Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

                                                       view of plaza and museum

sculpture garden

We took some photos of the sculptures with snow, then we spent the day in the museum. No photos were permitted in the museum.  http://www.indianartsandculture.org
One of the exhibits is the art of David Bradley.  Bradley infuses Western pop cultural icons with stereotypical Native motifs. "I…use repeatedly certain symbols which you could call popular cultural iconography like the “American Gothic,” “Mona Lisa,” “Whistlers Mother”… as archetypical images everyone can relate to. Then you take it from that point of the familiar into the new and unfamiliar and you involve it in humorous or more complicated situations. I juxtapose things and just fit all these symbols, archetypical things, clichés in amongst my own creations." http://www.iaia.edu/museum/vision-project/artists/david-bradley/

The museum has a large collection of pottery including Maria Martinez from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. We watched this video of Maria making her pots with the help of her son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUGm87DE0k

At 4pm, when we took the following photos, most of the snow had melted.

We returned to the sculpture garden: