best’s top three best art museums in the United States
• IAIA Trustee and noted artist Brenda Kingery (Chickasaw) featured in Garden & Gun
• Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945–1975, MoCNA’s traveling exhibition, opens at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania
• Between Two Knees, original play by The 1491’s starring IAIA alum Justin “Jud” Eagle Gauthier (Omāēqnomenēw), to open at Seattle Rep

February 2023

• IAIA alum Anthony Lovato (Santo Domingo Pueblo) ’78 recipient of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) 2023 Living Treasure Award
• IAIA alum Frank Buffalo Hyde (Nez Perce and Onondaga) ’95 to be a contestant on The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist, a docuseries about art making produced in partnership with MTV Entertainment Studios and PB&J TV + Docs, premiering March 3 on MTV
• IAIA Associate Professor Anne Haven McDonnell receives National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant
• Documentary film, Murder in Big Horn, by IAIA alum Razelle Benally (Oglala Lakota and Diné) ’17 to premiere at Sundance Film Festival
• Artists as Knowledge Carriers, an art exhibition at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, NM, to feature multiple IAIA faculty members with an opening reception on Saturday, February 4, 6–8 pm
• IAIA alum Justin “Jud” Eagle Gauthier (Omāēqnomenēw) stars in The 1491’s Between Two Knees, at Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre Center
• 10 Books by Native Authors That Left Their Mark on Me article by IAIA alum, Sasha LaPointe (Nooksack) ’17, published in Publisher’s Weekly featuring multiple IAIA alumni, including Layli Longsoldier (Oglala Lakota) ’09, Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17, and Terese Mailhot (Seabird Island Band) ’17
• IAIA alum Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11 to create major site-specific art installation at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) featured in Condé Nast Traveler
• IAIA alum and former faculty member Doug Hyde (Nez Perce) ’64 featured in Forbes
• Former IAIA student Elias Jade Not Afraid (Apsaalooké) collaborates on National Football League (NFL) Origins: An NFL Collection merchandise line for Super Bowl LVII
• IAIA alum Virgil “Smoker” Marchand (Colville) ’71 passes away (February 24, 1951–January 13, 2023)

January 2023

• Art by IAIA alum Crystal Worl (Tlingit and Athabascan) ’13 featured on “Art of the Skateboard” U.S. Postal Service stamp for 2023
• IAIA student Isabella Edmo (Pyramid Lake Paiute, Shoshone Bannock, and Blackfeet) awarded with Santa Fe Film Institute’s (SFFI) inaugural Imogene Hughes Scholarship
• An exhibition of artwork by IAIA alums Jacob T. Frye (Tesuque Pueblo) ’19 and David Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’17 opening on February 3 at Gallery Hózhó in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• IAIA student Echota Cheyenne Killsnight (Northern Cheyenne and Keetoowah) selected as Cherokee Nation Film Office’s (CNFO) first television apprentice
• Poetry by IAIA alum Vivian Carroll (Cherokee) ’20 selected by Taos Poet Laureate, Joshua Concha, for Taos Poetry in Motion film project
• IAIA Professor Emeritus Arthur Sze featured in SF Reporter’s “3 Questions”
• IAIA alum Peter Ray James (Navajo) ’84 featured in Cowboys & Indians
• IAIA alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 featured in The Brooklyn Rail
• IAIA alum Frank Buffalo Hyde (Nez Perce and Onondaga) ’95 featured in Indian Country Today’s ICT Newscast
• IAIA alum Tony Jojola (Isleta Pueblo) ’76 passes away (1958–2022)
• IAIA alum Gary G. Taylor passes away (1954–2022)
• IAIA alum Matthew “Matt” Kail Behan passes away (1990–2022)

December 2022

• IAIA receives a certificate of congratulations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), as well as funding to install solar panels and electric vehicle charging stations. Read about it in the Santa Fe New Mexican and Santa Fe Reporter’s Morning Word
• IAIA alum Monty Little (Diné) ’15 creates Google Doodle for Veteran’s Day 2022
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and IAIA alum Steve LaRance (Hopi and Assiniboine) ’81 featured in Lonely Planet’s “A Local’s Guide To Must-See New Mexico”
• MoCNA’s exhibition, Art of Indigenous Fashion, featured in the Daily Lobo
• IAIA Assistant Professor of Art History and Art of Indigenous Fashion guest curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation) featured in The Met’s “Indigenizing Fashion with Amber-Dawn Bear Robe” and the SF Reporter’s “Sweet Threads”
• Trip.com names MoCNA among the top five “Can’t Miss Attractions in Santa Fe”
• IAIA student Sareya Taylor (White Mountain Apache and Diné) featured in Teen Vogue’s “11 Indigenous Youth Making a Difference in their Communities”
• IAIA alum Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band Cherokee and Santa Clara Pueblo) ’13 featured in The Linfield Review for solo exhibition, My Hands Remind Me of Yours, at the Linfield University Gallery
• IAIA alum Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) ’08 gives a public lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum
• IAIA alum Chris Pappan (Kaw, Osage, Cheyenne River Sioux, and Scottish) ’92 featured in The Sunflower
• IAIA Foundation Board member David Michael Daly passed away (November 5, 1947–November 20, 2022)
• IAIA alum Howard Todome, Jr. (Kiowa and Comanche) passed away (April 20, 1958–November 6, 2022)

November 2022

• IAIA alum and visiting professor Jamison Chas Banks’ (Seneca-Cayuga) ’12 exhibition at the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Giving Growth, featured in Hyperallergic
• IAIA student Sydney Claire Neel (Cherokee Nation) named a NationSwell Fellow
• IAIA alum Golga Oscar (Kasigluk Traditional Eld) ’20 given the Roger Lang Youth Leadership award by the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN)
• IAIA alum and Director of Education at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) Marita Hinds (Tesuque Pueblo) featured in the Albuquerque Journal
• IAIA alum Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17 presented with “Key to the City” of Oakland, California
• IAIA alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 featured in VOGUE
• Several IAIA alums, former Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) artists, and other community members featured in Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts’ (CCA) exhibition, Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists
• IAIA alum and former Academic Dean Charlene Teters (Spokane) ’86 guest curates Land Acknowledgment, an exhibition at the Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center featuring several IAIA alums and former A-i-R artists, including 2022 IAIA Valedictorian Tiffanie Irizarry (Ihanktonwan Dakota-Fort Peck Tribes) ’21

October 2022

• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art’s (MoCNA) Art of Indigenous Fashion exhibition featured in ITSLIQUID
• IAIA and MoCNA featured in The City Different: A Deep-Rooted Art Scene Is the Key to Santa Fe’s Magic by ARTnews
• IAIA performing arts students to put on a large-scale puppetry performance at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) for the reimagined version of MIAC’s core exhibition, Here, Now and Always, on Sunday, October 16, 2022 from 1–3 pm
• IAIA alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 releases new book, Catching the Light
• IAIA alum Marita Hinds (Tesuque Pueblo) named the new Director of Education at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC)
• IAIA alum Jesse Short Bull (Oglala Sioux Tribe) ’21 awarded Sundance Institute 2022 Documentary Fund grant for Lakota Nation vs. United States documentary
• IAIA alumni and community members Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68, Allan Houser (Chiracahua Apache), Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17, and Charlene Teters (Spokane) ’86 among Stacker’s 20 Influential Indigenous Americans You Might Not Know About
• IAIA alum Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11 opens solo exhibition, Reunion, at the Amarillo Museum of Art
• IAIA alum Emily Peck ’19 featured in Neon & Chrome: The Visual Vocabulary of Route 66 exhibition at the City of Santa Fe Community Gallery
• IAIA alum Dale Ray Deforest (Diné) ’00 selected for a year-long artist residency with the City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts & Culture (DAC)
• IAIA alum Joe Don Brave (Osage and Cherokee) featured in Tulsa People for his painting for the Tulsa Native American Day celebration
• Former IAIA Artist-in-Residence Athena LaTocha (Lakota and Ojibwe) who currently has a solo exhibition, Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux, at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts to participate in the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre’s (HPAC) Indigenous Women’s Voices Summit presenting La Bajada Red, a thirty-foot-tall floor-to-ceiling art piece originally created for IAIA
• IAIA alum Kevin Locke (Lakota and Anishinaabe) ’13 passes on (June 23, 1954–October 1, 2022)

