Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride-April 26, 2025

Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride

Saturday, April 26, 2025

7:30 am start time for the 15.8-mile course

7:40 am start time for the 7.9-mile course

7:45 am start time for 7.9-mile non-competitive Fun Ride

To register, visit:  https://bit.ly/TCMBR25

The Amerind presents the 6th Annual Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race on Saturday, April 26, 2025.

Join us for this popular race and experience mountain biking at its best on a course that takes you on one or two 7.9 mile loops through the spectacular Texas Canyon Nature Preserve which is normally closed to bikes.

Open to ages 12-99, participants can select from three event options, including a non-competitive Fun Ride with E-bikes welcome. In addition to their medals, the overall winners of the 15.8 and the 7.9-mile race will receive a beautiful piece of Native American art. Awards are not given in the non-competitive Fun Ride division.

Shirts commemorating your ride can be purchased during the registration process for $24. Commemorative finishers medals will be given to the first 200 participants. After the awards ceremony, grab a bite—we will have food trucks—Your registration includes free entry into the Amerind Museum and Galleries. Simply show your bike plate number or free passes to the admissions desk to take advantage of this offer.

Make it a day! The Amerind always welcomes the public to come out and cheer on the riders and join in on the fun!

Race Divisions

Jr Male/Female 12-19

Male/Female 20-59

Male/Female 60+

Do you want to register as a corporate or other large group? Don’t hesitate to contact us for details; we make it easy!

Participation in the event enables Amerind to further its mission of fostering and promoting knowledge and understanding of the Native Peoples of the Americas through research, education, conservation, and community engagement.

Register here: https://bit.ly/TCMBR25

We hope to see you on Saturday, April 26th!

Vintage Basketry and Weavings with Terry DeWald

Vintage Basketry and Navajo Weavings show with Terry DeWald

Saturday, January 25, 2025

10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Talk at 1:00 pm

Please join us on Saturday, January 25, 2025, when we host Terry DeWald for a Vintage Basketry and Navajo Weavings Show at the Amerind Museum. The show will feature vintage Navajo weavings and baskets from California, the greater Southwest, and contemporary Tohono O’odham baskets.

DeWald has been a prominent dealer, lecturer, appraiser, and author of Native American art for more than 40 years.

Come and learn all about this beautiful art, have questions? Terry’s the one to ask! Also, remember that you do not pay sales tax on purchases from the Amerind Museum. Your purchases directly support Amerind’s work with Indigenous artists, museum collections, and public programming.

Terry will give a talk at 1:00 PM

This event is included with regular Museum admission.

Mata Ortiz Pottery Show & Sale

Mata Ortiz Pottery Show & Sale

Friday – Sunday

November 29 – December 1, 2024

10 am – 4 pm

Please join us Thanksgiving weekend for a show and Sale of Mata Ortiz Pottery featuring Master potter Oralia Lopez who will be demonstrating her work. Oralia is a second-generation potter from Mata Ortiz who is known for her flawless intricate painted geometric designs.  Oralia will also be bringing a collection of ceramics from other select potters living and working in Mata Ortiz.

Also, on Friday from 11 am-4 pm and Saturday 10 am-3 pm, we will have a book signing with Award-Winning Author Charmayne Samuelson for her new Mata Ortiz book, “POETRY OF THE CLAY, POESÍA DEL BARRO” is a bilingual, full-color photo book featuring 24 Mata Ortiz potters and enhanced by poetry by author, Charmayne Samuelson. Hard-backed case laminate, glossy paper, with full-page layouts of the potters and pottery.

She will also be signing her best-selling biography of Spencer MacCallum.

This event is included with Museum admission.

Book-Signing and Talk with Authors Henry Haven, Dale Nations, PhD and, Max Goldtooth, Sr.

Saturday, November 23, 2024

11 am – 12 pm

Join us for a book signing with authors Heny Haven and Dale Nations, PhD & Max Goldtooth, Sr., who will be signing their book “Navajo Traditional Stories and the Science of Geology” by Dale Nations, Henry Haven & Max Goldsmith, Sr.

Geologist Henry Haven (Dine’) will also give a talk.

The three authors of this book vary greatly in backgrounds and experience but share in the love of the land and a desire to impart their knowledge of it. Comparisons are made of the rock record of geologic events known to geologists, to the legends in stories known to traditional Navajos. Ages and environments of deposition of stratigraphic units progress from the two billion-year-old rocks that are exposed in the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon to succeeding rock units known to exist on and under the lands of Dine ‘Bikeyah across the Colorado Plateau that were formed a few million years ago or less. Geologists use observed fossil records and other geologic events to establish a Universal Geologic Time Scale that consists of four Eras of geologic time: the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. Navajo medicine men tell stories of their vision of the First Dark World, the Second Blue World, the Yellow Third World, and the Fourth White World. The stories show a major cycle of life beginning and extinction of variety of different species in the four worlds as does the geologic history in the four geologic eras.

