January 29 The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture announced late Thursday a gift of $500,000 from philanthropists and longtime supporters JoAnn and Bob Balzer. The money will go toward building a new contemporary-focused wing of the Museum Hill mainstay that would open in 2022. It just came at the right time, says MIAC Director Della Warrior (Otoe-Missouria). There is just so much going on in Native art it s really expanding and moving in new forms and mediums. It s always changing and evolving, and MIAC…needed another gallery to be able to offer more emerging artists. Opened in 1987, the
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (710 Camino Lejo, 476-1269) already boasts permanent exhibits, such as the Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery, but Warrior says more contemporary offerings have been a long term goal. The upcoming
Artists continually break boundaries.
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe is putting together an innovative exhibit scheduled to open on April 18.
“Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass,” examines how Native artists reinterpret cultural narratives and designs in new mediums.
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” ‘Clearly Indigenous’ is a groundbreaking new exhibition at MIAC that presents Native artists’ innovations in glass,” says MIAC Director Della Warrior (Otoe-Missouria). “By looking at the genesis of glass art throughout Indian Country – not just in the Southwest – the exhibition brings together a striking collection of work that tells a larger story about Indigenous cultural knowledge and artistic genius.”