REPORT FROM SANTA FE IS MADE POSSIBLE, IN PART, BY GRANTS FROM THE NEW MEXICO MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, A BETTER NEW MEXICO THROUGH BETTER CITIES AND FROM HELLO, I'M LORENE MILLS, AND WELCOME TO REPORT FROM SANTA F.<br/> I'M DELIGHTED THAT OUR GUEST TODAY IS DANYELLE MEANS, YOU ARE THE INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE, AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS MIAC.

I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE, YOU HAVE SUCH A SPECIAL BACKGROUND, IT'S LIKE EACH STEP WAS GIVING YOU DIFFERENT FACETS OF THE JEWEL THAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY YOU NOW HAVE, TO NOT ONLY DO MIAC, THE MUSEUM, BUT A WONDERFUL, EXTRAORDINARY NEW CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURE GALLERY OPENING ON THE INDIAN MARKET.

BUT TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND, BECAUSE YOU'VE HAD AN ODYSSEY, A JOURNEY, THAT HAS PREPARED YOU SPLENDIDLY FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW, TALK TO ME.

>>DANYELLE: WELL, THANK YOU, LORENE, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND I'M SO GRATEFUL TO BE HERE AND SHARE WHAT WE'RE DOING AT MIAC.

I ACTUALLY GREW UP ON THE ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

>>LORENE: WHAT'S YOUR BACKGROUND?

>>DANYELLE: I AM OGLALA LAKOTA FROM PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, I'M ENROLLED ON THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION AND GREW UP ON THE ROSEBUD RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT ABOUT WAS HOW I WANTED TO, IN SOME WAY, SERVE A LOT LIKE THE REST OF MY FAMILY, SERVE IN SOME WAY INDIAN PEOPLE.

>>LORENE: BECAUSE YOUR UNCLE IS RUSSELL MEANS.

>>DANYELLE: MY UNCLE IS RUSSELL MEANS.

YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT MY CHILDHOOD, SEEING HIM AS AN ACTIVIST, AS A LEADER, AND IT JUST INSPIRED ME SO MUCH.

SO AFTER COLLEGE, I ENDED UP MOVING TO NEW YORK CITY AND HAPPENED TO BE THERE THE SAME YEAR THAT THE SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN WAS LAUNCHED AND WANDERED INTO THE MUSEUM AND WAS SNATCHED UP BY THE PHOTO ARCHIVIST WHO REALLY ASKED ONE INTEGRAL QUESTION, WOULD YOU WANT TO WORK AT A NATIVE AMERICAN MUSEUM?

AND SURE ENOUGH, I TOOK THE POSITION, WORKED THERE FOR MANY YEARS AND REALLY GOT MY FOUNDATION THERE.

NMAI WAS A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY, IT ALLOWED ME TO SORT OF SEE ALL OF THE DIFFERENT FACETS OF MUSEUM LIFE.

I WORKED IN THE PHOTO ARCHIVES.

>>LORENE: MY GOODNESS, AND THAT WAS THE JOB, THEY CALLED IT WORK, LOOKING AT ALL THOSE WONDERFUL ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

>>DANYELLE: EXACTLY AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WAS TO FIND RELATIVES AND/OR TO RECOGNIZE FACES FROM PEOPLE FROM BACK HOME IN THESE ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

AND WE ACTUALLY, THE MUSEUM HAD THE ORIGINAL GLASS PLATES AS WELL.

AND SO JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT GLASS PLATE TRAVELED ALL THE WAY OUT TO SOUTH DAKOTA, TOOK A PHOTOGRAPH, TRAVELED ALL THE WAY BACK TO NEW YORK AND HERE DECADES LATER, I AM TAKING A LOOK AT IT.

IT WAS REALLY AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE.

I WORKED AT THE MUSEUM FOR MANY YEARS AND THEN ENDED UP BEING AN INDEPENDENT MUSEUM CONSULTANT.

SO I DID A LITTLE BIT OF WORK WITHIN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AS WELL AS MUSEUMS DOING RESEARCH, PHOTO RESEARCH AS WELL AS DOING SOME EXHIBITIONS MYSELF.

SO I CURATED A COUPLE OF EXHIBITIONS AS AN INDEPENDENT CURATOR.

BUT WHEN I CAME HERE TO SANTA FE, I ACTUALLY GOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK FOR THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS AS WELL AS SWAIA INDIAN MARKET, THE SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN ARTS, I WAS A DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTOR FOR THEM AND THEN HAPPENED ON THIS POSITION AND AS INTERIM DIRECTOR, I'VE BEEN AT THE MUSEUM FOR SEVEN MONTHS NOW AND HAVE REALLY GROWN TO LOVE THIS POSITION.

MIAC HAS SO MUCH TO OFFER.

WE ARE SUCH AN INCREDIBLE RESOURCE NOT ONLY FOR THE BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR COLLECTION, BUT ALSO AS BEING THE CENTER FOR NEW MEXICO ARCHEOLOGY AND THE REPOSITORY FOR ARCHEOLOGY.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING I TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY, A BIG PART OF WHAT THE MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE DOES CENTERS AROUND THE NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT.

REPATRIATION IS A HUGE PART OF WHAT WE DO, IN FACT THIS MORNING I WAS JUST WITH A TRIBAL DELEGATION FROM ZUNI PUEBLO AND REALLY BEING ABLE TO SHARE THE ARCHEOLOGY, THE OBJECTS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE COLLECTION, WITH TRIBAL DELEGATIONS SUCH AS THAT, IT'S REALLY, I CAN'T REALLY CALL IT A JOB, IT IS A LIFE'S PURPOSE.

>>LORENE: WOULD THAT BE AN EXAMPLE OF POSSIBLE REPATRIATION?

DO THEY WANT, I MEAN, SOME OF THESE OBJECTS ARE SACRED AND SOME OF THEM ARE ONLY THE SACRED PROTECTS ITSELF, THEY'RE NOT FOR PUBLIC VIEWING AND HERE THEY ARE WITH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE BLOWING BUBBLES AND SHUFFLING ALONG AND SAYING HEY MARGE, WOULDN'T THAT LOOK NICE IN THE GAME ROOM.

>>DANYELLE: EXACTLY.

YOU KNOW YOU KNOW IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M REALLY PROUD OF WHAT THE MUSEUM DOES IS, WE REALLY TRY AND ALSO HAVE A SENSE OF WHEN THESE OBJECTS COME TO US AND IT MAY BE SOMEONE'S GREAT GRANDFATHER FOUND THIS IN A FIELD AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

WHEN THEY BRING IT TO THE MUSEUM, WE WILL ABSOLUTELY ACCEPT THAT, WE WOULD RATHER IT BE IN OUR COLLECTION THAN OUT AND BEING SOLD OR RESOLD.

IT REALLY IS SOMETHING WE TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY AND AS A NATIVE PERSON, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE TRIBAL DELEGATIONS COME AND LOOK AT WHETHER IT'S FOR REPATRIATION OR WHETHER IT'S FOR, YOU KNOW, JUST LOOKING AT THEIR OWN OBJECTS, MAYBE THEY WANT TO BORROW THEM FOR THEIR OWN CULTURAL CENTER, WE WANT TO BE A GOOD PARTNER TO THEM WITH THOSE OBJECTS.

SO IT'S SOMETHING I ABSOLUTELY LOVE.

>>LORENE: BUT IT'S WAY MORE THAN ARCHEOLOGICAL, IT'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL, TOO, AND IT'S METAPHYSICAL TOO, BECAUSE HOLY IS HOLY, YOU KNOW.

WHETHER YOU'RE AT THE INTERSECTION OF SO MANY PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS THINGS AND THEN YOU HAVE THESE BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS TOO.

