Events - July 17, 2016

Dive into Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico, then come to our "Low Writing Workshop," open to all ages. Learn to write your name lowrider style. Try a similar calligraphic style to design your own escudo (family crest) like those seen in Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition, and New World Identities. Listen to some car-inspired poetry and write your own, with northern New Mexico poet and artist Tara Evonne Trudell. Free with admission. Sundays free to NM residents; children 16 and under free daily. Families Make History free workshops are held the third Sunday of every month.

Sponge Bob Square Pants, Pac Man, and Curious George, all sporting a particularly Native American twist, are just a few images from popular mainstream culture seen in the exhibition, Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art.

The free to the public opening for Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is on July 17, 2016 from 1 to 4 pm and the show runs through October 22, 2017.

Featuring nearly 100 objects by more than fifty artists from the museum’s collections as well as others borrowed from collectors and artists, the work on view in Into the Future will be in such various media as traditional clothing and jewelry, pottery and weaving, photography and video, through to comics, and on into cyberspace.

Take a journey between past, present, and future Indigenous artistic expressions. Explore Native works that narrate the artists’ own histories,explore their self-definition, and act as a catalyst for change.

PUBLIC OPENING

SUNDAY, JULY 17 · 1:00 – 4:30 PM

DANCE PERFORMANCES

1:00 – 1:30 & 4:00 – 4:30 · MILNER PLAZA

World Champion Hoop Dancer Nakotah LaRance (Hopi / Tewa / Assiniboine) accompanied by his father Steve LaRance (Hopi) followed by KeeNatay Performing Arts Collective dancers and musicians.

PANEL DISCUSSION

2:00 – 3:30 · O’KEEFFE THEATER

“Past, Present, and Future: Music and Dance of the Southwest” with performers Ehren Kee Natay (Navajo), Nakotah and Steve LaRance, and trumpeter Delbert Anderson (Navajo).

HANDS-ON ACTIVITES FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN

1:00 – 4:00 · MUSEUM CLASSROOM

Pueblo Paper Dolls with Ashley Browning (Santa Clara) and Michele Tapia Browning (Pojoaque / Santa Clara).

REFRESHMENTS

1:00 – 4:00 · MUSEUM LOBBY

Provided by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico