Happenings

Join us for a reception celebrating the latest exhibitions, Kite and Wíhaŋble S’a Center: Dreaming with AI and Jordan Ann Craig: My Way Home, on Friday March 21, 2025.

Join us for a conversation with participants of this year’s Nomadic Art Camp.

Reading and panel discussion with IAIA MFA in Creative Writing (MFACW) Director Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo), Jamie Figueroa (Boricua), and others.

Moderated by Dr. Mary Deleary (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation) ’10, RCCNA Director, the panel includes several staff.

Melissa Shaginoff (Ahtna and Paiute) ’15 will perform, teach, and share her poem, Moose Hide Love. Afterward, she will engage the audience in a conversation and demonstration.

Panel conversation featuring contemporary Sámi artists and co-curators Thomas Colbengtson, Gunvor Guttorm, and Britta Marakatt-Labba. Moderated by MoCNA Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man.

The public opening will take place August 16 from 5–7 pm, with a special member-only preview with light hors d’oeuvres and spirits from 4–5 pm.

Alums from every generation are invited to gather, reminisce, and be in community. Lunch will be served, and remarks will begin at 12:30 pm. RSVP required. 

Please join us for family fun at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) on June 2 from 12–3 pm.

Join us for ArtWalk Santa Fe at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), with free museum admission, an outdoor art market, and music.

Join MoCNA for a reception on May 10 from 5–7 pm, for the 2023–2024 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Indigenous Presence, Indigenous Futures.

Join us at MoCNA for Toward Our Past and Future Wor(l)ds, a reading event featuring graduating Creative Writing students.

Please join us for a virtual studio visit and conversation with Inuk Silis Høegh (Kalaaleq) and MoCNA’s Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man.

Please join us for the 2023–2024 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Indigenous Presence, Indigenous Futures panel discussion led by student co-curator Zoe S. Childs.

Join MoCNA for readings with Ramona Emerson, Andrew Blue Sky, and Deborah Taffa.

The public opening will take place February 2 from 5–7 pm, with a special member-only preview with light hors d’oeuvres and spirits from 4–5 pm.

Please join us for a conversation with MoCNA’s Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man and Inuk Silis Høegh (Danish-Kalaallit).

Reading and Q&A with Kim Blaeser and Deborah Taffa as part of the 2024 MFACW January Evening Reading Series.

Jamison Chās Banks (Seneca Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma) ’12 will lead a free, open-to-the-public demonstration at MoCNA

Join us for a demonstration and discussion on amaranth and vegetable harvesting with IAIA Land-Grant Associate Teresa Quintana (Kiowa) and artist Ehren Kee Natay (Diné and Kewa Pueblo).

Join us for a panel discussion about the recent history of Indigenous jewelry with Brian Fleetwood and Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer.

Join us for a discussion with Ehren Kee Natay (Kewa Pueblo and Diné) about his mural at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).

Join us for a panel discussion at MoCNA by notable film and television content creators.

Join us for a panel conversation featuring Jean LaMarr and Ann Wolfe at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).

The Art of Jean LaMarr features Jean LaMarr’s colorful and seductive yet hard-hitting satirical artworks challenging long-held cultural stereotypes and preconceptions about Native American people and cultures.

View the 2023 IAIA Benefit & Auction art at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), August 3–14, 2023.

Please join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for a panel conversation and special screening of the film Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting.

Join us in welcoming IAIA Creative Writing students from both the undergrad and master’s programs for a cross-genre reading.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for a reception on Friday, May 12, 5–7 pm, for Inherent Memory and the 2022–2023 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Beyond Reflections.

Please join us for an online conversation with MoCNA’s Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man and Rick Rivet (Sahtu-Métis).

Please join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in welcoming renowned weaver Evelyn Vanderhoop (Haida) for a public talk on the tradition of weaving a Naaxiin (Chikat) robe.

Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, February 10, 5–7 pm, to celebrate our newest exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) and SITE Santa Fe for a conversation about the progressive fashion scene surrounding the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe from the 1980s to the present.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for the opening reception of The Stories We Carry and an anniversary cake-cutting ceremony.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Words of the People, and Abalone Mountain Press for the Yoo'tó “Beaded Water” reading.

Join the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for the premiere of the Making History documentary.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for a gallery tour with Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers guest curator Laura Clark (Mvskoke Creek Nation) and artists from the exhibition.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for a panel discussion with Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers guest curator Laura Clark (Mvskoke Creek Nation) and artists from the exhibition.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for the opening reception of our 2022 summer/fall exhibitions Art of Indigenous Fashion, Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux, and Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for ArtWalk Santa Fe. The museum will have free admission all day, an outdoor art market, and music.

Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in celebrating “International Museum Day.” The museum will have free admission all-day and a special screening of the film What Was Ours.

For Earth Day 2022, please join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for a special screening of the film Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World.

Awakened Dreamscapes is an exhibition of emerging students in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) BFA programs.

Join artist Solomon Enos (Kānaka Maoli) for a public painting session at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).

Awakened Dreamscapes is an exhibition of emerging students in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) BFA programs.

Please join MoCNA for a poetry reading featuring current Exposure artists Dan Taulapapa McMullin (Samoan) and No’u Revilla (Kanaka Maoli) as Mā'ohi author and activist Chantal Spitz.

We Went Wild is an exhibition of emerging students in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) BFA programs.

Please join us for the film screening of Somebody’s Daughter (1492–Now) and Say Her Name.

Zuni artist, Mallery Quetawki, will be taking over MoCNA’s Instagram platform for two days to share some of her work and artistic background.

Join us for a panel discussion of Exposure. Facilitated by MoCNA Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man and joined by Co-Curators Dr. Kóan Jeff Baysa and Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation).

A panel discussion with Exposure artists Mariquita Lynn Davis (Chamoru, Guam), Kohei Fujito (Ainu, Japan), Dan Taulapapa McMullin (Samoa), and Will Wilson (Diné, United States).

A panel discussion with Exposure artists Mariquita Lynn Davis (Chamoru, Guam), Kohei Fujito (Ainu, Japan), Dan Taulapapa McMullin (Samoa), and Will Wilson (Diné, United States).

Visit the Museum in-person as we celebrate the opening of Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology on Friday, August 20, 5–7pm

Please join us for the closing reception of The Moving Land: 60 + Years of Art by Linda Lomahaftewa on Friday, July 16, 5–7 pm.

Please join us for an artist talk and virtual tour with Michael Namingha (Tewa/Hopi) for a discussion about his exhibition Altered Landscapes.

Artist and IAIA Alum Robyn Tsinnajinnie (Diné) will be taking over MoCNA’s Instagram.

Virtual screening of film Warrior Women, directed by Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle, produced by Anna Marie Pitman.

MoCNA’s Social Engagement Art resident Mercedes Dorame (Tongva) will be facilitating a workshop on memory-making.

Join MoCNA’s Social Engagement Art resident Luzene Hill (Eastern Band Cherokee) for a virtual workshop.

MoCNA’s Social Engagement Art resident Mercedes Dorame (Tongva) will be taking over MoCNA’s Instagram for one day.

MoCNA’s Social Engagement Art resident Luzene Hill (Eastern Band Cherokee) will be taking over MoCNA’s Instagram for one day.

MoCNA’s Social Engagement Art resident Luzene Hill (Eastern Band Cherokee) will be taking over MoCNA’s Instagram for one day.

Join MoCNA’s Social Engagement Art resident Luzene Hill (Eastern Band Cherokee) for a presentation on her artistic practice.

Live virtual presentation with Sandy White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota) and filmmaker Drew Nicholas.

Video premiere on Facebook of fiber artist Tamara Burgh (Inupiat-Kawerak/Swede).

Visual artist and printmaker, Terran Last Gun (Piikani (Blackfeet)), will be taking over MoCNA’s Instagram.

Join us for the first of five artist talks in our “Indigenous Futurisms Virtual Series” with artist Jeffrey Veregge.