Exhibit Celebration-Grass, Stone, and Sky

Amerind Exhibit Celebration- Grass, Stone, and Sky
with the Sonoran Plein Air Painters
Saturday, October 17, 2026
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Come and Celebrate with Us!

Come join us on Saturday, October 17th, from 11 am- 12 pm, for a reception with the Sonoran Plein Air Painters to celebrate their group exhibit “Grass, Stone, and Sky.”  These works celebrate the light, movement, and stillness of southeastern Arizona – a terrain that has drawn human attention for countless generations. Painted outdoors and on location, they capture the golden grasslands, ancient rock, and radiant sky that surrounds the museum. The show will be on view through November 30th, 2026.

The Sonoran Plein Air Painters paint “en plein air,” which translates from French to “in the open air.” There is a unique challenge to painting in this way: constantly shifting light, challenging weather and environment, and transporting all materials, including easels, paints, tripods and canvases, to and from the location. Plein air painters embrace these challenges and find joy in the experience of creating art on-site. The process of studying a landscape and blending the artist’s impression with careful observation is what leads to the creation of a landscape painting. The creation becomes not only a work of art but also a harmonious memento of a fleeting moment in life. To learn more, visit The Sonoran Plein Air Painters.

This exhibit runs through November 30, 2026.

This Free event will waive Amerind’s regular Museum admission fees
For those wishing to hike in the Nature Preserve that day, Amerind’s regular hiking trail system admission fees will apply.

2027-Texas Canyon Trail Run/Walk

SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, March 20, 2027
14th Annual Texas Canyon Trail Run/Walk
Make plans to join us

Registration site opening soon, with more details to follow.

The Amerind Museum presents the 14th Annual Texas Canyon Trail Run on Saturday, March 20, 2027. Run or walk the scenic 5K or 10K courses in this awe-inspiring region. Texas Canyon is marked by spectacular rock formations, including balancing boulders, and trails crisscrossing through open fields of yucca, ocotillo, a variety of cacti, and scattered trees that dot the terrain. 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.

Watch for a new 10 mile Trail Run event, Run through the Rocks! with more details coming soon.

To register visit:

Free Online Talk: “Our Home Is Not a Borderlands: A Book Talk” with Fantasia Shaw, PhD

Amerind Free Online Talk
Thursday, November 12, 2026
12:00 pm (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline11122026Shaw

Join us on Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online talk, Our Home Is Not a Borderlands: A Book Talk, with Fantasia Shaw, PhD. 

Our Home Is Not a Borderlands revisits the history of the US–Mexico borderlands and the politics surrounding US–Mexico border, from an Indigenous vantage. Organized around O’odham Jeveḍ––O’odham are Indigenous Peoples of the Sonoran Desert, Jeveḍ is the O’odham word for homelands––based on 15 months of archival and ethnographic research, and driven by Shaw’s positionality as Onk Akimel O’odham, this book traces colonial boundary-making and Indigenous refusals throughout O’odham Jeveḍ, in what is today known as southern Arizona, from the 1600s to the present.

Fantasia Shaw (Formerly Fantasia Painter) is an Assistant Professor in Global and International Studies at the University  of California, Irvine. Her research, which has appeared in American Quarterly, Journal of Arizona History and  American Indian Culture and Research Journal aims to rethink global borders, boundaries, and migrations from Indigenous worlds. She is an enrolled member and citizen of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

Her current book project Our Home Is Not a Borderlands, forthcoming with Yale University Press, reveals how border politics in Southern Arizona are unfolding on O’odham (Indigenous) lands.

We hope you will join us!

*Please note this talk will be recorded and sent only to registrants. This talk will not be posted to our You Tube Channel. If interested in this talk and unable to watch live, please register using an email to be sent the recording, Thank you.

Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride

2027 8th Annual – Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride

Saturday January 30, 2027

10:00 am start time for the Fulton Full Course-42 miles
10:10 am start time for the Lockett Rocket Short Course-21 miles
10:20 am start time for the 6.2-mile Fun of the Amerind Fun Ride course
10:30 am start time for the Little Tykes Fun Loop
To register, visit:  https://bit.ly/TCMBR27

Registration is now open with Early bird pricing – Register by September 30th to save.

The Amerind Museum presents the 8th Annual Texas Canyon Mountain Bike Race & Fun Ride.  Saturday, January 30th is your opportunity to enjoy this awe-inspiring region that is normally closed to bikes. Come out to Amerind and join us for our exciting new racecourse (debuted last year on a rainy race day-with rave reviews from riders) it is 50% single track in and around the famous boulders of Texas Canyon!

The Fulton Full Course: Where racers will do four laps (42 miles) of jeep trails and single track.  Start time: 10:00 am

The Lockett Rocket Short Course: Racers will do two laps (21 miles) of jeep trails and single track. Start time: 10:10

For a course map with elevation gains please click on map at the bottom of the race site page.

Open to ages 12-99, Awards will be given to overall male and female winners along with 1st through 3rd place medals in each age division. Overall winners will also be awarded a piece of Native American art.

Race Divisions

Jr Male/Female 12-19

Male/Female 20-59

Male/Female 60+

The Texas Canyon Fun Ride we will have two categories:

The Friends of Amerind Fun Ride: Fun and non-technical 6.2 mile course that covers much of the Amerind Museum property. Riders will get a chance to challenge themselves on the dirt roads in and around the Amerind, while taking in the sights and gaining bragging rights for their efforts. E-bikes, mountain bikes, gravel bikes are all welcome.

Open to ages 8-99. This ride is all about fun! This non-competitive ride will not have awards. Participation medals will be given to all registrants.

Start time: 10:20 am

Little Tykes Fun Loop: Kids 8 and under can have a blast rolling around a short course of approximately .25 miles under mom and dad’s watchful supervision. This is non-competitive and entirely to let the kids get in on the day’s fun. Participation medals will be given! FREE to participate

Start time: 10:30 am

 

We will provide FREE hot coffee and cocoa in the morning to warm you up and get you going before the ride.

Once you have crossed the finished line, see if you placed and grab your award! After, grab a well-deserved bite from one of the food vendors. When you’re done, show your bike plate number or free guest passes to the admissions desk for free entry into the Amerind Museum, Art Gallery included with registration.  Make a day of it!

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.

Have fun and support a place you love!

Want to participate and register as a corporate or other large group? Please contact us for details we make it easy!

The Race Course

The race will be held entirely within Texas Canyon on the Amerind Foundation property. The new and improved course will take you on 2-4 loops of 50% single track and jeep trails in and around the famous boulders of Texas Canyon, an area only open to bikes on race day. Helmets are required. Please remember no dogs and no headsets, in compliance with our insurance requirements. This new racecourse is designed for mountain bikes; e-bikes, gravel bikes and other bikes are welcome to participate in the non-competitive Fun Ride.

Aid Stations – BYOB

This is a BYOB event- bring your own bottle of hydration. You must be 100% self-sufficient. There will be no aid stations on the course.

Registration and Packet Pick-Up

Onsite registration and packet pick-up will begin on race day at 8:00 am. Please arrive at least 30 minutes before your start time to allow time to pick up your packet, park, and attach your number plate.

RACE DAY REQUIREMENTS

ALL participants must adhere to the following requirements:

  • You must be 100% self-sufficient. There are no water stops, refreshments, or medical assistance at the race.
  • Your number plate with timing chip must be fastened to the handlebars and must not be obstructed or covered up in any way.
  • Your race is a gun start. Therefore, please be on the line and ready to start.
  • Helmets must be worn.
  • Participants must follow all instructions of the course marshals. Failure to adhere to course marshal instructions will result in an immediate disqualification

Results and Awards

All results will be streamed live on On Your Left Timing’s Results Page. During registration, you can also sign up for results text messaging.

We hope you will join us for a fun day at the Amerind!

The Amerind would like to thank El Grupo and their youth cyclists for all their race day assistance!

El Grupo youth cyclists will be coaching and cheering on the Little Tykes, helping create tomorrow’s racers!

El Grupo empowering youth through bicycles.

Free Online Talk: The Shapes of Us: Salado Polychrome Pottery and the Kayenta Diaspora in the 1300s and 1400s,” with Kathleen Barvick.

Amerind Free Online Talk
Thursday, July 16, 2026
12:00 pm (AZ time)
To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline07162026Barvick

Join us on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online talk, “The Shapes of Us: Salado Polychrome Pottery and the Kayenta Diaspora in the 1300s and 1400s” with PhD candidate Kathleen Barvick.

In the late 1200s, a massive drought hit the Southwest, causing political instability and sparking a massive migration as people left the Four Corners area and migrated south to settle along the rivers, which changed to social and political organization of the Southwest forever. One group of people, from the Kayenta region of northeastern Arizona, settled across a wide area of central and southern Arizona and western New Mexico, sometimes integrating into local settlements, sometimes setting up their own enclaves away from existing settlements. Dr. Barvick’s research focuses on Salado polychrome, a specific type of pottery that arose among these Kayenta immigrant communities and spread across Arizona and New Mexico. By looking at Salado polychrome pots across the Southwest, and specifically at the variation in their shapes, she investigates how the Kayenta immigrant diaspora shared technological practices regarding pottery creation across far-flung communities in the 1300s and 1400s, how the use of Salado polychrome spread, and how Kayenta immigrants negotiated their identities as Kayenta people and as immigrants in their new homes.

Dr. Kate Barvick is an archaeologist who studies pottery, migration, and community networks in the US Southwest. She grew up in Massachusetts and received a BA in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018. Her archaeology experience in Massachusetts focused on 18th- and 19th-century historic house sites, with a special emphasis on the Revolutionary War era. Her research in the Southwest is both older than that (she spent several summers in northern New Mexico near Taos, on a collaborative community project with Picuris Pueblo) and more recent (she spent several years researching the history of baseball and its connection to labor movements in the 20th century in Bisbee, AZ). She brings from this background a passion for public archaeology, community engagement, and the bridging of the past and the present. She currently lives in Tucson, recently defended her PhD at the University of Arizona, and is the Amerind Emerging Scholar-in-Residence in Summer 2026.

If you are unsure if you can watch live, register using an email and the recording of the talk will be sent to you following the program.

We hope you will join us!

Amerind Members -Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon & Tour

You’re invited to the Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon & Tour

Thursday, June 25, 2026
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Members-Only: $35 per person

Reserve your ticket here: Eventbrite

You’re invited to the Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon & Tour

Where heritage meets elegance, an exclusive members-only tour of the historic Fulton Seminar House

Where heritage meets elegance, join us for an insider members-only tour of the historic Fulton Seminar House with a delightful luncheon included.

Photo: front left, Amerind archaeologist Charles Di Peso seated next to Mrs. Rose Hayden-Fulton with Amerind founder William Shirley Fulton middle right.]

Amerind Members-Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon!

Please join us for the ultimate experience with Amerind’s history, founding family, and our talented Guest Services team. Members will enjoy a warm welcome to the Fulton Seminar House followed by a personal Tour with family stories led by our founders’ great-grandson, Willlie Adams. Your Tour will be followed by an elegant lunch together-with dessert-in the formal dining room. After lunch enjoy the Museum, Art Gallery, and Museum Store and see what’s new. Your membership includes a 10% discount on all shop purchases.

Fulton Family Heritage Luncheon

Thursday, June 25, 2026

10:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Members-Only price: $35 per person

With seating limited to 12 guests, reserve your spot today!

Purchase your tickets by following the button below. Questions or any dietary restrictions, please call Maggie Ohnesorgen at 520-686-1336 or email mohnesorgen@amerind.org to reserve.

Not a Member? Consider joining the supportive Amerind community for access to this exclusive opportunity by visiting our membership page here. Annual memberships start at $50.

If you are not sure about your Membership status, please contact membership@amerind.org or call Kelly Holt at 520-686-6172.

Don’t miss out on this exclusive opportunity!

The Amerind will be at Celebrate the San Pedro at San Pedro House

Join us at the San Pedro House

9800 E. Highway 90 Sierra Vista, AZ.

Saturday, April 25th. 9:00 am – 2:00 pm

Free Event

Come out for a fun day celebrating the San Pedro with activities, speakers, booths, and more to entertain and educate on Nature and History of the area.

Join the Amerind on Saturday, April 25th from 9:00 am – 2:00 pm for the annual Celebrate the San Pedro event. This event is FREE and open to all. There will be activities, displays and speakers to entertain and educate about the natural and historical wonders of the San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area, of SPRNCA.

Amerind will be one of many booths where you can come and learn about the Amerind, pick up some free passes, and participate in an all ages, art activity with us. There will also be the annual team bird count competition!

We hope you come out and learn about the natural and cultural history of the area with us. The San Pedro House is located eight miles east of Sierra Vista on Highway 90. 9800 E. Highway 90 Sierra Vista, AZ.

Come celebrate the San Pedro!

Amerind will be at the Tucson Festival of Books

Amerind will be at the Tucson Festival of Books
Booth #550
Saturday & Sunday, March 14-15
9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Free Event
Where: University of Arizona Mall, Tucson, AZ

Join us for a weekend of books and more at the Tucson Festival of Books, where you can come out to see all the exhibitors, stop by the Amerind Booth #550 to say hello and pick up a free pass, learn about what’s new and happening at the Museum, and check out the Amerind Studies in Anthropology publications authored by our visiting scholars and researchers.

Check out the schedule to go to one or more of the many visiting author talks, all free, visit: tucsonfestivalofbooks.org for more information.

We hope to see you at the Book Festival!

 

Free Online Talk: “Life on the Edge of the Mimbres Region: Powers Ranch as a Mimbres Site” with Patricia Gilman & Mary Whisenhunt

Free Online Talk
Thursday, March 12, 2026
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (AZ time)
“Life on the Edge of the Mimbres Region: Powers Ranch as a Mimbres Site” with Patricia Gilman, PhD & Mary Whisenhunt, PhD

To register, visit: https://bit.ly/Amerindonline03122026Gilman

Join us on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 12:00 pm (AZ time) for an online talk, “Life on the Edge of the Mimbres Region: Powers Ranch as a Mimbres Site”, with Patricia Gilman, PhD and Mary Whisenhunt, PhD.

When people think of Mimbres archaeology, they picture beautiful black-on-white pottery with paintings of people and animals and large pueblo sites in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico.  However, there were Mimbres sites beyond the Mimbres Valley, but they were different from those in the valley.  We explore what it meant to be Mimbres at the Powers Ranch site, a small settlement at the western edge of the Mimbres region. We conclude that the people at Powers Ranch were quintessentially Mimbres and were more closely affiliated with Mimbres settlements on the Gila River drainage in southeast Arizona and New Mexico than with those living in the Mimbres Valley core area.

Mary Whisenhunt received her anthropology doctorate in 2020, conducting her field work in southeast Arizona. Her research focused on the social resilience of precontact Indigenous people on the western boundary of the Mimbres region.

Patricia Gilman has done archaeological research in the Mimbres region for more than 50 years, retiring from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. One of her research foci has been Mimbres beyond the Mimbres Valley.

We hope you will join us!

If you can’t join us to watch live on March 12th, register using an email and the recorded talk will be sent to you after the talk, to watch at your leisure.