>>DANYELLE: WE HAVE SO MUCH TO OFFER, IT REALLY IS, THE MUSEUM HAS ABOUT 80,000 INDIVIDUALLY CATALOGED COLLECTIONS.

>>LORENE: COLLECTIONS?

>>DANYELLE: YES.

80,000 OBJECTS WITHIN OUR INDIVIDUALLY CATALOG COLLECTION.

AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE MOST LIKELY WILL PUT ON DISPLAY.

AT THE ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCH COLLECTION, THAT HAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN TEN AND MAYBE 12 MILLION OBJECTS AND THAT IS EVERYTHING FROM POT SHARDS TO FULL VESSELS TO THE METATE STONES, THE GRINDING STONES.

WE HAVE SO MANY ARTIFACTS THAT ARE REALLY A PART OF THE COLLECTION THAT AREN'T INDIVIDUALLY CATALOGED.

SO THOSE MAY COME FROM COLLECTIONS, MAYBE THEY'RE ARCHEOLOGICAL, MAYBE THEY CAME FROM A PARTICULAR EXCAVATION.

SO THOSE COLLECTIONS ARE THE COLLECTIONS THAT WE LIKE TO GET OUR DELEGATIONS FROM TRIBAL GROUPS INTO AND TAKE A LOOK AT AND HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE.

>>LORENE: SO ONE OF THE REASONS I WANTED YOU TO COME IS THAT YOU ARE OPENING A NEW CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY AT INDIAN MARKET THIS YEAR, WHICH IS AUGUST 17TH AND 18TH ON THE PLAZA.

AND OF COURSE, ONE OF THE REASONS I WANT TO DO THE SHOW EARLY IS SO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING TO INDIAN MARKET WILL ALSO COME TO MIAC AND LOOK AT YOUR NEW NATIVE CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CRAFTS.

I MEAN, IT'S EXTRAORDINARY, ALSO I WANT TO MENTION THAT IT'S THE WHOLE NAME OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY IS THE JOANN AND BOB BALZER NATIVE MARKET AND CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY.

THEY'RE WONDERFUL CITIZENS OF NEW MEXICO, OF SANTA FE, AND I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER PROJECT FOR THEM TO HAVE SPONSORED, THANK YOU.

>>DANYELLE: ABSOLUTELY.

THEY HAVE BEEN REALLY CHAMPIONS OF NATIVE CONTEMPORARY ART, THEY HAVE BEEN HERE IN SANTA FE FOR DECADES.

THEY CAME HERE FROM CALIFORNIA AS VISITORS AND ENDED UP STAYING HERE AND BOTH JOANN AND BOB HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE PATRONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS.

JUST TO DROP A FEW NAMES, THEY HAVE COLLECTIONS FROM VIRGIL ORTIZ AND TONY ABEYTA.

BOB AND JOANN HAVE COLLECTED BOTH FROM IAIA, SWAIA, THEY'VE COLLECTED FROM THE HURD MUSEUM'S MARKET, THE AUTRY MUSEUM, THEY REALLY DO KNOW THEIR CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART AND HAVE BEEN SUCH INCREDIBLE, INCREDIBLE PARTNERS WITH THE VARIOUS MUSEUMS HERE IN TOWN THAT EXHIBIT.

AND SO WE'RE REALLY, REALLY LUCKY TO HAVE THEM AS THE BENEFACTORS OF THIS GALLERY WHICH IS AS YOU WALK INTO THE MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE, IT WILL BE THE FIRST GALLERY THAT YOU ENCOUNTER.

IT WILL BE RIGHT THERE ON YOUR LEFT, AND IT WILL BE A SPECTACULAR, SPECTACULAR PLACE.

>>LORENE: WE'RE GOING TO SHOW THEM HOW SPECTACULAR IT IS.

BUT TELL ME, SO THE INAUGURAL EXHIBITION IS CALLED "DRIVING THE MARKET: AWARD WINNING NATIVE CONTEMPORARY ARTS."

BUT LET'S JUST STOP AT THE FIRST PART, DRIVING THE MARKET, BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING CALLED MARKET ART, CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REGULAR GALLERY THAT IS CURATED AND, YOU KNOW, AND WHAT IS MARKET ART, IS THAT CUTTING OUT A STEP IN THIS APPRECIATION PROCESS, DOES IT BRING THE ARTIST AND THE AUDIENCE CLOSER TOGETHER?

>>DANYELLE: 100%, THAT IS REALLY THE KEY, ESPECIALLY FOR ANY OF OUR VISITORS TO SANTA FE.

THE SWAIA INDIAN MARKET, THE SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN ARTS, THAT MARKET IS A COMPLETELY FREE MARKET.

SO YOU CAN WALK UP AND WALK AROUND TO ANY OF THE BOOTHS, YOU WILL BE INTERACTING DIRECTLY WITH EITHER THE ARTIST OR THEIR FAMILY.

SOMETIMES THERE ARE GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES REPRESENTED IN THE WORK THAT THEY DO.

MY FIRST MARKET, I WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY BY THE FACT THAT YOU COULD PICK UP A PIECE, MAYBE IT WASN'T THE BIGGEST PIECE, MAYBE IT WASN'T THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIECE, BUT YOU GOT TO INTERACT RIGHT WITH THE ARTIST AND THAT'S A HUGE PART OF MARKET ART, IS THERE'S NO MIDDLEMAN, THERE'S NO GALLERY, THERE'S NO MUSEUM IN BETWEEN YOU AND THE ART, YOU ARE INTERACTING DIRECTLY WITH THOSE ARTISTS.

>>LORENE: WOW.

SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE BECAUSE A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.

>>DANYELLE: ABSOLUTELY.

>>LORENE: SOME OF THE PIECES THAT PEOPLE CAN COME AND SEE ON INDIAN MARKET WEEKEND IN YOUR NEW BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART GALLERY.

>>DANYELLE: I'M GOING TO START WITH A PIECE BY NOCONA BURGESS.

NOCONA IS A COMANCHE ARTIST AND NOCONA ACTUALLY COMES FROM OKLAHOMA, BUT HE'S BEEN HERE IN SANTA FE FOR MANY YEARS.

HE IS A STUDIO ARTIST AND REALLY DRAWS FROM HIS OWN BACKGROUND AND HIS CONNECTION TO QUANAH PARKER, ONE OF THE KEY FIGURES IN COMANCHE HISTORY.

AND THAT IMAGE IS AN IMAGE OF QUANAH PARKER THAT NOCONA HAS PAINTED.

AND THIS IS A PIECE THAT IS A PART OF MIAC COLLECTION.

WE DON'T HAVE A HUGE COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AND IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY JOANNE AND BOB AND BILL AND USCHI BUTLER AND OTHER PATRONS OF OURS, REALLY WANTED THIS GALLERY TO BE A PART OF MIAC BECAUSE WE WANT TO BUILD OUR CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIONS.

>>LORENE: WE'RE SPEAKING TODAY WITH DANYELLE MEANS, WHO IS THE INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE, LOVINGLY REFERRED TO AS MIAC.

BUT TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE NEW CONTEMPORARY GALLERY.

>>DANYELLE: ABSOLUTELY.

THIS NEW SPACE IS NEWLY FINISHED, AND IT IS ABOUT 2500 SQUARE FEET.

IT IS VERY MUCH DIFFERENT FROM SOME OF OUR OTHER GALLERIES.

IT IS A BIG WHITE BOX, OFTENTIMES YOU'LL SEE THAT WITH THE GALLERIES DOWNTOWN OR ON CANYON ROAD, THE WHITE WALLS AND THE WOOD FLOOR.

