Sponsored Exhibits
Oaxaca Ingobernable: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below
Location: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM
End Date: Mar 14, 2025
Co-curators: Gustavo García and Natalia M. Toscano Oaxaca Ingobernable: Aesthetics, Politics, and Art from Below, explores subversive representations of embodied resistance by Indigenous and Black Oaxacan communities in Mexico and the United St... read more
Navajo Treaty of 1868
Location: Navajo Nation Museum
Start Date: Jun 01, 2018
End Date: Jun 30, 2018
For the first time the Navajo Treaty of 1868 will be available to public viewing at the Navajo Nation Museum. Opening day events will include guest speakers, a public forum, children's programing and vendors. The exhibit can be visited seven days a ... read more
Return to Diné Bikéyah
Location: Maxwell Museum
End Date: Dec 31, 2018
Diné, meaning “The People,” is how the Navajo refer to themselves. The Diné comprise the largest Indigenous nation in North America. Diné Bikéyah, also known as The Navajo Nation, stretches across portions of Utah, Ar... read more
Elements of the Earth: Potters from Ohkay Owingeh Past and Present
Location: Ortiz Gathering Space in Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Sep 26, 2008
The Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies program opened the Ortiz Center Gathering Space on Friday September 26th 2008 at the Maxwell Museum. This space is located in the north gallery of the museum and is dedicated to the memory of the la... read more
Woven Stories at the Maxwell Museum
Location: Maxwell Museum
Woven Stories: Navajo Weavers in a Changing World features Twenty-one Navajo textiles and over forty photographs taken by John Collier, Jr. offer opportunities to reminisce, re-negotiate the past and make connections to the present. Weavers build up... read more
Historias de la Frontera: Border Stories
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Oct 06, 2017
Historias de la Frontera celebrates the exhibition with presentations by New Mexico Dreamers Selene Vences-Ortiz and Felipe Rodriguez Romero of the New Mexico Dream Team, and Armando A. Bustamante of UNM El Centro de la Raza. They will discuss... read more
La Frontera y Nuevo México: The Border and New Mexico
Location: Maxwell Museum
End Date: Sep 30, 2017
The cultural ramifications of national borders have become an increasingly important topic in anthropology, mirroring the global importance of the topic in general. Because New Mexico is on the U.S.-Mexico border, the politics of that borde... read more
Entering Standing Rock: the Protest Against the Dakota Access Pipeline
Location: Maxwell Museum
End Date: Mar 10, 2018
Native Americans have been resisting colonial and American government impositions since the arrival of colonists in the Americas during the 15th century. Opposition includes events as diverse as the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the founding of the A... read more
No Hate, No Fear: Responses to the Presidential Ban of Refugees and Immigrants
Location: Maxwell Museum
End Date: Mar 03, 2018
The title of this small but important exhibition is taken from a common refrain chanted at recent protests happening around the country: “No Hate, No Fear, immigrants (or “refugees”) are welcome here!” The protests were a res... read more
Cross Currents: China Exports and the World Responds
Location: Maxwell Museum
End Date: Mar 03, 2018
Many things we use every day, from coffee mugs to iPhones, come from China. The pattern began more than 2,000 years ago, when the Han dynasty promoted the "Silk Road" through central Asia, and the first porcelain objects arrived in Europe in 1... read more