September 2022

• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art’s (MoCNA) Art of Indigenous Fashion exhibition featured in VOGUE and the Albuquerque Journal
• IAIA alums Carly Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) ’16, Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19, and Brian A. Walker II (Deg Hit’an Athabascan and King Island Inupiaq) ’19 named among the 2022 cohort of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation (NACF) LIFT—Early Career Support for Native Artists program awardees
• MoCNA exhibition Matrilineal: Legacies of our Mothers featured in Cowboys and Indians Magazine
• IAIA alum Rose B. Simpson’s (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’18 large-scale ceramic sculpture, Countdown 1, acquired by the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, becoming the first work by a woman Native American artist to enter the museum’s collection
• IAIA Professor Emeritus Arthur Sze awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
• IAIA alum Oscar Hokeah’s (Kiowa and Cherokee) ’09 debut novel, Calling for a Blanket Dance featured in the New York Times
• IAIA alum Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05 featured in Desert Rider exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum
• Work by IAIA alum Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11 featured in I am land that speaks exhibition at ArtworxTO Hub South: Union Station, Toronto, Canada
• IAIA alum Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota) ’19 one of five featured creators at Fujifilm’s Fujikina NYC 2022 Event
• Long-time major donor and IAIA Foundation Board Member Chuck McKittrick passes away 

August 2022

• IAIA alum Oscar Hokeah (Kiowa and Cherokee) ’09 releases debut novel, Calling for a Blanket Dance
• The Wife, excerpt from IAIA alum Chelsea T. Hicks’ (Osage) ’20 book of short stories, A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories featured in Literary Hub
• IAIA Art History instructor and guest curator of Art of Indigenous Fashion exhibition Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation) featured in Cowboys and Indians Magazine
• IAIA alums Manny Loley (Diné) ’18 and Jerry Brown (Diné) ’95 featured in Exposé: A Show for Economic Justice exhibition at gallupARTS in Gallup, New Mexico
• IAIA alum Dan Namingha (Hopi-Tewa) ’69 featured in Forbes
• IAIA alum Dakota Mace (Diné) ’13 featured in Inhabiting Rivers, Unfinishing Circles exhibition at the Lincoln Arts Institute in Lincoln, Illinois
• IAIA alum Christopher Sweet (Ho-Chunk and White Earth Ojibwe) selected for University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point memorial project
• IAIA alum Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05 featured in Making It Work exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, Kansas
• IAIA alum Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’18 featured in Two Cultures, One Family: Building Family, Finding Home exhibition at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• IAIA President Dr. Robert Martin (Cherokee) and IAIA’s #ReclaimYourMedicineIAIA: Indigenous Prevention, Expressive Arts and Traditional Healing program and featured in Taos News
• IAIA alum Anong Migwans Beam (M’Chigeeng First Nation) ’01 to guest curate annual Up Here 8 Festival in Sudbury, Ontario
• IAIA alum Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 named a Fall 2022 Ucross Fellow

July 2022

• Art exhibition, Water Memories, which includes work by Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11, Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05, and Fritz Scholder (Luiseño), opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• IAIA alum Razelle Benally (Oglala Lakota and Diné) ’17 one of five writers on AMC television thriller, Dark Winds, which also features alum Sharon “DezBaa’” Henderson (Diné) ’21 in a guest-starring role, and several IAIA student extras
• IAIA alum Chelsea T. Hicks (Osage) ’20 releases a book of short stories, A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories
• IAIA alum Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’18 to open solo exhibition at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston on August 11, 2022
• Lakota Nation vs. United States documentary premieres at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, with screenwriting and voiceover by IAIA alum Layli Longsoldier (Oglala Lakota) ’09
• IAIA student Tennepah “T.J.” Brainard (Confederated Tribes of Coos and Apache) creates photographic art installation, Culture Raising, in collaboration with the City of Eugene, Oregon
• IAIA Archivist Ryan Flahive discusses the Disc Golf Course on the IAIA Campus with the Santa Fe Reporter
• IAIA alum Ken Williams, Jr. (Arapaho and Seneca) featured in The New York Times
• IAIA alum Tania Larsson (Gwich’in) ’17 and former IAIA student Jamie Okuma (Luiseño, Wailaki, Okinawan, and Shoshone-Bannock) featured in Vogue for their jewelry and clothing which appears in the NBC Universal comedy series, Rutherford Falls
• The Santa Fe Public Library receives $15,000 Big Read grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, selecting There There by IAIA Alum Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17 as the basis for their community-wide reading program
• IAIA alum Kevin Red Star (Crow) ’65 creates feature art piece for 2022 In the Footsteps of Norman Maclean Festival
• IAIA alum Jaida Grey Eagle (Oglala Lakota) ’19 wins first place for best news photography and third place for best portrait photography for her work with the Sahan Journal from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
• MoCNA 2016 Social Engagement Art Resident Blackhorse Lowe profiled in Hyperallergic

