Events - August 27, 2017

Footwear is evocative. It tells us about belonging, love, and social aspiration, reflecting the lives of makers and wearers and offering a window into the past and the present.

This exhibition features sandals that date back thousands of years found in the dry caves of New Mexico and nearby regions; includes Plains and Southwest moccasins, many beautifully beaded or quilled, and exhibited for the first time in decades; and concludes with examples of contemporary high fashion footwear made artists like Teri Greeves, Lisa Telford, and Emil Her Many Horses.

Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West opens at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on August 27, 2017, and will be on display through the end of 2018.

Drop by MIAC and step into Stepping Out, our newest exhibition! Including, sandals, moccasins, and other Native footwear, this is a colorful and insightful exhibition about the last 10,000 years of "Walking the West."

• Enjoy yucca sandal, moccasin, and beadwork demonstration


• Show off your shoes! Wear your flip flops, mocs or sneakers ‘n socks. An online album will be created to commemorate the exhibit kick off


• Get hands-on and make your own mini mocs


• Native dance performance


• Refreshments and food provided by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico

Admission to exhibition and events is by Museum admission. Admission information available here.

The reading and book-signing of Axle Contemporary’s newest publication, Local Coloring, is being hosted by the New Mexico Museum of Art, in conjunction with the exhibition, Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum.