April 2016
3rd Annual Interaction in Art or the Art of Ping Pong™
Interaction in Art or the Art of Ping Pong™ is inspired by the wildly popular brainchild of Arizona’s Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Arm Wrestling for Art. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts invites community guests to learn about current exhibition artist, Eliza Naranjo Morse from New Mexico Museum of Art’s Chief Curator, Merry Scully, learn how to play ping pong™ from an expert, and then sweat it out to win an Eliza Naranjo Morse original work of…
Find out more »May 2016
3rd Annual Family Day—Celebrate your Family at MoCNA
Families are invited to participate in art-making activities that highlight contemporary Native arts. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) welcomes families with children of all ages. Programs are geared towards K–5. Schedule
Find out more »August 2016
2016 IAIA Alumni Lunch During Indian Market
This year’s IAIA Alumni lunch during Indian Market will take place on Friday, August 19, 2016, at 12 pm at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in downtown Santa Fe—mark your calendars! Last year we had over 45 alumni attend. IAIA Alumni during the 2015 Alumni lunch
Find out more »The Future of Native Storytelling—Sundance Institute Panel and Reception
This panel will center on the next generation of Native storytellers with members from New Mexico-based alumni of the Sundance Institute Native Filmmakers Lab and Full Circle Fellowship. Participants will be discussing their journeys into storytelling and what the future holds for Native cinematic experiences. Featuring Native filmmakers Razelle Benally, Peshawn Bread, and Shandiin Tome. This panel is moderated by Sundance Institute Native American Indigenous Program Director Bird Runningwater. Download and view the .
Find out more »Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain—Panel and Tour
Moderated by Charles Froelick of the Froelick Gallery, please join Collector Bill Avery, Artist Joe Feddersen, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Executive Director Jill Hartz, and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art McCosh Associate Curator Danielle Knapp, as they discuss the impact of Rick Bartow on contemporary Native art. Born December 16, 1946, Rick Bartow passed April 2, 2016, due to heart disease. A tour of Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain will be led by Charles Froelick and…
Find out more »Current Issues in Native Arts and Culture—Panel
Join IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Director Patsy Phillips, Native Arts and Culture Foundation President and CEO Lulani Arquette, and Eiteljorg Museum Curator of Contemporary Art Jennifer Complo McNutt, and Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian Museum Programs Outreach Coordinator Keevin Lewis, for a discussion of current issues in Native arts and culture. Download and view the .
Find out more »Contemporary Indigenous Discourse Series: Land Art—Film and Panel
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) has created a platform in the Southwest for Indigenous peoples to share knowledge and strategies for advancing tribal self-determination within an era of intense globalization. As part of this series, this panel will consider the impact of recent temporary land art installation Repellent Fence, the largest bi-national land art installation ever exhibited on the United States and Mexican border, near Douglas, Arizona. Excerpts of the film will be shown and Director and Producer…
Find out more »Exhibiting Culture—Panel
Exhibiting Culture brings together artists, curators, museums, and universities to consider the future of presenting multiple voices and cultures in museums, galleries, educational institutions, and public spaces. This conversation explores how we indigenize and decolonize institutions, what should and should not be exhibited, models of collaboration and community participation, and ways to build powerful narratives around sensitive and contentious histories and objects. Join panelists Anchorage Museum Director Julie Decker, Artist Shan Goshorn, and Philbrook Museum of Art Curator of Native…
Find out more »Telling a Story: The Art of Cape Dorset—Panel
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in partnership with Dorset Fine Arts, brings together Inuit art professionals and collectors for a discussion about Inuit art from Cape Dorset. Located in the heart of the Canadian Arctic, Cape Dorset is widely recognized as the Capital of Inuit art. The region’s distinctive creative output—particularly in stonecut and lithography—is produced at Kinngait Studios, the oldest fine art print shop in Canada. While focusing on the celebrated history and enduring significance of the…
Find out more »May 2017
Fast Cars and Slow Burns
IAIA graduating seniors in the Creative Writing BFA program Douglas Suano Bootes (Saponi-Catawba), Veronica A. Clark, Katharina Deiter (Peepeekisis First Nation), and Jamie Natonabah (Navajo Nation) will be reading from original works in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Readings will draw from the portfolio created during each student’s academic career and consists of the student’s best writing.
Find out more »4th Annual Family Day—Celebrate your Family at MoCNA
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) welcomes families and children of all ages to participate in unique artist-designed and hands-on art-making activities that highlight contemporary Native arts. Programs during the event are geared towards K–5.
Find out more »June 2017
4th Annual Interaction in Art or the Art of Ping Pong™
The 4th Annual Interaction in Art or the Art of Ping Pong™ is inspired by the wildly popular brainchild of Arizona’s Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Arm Wrestling for Art.
Find out more »August 2017
Summer and Fall Exhibitions—Opening Reception
Exhibition openings for Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia, New Acquisitions: 2011–2017, Desert ArtLAB, American Traditional War Songs, Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art, and Action Abstraction Redefined.