>>LORENE: YOU HAVE ONE WALL THAT IS NOT WHITE.

YOU'VE GOT A VIDEO WALL.

>>DANYELLE: WE HAVE A VIDEO WALL BY THE VERY TALENTED KAELA WALDSTEIN OF MOUNTAIN MOVER MEDIA.

KAELA IS WORKING WITH OVER 25 ARTISTS, SHE HAS DONE INTERVIEWS AND THAT WILL BE A BIG PART OF THIS HUGE WALL, VIDEO WALL.

AS YOU WALK IN IT'S AT THE BACK OF THE GALLERY, IT WILL DRAW YOU IN WITH THEIR STORIES, WITH THEIR REAL FEELINGS AROUND MARKET AND WHAT IT IS TO BE A MARKET ARTIST AND HOW TRADITIONS CHANGE AND COME AND GO.

THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT KAELA HAS BEEN ABLE TO CAPTURE IN VIDEO AND IT'LL BE A BIG PART OF THE EXHIBITION.

SOME OF THE OTHER PIECES, IF YOU DON'T MIND.

>>LORENE: NO, I WANT TO SEE THEM, ESPECIALLY THE NEXT ONE, THE NEXT ONE IS EXTRAORDINARY.

>>DANYELLE: THIS IS A PIECE AND THIS IS COURTESY OF CHARLES KING GALLERY.

THIS PIECE IS BY PAT PRUITT.

PAT IS AN ARTIST THAT WORKS IN METAL AND THAT IS A TITANIUM VASE.

>>LORENE: ISN'T THAT THE MOST DIFFICULT METAL TO WORK WITH?

>>DANYELLE: IT IS, IT IS.

>>LORENE: IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

TO TAKE THE FRAGILENESS OF AN EARTHEN POT AND DO RESONANCES OF IT IN TITANIUM, AGAIN THAT CONTEMPORARY, UNHEARD OF RESONANCE BETWEEN TWO TRADITIONS.

I THINK IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

>>DANYELLE: IT REALLY IS, BECAUSE I JUXTAPOSE THAT WITH ANOTHER PIECE THAT WE'RE INCLUDING IN THE EXHIBITION.

AND AGAIN, THIS IDEA OF MARKET, WHEN DID THIS START, WHAT WAS THE HISTORY OF MARKETS AND THIS PIECE IS ACTUALLY A PIECE BY MARIA AND JULIAN MARTINEZ.

AND IF YOU KNOW MARIA MARTINEZ, THIS PIECE WAS THE ACTUAL FIRST PIECE TO WIN BEST OF SHOW AT THE 1922, THE VERY FIRST MARKET SHOW HERE IN SANTA FE AT THE LAB OF ANTHROPOLOGY.

AND I ACTUALLY HAVE A PICTURE OF THIS AND THIS IS A HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPH.

>>LORENE: WHERE IS IT?

>>DANYELLE: YOU CAN FIND IT RIGHT THERE.

>>LORENE: YES.

>>DANYELLE: YOU CAN SEE THE RIBBONS THAT WERE DISPLAYED AS BEING BEST OF SHOW.

SO THAT'S PART OF IT, THAT ARTISTS ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE AND HAVE FOR OVER 100 YEARS.

WE'RE IN THE 102ND ITERATION OF THIS MARKET AND TO THINK ABOUT MARIA AND JULIAN TAKING $5 PRIZE MONEY HOME IN 1922, IT'S EXTRAORDINARY.

AND WE GET TO CELEBRATE THAT, WE GET TO BE A PART OF THAT AND THAT POT, THAT WINNING POT, IS PART OF MIAC COLLECTION.

>>LORENE: WONDERFUL.

>>DANYELLE: SO WE'RE REALLY LUCKY TO HAVE THAT.

WE'VE ADDED PHOTOGRAPHY, SO I HAVE ANOTHER PIECE HERE, AND THIS IS A PIECE FROM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

THIS IS A PIECE BY ZOE URNESS.

