IAIA News

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) announces that President Obama has appointed Assistant Attorney General for the Navajo Nation Bidtah N. Becker to the IAIA’s Board of Trustees.                          Bidtah N. Becker Becker (Navajo) will serve a term expiring on May 19, 2018. As a part of the 12-member Board of Trustees, Becker will formulate [...]

When Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) arts senior Crystal Worl decided to do her senior thesis project in glass, she didn’t fret when IAIA didn’t have a glassblowing class. Instead she went directly to the New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop (NMEGW) where she had completed a three-credit internship the previous year after studying glassblowing [...]

The world’s only four-year fine arts college dedicated to the study of contemporary Native arts is celebrating a historic milestone Saturday. The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary on October 13 with panel sessions on IAIA’s impact on creative writing, museum studies, Indigenous studies and studio arts with astute alumni [...]

The Lensic, IAIA, and The Santa Fe Art Institute present Dancing Earth’s Walking at the Edge of Water, a contemporary indigenous dance production led by director and internationally known choreographer Rulan Tangen. This work, making its premiere on The Lensic stage, features Native dance artists from New Mexico, Arizona and beyond. Dancing Earth uses contemporary [...]

The Digital Dome at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) will host artwork and other entries in the 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), a multi-site exhibition exploring art, science and technology, during Santa Fe Day Sept. 25. The six-day conference, which is being hosted for the first time in the U.S. in [...]