June 2022

• IAIA alum Bryson Kainoa Takeshi Chun (Kānaka Maoli) ’21 named among IllumiNative, The Black List, and Sundance Institute’s “2022 Indigenous Screenwriters List” for Don’t Freak
• IAIA alum Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho) ’17 publishes short story, Maheov, in I Know What’s Best For You, a collection on reproductive freedom
• IAIA alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 to be inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame
• IAIA alum Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) ’89 featured in Hyperallergic for her costume work for Opera Lafayette’s rendition of the opera Silvain
• IAIA alum Sharon “DezBaa’” Henderson (Diné) ’21 to guest star in AMC television thriller, Dark Winds, premiering on June 12, 2022
• IAIA alum Rachelle B. Pablo (Diné) ’19 named first Native American curator at 516 ARTS
• Photography work by IAIA alums Boderra Joe (Diné) ’18 and Chelsea A. Benally (Diné) ’20 featured in Chasing Light: New Photography exhibition at Hotel Chaco’s Gallery Hózhó
• IAIA alum David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Sicangu Lakota) ’18 wins Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award for Winter Counts at the fifteenth CrimeFest awards
• IAIA alum Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock) ’00 opens exhibition, Breach: Logbook 22—Bound, at the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
• IAIA alum Golga Oscar (Yupik and Inuit) ’20 wins 2022 Calista Culture Bearer award from the Calista Shareholder Awards
• IAIA alum Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder (Kiowa, Muscogee, and Seminole) ‘15 presents an exhibition in Hyperallergic as part of the 2021 Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators
• IAIA alum Brian Lush (Yankton Sioux) ’96 releases debut novel, Roger’s War
• Work by IAIA alums Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa) ’96 and Jamie Okuma (Luiseño, Wailaki, Okinawan, and Shoshone-Bannock) featured in Women’s Work, an exhibition at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, NY
• IAIA alum Shaun Beyale (Diné) ’14 opens exhibition, Testament of Empowerment, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
• IAIA alum Rose B. Simpson’s (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’18 large-scale public art piece, Counterculture, to open June 18, 2022, in Williamstown, MA
• Former IAIA student Jamie Okuma (Luiseño, Wailaki, Okinawan, and Shoshone-Bannock) featured in Vogue for her work displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s In America: A Lexicon of Fashion exhibit
• Former IAIA MFA student Sterlin Harjo’s (Seminole and Muscogee) FX comedy series, Reservation Dogs, to return for a second season on August 3, 2022, on FX on Hulu
• NBC Universal comedy series, Rutherford Falls, co-created by former IAIA Summer Television and Film Workshop student Sierra Teller Ornelas (Navajo and Mexican American), returns with season two on June 16, 2022
• IAIA alums Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota) ’19 and Terran Last Gun (Piikani) ’16 featured in Southwest Contemporary’s “New Mexico Field Guide” and included in 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now 2022 exhibit at Pie Projects
• IAIA alum Tennyson Daniel Reid (Kiowa) passes away (August 12, 1971–June 1, 2022)