ZOE IS A PHOTOGRAPHER, SHE WAS UP AT THE STANDING ROCK PROTESTS AND SO THIS IS THE NORTH DAKOTA WINTER, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IN STANDING ROCK, IN, I BELIEVE IT WAS 2016 IN FEBRUARY.

AND TO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT AND WHAT IT WAS ABLE TO DO.

ZOE CAPTURED A REALLY POWERFUL, POWERFUL IMAGE.

>>LORENE: IT'S A FABULOUS PHOTOGRAPH.

>>DANYELLE: THAT WILL BE ON DISPLAY AND ZOE WAS A MARKET ARTIST, THAT WAS ONE OF THE PIECES.

WE HAVE PIECES BY CARA ROMERO, HERE'S A PIECE.

CARA AGAIN IS AN INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHER, SHE'S ACTUALLY SUPERIMPOSED THE DESIGNS OF POTTERY FROM HER TRIBE ONTO THE IMAGE OF THIS WOMAN.

AGAIN, CREATIVITY, THE THOUGHT PROCESS.

WHILE I'M NOT AN ARTIST, I TRULY LOVE THE IDEA OF BEING ABLE TO CELEBRATE THESE ARTISTS WHO'VE BEEN RECOGNIZED AS AWARD WINNERS.

>>LORENE: YEAH.

>>DANYELLE: AND ONE OF THE PIECES THAT REALLY SORT OF HEARKENS BACK TO OUR TITLE, DRIVING THE MARKET, THIS WAS A PIECE THAT WAS A COLLABORATIVE PIECE, AND THIS WAS PART OF THE SWAIA INDIAN MARKET.

>>LORENE: I ASSUME THIS IS A MODEL CAR, NOT A LIFE SIZE.

>>DANYELLE: NO, THIS IS A REAL LIFE SIZE CAR.

THIS IS A TRIUMPH.

>>LORENE: DRIVING THE MARKET.

>>DANYELLE: RIGHT, DRIVING THE MARKET.

THE EXTERIOR PAINT AND DESIGN WAS DONE BY DAN NAMINGHA.

>>LORENE: THAT'S GORGEOUS.

>>DANYELLE: I DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A GLIMPSE INSIDE.

THERE ARE 12 ARTISTS WHO ARE A PART OF THIS.

THIS WAS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN SWAIA INDIAN MARKET ARTISTS AND IAIA STUDENT ARTISTS.

AND SO YOU HAVE IN THIS IMAGE, YOU CAN SEE TERI GREEVES HAS DONE A LEATHER AND BEADED STEERING WHEEL AS WELL AS THE STEERING WHEEL COVER.

IT REALLY IS EXTRAORDINARY.

TERI GREEVES, MARCUS AMERMAN, LAURA FRAGUA, WE HAVE SEVERAL ARTISTS THAT WERE A PART OF THAT AND REALLY WE'RE JUST SO LUCKY TO BE ABLE, AND AGAIN, THAT CAR IS A PART OF MIAC'S PERMANENT COLLECTION.

>>LORENE: WONDERFUL.

>>DANYELLE: WE'RE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE IT AND REALLY EXCITED FOR PEOPLE TO COME AND SEE THE SHOW.

>>LORENE: WELL, WHY NOW, BECAUSE THINGS HAVE BEEN CONTEMPORARY EITHER FOR ERAS AND ERAS, BUT NOW IT COMES WITHIN A SPELLBOUND AURA ABOUT IT NOW.

WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART NOW, AS OPPOSED TO 50 YEARS AGO WHEN IT WAS CONTEMPORARY TO ITS OWN TIME?

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT NOW, WHAT'S HAPPENING IN CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART?

>>DANYELLE: I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS LORENE, IS REALLY THAT CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS ARE PUSHING THE ENVELOPE A LITTLE BIT.

AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MID-CENTURY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS THAT BROKE AWAY FROM MORE TRADITIONAL STYLES, OSCAR HOWE, ALLEN HOUSER, SOME OF THESE ARTISTS THAT REALLY KIND OF BROKE THE MOLD.

I THINK FRITZ SCHOLDER.

TC CANNON, WHO REALLY KIND OF KEPT PUSHING AT THIS DOOR.

MAINSTREAM AMERICAN ART HASN'T REALLY RECOGNIZED THAT AND YET THIS YEAR WE HAVE JEFFREY GIBSON, REPRESENTING A CHEROKEE ARTIST REPRESENTING THE ENTIRE NATION IN THE VENICE BIENNALE WITH HIS WORK.

SO IT IS A TIME RIGHT NOW WHERE PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN CONTEMPORARY NATIVE STUFF.

>>LORENE: SO THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL, THE VENICE BIENNALE BIANNUAL.

>>DANYELLE: YES.

>>LORENE: IS THIS THE FIRST TIME THAT A NATIVE NATION HAS BEEN REPRESENTED?

>>DANYELLE: YES.

>>LORENE: THAT'S HUGE.

>>DANYELLE: WE'VE HAD OTHER EXHIBITIONS AROUND THE VENICE BIENNALE, BUT TO HAVE THE AMERICAN PAVILION BE COMPRISED OF ONE NATIVE ARTIST, WE HAVEN'T HAD THAT BEFORE AND SO THIS IS REALLY, IT HAS BROUGHT NATIVE CONTEMPORARY ART TO A MAINSTREAM STAGE AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO AS WELL AT MIAC.

WE REPRESENT THE SOUTHWEST, BUT IN THIS CONTEMPORARY GALLERY WE CAN STRETCH A LITTLE BIT AND REPRESENT A LITTLE BIT MORE OF NATIVE AMERICA AND WITH NEW COLLECTIONS WHICH WE'RE HOPING TO ACQUIRE.

THAT WILL BE A BIG PART OF HOW WE LOOK FORWARD.

>>LORENE: WELL, LET'S GIVE PEOPLE A KIND OF A MAP ON WHEN AND HOW TO GET THERE.

THEY KNOW NOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR.

>>DANYELLE: ABSOLUTELY.

>>LORENE: I'LL BE THERE, IT JUST LOOKS STUNNING.

SO WHERE WILL IT BE, WHEN WILL IT BE, IT IS BOTH DAYS, THE 17TH AND 18TH?

>>DANYELLE: WE HAVE THE INDIAN MARKET, THE GALLERY WILL BE OPEN ON BOTH THE 17TH AND 18TH.

>>LORENE: WE'RE TALKING AUGUST, 17TH, 18TH, 2024.

>>DANYELLE: THAT'S RIGHT.

THE PUBLIC OPENING, THE GRAND PUBLIC OPENING WILL BE ON AUGUST 18TH.

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A CURATOR'S TALK, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME OF THE ARTISTS IN THE GALLERY, WE'RE GOING TO BE SCREENING SOME OF THE FILMS FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN ART.

THEY HAVE A GET INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL THAT WE'RE ALSO HOSTING.

SO WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO PARTNER WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND REINFORCE THAT MIAC IS UP THERE ON THE HILL AND WE HAVE INCREDIBLE, INCREDIBLE EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING HORIZONS, WHICH IS A NAVAJO WEAVING EXHIBITION AND PHOTOGRAPHY.

WE ALSO HAVE OUR HERE NOW AND ALWAYS PERMANENT EXHIBITION AND OF COURSE WE HAVE A SMALL EXHIBITION OF PATRICIA MICHAELS, WHO IS A FANTASTIC DESIGNER, CLOTHING DESIGNER.

WE HAVE SEVEN OF HER PIECES ON EXHIBITION AND SOME OF THE FABRICS THAT SHE HAND-DYED WE HAVE RIGHT THERE FOR PEOPLE TO JUST BE ABLE TO FEEL AND TOUCH.

