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Online Artist Talk with Santiago Romero
Amerind Free Online Artist Talk
Thursday, November 20, 2025
12:00 pm (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline11202025Romero
Please join us on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online artist talk, with painter and potter Santiago Romero (Cochiti/Taos/Santa Ana Pueblos).
Santiago Romero was born in Santa Fe, NM but grew up between New Mexico and the heart of Los Angeles. After graduating High school, he attended Dartmouth College and received a degree in environmental science. He returned to Santa Fe, where he was working as a ceramic sculptor and painter, as well as actively participating culturally in four separate Pueblo communities. He is currently working on his Master’s degree in Texas and continues to work on his art.
Santiago comes from a legacy of artists; his dad, Diego Romero, is a renowned potter from whom he learned traditional polishing and linework. His uncle, painter Mateo Romero, taught him about layout and gestural technique in painting. His artistic influences are many, but he believes the true force behind his artwork lies within his great-grandmother, Teresita Romero. As an artist of many forms herself, he has found himself guided by her work and spirit.
He strives to integrate his background, education, and experience into all his work by incorporating different techniques, both traditional and contemporary, reflecting who he is and where he comes from.
Santiago has won many awards for his work, including, most recently, the coveted “Best of classification in Painting, Photography, drawing, and photography” at this year’s Indian Market. His work can be found in top collections and galleries. In early 2025, Santiago completed an artist-in-residence at the Amerind, where he spent a month painting and honing his artistic skills. Please note the smaller painting in the photo above was painted here on the Amerind grounds, during his residency!
We hope you will join us to learn more about this fascinating young artist.
*Unsure if you will be able to join us live, register using an email and the talk will be sent to all registrants later that evening.
Amerind Free Online Artist Talk with Ishkoten Dougi
Amerind Free Online Artist Talk with Ishkoten Dougi (Jicarilla Apache/Diné)
Saturday, August 2, 2025
11:00 am (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Online08022025Dougi
Please take this opportunity to join us on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 11:00 am (AZ time) for an online artist talk with contemporary artist Ishkoten Dougi (Jicarilla Apache/Diné).
as he discusses his art, creative process, experience and more.
Ishkoten Dougi is a contemporary artist working in painting, stone sculpture, and mixed media. He grew up in Dulce, New Mexico, and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. He also attended the Al Collins Graphic Design School in Tempe, AZ.
Ishkoten has developed a personalized style combining abstract imagery, creating narratives that stem from both modern and historical reflections on his roots and history. It’s celebrations as well as reminders of historical traumas that Native American communities have endured. Engaging the viewer with a visual dialogue in aims of connection and understanding.
“Whether it’s stone, mixed media or digital my creations are narratives of all that stems from my roots and history-my celebrations as well as the reminders of individuals massacred by manifest destiny or our bureaucratic standing at the time of culture clashing pitted in the timelines of countless land grabs which transformed what was dreamed for us in the beginning.”
Ishkoten is currently a full-time artist residing in Albuquerque, NM. He is widely collected and has been in numerous museum and gallery shows throughout the US.
We hope you will join us to learn about this colorful and fascinating artist!
Unsure if you will be able to watch live? Register using an email and we will send a recording of the talk later that evening.
Amerind Free Online Artist Talk with Matthew Bahe
Amerind Free Online Artist Talk
with Matthew Bahe
Saturday, May 3, 2025
11:00 am (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline05032025Bahe
Please take this opportunity to join us as Matthew discusses his work, journey, and inspiration behind his incredible creations.
Matthew Bahe (Diné) is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose work includes painting, ceramics, and mixed media. He is originally from Hogback, New Mexico, and is currently attending the esteemed Institute of American Indian Arts master’s program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He earned his bachelor’s degree with a concentration in ceramics from Jacksonville Private University in Florida. Prior to attending IAIA he was an adjunct Fine Art Professor at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico.
His work has garnered much attention at events such as Santa Fe’s Indian Market and the Heard Museum Fair.
He spent his childhood creating art and being interested in artwork, which provided a mental diversion from living on the Diné reservation. “What began as a hobby has turned into a lifestyle, and I am grateful to continue living it today.”
See more of his work at: Facebook: Matthew Bahe or Instagram: Matthewbahe
We hope you will join us to learn about this talented young artist!