May 2022

• IAIA MFASA Mentor Raven Chacon (Diné and Chicano) wins Pulitzer Prize in Music for Voiceless Mass
• IAIA alum Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21 and MFA student Sabrina Saleha (Diné) named among the 2022 Native American Media Alliance (NAMA) Native American TV Writers Lab fellows
• IAIA’s new partnership with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) featured in the Albuquerque Journal
• IAIA Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) program and A-i-R artist Lisa Rutherford (Cherokee Nation) featured in the Cherokee Phoenix
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing (MFACW) Director Deborah Taffa (Quechan Nation, Laguna Pueblo, and Chicana) to participate in Pen America World Voices Festival panel, Nation to Nation: Indigenous Voices on Reckoning and Reconciliation
• Poetry by IAIA alum Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 featured in The New Yorker
• Art exhibition, Water Memories, which includes work by Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) ’11, Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05, and Fritz Scholder (Luiseño), to open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 23, 2022
• Former IAIA A-i-R artist Olivia Skenandore (Oglala Sioux Tribe) passes away

April 2022

• Alaska Congressman Don Young, Dean of the House, Passes Away. “Don was a good friend of and advocate for IAIA, through thick and thin, and served as Ex Officio on our board for many years.”—Loren Kieve (Cherokee), IAIA Board of Trustees Chair
• IAIA Alum Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) ’05 in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum exhibition
• IAIA Alum Ken Williams, Jr. (Arapaho/Seneca) published in the Barnes Foundation’s exhibition catalogue, Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in the Barnes Foundation
• IAIA Alum Wanesia Spry Misquadace (Ojibway) ’04 featured in Native American Art Magazine
• IAIA Alum Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara) ’11 and MFACW Mentor Brandon Hobson named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows
• IAIA Alum Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) ’89 featured in Hyperallergic
• IAIA Alum Joaquín Zihuatanejo ’17 named the inaugural Poet Laureate of the city of Dallas, Texas
• IAIA Alum Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) ’08 and MFASA Mentor Raven Chacon (Diné, Chicano) featured in 2022 edition of the Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept
• IAIA Alum Sasha LaPointe (Nooksack) ’17 featured in The Spokesman-Review
• IAIA Alumn T’cha Miæiko Cosgrove’s (Shoshone Bannock) ’20 book, My Visions, available now in the IAIA Campus Bookstore

March 2022

• IAIA Community members featured in Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers and Changemakers from Past and Present (2021) by Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), including IAIA Trustee Princess Daazhraii Johnson (Neets’aii Gwich’in), IAIA Honorary Doctor of Humanities (2012) James Luna (Pooyoukitchum/Ipi/Mexican-American), and IAIA alums Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/Arapaho) ’17, Jamie Okuma (Luiseno, Shoshone-Bannock), and Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee)
• IAIA Alumnae Boderra Joe (Diné) ’18 and Tacey M. Atsitty (Diné) ’09 named among the inaugural cohort for the Indigenous Nations Poets’ (In-Na-Po) 2022 Fellows
• IAIA student Brianna G. Reed (Diné) featured in Tribal College Journal
• IAIA Alumnae Melissa Shaginoff (Chickaloon Village/Pyramid Lake) ‘15 and Samantha Tracy (Diné) ‘17 featured in the Coe Center’s Conversations of Ourselves: An Indigenous survey of James Kivetoruk Moses
• IAIA Student Erik Sanchez (Shoalwater Bay, Chinook and Chicano) featured in the Santa Fe Reporter
• Article by IAIA Land-Grant Extension Educator Melanie Kirby (Tortugas Pueblo) featured in Yes!
• IAIA Alumna Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 Named Bob Dylan Center’s First Artist-in-Residence
• IAIA MFACW Director Deborah Taffa (Quechan Nation, Laguna Pueblo, Chicana) featured in Yale Daily News
• IAIA Student Newton Wayne Onco‘s (Kiowa/Caddo) short film, The Creator’s Blessings, to open the Las Cruces International Film Festival
• IAIA Alumna Dyani White Hawk (Sicunga Rosebud Sioux) ’08 opens solo exhibition, Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver)