*This event is included with Museum admission

The Power of Pastel- Exhibit Celebration & Plein Air Paint Out

Saturday, October 5th

9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Plein Air Paint Out

1-2 p.m. Exhibit Celebration

Come and join us on Saturday, October 5th, from 1-2 pm as we celebrate the exhibit The Power of Pastel. This juried show of Tucson Pastel Society artists is a snapshot of the region’s many talented pastel artists, the uniqueness of each artist, and the many styles in which they paint. Come and enjoy the art and meet the artists as we celebrate this show.

This exhibit runs through November 30, 2024.

The Tucson Pastel Society will also be having a Plein Air Paint Out on the Amerind grounds from 9-12. You are invited to bring your paints or pastels and join them in this Plein Air Paint Out. All mediums are welcome. The artists also enjoy visiting with the public as they paint. Come out and paint or just observe a painting in progress before the celebration.

For more information, visit their website: Tucson Pastel Society.

This event is included with Museum admission.

* Please note: If you want to plein air paint beyond the picnic area or Yucca Park by hiking out onto the trails, you must check in with the admissions desk before going out. Thank you.

Silver Suite Trunk Show & Sale

Silver Suite Trunk Show & Sale

Saturday, November 9, 2024

10 am – 4 pm

Join us for a one-day Trunk Show with Silver Suite, vintage Native American jewelry. Find the perfect holiday gift or something special to add to your collection. Also, don’t forget you do not pay sales tax on any purchases from the Amerind.

This event is included with Museum admission.

Amerind’s Comcáac (Seri) Art Show & Sale

Comcáac (Seri) Art Show & Sale

Saturday & Sunday, October 26 & 27, 10am – 4pm 

Visit the Amerind and learn about the art and culture of the Comcáac (Seri) people of Sonora, Mexico. Meet the artists behind these unique creations of Comcáac basketry, wood carvings, necklaces, and other beautifully crafted works of art for sale.

The Seri people of the desert and the sea are known for their beautiful arts and crafts, which include a long history of basket weaving and more recently wood carving and other crafts.

This event is included with Museum admission.

Amerind Supports Indigenous Composers at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra

Picture caption: Raven Chacon, Laura Ortman, Kite, Michael Begay

Amerind supports Indigenous Composers at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra

Friday, September 20, 7 pm

Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

Tickets are free

Amerind’s community is proud to join our friends at the Tucson Symphony Orchestra (TSO) in supporting new compositions by four Native American Composers: Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon (Diné), Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), Kite (Oglala Lakota), and Michael Begay (Diné). Along with many other TSO supporters, Amerind is pleased to help sponsor this special musical event. Tickets are free and can be acquired at the TSO’s website https://www.tucsonsymphony.org/event/colaboratory-2024/.

Tucson Symphony Orchestra is proud to partner with the American Composers Orchestra to present EarShot CoLABoratory, a program designed to develop the work of composers from musical traditions that are underrepresented in the orchestra world. CoLABoratory Residencies provide artists with generative space with orchestral forces to develop ideas that are too big and beautiful for a traditional reading or commissioning model.

On September 20, TSO will read drafts of new compositions by four Native composers including Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon (Diné), Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), Kite (Oglala Lakota), and Michael Begay (Diné). During this workshop session, the audience will get to observe the collaborative process between the composers and the orchestra. Composers will work with Maestro Gomez and the musicians of the orchestra to develop concepts and refine their work.

Amerind Free Online Talk: “Rio Abajo Cultural Traditions during the Late Prehistoric-Early Colonial Periods: A View from Goat Spring Pueblo (LA285), New Mexico” with Suzanne Eckert, PhD

Amerind Free Online Talk

“Rio Abajo Cultural Traditions during the Late Prehistoric-Early Colonial Periods: A View from Goat Spring Pueblo (LA285), New Mexico” with Suzanne Eckert, PhD

Saturday, October 26, 2024, 11:00 am – Arizona time

“Rio Abajo Cultural Traditions during the Late Prehistoric-Early Colonial Periods: A View from Goat Spring Pueblo (LA285), New Mexico”

Located at a little over 6,000 feet in elevation along the eastern edge the Cibola National Forest, Goat Spring Pueblo overlooks the Plano San Lorenzo of the Rio Abajo floodplain. It has been suggested that Rio Abajo villages played a major role in late Ancestral Pueblo Period (A.D. 1300-1680) social dynamics. For example, a major trail between the Western Pueblo and Rio Grande regions passed near Goat Spring Pueblo before ending near modern day Socorro. Given this known trail, the Rio Abajo may have been a gateway for the movement of people, cosmological ideas and ritual practices, as well as goods between the Rio Grande and Western Pueblo regions. This lecture considers recent excavations at Goat Spring Pueblo that have contributed to a much better understanding of cultural change and continuity in this region during this time.

Suzanne L. Eckert is the Head of Collections at the Arizona State Museum.  She earned her doctorate in 2003 from the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University.  Dr. Eckert’s research focuses on how late Ancestral Pueblo cultures organized ceramic technology. She is especially interested in how this technology integrated with other aspects of society, including migration, political and social organization, religious practice and ideology, and gender and ethnic relations.

Register here: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline10262024Eckert