America Meredith – Artist Talk & Exhibit Celebration
“Extremis Malis Extrema Remedia”, 2010, acrylic/canvas, America Meredith
America Meredith
Artist/Editor of First American Art Magazine
Artist Talk/Exhibit Celebration
Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon, at Amerind
Artist/Editor of First American Art Magazine
Artist Talk/Exhibit Celebration
Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon, at Amerind
Artist, curator, art critic, and editor America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is a celebrated contemporary artist of international stature. She is currently holding a mid-career retrospective at Amerind
Woman of Her Word: Art and Text of America Meredith. Come learn about her art and work as editor of the highly influential First American Art Magazine.
As an artist, she explores the intersections between language and image, between Native and non-Native cultures, and between humans and other living beings.
America Meredith earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from the University of Oklahoma. She has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. She was the 2018 Sequoyah Fellow at Northeastern State University, won the 2018 Cherokee National Historical Society Contemporary Achievement Award, was a 2009 Artist Fellow of the National Museum of the American Indian, and won the Institute of American Indian Art’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Contemporary Native American Arts.
Her Amerind talk will be on Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon
at Amerind’s Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery
This is a FREE Event
(Detail of the painting) “St. Brendan: He Came, He Saw, He Went Back Home”, 2002, acrylic/canvas, America Meredith
Indigenous Art with Artist America Meredith
St. Brendan: He Came, He Saw, He Went Back Home, America Meredith, 2002, Acrylic/canvas
Indigenous Art with America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)
Artist/Editor of First American Art Magazine
Free Public Talk, Wednesday, April 2nd, 7-8 pm
at the Tucson Museum of Art, downtown Tucson
AND
Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon, at Amerind
Free Public Talk, Wednesday, April 2nd, 7-8 pm
at the Tucson Museum of Art, downtown Tucson
AND
Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon, at Amerind
Artist, curator, art critic, and editor America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is a celebrated contemporary artist of international stature. She is currently holding a mid-career retrospective at Amerind Woman of Her Word: Art and Text of America Meredith. Come learn about her art and work as editor of the highly influential First American Art Magazine.
As an artist, she explores the intersections between language and image, between Native and non-Native cultures, and between humans and other living beings.
America Meredith earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from the University of Oklahoma. She has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. She was the 2018 Sequoyah Fellow at Northeastern State University, won the 2018 Cherokee National Historical Society Contemporary Achievement Award, was a 2009 Artist Fellow of the National Museum of the American Indian, and won the Institute of American Indian Art’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Contemporary Native American Arts.
Her Tucson talk will be held on Wednesday, April 2, 7-8 pm, at
Tucson Museum of Art
140 North Main Street
Stonewall Foundation Community Room
in the Alice Chaiten Baker Center for Art Education
Her Amerind talk will be on Saturday, April 5, 11 am to noon
at Amerind’s Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery
We hope you will come and meet this celebrated contemporary artist and learn about her art and her work as editor of the highly influential First American Art Magazine on April 2nd.
Thank you to our sponsor:
Exhibit Celebration and Artist Talk with Michael Chiago
Free Event
Continue readingPlein Air Workshop with Maria Arvayo
Amerind Plein Air Workshop with Maria Arvayo
Saturday-Sunday, April 9-10, 2022
9:00 am-12:00 pm and 2:00 pm-5:00 pm each day
Immerse yourself in art and the landscape of Texas Canyon during Amerind’s Plein Air Workshop with artist Maria Arvayo. During this workshop, participants will create two different scenes over two days, using the painting medium of their choice (oils, acrylic, watercolor, or pastel). Participants should have some experience with drawing and painting, and are required to bring their own supplies. The workshop will begin at 9:00 am each day, breaking at 12:00 pm for lunch, and resuming at 2:00 pm
Maria Arvayo is a painter and member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. She works and lives in Tucson and enjoys being outside creating images of the local southwestern landscape. Maria works in a variety of painting media including, oil, acrylic, encaustic, watercolor and pastel. She has taught locally with different art organizations as well as privately.
Cost: $75 per member and $100 per non-member
Cost with two lunches included: $115 per member and $140 per non-member
Cost with meals and overnight accommodations: $290 per member and $315 per non-member (includes one overnight stay at the Fulton Seminar House, one breakfast, two lunches, and one dinner)
To register contact Annie Larkin at 520-686-1336 or by email at [email protected].