>>LORENE: DIDN'T SHE GET BEST IN SHOW?

>>DANYELLE: SHE ACTUALLY IS THIS YEAR'S LIVING TREASURE.

>>LORENE: WONDERFUL.

>>DANYELLE: WE HAVE NAMED, THIS IS OUR 20TH YEAR, 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH THIS RECOGNITION AND PATRICIA MICHAELS IS OUR 2024 LIVING TREASURE, REALLY, REALLY AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO HOST HER.

>>LORENE: IT'S SUCH BREAKTHROUGH WORK AND SHE'S GOTTEN INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM FOR WHAT SHE DOES.

>>DANYELLE: AND IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER, SHE WAS TOLD THAT FASHION WASN'T INDIAN ART.

SO NOW YOU LOOK AT WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THE INDIAN MARKET AND IT'S FASHION SHOW.

THEY HAD THEIR OWN FASHION WEEK THIS YEAR HERE IN SANTA FE IN MAY.

THE IDEA THAT NATIVE ARTISTS ARE BREAKING THROUGH, THAT'S NOT NEW, BUT IT IS, WE'RE FINALLY GETTING RECOGNIZED AND I THINK THAT'S A BIG PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.

>>LORENE: BUT IT'S ALSO TAKING FASHION, I REMEMBER I'VE SEEN SOME OF THE PICTURES FROM THAT, THERE WAS AN ACTUAL UMBRELLA WITH BEAUTIFUL, WAS IT FEATHERS ON EACH WING OF THE UMBRELLA AND IT WAS JUST BREATHTAKING.

>>DANYELLE: ABSOLUTELY, SHE IS ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY.

AND AT THE MUSEUM, WE HAVE A SHORT VIDEO THAT YOU CAN WATCH ABOUT HER HAND PAINTING AND HAND DYEING PROCESS, SHE'S A FABULOUS ARTIST.

>>LORENE: WELL, WE HAVE A MINUTE LEFT AND AGAIN, LET PEOPLE KNOW WHERE TO GO AND ESPECIALLY, I WOULD URGE HIM TO GO FOR THE GRAND OPENING OF YOUR CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS AND CULTURE.

SO INDIAN MARKET WEEKEND IS AUGUST 17TH AND 18TH, 2024, AND YOUR GRAND OPENING IS ON THE 18TH.

>>DANYELLE: ON THE 18TH, THE GALLERY WILL BE OPEN, SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE EVERYTHING ON THE 17TH.

SO IF YOU'RE IN TOWN FOR INDIAN MARKET WEEKEND, MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE, WE'RE UP ON MUSEUM HILL, THAT'S UP ON CAMINO LEJO AND NOT FAR FROM THE PLAZA.

IT'S WORTH THE TRIP.

>>LORENE: IT IS.

>>DANYELLE: SO COME ON UP, IT IS REALLY, WE'LL HAVE THE EXHIBITION OPEN FOR SIX MONTHS AND THEN A WHOLE NEW EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART WILL GO IN THAT GALLERY.

>>LORENE: OH MY GOODNESS.

WELL, I'M SO GRATEFUL TO YOU.

OUR GUEST IS DANYELLE MEANS, THE INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE, MIAC, I AM THRILLED WITH WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND THANK YOU FOR COMING AND INVITING US TO THE GRAND OPENING OF THE CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS GALLERY.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>>DANYELLE: THANK YOU, LORENE, IT'S REALLY NICE BEING HERE.

>>LORENE: AND I'M LORENE MILLS, I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU, OUR AUDIENCE, FOR BEING WITH US TODAY ON REPORT FROM SANTA FE .

REPORT FROM SANTA FE IS MADE POSSIBLE, IN PART, BY GRANTS FROM THE NEW MEXICO MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, A BETTER NEW MEXICO THROUGH BETTER CITIES AND FROM