Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

The First Americans’ Cultural Treasures project is built on the recognition of the cultural assets of Native communities that connect the past to the present and the future, and ultimately preserve Native knowledge systems, identities, and lifeways. The project is made possible through the Ford Foundation America’s Cultural Treasures Regional Challenge Initiative, in a funding partnership with Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.

2023-2025 Cultural Treasures Initiative

 

About Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC) in Albuquerque is the “Gateway to the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico”― each a sovereign nation. The multifaceted campus is a gathering place for Native and non-Native guests to celebrate Pueblo culture. It encompasses a museum and gallery space, murals and other Native arts, a library, an arts store where you can buy directly from artists, an education department, a teaching kitchen, and an acclaimed restaurant. IPCC offers numerous events throughout the year focused on Pueblo culture, as well as an assortment of art programs highlighting talented artists and Native artwork, including the annual Native American Student Art Show.

How First Nations Will Help

Funding from First Nations will support an upgrade to the museum and a permanent exhibit to enhance storytelling around the legacy and history of the Pueblo people through their own words and voices. In addition, funding will support IPCC’s multi-faceted collection of traditional artworks, and its work with Native artists and artisans who provide insights into traditional arts and cultural practices.

COMMUNITY PARTNER Q&A

A cultural treasure is something that holds cultural significance to the Pueblo community. Whether it is a piece of pottery, a painting, or any piece of traditional or contemporary Native art, we consider it a cultural treasure because of all the strife and colonization this art piece has endured through history. It is a testament to the spirit of Pueblo culture and our gifted artists.

IPCC offers a wide variety of traditional art programs, such as cultural dance, pottery-making, weaving, painting, and jewelry-making. Our signature event is the annual Native American Student Art Show, a long-standing, much-anticipated celebration of artists founded in 1979. We feature permanent and temporary exhibitions, and an artists’ gallery ― a collaboration with contemporary Pueblo artists. We lead group and school tours of murals and our museum. We host a monthly book club dedicated to Native American authors who write about the Pueblo experience. In our Resilience Garden, we use traditional Pueblo farming techniques to grow endangered Pueblo crops. We also offer Pueblo SEEDSS (Sowing Ecological Education for Delivering Sustainable Stewardship), a program to teach Native communities about sustainable agricultural practices, traditional cooking methods, seed harvesting, and preserving. And we help strengthen the identity of Native children in New Mexico, K-12, through our Pueblo-based Indigenous Wisdom Curriculum.

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