Find out more »2017 IAIA Alumni Luncheon at Indian Market
This year’s IAIA Alumni luncheon during Indian Market will take place on Friday, August 18, 2017 at 12 pm at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in downtown Santa Fe.
Find out more »Moving Pictures: The Current State of Native American Animation—Panel and Reception
Animation has always played a part of everyday life in mainstream American society and Native American communities. Today, we are seeing a reflection of the state of diversity by the acknowledgement and production of culturally diverse animation.
Find out more »IAIA at documenta 14—Panel
With funding from the Ford Foundation, IAIA offered two students an opportunity to travel to Kassel, Germany in June to attend documenta 14. Founded in 1955, documenta is a contemporary art exhibition which takes place every five years.
Find out more »desert ArtLAB’s Mobile ECO-STUDIO—Performance
Join current exhibition Indigenous art collaborative, desert ArtLAB and their Mobile ECO-STUDIO, which acts as a portable Native ecology site distributing restorative Indigenous flora to share a message of ecological decolonization.
Find out more »Connective Tissue—Panel and Performance
Join Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art exhibition artists Merritt Johnson (Mixed descent/Mohawk/Blackfoot/Non-Indigenous), Melissa Cody (Navajo), and David Gaussoin (Picuris/Navajo/French) for a panel discussion on recent developments in Native fiber art.
Find out more »Bending Backwards for Benefactors—Panel
In April of 2017, Museum Collections Registrar John Joe (Navajo) and IAIA Archivist Ryan Flahive packed a rental van and headed to Washington D.C. to pick up a significant donation from Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee), American Indian activist, lobbyist, policy maker, and 2011 recipient of an IAIA Honorary Doctorate.
Find out more »Contemporary Indigenous Discourse Series
This panel will explore the complexities of writing about Indigenous museums and the arts that moves beyond the celebratory and descriptive literature that dominates the field.
Find out more »September 2017
Chaos to Complexity
MoCNA and the Santa Fe Institute explore the creative process in art and science through a discussion between SFI President David Krakauer and artist Melissa Cody (Navajo)—the event is moderated by SFI Professor Mirta Galesic.
Find out more »IAIA A-i-R: Resilient Fibers
The current IAIA Artist-in-Residence (A-i-R) artists Janice George, Leanne Campbell, and Marlene Nielsen are all fiber artists. Join to the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for hands-on experiences with interesting materials like wool, bark, grasses, and cured fish skin. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »May 2018
IAIA 2018 Spring Graduating Senior Creative Writing Reading—Tuff Gurlz
IAIA 2018 Spring Graduating Senior Creative Writing Reading—Tuff Gurlz on Saturday, May 5, 2-4 pm at the Allan Houser Art Park at MoCNA. Graduating seniors from the IAIA BFA Creative Writing Program will be reading from their original works in poetry and fiction. The event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »June 2018
5th Annual Family Day—Celebrate your Family at MoCNA
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) welcomes families and children of all ages to participate in unique artist-designed and hands-on art-making activities that highlight contemporary Native arts. Programs during the event are geared towards K–5.
Find out more »August 2018
CineDoom: Narratives of Native Film and Beyond—Panel
Located in the Allan Houser Art Park. MoCNA is pleased to present six innovative films made by Southwestern based American directors and their teams of writers, producers, editors, and actors in the Helen Hardin Media Gallery.
Find out more »IAIA Alumni Luncheon at Indian Market
This year’s IAIA Alumni luncheon during Indian Market will take place on Friday, August 17, 2018 at 12 pm at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in downtown Santa Fe.
Find out more »CineDoom: Narratives of Native Film and Beyond—Film Screening
Located in the Helen Hardin Media Gallery. MoCNA is pleased to present six innovative films made by Southwestern based American directors and their teams of writers, producers, editors, and actors in the Helen Hardin Media Gallery. Run Time is 55:30 minutes
Find out more »N. Scott Momaday and the Sense of the Sacred: A Native Poet and Artist, a Universal Voice—Book Reading + Discussion
Located in the Allan Houser Art Park. Please join author N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) and W. Richard West (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma), President and CEO, Autry Museum of the American West, Dr. Joëlle Rostkowski, and Jill Momaday (Kiowa) in a dynamic discussion about N. Scott Momaday and the Sense of the Sacred-A Native Poet and Artist, a Universal Voice written by Dr. Joëlle Rostkowski.
Find out more »Contemporary Indigenous Discourse Series: Resilience and Rights—Panel
Located in the Allan Houser Art Park. Contemporary Indigenous Discourse Series in Partnership with the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) + Creative Santa Fe—Native Arts and Policy: Resilience and Rights recognizes the increasing importance and relevance of the cultural community and art within a national and international platform. An introductory poem will be read by Navajo Nation Poet laureate Luci Tapahonso.