February 2022

• Check out IAIA student Monika Guerra’s (Mexican American) ’22 mural at the Santa Fe Place Mall 
• Robert Harcourt, longtime supporter and friend of IAIA passes on (October 19, 1932–January 9, 2022). Learn more about Mr. Harcourt in the Santa Fe New Mexican story from 2012, “A Wonderful Life: Native American Spirit.” 
• IAIA Alumnus Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood’s (Quechua Nation) ’21 winning design for the t-shirt contest is now available to purchase in the IAIA Campus Bookstore—limited t-shirt quantities available 
• IAIA Alumnus David Heska Wanbli Weiden‘s (Sicangu Lakota) ‘18 debut novel, Winter Counts, named one of “The 110 Best Thriller, Crime, and Suspense Novels of All Time” by Parade Magazine
• IAIA Alumna Angela C. Trudell Vasquez ’17 appointed to a second two-year term as Madison Poet Laureate
• IAIA Alumnus Golga Oscar (Yupik, Inuit) ’20 featured in Vogue
• IAIA Alumnus Del Curfman (Crow Nation of Montana) ’17, and IAIA Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) artists Ursala Hudson (Tlingit) and Jodi Webster (Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin) among First Peoples Fund 2022 “Artist in Business Leadership” Fellows
• IAIA Alumnus Cliff Fragua (Jemez) ’75 opens sculpture exhibition at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC) 
• IAIA Alumnus David K. John (Diné) featured in Navajo Times 
• IAIA Alumna Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder (Kiowa) ‘15 featured in Hyperallergic 
• IAIA Alumnus Austin Real Rider (Pawnee/Sioux) passes on (March 11, 1941–January 30, 2022)
• IAIA Alumnus Theodore “Ted” Creepingbear (Kiowa/Pawnee) passes on (February 4, 1951–February 1, 2022)

January 2022

• IAIA Alums Golga Oscar (Yupik, Inuit) ’20 and Melissa Shaginoff (Chickaloon, Pyramid Lake) ’16 selected for Rasmuson Foundation 2021 Individual Artist Awards
• IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts (RCCNA) Director Dr. Lara Evans (Cherokee Nation) and MoCNA Curator of Collections Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Hopi/Choctaw) featured in the film screening of The Art of Making It at the Santa Fe Film Festival on February 3
• IAIA Alumna Angela C. Trudell Vasquez ’17 is teaching the virtual course “Indigenous Poetics: Reading and Writing” at the Wisconsin Academy
• IAIA Assistant Professor Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Blackfoot/Siksita) and former IAIA Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) artist, Orlando Dugi featured in the Pasatiempo
• IAIA Museum Studies program and Museum Studies Department Chair Mattie Reynolds (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) featured in the Pasatiempo
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts featured on the cover of the Official 2022 Santa Fe Visitors Guide
• IAIA Alumnus T’cha Mi’iko Cosgrove’s (Shoshone Bannock) ’20 book, My Visions, featured in Wigan Today
• IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts featured in AFAR’s The Eight Best Things to Do in Santa Fe
• IAIA Alumna Jacqueline “Jacquie” Lauren Stevens (Winnebago) passes on (April 3, 1949–December 19, 2021)

December 2021

• IAIA Board of Trustees Chair Loren Kieve (Cherokee) was recently featured in American Constitution Society Lawyers of ACS November edition. In the feature, Kieve says, “I have also been blessed to be able to spend a fair amount of my time over the last 27 years helping build the Institute of American Indian Arts, literally from the ground up, and then expanding its footprint and reach to become the nation’s preeminent educational institution for Native Americans and Alaska Natives.”
• Former IAIA Adjunct Professor Dr. N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), author of 18 books and the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize, was featured in Stanford Magazine’s story “Grounded.”
• IAIA Alumnus Frank Buffalo Hyde (Nez Perce/Onondaga) ’95 creates animated illustration for the Facebook App Wordmark Delight, commissioned by Open Arts, in honor of Native American Heritage Month.
• IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts Director Dr. Lara Evans (Cherokee) appeared on SantaFe.com’s “Coffee and Culture” on the October 30 edition.
• IAIA Alumnus Monte Yellow Bird Sr. (Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa Nation) represents the United States and the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa Nation at Dubai Art Expo 2021.
• IAIA Alum Carey Powers ’19 publishes book Breath Rift.
• IAIA Alumna Kathleen Wall’s (Jemez Pueblo) ’14 featured in Cowboys & Indians Magazine.
• IAIA Alumna Tacey M. Atsitty (Diné) ’09 featured in The Salt Lake Tribune.
• IAIA Alumna Tahnee Ahtone (Kiowa, Muscogee, Seminole) ‘15 one of five recipients of the 2021 Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators.
• IAIA Alumna Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 designated the Fourteenth Oklahoma State Cultural Treasure.
• Former IAIA Foundation Board Member Yara Blake Pitchford passes on (June 20, 1943–November 5, 2021).

November 2021

• IAIA MoCNA Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology exhibition and featured artist Jessie Kleemann (Inuit) featured in NY Times article Climate Exhibitions Look Beyond Declarations of Calamity
• IAIA Alumna Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 featured on National Public Radio (NPR)
• Earl Biss—The Spirit Who Walks Among His People documentary about the late IAIA Alumnus Earl Biss (Crow) ’66 which features IAIA Community members Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Hopi, Choctaw), Ryan S. Flahive, Kevin Red Star (Crow), and others screening at two Native American film festivals in November
• IAIA Alumni Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) ’92 and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidasta, Arikara, Lakota) ’11 exhibit Each/Other opens at Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University
• PBS Show, Molly of Denali, whose production team includes IAIA Trustee Princess Daazhraii Johnson (Neets’aii Gwich’in) and IAIA Alumna Sydney Isaacs (Tlingit) ’16, launches Season Two
• IAIA MoCNA’s book, Action Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, featured by Artbook for Native American Heritage Month
• IAIA Trustee and noted artist Brenda Kingery’s (Chickasaw) exhibition Brenda Kingery: Weaving Messages opens at the Cahoon Museum of American Art for Native American Heritage Month
• IAIA MFASA to co-host Sovereignty & Indigenous Curation panel with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• IAIA Alumna and current Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) April Holder (Sac and Fox) ’08 featured in SF Reporter’s Three Questions segment
• IAIA MoCNA featured in Lonely Planet’s Thirteen of the Best Things To Do in Santa Fe
• IAIA Alumna Lauren E. Johnson ’15 featured in SF Reporter article Feast Your Eyes on This
• Tamarind Institute hosts 2021 IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair October 15–31, 2021, which features work by IAIA Alumna Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07
• IAIA MoCNA Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology featured artist Mallery Quetawki (Zuni), creates interactive Google Doodle celebrating the late Zuni weaver We:wa, in honor of Native American Heritage Month

October 2021

• IAIA Alumna Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 begins rare third term as twenty-third Poet Lau­re­ate of the Unit­ed States and releases new book, Poet Warrior: A Memoir
• IAIA alums Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa) ‘96, Jamie Okuma (Luiseno, Shoshone-Bannock), and Elias Jade Not Afraid (Apsaalooké) featured in Vogue’s new book The United States of Fashion
• IAIA Alumna Kathleen Wall’s (Jemez Pueblo) ’14 ceramic figure collection, Create Our Future—Honor Our Past, which was created in partnership with other IAIA alumni benefitting the IAIA Scholarship Fund, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts
• IAIA Alumnus Johnnie Diacon (Mvskoke) ’98 featured in Cowboys & Indians Magazine
• IAIA Interim Director of Communications Jason S. Ordaz featured in NBCU Academy’s CONNECT Newsletter
• IAIA Alumna Faithlyn Seawright (Chickasaw, Choctaw) ’20 crowned 2021–2022 Chickasaw Princess
• IAIA Alumna Arianne True (Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma) ’18 named Seattle Rep theater’s inaugural Native Artist-in-Residence
• IAIA alumnus and former instructor Barney Furman Bush (Shawnee, Cayuga) passes on (August 27, 1944–September 18, 2021)
• IAIA alumna Nell Elizabeth McDonald-Lucht “Tabbs” passes on (November 1, 1948–September 6, 2021)

September 2021

• IAIA Alumnus Nico Salazar ’14 designs the 2021 Meow Wolf Jersey for New Mexico United (NMU), New Mexico’s professional soccer team
• IAIA Alums Jamie Okuma (Luiseno, Shoshone-Bannock), Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa) ’96, Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe) ’05, and Hollis Chitto (Laguna Pueblo, Isleta Pueblo, Mississippi Choctaw) featured in Vogue’s 15 Artists to Watch for at This Year’s Santa Fe Indian Market
• IAIA Alums Hollis Chitto (Laguna Pueblo, Isleta Pueblo, Mississippi Choctaw), Charine Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21, Kaa Folwell (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’18, and Del Curfman (Crow Nation of Montana) ’17 featured in the Santa Fe Reporter’s The Eleven: A New Generation of Indigenous Artists Takes on Indian Market and Beyond
• IAIA Alumnus George Cramer (Karuk) ’17 interviews IAIA MFACW program founder Jon Davis
• Meow Wolf’s first official internship program hosts IAIA and University of New Mexico (UNM) students
• IAIA Alumna Janice George (Squamish Nation) ’95 to give a talk at TEDxWhistler 2021
• Sweet Land, an opera co-directed by IAIA Alumnus Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan/Hidasta/Arikara/Lakota) ’11 and jointly composed by IAIA MFASA Mentor Raven Chacon (Diné, Chicano) wins 2021 Music Critics Association of North America’s “Opera of The Year”
• IAIA Trustee and noted artist Brenda Kingery’s (Chickasaw) exhibition Brenda Kingery: Weaving Messages to open this fall at the Cahoon Museum of American Art
• IAIA Alumna Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) ’07 a featured artist at the 2021 Art on Paper fair in alignment with New York City’s Arts week
• Fritz Scholder: Works on Paper, an exhibition featuring prints, paintings on paper, and collages by the late famed artist and former IAIA Instructor Fritz Scholder (Luiseño) opens at LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 2021

• IAIA Alumna Kathleen Wall (Jemez Pueblo) ’14 receives New Mexico 2021 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts
• IAIA Alums Chelsea T. Hicks (Osage, Wazhazhe) ’20 and Del Curfman (Crow Nation of Montana) ’17 named among the first cohort of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) LIFT—Early Career Support for Native Artists program awardees
• Former IAIA MFA Student Sterlin Harjo (Seminole, Muscogee) co-creates new FX comedy series, Reservation Dogs, premiering August 9 on FX on Hulu
• IAIA Alumna Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock) ’00 featured in the New York Times
• IAIA Alumna Carmen Selam (14 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation) ’17 featured in the Yakima Herald
• IAIA Alumna, former Academic Dean, and a founding member of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media Charlene Teters (Spokane) ’86 featured in the Santa Fe New Mexican on her long fight against the Cleveland Indians mascot
• IAIA MFA in Creative Writing Professor Pam Houston this year’s recipient of Pikes Peak Library District’s Frank Waters Award
• IAIA Alumnus Chris Pappan (Kaw, Osage, Cheyenne River Sioux, Scottish) ’92 selected as the Naumkeag Portrait Project artist for Salem, Massachusetts’ City Hall
• IAIA Alumnus Daniel McCoy Jr. (Muscogee Creek, Citizen Band Potawatomi) ’16 featured in the Pasatiempo
• IAIA Alumna Avis Charley (Spirit Lake Dakota, Diné) ’18 and former IAIA student Kenneth Johnson (Muscogee Creek, Seminole) featured in Cowboys & Indians Magazine
• IAIA Alumnus Lyle James Antelope ‘76 passes on (April 19, 1957–June 23, 2021)
• IAIA Alumnus Tony M. Sandoval (Diné) passes on (November 26, 1943–July 20, 2021)

July 2021

• IAIA Alumna Anita Fields (Osage) ‘74 named a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellow
• IAIA Alumnus Marty Two Bulls Sr. (Oglala Lakota) named a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning
• PBS Show, Molly of Denali, whose production team includes IAIA Trustee Princess Daazhraii Johnson (Neets’aii Gwich’in) and IAIA Alumna Sydney Isaacs (Tlingit) ’16, wins The Youth Media Alliance Award of Excellence for Best Program, Animation, Ages 6–9 and 9+

June 2021

• IAIA Alumna and United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Mvskoke Nation) ’68 elected into the American Philosophical Society
• Former IAIA Summer Television and Film Workshop student Sierra Teller Ornelas (Navajo, Mexican American) co-creator of new NBC Universal comedy series Rutherford Falls
• MoCNA Director Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation) appointed to the International Council of Museums (ICOM) United States Board of Directors
• IAIA Alumni Bryson Chun (Kānaka Maoli) ’21 and Charine Pilar Gonzales (San Ildefonso Pueblo) ’21 named among 20 Sundance Institute Fellows for the 2021 Native Lab
• IAIA Alumni Marie Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) ‘92 and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidasta, Arikara, Lakota) ’11 open exhibit at the Denver Art Museum