Institute of American Indian Arts
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83 Avan Nu Po Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508 United States |
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| Coordinates | 35°35′13″N 106°00′36″W / 35.587°N 106.010°WCoordinates: 35°35′13″N 106°00′36″W / 35.587°N 106.010°W |
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| School type | 4-year tribal college |
| Established | 1962 |
| President | Robert Martin |
| Grades | Freshman-Senior |
| Language | English language, Navajo language |
| Color(s) | Silver & Turquoise |
| Mascot | Thunderbird |
| Team name | Thunderbirds (basketball) |
| Affiliation | AIHEC |
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Federal Building
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Early 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 |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1920 |
| Architectural style | Pueblo |
| NRHP Reference # | 74001207 |
| NMSRCP # | 874 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | August 15, 1974 |
| Designated NMSRCP | June 4, 1982 |
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a college focused on Native American art, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Many IAIA graduates transition into full-time careers as self-supporting artists, while others continue their education at universities and art schools nationwide.
IAIA operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 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. The museum houses the 7,000+ piece National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art.
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) was co-founded by Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee, 1916–2002) and George Boyce. It was funded by United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), in 1962. The intertribal art school was created upon the recommendation of the BIA Department of Education and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Three factors led to the creation of IAIA: dissatisfaction with the academic program of the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS), a BIA paradigm shift towards post-graduate education, and the influence of the Southwest Indian Art Project and the Rockefeller Foundation.
IAIA began operations on the campus of the SFIS in October 1962. From 1962-1979, IAIA ran a high school program and post-graduate art courses and beginning in 1975, was accredited to grant college degrees in various formats culminating in the accreditation of four-year degrees in 2001. In 2013, a two-year low residency MFA Program in Creative Writing was approved and implemented. In 1986, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development was congressionally chartered as a non-profit organization, similar to the structure of the Smithsonian Institution, removing it from the control of the BIA. Today, IAIA sits on a 140-acre campus 12 miles south of downtown Santa Fe and also operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, located in the Santa Fe Plaza, and the Center for Lifelong Education.
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