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Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

Field	Value
name	Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology
established	1927
location	Santa Fe, New Mexico
type	Anthropology museum
director	Danyelle Means
website	[www.indianartsandculture.org](http://www.indianartsandculture.org/)
image	Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe NM.jpg
imagesize	250
caption	Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
embedded	{{Infobox NRHP
embed	yes
name	Laboratory of Anthropology
designated_other1	New Mexico
designated_other1_date	December 1, 1982
designated_other1_number	[890](https://www.nmhistoricpreservation.org/assets/files/registers/2012%20Report_%20Section%203_%20Arranged%20by%20Number.pdf)
designated_other1_num_position	bottom
location	708 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, New Mexico
coordinates
locmapin	New Mexico#USA
built
architect	John Gaw Meem
architecture	Spanish Pueblo Revival
added	July 12, 1983
area	less than one acre
refnum	83001630

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a museum of Native American art and culture located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is one of eight museums in the state operated by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums as part of the Museum of New Mexico system. The museum and its programs are financially supported by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation.

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is dedicated to the accurate and culturally sensitive presentation of southwestern Native American cultures. Its mission statement emphasizes its intention to work closely with the Native communities of the region. The current director is Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota). The interim director was Dr. Matthew Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh). Before Dr. Martinez, the prior director was Della Warrior (Otoe-Missouria).

Collections

Object collections at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture are divided administratively into "Individually Catalogued Collections," which include typological collections of Southwestern textiles, pottery, baskets, jewelry, contemporary art, and artifacts chronicling the everyday life of New Mexico's long period of human habitation. As the state repository for archaeological materials, the Museum has the responsibility to care for and maintain all artifacts excavated on state-owned land. Its Archaeological Research Collection contains artifacts numbering between 5 and 10 million. (As these artifacts are stored as "bulk" collections, and not catalogued individually, an exact count is unknown.

Exhibitions

The museum has a regularly changing schedule of temporary exhibitions, which draw on the strengths of its collection. Long-term exhibitions on view at the museum include:

Painted Reflections: Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery, displays ancestral pottery from the 9th century to modern that exemplify using unpainted liminal space and negative space painted design to achieve meaningful optical illusions of texture and space.
Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, featuring work by 33 distinct artists along with field innovator Dale Chihuly who is highlighted as introducing glass work to Indian Country by opening the first hot shop at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in 1974.
The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery, which contains nearly 300 ceramic vessels created by artists of the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona. Objects on display range from those created near the inception of pottery-making in the Southwest up to the present.
Here, Now & Always, (currently closed for renovation, scheduled to reopen July 2022) a permanent major exhibition that documents the Southwest's indigenous communities and their challenging landscapes. Here, Now and Always includes more than 1,300 objects from the museum's collection accompanied by poetry, story, song and scholarly discussion.

References

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[https://www.museumfoundation.org Museum of New Mexico Foundation]
[https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2013/06/16/sat_6_17_13/ "Indian Education Leader Della Warrior to Direct Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology."] ''Southwest Indian Archaeology Today.'' Retrieved 12 Aug 2013.
"Painted Reflections: Isomeric Design in Ancestral Pueblo Pottery {{!}} Current Exhibitions {{!}} Museum of Indian Arts & Culture {{!}} Santa Fe, New Mexico".
"Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass {{!}} Current Exhibitions {{!}} Museum of Indian Arts & Culture {{!}} Santa Fe, New Mexico".
Abatemarco, Michael. (November 13, 2021). "The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture".
Gomez, Adrian. (November 20, 2021). "Renovations continue at MIAC in Santa Fe".

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