Find out more »The Sea of Grass—Book Reading and Dialogue
Located in the Allan Houser Art Park. Join Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma citizens, author Walter Echo-Hawk and Kevin Gover, Director of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, in a lively discussion on historical fiction novel The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from the American Heartland.
Find out more »May 2019
2019 IAIA Graduating Senior Creative Writing Reading: Scribo Ergo Sum
Graduating seniors Debbie Haddow, Damien Moore (Navajo), Chelsea Napper, and Matthew Robeck will be reading from original works in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Find out more »June 2019
Action + Activation: Art for a New Understanding—Panel Discussion
Please join us for a dynamic discussion featuring artists from MoCNA’s newest exhibition, Art for a New Understanding: Native Perspectives, 1950s to Now, organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Find out more »August 2019
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 IAIA Alumni Luncheon at Indian Market
This year’s IAIA Alumni luncheon during Indian Market will take place on Friday, August 16, 2019 at 12 pm at MoCNA in downtown Santa Fe.
Find out more »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 »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 »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 »Experimental exPRESSion: Panel Discussion
The subject of this panel is Experimental exPRESSion: Printmaking at IAIA, 1963–1980 , a new exhibition curated from a print collection recently donated MoCNA.
Find out more »Joy Harjo: Reading and Reception
MoCNA and Collected Works Bookstore are co-presenting a reading and performance by Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek Nation), the first Native American to be appointed United States Poet Laureate.
Find out more »Native Entrepreneurs and Artists—Panel Discussion
Native Entrepreneurship is the focus of this panel discussion between innovative and groundbreaking Native business owners.
Find out more »December 2021
Continuance: O’Ga P’Ogeh Owingeh
Continuance: O’Ga P’Ogeh Owingeh is a collaborative visual landmark by Three Sisters Collective, a Pueblo and Indigenous women-centered grassroots collective.
Find out more »April 2022
Awakened Dreamscapes—Panel Discussion
Awakened Dreamscapes is an exhibition of emerging students in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) BFA programs.
Find out more »May 2022
Peak of the Storm—Readings by IAIA’s Emerging Writers
The Peak of the Storm reading will take place Saturday, May 7, from 2–4 pm (MDT) at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).
Find out more »June 2022
ArtWalk Santa Fe at MoCNA
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.
Find out more »August 2022
MoCNA Opening Reception for Summer 2022 Exhibitions
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.
Find out more »Matrilineal: A Fife Family Discussion
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.
Find out more »Yoo’tó “Beaded Water” Reading
Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Words of the People, and Abalone Mountain Press for the Yoo'tó “Beaded Water” reading.
Find out more »October 2022
The Stories We Carry—Opening Reception
Join the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) for the opening reception of The Stories We Carry and an anniversary cake-cutting ceremony.
Find out more »May 2023
Inherent Memory and 2022–2023 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Beyond Reflections—Reception
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.
Find out more »Thunderbirds and Lightning Tongues
Join us in welcoming IAIA Creative Writing students from both the undergrad and master’s programs for a cross-genre reading.
Find out more »August 2023
2023 IAIA Alumni Luncheon
Join IAIA on August 18 for the annual alumni luncheon at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in downtown Santa Fe.
Find out more »The Art of Jean LaMarr—Panel Conversation with Artist Jean LaMarr and Guest Curator Ann Wolfe
Join us for a panel conversation featuring Jean LaMarr and Ann Wolfe at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).
Find out more »Get Indigenous Film Festival—Indigenous Film and Television Content Creation Panel Discussion
Join us for a panel discussion at MoCNA by notable film and television content creators.
Find out more »Ehren Kee Natay—Mural Discussion
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).
Find out more »The Stories We Carry—Panel Discussion
Join us for a panel discussion about the recent history of Indigenous jewelry with Brian Fleetwood and Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer.
Find out more »Ehren Kee Natay: Three Sisters
Three Sisters is a mural representing the correlation to sustainability of life through corn, beans, and squash by Ehren Kee Natay (Kewa Pueblo and Diné).
Find out more »October 2023
2023 MoCNA Fall Harvest
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).
Find out more »May 2024
Toward Our Past and Future Wor(l)ds—Readings by Graduating Creative Writing Majors
Join us at MoCNA for Toward Our Past and Future Wor(l)ds, a reading event featuring graduating Creative Writing students.
Find out more »2023–2024 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Indigenous Presence, Indigenous Futures—Reception
Join MoCNA for a reception on May 10 from 5–7 pm, for the 2023–2024 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Indigenous Presence, Indigenous Futures.
Find out more »2024 ArtWalk Santa Fe at MoCNA
Join us for ArtWalk Santa Fe at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), with free museum admission, an outdoor art market, and music.
Find out more »June 2024
Family Day—Celebrate Your Family at MoCNA
Please join us for family fun at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) on June 2 from 12–3 pm.
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