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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe just received its largest donation ever. The $3 million unrestricted donation comes from MacKenzie Scott and her husband Dan Jewett, and was among the 286 gifts to help change the narrative about people struggling against inequities. The gift follows a $1.7 million grant from the Ford Foundation in 2020. And Scott previously donated $5 million to the IAIA. We’ll check in with the country’s only institution dedicated to progressive work by contemporary Indigenous artists.
Guests:
Linda Lomahaftewa (Hope and Choctaw) – painter, printmaker and mixed media artist
Manuela Well-Off-Man – chief curator of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Patsy Phillips (member of the Cherokee Nation of OK) – director of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Break 1 music: Digital Tongues (single) Wake Singers (artist)
Break 2 music: Memego (song) Digging Roots (artist) Seeds (album)
