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Institute of American Indian Arts

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Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
TypePublic tribal land-grant college
Established1962
AffiliationAIHEC
PresidentRobert Martin
Location
Santa Fe
,
New Mexico
,
United States

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ColorsSilver & Turquoise    
MascotThunderbird
Websitewww.iaia.edu
Federal Building
20th Century postcard depicting the Federal Building
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Location108 Cathedral Place at Palace St., Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1920 (1920)
Architectural stylePueblo
NRHP reference No.74001207[1]
NMSRCP No.874
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 15, 1974
Designated NMSRCPJune 4, 1982
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The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. The college focuses on Native American art. It operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), which is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building (the old Post Office), a landmark Pueblo Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Federal Building. The museum houses the National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art, with more than 7,000 items.

History

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The Institute of American Indian Arts was co-founded by Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee, 1916–2002) and Dr. George Boyce in 1962 with funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.[2] The school was founded upon the recommendation of the BIA Department of Education and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Three factors led to the school's founding: growing dissatisfaction with the academic program at the Santa Fe Indian School, the BIA's emerging interest in higher education, and the influence of the Southwest Indian Art Project and the Rockefeller Foundation.

IAIA began on the SFIS campus in October 1962. From 1962 to 1979, IAIA ran a high school program, and began offering college- and graduate-level art courses in 1975. In 1986, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development was congressionally chartered as a nonprofit organization, similar to the structure of the Smithsonian Institution, which separated the school from the BIA. It was designated a land-grant college in 1994 alongside 31 other tribal colleges.[3] In 2001, the school was accredited, including the accreditation of four year degrees. A two-year low-residency MFA in creative writing was accredited in 2013.

Today, IAIA sits on a 140-acre (57 ha) campus 12 miles (19 km) south of downtown Santa Fe and also operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, which is located in Santa Fe Plaza, as well as the Center for Lifelong Education.

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

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Main article: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, 2004

In 1991 the college founded the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, now the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), in downtown Santa Fe, with a focus on contemporary intertribal Native American art, the MoCNA is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building (the old Post Office), a landmark Pueblo Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4] The museum also features the Allan Houser Sculpture Garden.

  • IAIA MoCNA columns flanking a sculpture by Bob Haozous (Chiricahua Apache)
    IAIA MoCNA columns flanking a sculpture by Bob Haozous (Chiricahua Apache)
  • The main entrance of MoCNA
    The main entrance of MoCNA
  • The MoCNA
    The MoCNA

Partnerships

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IAIA is a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, which includes tribally and federally chartered institutions working to strengthen tribal nations and make a difference in the lives of American Indians and Alaska Natives. IAIA generally serves geographically isolated populations of Native Americans that have few other means of accessing education beyond the high school level.[5]

During the early 1970s, faculty member Ed Wapp, Jr.'s E-Yah-Pah-Hah Chanters toured nationally with the Hanay Geiogamah's American Indian Theatre Ensemble, a company in residence at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City.[6] A program from this tour describes the musical ensemble as "students from the Institute of American Indian Arts at Santa Fe, N.M., and are under the direction of Ed Wapp, Jr. Their music is presented in both the traditional and contemporary American Indian forms. Songs are selected from the Plains, Eastern, Great Basin, Southwest and Northwest Coast areas of Indian Country."[7]

Student life

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Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2023[8]
Race and ethnicity Total
American Indian/Alaska Native 66%
 
Two or more races 14%
 
Hispanic 12%
 
White 7%
 
Unknown 1%
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[a] 55%
 
Affluent[b] 45%
 

Notable faculty

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Notable alumni

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Notable administration and staff

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

References

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  5. ^ American Indian Higher Education Consortium Archived 2012-06-14 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Tour: American Indian Theatre Ensemble US Tour (Feb-April 1973)". Accessed May 14, 2018.
  7. ^ La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Program: Na Haaz Zan and Body Indian (1972)". Accessed May 14, 2018.
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