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May 4, 2006
IAIA GRADUATION CELEBRATES INDIGENOUS DIVERSITY
IAIA’s graduating Class of 2006 invites the community of Santa Fe to its Graduation Ceremony. LaDonna Harris, founding president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, an Albuquerque-based advocacy organization, is this year’s featured speaker.
This annual event celebrates the wide diversity of IAIA’s student body, which is comprised primarily of Indigenous men and women from across the United States and Canada.
This year, IAIA for the first time in its history will graduate more BFA and BA students than it graduates AFA and AA students, a reflection of the Institutes broadened appeal to students pursuing academic achievement as well as artistic excellence. Twenty six of the 2006 graduates will be receiving either a BA or a BFA degree.
A typical IAIA Graduation Ceremony will find as many as half of the participating students attired in their Tribes’ traditional clothing and regalia. Superb examples of quillwork, buckskin beading, moccasin design and headdresses are just a few examples of the ways IAIA graduates proudly express their cultural heritage.
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