Institute of American Indian Arts: the future of Native American arts

Описание: In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is the only educational institution in the world dedicated to the study of contemporary Native American and Alaskan Native arts. Here, we meet students and teachers and learn how the school gives them the opportunity to develop artistic practices, embracing the history and creating the future of Native American arts. Segment from the WEST episode.

WEST celebrates the continuum of heritage and the handmade, taking inspiration from the landscape, history and culture of the American West. Working across cowboy arts, Hawaiian indigenous practices, and Native American handwork, the artists show how traditional craft can be revived, reworked and reinvented in the art of today. PBS Premiere December 19, 2025.

The featured artists and institutions include Graham Ebner, Institute of American Indian Arts, Poakalani Quilters, Hōkūleʻa/Polynesian Voyaging Society, Marques Hanalei Marzan, Kawika Lum-Nelmida, Bishop Museum, and Cary Schwarz.

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