| Type | Public tribal land-grant college |
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| Established | 1962 |
| Affiliation | AIHEC |
| President | Robert Martin |
| Location |
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, United States 35°35′13″N 106°00′36″W / 35.587°N 106.010°W / 35.587; -106.010 |
| Colors | Silver & Turquoise |
| Mascot | Thunderbird |
| Website | www |
Federal Building | |
20th Century postcard depicting the Federal Building
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| Location | 108 Cathedral Place at Palace St., Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Coordinates | 35°41′13″N 105°56′11″W / 35.68694°N 105.93639°W / 35.68694; -105.93639 |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1920 (1920) |
| Architectural style | Pueblo |
| NRHP reference No. | 74001207[1] |
| NMSRCP No. | 874 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | August 15, 1974 |
| Designated NMSRCP | June 4, 1982 |
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a public tribal land-grant collegeinSanta 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 PlacesasFederal Building. The museum houses the National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art, with more than 7,000 items.
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.
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 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 residenceatLa MaMa Experimental Theatre ClubinNew 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]
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