MIAC Sunday Lecture Series
2008-2009 Sunday Lecture Series
Free with Museum admission. On Sundays admission is Free to New Mexico Residents with ID. Theater seating is limited, first come first serve
You can listen to many of these talks on our website. Many of the lectures of this past years series are available as podcasts at www.indianartsandculture.org/podcasts
October 19th Sunday 12 noon-4 pm
Exhibit Opening of A River Apart.
1pm Book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos
2pm “Inside the Potter’s Studio”: Curator Antonio Chavarria in Conversation with Potters from Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos.
November 16th - Comic Art Indigene
Sunday 2pm
"TEWA TALES OF SUSPENSE"
Jason Garcia, Ceramic Artist of
Special Thanksgiving Week Lecture
November 23rd, Sunday 2pm
"Chocolate Heaven and Tobacco Saints: Indian Adaptations to Colonialism in
Marcy Norton, Professor of History,
Followed by a book signing of
"Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World"
December- Winter Traditions
December 7th, Sunday 2pm
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Joe Sando of Jemez Pueblo, renowned Pueblo Historian and author
Followed by a book signing of this most recent book and his other famous books
Storyteller TBA
2009
January- A River Apart
January11th, Sunday 2pm
A River Apart Scholar- Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Curator of Anthropology for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos
February- Native American Picture Books of Change Exhibit Opening/ Celebration of Lloyd Kiva New Birthday
February 15th, Sunday 2pm
Rebecca Benes, author and co-curator of Native American Picture Books of Change
Followed by a book signing of Native American Picture Books of Change
3:30pm Storyteller-TBA
March- A River Apart
March 15th, Sunday 2pm
A River Apart Scholar- J. J. Brody, Professor Emeritus UNM and renowned art historian
Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos
April- A River Apart
April 5th, Sunday 2pm
A River Apart Scholar- Bruce Bernstein, Director of SWAIA
Followed by a book signing of A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos