Institute of American Indian Arts
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The Institute of American Indian Arts is a college
focused on Native American art
. It is situated in Santa Fe, New Mexico
. It is congressionally chartered, and was created by an executive order of former American President John F. Kennedy
in 1962. It offers two- and four-year undergraduate degrees in museum studies, creative writing, visual communications, indigenous liberal studies, studio art, and new media art. The college offered its first bachelor's degrees in 2001, and in 2006 graduated 43 students.
IAIA also operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, which is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building (the old Post Office), a landmark Pueblo Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic Places
. The museum features the Allan Houser
Sculpture Garden
.
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
focused on Native American art
Native American art
Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the visual artistic traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Americas from ancient times to the present...
. It is situated in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...
. It is congressionally chartered, and was created by an executive order of former American President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
in 1962. It offers two- and four-year undergraduate degrees in museum studies, creative writing, visual communications, indigenous liberal studies, studio art, and new media art. The college offered its first bachelor's degrees in 2001, and in 2006 graduated 43 students.
IAIA also operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, which is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building (the old Post Office), a landmark Pueblo Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
. The museum features the Allan Houser
Allan Houser
Allan Capron Houser or Haozous a Chiricahua Apache sculptor from Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century....
Sculpture Garden
Sculpture garden
A sculpture garden is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings....
.
Notable faculty
- Louis W. BallardLouis W. BallardLouis W. Ballard was a Native American composer, educator, author, artist, and journalist.-Life:Ballard, who was of Cherokee, Quapaw, French and Scottish heritage, was born in the Native American community of Devil's Promenade, located near Quapaw, in northeast Oklahoma...
, QuapawQuapawThe Quapaw people are a tribe of Native Americans who historically resided on the west side of the Mississippi River in what is now the state of Arkansas.They are federally recognized as the Quapaw Tribe of Indians.-Government:...
-CherokeeCherokeeThe Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...
composer - Gregory CajeteGregory CajeteDr. Gregory A. Cajete is a Tewa author and professor from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. He has pioneered reconciling indigenous perspectives in sciences with a Western academic setting...
, Santa Clara Pueblo ethnobiologist and author - Allan HouserAllan HouserAllan Capron Houser or Haozous a Chiricahua Apache sculptor from Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century....
, ChiricahuaChiricahuaChiricahua are a group of Apache Native Americans who live in the Southwest United States. At the time of European encounter, they were living in 15 million acres of territory in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona in the United States, and in northern Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico...
sculptor - Charles LolomaCharles LolomaCharles Loloma was an American artist of Hopi ancestry. He was born in Hopi Third Mesa to Rex and Rachael Loloma. He served in the military in 1941 to 1945, where he was stationed in the Aleutian Islands. Thanks to the GI Bill, Loloma was able to go the Alfred University in New York. In 1954 he...
, HopiHopiThe Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...
jeweler - Linda LomahaftewaLinda LomahaftewaLinda Lomahaftewa is a Hopi and Choctaw printmaker, painter, and educator living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.-Background:Linda J. Lomahaftewa was born July 3, 1947 in Phoenix, Arizona. Her parents had met at an Indian boarding school. Her late father was Hopi, her mother, who lives in Arizona, is...
, HopiHopiThe Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...
-ChoctawChoctawThe Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States...
printmaker - Fritz ScholderFritz ScholderFritz Scholder was one of the most renowned Native American artists of the 20th century. Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Scholder was one-quarter Luiseño, a California Mission tribe. Scholder's most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought...
, Luiseño painter - Arthur SzeArthur SzeArthur Sze is a second-generation Chinese American poet.-Background:Sze was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of eight books of poetry...
, Chinese-American poet - Charlene TetersCharlene TetersCharlene Teters is a Native American artist, educator, and lecturer. Her paintings and art installations have been featured in over 21 major exhibitions, commissions, and collections. She is a member of the Spokane Tribe, and her Spokane name is Slum Tah...
, Spokane painter and installation artist - Elizabeth WoodyElizabeth WoodyElizabeth Woody is a Navajo-Warm Springs-Wasco-Yakama artist, author, and educator.-Background:Elizabeth Woody was born in Ganado, Arizona in 1959. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon. She is born for Tódích'íinii...
, NavajoNavajo peopleThe Navajo of the Southwestern United States are the largest single federally recognized tribe of the United States of America. The Navajo Nation has 300,048 enrolled tribal members. The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the...
-Warm SpringsWarm Springs (tribe)The Warm Springs tribes are several Sahaptin Native American tribes of northern Oregon. They were also known as the Walla Walla . The Warm Springs tribes are the Upper Deschutes , the Lower Deschutes , the Tenino, and the John Day...
-WascoWasco-WishramWasco-Wishram are two closely related Chinook Indian tribes from the Columbia River in Oregon. Today the tribes are part of the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation in Washington.-History:...
-YakamaYakamaThe Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, or simply Yakama Nation , is a Native American group with nearly 10,000 enrolled members, living in Washington. Their reservation, along the Yakima River, covers an area of approximately 1.2 million acres...
artist and author - Melanie YazzieMelanie YazzieMelanie Yazzie is a Navajo sculptor, painter and printmaker.-Background:Melanie Yazzie was born in Ganado, Arizona in 1966. She is Navajo of the , born for . She grew up on the Navajo Reservation....
, NavajoNavajo peopleThe Navajo of the Southwestern United States are the largest single federally recognized tribe of the United States of America. The Navajo Nation has 300,048 enrolled tribal members. The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the...
printmaker
Notable alumni
- Marcus AmermanMarcus AmermanMarcus Amerman is an award-winning Choctaw bead artist, glass artist, painter, fashion designer, and performance artist, living north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is known for his highly realistic beadwork portraits.-Background:...
, Choctaw bead artist - Earl Biss, Crow painter
- Sherwin BitsuiSherwin BitsuiSherwin Bitsui is originally from Baaʼoogeedí , on the Navajo Nation. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii , born for the Tłʼízíłání ....
, Navajo poet - T.C. Cannon, Kiowa-Caddo-Choctaw painter
- Eddie ChuculateEddie ChuculateEddie Chuculate is an American fiction writer of Muscogee and Cherokee descent. His first book, Cheyenne Madonna, was published in July 2010 by Black Sparrow Books, an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher, in Boston. Chuculate won a PEN/O...
, Muscogee (Creek)-Cherokee author and journalist - Kelly ChurchKelly ChurchKelly Jean Church is an award-winning black ash basket weaver, Woodlands Style painter, birch bark biter, and educator, enrolled in the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.-Background:...
, Odawa-Ojibwe basketweaver - Benjamin Harjo, Jr.Benjamin Harjo, Jr.Benjamin Harjo, Jr. is an award-winning Absentee Shawnee-Seminole painter and printmaker from Oklahoma.-Background:Harjo is half-Seminole and half-Shawnee and is enrolled in the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Harjo’s father was the late Benjamin Harjo, Sr., a full blood Seminole. Harjo’s...
, Shawnee-Seminole painter and printmaker - Joy HarjoJoy HarjoJoy Harjo is a Native American poet, musician, and author of ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played alto saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee Nation and...
, Muscogee Creek-Cherokee poet and jazz musician - Allison Hedge CokeAllison Hedge CokeAllison Adelle Hedge Coke is an American Book Award-winning American/Canadian poet of mixed Wendat/Huron/Metis/Tsalagi/ Creek/French Canadian/Portuguese/Irish/Scot/English ancestry.-Background:...
, Huron-Muscogee-Cherokee author - Kevin Locke, Lakota-Anishinabe hoop dancer
- Gerald McMasterGerald McMasterGerald R. McMaster is a Plains Cree and Blackfoot curator, artist, and author. He is enrolled in the Siksika First Nation. Currently he lives in Toronto, Canada and is curator of Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario....
, Plains Cree-Siksika First Nation author, artist, and curator - America MeredithAmerica MeredithAmerica Meredith is a Swedish-Cherokee painter, printmaker, and lecturer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work is known for its humorous approaches to social and environmental issues and for combining Native American and pop imagery.-Background:...
, Swedish-Cherokee painter, printmaker, and curator - Dan NaminghaDan NaminghaDan Namingha is an important Native American painter and sculptor. He was born in Keams Canyon, Arizona and is a member of the Hopi-Tewa tribe. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.-Education:*University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas...
, Tewa-Hopi painter and sculptor - Jody Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo potter
- Kevin Red StarKevin Red StarKevin Red Star is a Native American artist. He was born and lives in Lodge Grass, Montana and is a member of the Crow tribe.-His Education:*San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California*Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana...
, Crow painter - James Thomas StevensJames Thomas StevensJames Thomas Stevens is an American poet and academic. He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and currently teaches at the College of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.-Background:...
, Akwesasne Mohawk poet - Roxanne SwentzellRoxanne SwentzellRoxanne Swentzell is a well-known clay sculptor from Santa Clara Pueblo. She attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and later the Portland Art Museum School in Portland, Oregon....
, Santa Clara Pueblo ceramicist and sculptor - Charlene TetersCharlene TetersCharlene Teters is a Native American artist, educator, and lecturer. Her paintings and art installations have been featured in over 21 major exhibitions, commissions, and collections. She is a member of the Spokane Tribe, and her Spokane name is Slum Tah...
, Spokane painter and installation artist - Randy'L He-dow TetonRandy'L He-dow TetonRandy'L He-dow Teton is the Shoshone woman who posed as the model for the US Sacagawea dollar coin, first issued in 2000. She is the only living person whose image appears on American currency.-Biography:...
, Shoshone-Bannock model for Sacajawea Gold Dollar coin - Hulleah TsinhnahjinnieHulleah TsinhnahjinnieHulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is a Seminole-Muscogee-Diné photographer, curator, and educator living in Davis, California.-Background:Hulleah J...
, Seminole-Muscogee-Diné photographer, writer, curator, and educator - Marie WattMarie WattMarie Watt is a contemporary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Part Seneca, Watt has created work centered on contemporary Native American themes.-Background:...
, Seneca printmaker and conceptual artist