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Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
Institute of American Indian Arts
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In short
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), founded on 1 October 1962, is a college centred on Native American and Alaska Native art and culture, open to Native and non-Native students, on a 140-acre campus near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its four-year BFA in Studio Arts offers painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics, jewelry/metals and digital art, with over half of the faculty being Native artists, and graduating students exhibit at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. IAIA also offers programmes in museum studies, cinematic arts, creative writing, performing arts and Indigenous liberal studies, and an MFA in Studio Arts.
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, United States
- Founded
- 1962
- Crafts
- Goldsmithing and jewelry · Ceramics and porcelain
- Website
- iaia.edu
- Source
- School website · checked on 24/10/2026
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