Events Search and Views Navigation
All Day
Robyn Tsinnajinnie and Austin Big Crow: The Holy Trinity
Robyn Tsinnajinnie (Navajo) and Austin Big Crow’s (Oglala Lakota) mural The Holy Trinity (2018) commemorates the strong women who have resonated through their lives.
Find out more »Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot
Wayne Nez Gaussoin’s (Diné/Picuris Pueblo) Adobobot is a modern modular robot with a Southwestern adobe façade.
Find out more »Heidi K. Brandow: Unit of Measure
Heidi K. Brandow (Native Hawaiian/Diné) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is filled with whimsical characters that are often combined with poetry, stories, and personal reflections.
Find out more »Sámi Intervention/Dáidda Gážada
Through video and installation art, this exhibition creates a narrative of visual sovereignty and cultural and intellectual connections with contemporary Sámi, who are Indigenous peoples from parts of Norway, Sweden, and northern Finland.
Find out more »Reconciliation
Reconciliation responds to the transformation and last year's ending of “La Entrada” as part of the Santa Fe Fiestas. Recognizing the power of art to open dialogue toward reconciliation, the exhibition will serve as an expression of “post-entrada” creativity in Santa Fe and surrounding communities.
Find out more »The Blessing
The Blessing is a vital piece of modern Native storytelling. The film has some of the most unique and intimate views of life today on a reservation we’ve ever seen.
Find out more »Experimental exPRESSion: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963–1980
Experimental exPRESSion: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963–1980 features fifty-one recently-acquired works on paper from the Tubis Print Collection.
Find out more »Lynnette Haozous: Abolishing the Entrada
As part of the Reconciliation exhibition, artist Lynnette Haozous (Chiricahua Apache/Diné//Taos Pueblo) painted a mural depicting the last day of the Entrada.
Find out more »
2019 Indian Market at MoCNA (All Happenings)
During the 2019 SWAIA Indian Market weekend, please visit IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for its own special events Thursday, August 15–Sunday, August 18.
Find out more »Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art
Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art presents thought provoking, experimental, and critical works by fifteen established and emerging artists whose art confirms a strong continuation of Chickasaw art practices.
Find out more »Indigo Arrows Pop-Up Shop
The IAIA Museum Store is hosting an exciting pop-up shop with Native-owned home décor company Indigo Arrows (based in Manitoba, Canada).
Find out more »Bison Star Naturals Pop–Up Shop
The IAIA Museum Store is hosting a pop-shop with Bison Star Naturals. Come meet the husband and wife team Angelo and Jacquelene McHorse (Taos Pueblo).
Find out more »2019 IAIA Student and Recent Graduate Art Market
Visitors will be able to purchase artwork by current Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) students and recent graduates at this exclusive two-day art happening at MoCNA.
Find out more »9:00 am
Live Broadcast: Santa Fe’s Public Radio KSFR 101.1 FM
Featuring giveaways and live radio all day from KSFR 101.1 FM, Tara Gatewood (Isleta Pueblo) of Indigenous Foundation, will be live from the booth.
Find out more »Gallery Session: Tour with Visual Voices Contemporary Chickasaw Artists
Join us for a gallery tour of Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art artists Kristen Dorsey, Brenda Kingery, and Dustin Mater.
Find out more »10:00 am
Tour: Sámi Intervention/Dáidda Gážada
Join Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo), curator of Sámi Intervention/Dáidda Gážada as she discusses this exhibition.
Find out more »10:30 am
Painting and Driving: Axle Contemporary in Conversation with Steven Yazzie
Matthew Chase-Daniel from Axle Contemporary mobile gallery will interview Steven Yazzie (Navajo) about his Drawing and Driving performances.
Find out more »1:00 pm
Tiffany Adams Pop-Up Shop
Artist Tiffany Adams (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of Lake Havasu) will be featured in the IAIA Museum Store for one day only.
Find out more »The Blessing: Film and Dialogue
The Blessing is a vital piece of modern Native storytelling. The film has some of the most unique and intimate views of life today on a reservation we’ve ever seen.
Find out more »3:00 pm
Contemporary Indigenous Discourse Series: Reconciliation Panel Discussion and Performance
This panel, moderated by Reconciliation guest curator and former state historian Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez, discusses Pueblo and Hispano artists’ responses to the aftermath of last year’s ending of “La Entrada”.
Find out more »