Santo Domingo Pueblo Potter, Robert Tenorio  

New Work, Opening Reception

 

Friday, April 1, 5:00 p.m. -  7:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Pl., Santa Fe, NM 87501

Exhibit Runs Through May 29, 2011

Refreshments: Free Admission

 

 

 

Robert Tenorio, Untitled, 2011  

 

IAIA's Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is honored to present new pottery creations by celebrated Santo Domingo Pueblo Potter, Robert Tenorio. An artist reception with Mr. Tenorio is being held on Friday, April 1. 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Please note that the Museum galleries will be closed for installation until Friday, April 15.  

 

 

Senior Thesis Art Walk

 

Thursday, April 7, 5:00 p.m. -  7:00 p.m.

Primitive Edge Gallery and Foundry Gallery

IAIA Campus

83 Avan Nu Po Rd.Santa Fe, NM 87508

Refreshments: Free Admission

 

 

Cedar Brooch, Glenda Loretto   

 

 

IAIA is busy making preparations for the 2011 graduating class. Among the events that will showcase the artwork of graduating students is the Senior Thesis Art Walk. The "Art Walk" combines two on-campus galleries: Primitive Edge Gallery, located in the IAIA Administration Building, and the Foundry Gallery in the newly built Sculpture Studio and Foundry. Both galleries are located on the IAIA campus. Students in Senior Thesis II will be graduating with degrees in Studio Arts and New Media Arts and will exhibit their senior thesis projects. Senior students who are graduating from the Creative Writing Department will read throughout the evening. Light refreshments will be served. There will be a raffle drawing of senior thesis student artwork at the end of the evening.

 

 

Walter Echo-Hawk: Readings and Book Signings 

 

Thursday, April 7, 10:45 a.m (IAIA Campus)

& 

Friday, April 8, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

 

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place Santa Fe, NM 87501

Refreshments: Free Admission

 

 

Walter Echo-Hawk 

 

IAIA hosts attorney, tribal judge, scholar, author and activist Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee). Echo-Hawk will present his lecture "In the Courts of the Conqueror: A Native American Experience."  Echo-Hawk will also sign copies of his most recent book, In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. The book is available for sale at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Store. 

 

Echo-Hawk's legal experience includes cases involving Native American religious freedom, prisoner rights, water rights, treaty rights, and reburial\repatriation rights. He is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, Colorado Supreme Court, Oklahoma Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth, Ninth, District of Columbia, and Tenth Circuits, and a host of federal District Courts.

 

Echo-Hawk is a Justice for the Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation; Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Of Counsel at Crowe&Dunlevy, Oklahoma's oldest and largest law firm, and Adjunct Professor, Tulsa University School of Law (2010). From 1973-2008, he was a staff attorney of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), where he represented Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians on significant legal issues during the modern era of federal Indian law.   

 

 

 

 

"Memory, Texture and Time" 

BFA Graduate Art Exhibit Opening Reception

 

Friday, April 15, 5:00 p.m. -  7:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Pl., Santa Fe, NM 87501.

The BFA exhibition runs through May 12, 2011

Refreshments: Free Admission

 

 

 

 

John Hagan, Photographer 

 

 

 

IAIA announces the 2011 BFA Graduate Art Exhibition, Literary Readings and Film Screenings. The opening reception for "Memory, Texture and Time" is in conjunction with the exhibit opening of "HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor" at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. An opening reception is being held on Friday, April 15 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Creative Writing Readings and Moving Image Screenings are scheduled for Sunday, May 1, 2011. 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

 

 

 

 

"HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor"  

Opening Reception

 

Friday, April 15, 5:00 p.m. -  7:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Pl., Santa Fe, NM 87501

Exhibition Runs through July 31, 2011

Refreshments: Free Admission

 

  

Michael Belmore, Shorelines (detail) 2006

 

Eight Native artists who investigate skin as subject matter will be presented in "HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor," opening at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts on Saturday, April 16 and remaining on view through July 31, 2011. Through various media, the artists use and depict skin, questioning identities and stereotypes and evoking images of landscapes, shields and fragility. This is the first exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian that has traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and will be its only venue. The critically-acclaimed exhibition is curated by Kathleen Ash-Milby (Navajo) of the National Museum of the American Indian. An accompanying publication is available for sale in the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Store.

 

There will be a Curator's Talk with Kathleen Ash-Milby on Saturday, April 16 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. Free with $10 General Museum Admission.

 

 

 

For more information on these programs, please visit www.iaia.edu  

or contact Gabe Gomez (505) 424-2351