Primitive Edge Student Gallery
Primitive Edge features what is destined to be the first of many gallery exhibitions by talented IAIA students. Here you can see the depth of expression and the height of talents coming to fruition on the IAIA campus.
Our gallery name, “Primitive Edge,” is itself a metaphor for the work that is exhibited throughout the year in our gallery and at 10 annual presentations, including the annual Student Winter Show, the Graduation Exhibit, as well as Studio Arts and New Media Arts Senior Thesis exhibits. Primitive alluding to the stereotypes of the past, while Edge points us to the ever-expanding border of Contemporary Native Art.
Readings by graduating Creative Writing students are held in the gallery, exhibits by Indigenous Liberal Studies students are presented annually, and curation and exhibition installations by the Museum Studies students make our gallery an ever-changing exploration of the arts in all its many facets. We welcome the community to come and share in this vibrant artistic experience.
Current Exhibit:
Student Winter Exhibit: Money and Wealth
Exhibition Dates: December 6th, 2011 – January 27th, 2012
Whether you shun the topic or obsess over it, this subject touches everyone’s life. Often a taboo subject, this exhibit brings the conversation to the forefront and challenges the artist to materialize his or her own perspective on the subject.
The Student Winter Exhibit is a collaborative exhibit that has been brought to you by MUSM 190: Art and Exhibit Prep students with the guidance of Samantha Eckert and Jennifer Coots. This exhibit explores and asks difficult questions. What is money? What is wealth? What is it to you?
Also showing, “The Giving Trees” an IAIA Winter Exhibit special installation. As part of the giving season we are collecting donations to raise awareness and funds for the Santa Clara/Tewa Pueblo Reforestation Program, “We Will Heal.”
A $5.00 donation plants a tree! All proceeds will be given to the reforestation program. Jericho Nursery has also provided 5 trees to donate to the program and we want to thank them for their kindness.
To obtain more information about the “We Will Heal” reforestation program please visit, nmcf.org
Please come by and view the talented works of our students and leave a note to support a wonderful cause.
Participating Student Artists: Heidi Brandow, Lauren Giago, Upton S. Ethelbah III, Bryan Akipa, August Walker, Anna Nelson, Monty Little, Veronica Jourdain, Judith Vicenti, Rachel Kuc’, Azizah Muhammad, Carlo Ray Martinez, Sydney Davis, Joanne Morales, Dylan Iron Shirt.
Student curators: Dedric Lupe, Brian Shemayme, Keith Secola, Rylan Bourke, Mildred Raphaelito, Rose Marie Cutropia, Sydney Davis, Jasmine Lorentz, Genea Vallo, Azizah Muhammad.
Spring 2012 Upcoming Events and Exhibits:
2nd Annual IAIA Art Competition, FEB 2012
Open to ALL current IAIA students.
Artwork Submission Dates: February 9th and 10th
Jurying Dates: February 16th and 17th
Peoples Choice Voting: February 20th
Awards Event: TBA
Juried and selected artworks will be awarded prize money generously sponsored by the Office of the President. Prizes will go to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.
Categories are:
Bead Work, Leather Work. Quill Work, Textiles, Dimensional Work, Drawing Painting, Digital Design/Digital Art, Photography, Ceramics/Pottery, Jewelry, Sculpture, Mixed Media/Other Media.
Selected artwork from the IAIA Art Competition will also be sent to the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Art Competition during the AIHEC conference in Rapid City, SD in March 2012. For more information on AIHEC and the AIHEC Art Competition, please visit, www.olc.edu (Oglala Lakota College webpage).
Last year IAIA students walked away with Best of Show- Traditional and Contemporary, Presidents Choice, Peoples Choice, and 9 out of 14 first place prizes.
Submission forms and guidelines will be sent out through IAIA email.
Contemporary Issues in Native American Art
March 8th – March 30th , 2012
Opening Reception: March 8th 5-7pm
Upper level students who took the fall 2011 course, Contemporary Issues in Native American Art with MoCNA Director Patsy Phillips, will present work to reflect current issues in Native American art such as Indigenous Aesthetics, Mainstream Ignorance, Identity Issues and more. The student’s expressive works communicate the issues through paintings, drawings, collage, prints, and graphic designs.
Refreshments will be served at the reception
Open and free to the public
Senior Thesis Exhibit
April 18th – May 11th , 2012
Opening Reception: April 18th 5-7pm
The Senior Thesis Exhibit features the work of graduating students from studio arts, creative writing, and new media arts. In their final semester of study at IAIA the students work diligently to refine their skills and body of work to present their projects and showcase the skills and techniques that they have acquired through their degree programs. As a final graduation requirement senior students will display their works in a professional manner and will be available for discussions about their work.
Refreshments will be served at the reception
Open and free to the public
Gallery Hours
Beginning January 3rd, the Gallery will resume normal hours:
Monday-Friday 9:30-5:00pm
For more information or if you have any questions about these exhibits, please contact: