Previous Ortiz 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
ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iina / Land, Home, Kinship, Life
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: May 04, 2024
End Date: Jun 27, 2024
ALL REZ is a traveling, site-specific, experimental photography, exhibition, and musicological project. The Maxwell Museum and Axle Contemporary are proud to be partnering with Diné photographer Rapheal Begay and independent curator Lillia McEn... read more
"Nothing Left for Me": Federal Policy and the Photography of Milton Snow in Diné Bikéyah
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: May 04, 2024
Dr. Jennifer Denetdale (Diné) and Lillia McEnaney, Co-Curators; Hired by the Navajo Service in 1937, non-Native photographer Milton Snow (1905–1986) was instructed to document the federal government's supposedly well-intentioned program t... read more
We Were Basket Makers Before We Were Pueblo People
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jan 01, 2024
Bruce Bernstein, Guest Curator: We Were Basket Makers Before We Were Pueblo People. In July 2022, a group of distinguished Pueblo artists and knowledge holders came to the Maxwell Museum to view a selection of Pueblo baskets from the muse... read more
In the Places of the Spirits: Photographs by David Grant Noble
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: May 01, 2022
The Maxwell presented a new exhibition in our Center Gallery featuring photographs from our archive. The exhibition, titled In the Places of the Spirits: Photos of David Grant Noblem, was curated by Maxwell Archivist Diane Tyink and features a selec... read more
Sámi Dreams
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: May 01, 2022
Sámi Dreams, an exhibition loaned by Norway House of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This exhibition, about the Indigenous people of Northern Europe, features the photographs of Randall Hyman and first-hand testimony of Sámi people living across n... read more
Vernacular Response: Photography Of Rapheal Begay
Start Date: Sep 01, 2019
The work of Diné photographer Rapheal Begay presents an account of the Navajo Nation—without ever directly portraying any people—by focusing on the land and the material and visual culture of the people. By bringing these photograph... read more
Intertwined: The Mexican Wolf, The People And The Land
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Feb 07, 2019
End Date: Oct 26, 2019
Perhaps no other animal in North America has been as controversial as the gray wolf, which once numbered in the millions on this continent. Massive reductions of wolf populations began with the arrival of European settlers. Today, wolves continue to... 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
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
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
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 1338. &... 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
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 border are ... read more
Earth, Life and Fire: Six Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Apr 08, 2016
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and co-sponsor Alfonso Ortiz Center opened an ambitious new exhibition tracing a path of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic age to the 21st century. Combining ancient vessels and contemporary critique by Ai Wei Wei, t... read more
El Agua es Vida: Acequias in New Mexico
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jan 01, 2014
Devorah Romanek, Maxwell Museum, Sylvia Rodriguez, Jose Rivera, Center for Regional Studies, Elise Trott, Graduate Student, Anthropology, Quita Ortiz, NMAA.... 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 u... read more
Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Aug 15, 2010
Exhibition co-curated by Kathryn Klein (Curator of Ethnology/Associate Director, Ortiz Center), Patricia Marks Greenfield (author), Amy Grochowski (Curator of Education), and Ruth BurgettJolie (PhD candidate, Ethnology), is scheduled to open in June... 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
The Answers Lie Within: The Institute of American Indian Arts in Southern Africa
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jun 01, 2025
Beverly Singer videos, 28 min. video, Kellogg Foundation and IAIA, 2007... read more
Decolonized Education at the University of New Mexico
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jan 01, 2006
24 min. video; Beverly Singer, Director, Ortiz Center and Native American Studies, UNM... read more
The Unveiling of Po’Pay Statue
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jun 01, 2005
10 min. video Po’Pay Commemoration Symposium, UNM, Beverly Singer, Director, Ortiz Center... read more
Who We Are
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jan 01, 2004
10 min. Beverly Singer, Director, Ortiz Center: Orientation film for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2004... read more
Desert Rainwater Harvesting
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jan 01, 2002
24 min. video; Beverly Singer, Director, Ortiz Center, UNM and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation... read more
Oku P’in: Alfonso Ortiz, 1939-1997
Location: Maxwell Museum
Start Date: Jan 01, 2000
19 min. video; Beverly Singer, Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, UNM.... read more
