Here, Now, and Always: Renovation and Renewal

FAIN: GI-261147-18

Museum of New Mexico Foundation (Santa Fe, NM 87501-4326)
Marla Redcorn-Miller (Project Director: January 2018 to March 2019)
Della C. Warrior (Project Director: March 2019 to September 2021)
Matthew J. Martinez (Project Director: September 2021 to present)

Implementation of a reinterpretation of a permanent exhibition on Native American art of New Mexico and the Southwest at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in partnership with the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, requests a $400,000 Public Humanities Project implementation grant to support the renovation and renewal of the museum’s permanent exhibition Here, Now and Always. Two decades after its launch in 1997, a critical need to conserve objects on long-term display; opportunities to update humanities scholarship and conform to current museum standards for enhanced visitor experiences; a need to reflect constantly changing realities of life in Native America and ever-growing public interest in the history and contemporary culture of Native peoples of the Southwest necessitate full-scale renovation and redesign of the exhibition. Additionally, MIAC requests $60,000 for a two-year Position in Public Humanities to help develop and implement a community conversation series that promotes public discourse on significant issues impacting indigenous communities today.

Associated Products

Here, Now and Always (Exhibition)
Title: Here, Now and Always
Curator: Antonio "Tony" Chavarria
Curator: Diane Bird
Abstract: The exhibition includes contemporary narratives from the next generation of Indigenous people in the Southwest, as well as updated technology and state-of-the-art exhibition design. Similar to its first iteration, it is organized around the core themes of Emergence, Cycles, Ancestors, Community and Home, Trade and Exchange, Language and Song, Arts and Survival and Resilience. “I am here. I am here, now. I have been here, always.” -Zuni scholar and former MIAC curator of ethnology Edmund J. Ladd,
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.miaclab.org/current?&eventID=5042
Primary URL Description: location provided overview and images of objects on display
Secondary URL: https://mnmpress.org/?p=allBooks&id=311
Secondary URL Description: Museum New Mexico Press site for book Here, Now and Always

Here, Now and Always (Catalog)
Title: Here, Now and Always
Author: Maxine McBrinn, ed
Abstract: This revised and expanded 2nd edition of Here, Now & Always, is reissued as a companion to the recently renovated permanent exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe. The book and exhibit draw from the museum's vast collections, including art, basketry, pottery, textiles and ancestral items, to illustrate Native narratives speaking to themes of origin, place and self-determination.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://mnmpress.org/?p=allBooks&id=311
Primary URL Description: MNM Press book site for Here, Now and Always
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press

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