Josiah Enriquez
May 10, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Dal’Suhu “Star” Not-Afraid
May 18 @ 11:01 am
Pojoaque Farmers Market
May 3, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
The Pojoaque Farmers Market will start its Summer Season at the Poeh Cultural Center on Wednesday, May 3rd, from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm.
The Farmers Market offers local farmers, artists, and entrepreneurs opportunities to the Pueblo of Pojoaque. This helps promote farms and sustainable agriculture. Visitors to the market can also enjoy afternoon live musical and dance group performances every week.
Any farms, artists, entrepreneurs, or musicians who would like to participate, please get in touch with Jazlyn Sanchez at (505) 455-3533 or jasanchez@pojoaque.org
Navi Towa (My People)
March 31, 2023 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Taking place outside the Poeh Cultural Center is Navi Towa (My People), a collaborative project where six unique bird designs were painted onto a large pot towering more than 8 feet. The artists were asked to create traditional bird designs in the style of their respective Pueblos. Artists who participated are Erik Fender (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Pearl Talachy (Nambe Pueblo), Shawn Tafoya (Santa Clara Pueblo and Pojoaque Pueblo), Clarence Cruz (Okhay Owingeh), Wesley Vigil (Tesuque Pueblo), and Randy Silva (Santa Clara Pueblo).
EQUINOX
March 31, 2023 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Poeh Cultural Center Announces EQUINOX, a Two-Person Exhibition by Pearl Talachy and Cree LaRance
March 31 – June 30, 2023
PUEBLO OF POJOAQUE, N.M., MARCH 20, 2023 — The Poeh Cultural Center is pleased to announce EQUINOX, a two-person exhibition featuring the pottery and textiles of Pearl Talachy (Nambe Pueblo) and the jewelry of Cree LaRance (Tewa/Hopi/Navajo). Much like an equinox marks a key celestial juncture when night and day are roughly equal in length, this exhibition marks a critical moment in their art careers as they share one thing in common: this is their first exhibition.
Many Indigenous artists make a living without ever seeing their work on gallery or museum walls. Talachy and LaRance are great examples of artists who have taken control of where their works are shown or sold by exclusively showing their work at various art markets.
For Talachy, the red and black clay vessels represent the beauty of mother earth as she transforms and shapes the clay by intuition.
“The pottery is all traditional clay. Digging for the clay, cleaning it, and making the mixture just right is traditional. My pots sometimes tell me what they want to be,” says Pearl Talachy. “Sometimes I can make a pot with my ideas, and sometimes the ideas are the pots.”
Inspired by his tribal heritage, LaRance has developed a style oscillating between traditional and contemporary jewelry. In his early 20s, he decided to pursue silversmithing full-time.
“The main style I was taught was tufa casting,” said LaRance. “Both of my parents are jewelers. I’ve been doing jewelry since I was a kid. Over the past ten years, I’ve tried several techniques like wax casting, stamping, and fabrication. Each piece is about experimenting. I may have this great idea for one piece, then I’ll make a mistake, or it won’t come out exactly like I wanted, but I’ll work with it. To me, this will be my legacy.”
Both Talachy and LaRance are students of the Poeh Traditional Native American Arts Class programs.
Pearl Talachy is a traditional Nambe Pueblo potter living in Nambe Pueblo and she has been an artist for nearly 50 years. Coming from a family of artists, Talachy is adamant about passing down traditional Pueblo arts knowledge to her eight grandkids and future generations.
Cree LaRance comes from a family of silversmiths. In 2021, he received the MIAC Goodman Fellowship. He has participated in various art markets across the United States.
EQUINOX opens March 31, 2023, at 10 a.m. at the Poeh Cultural Center.
New Mexico Pueblo Fiber Arts Show
May 27, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Pathways Indigenous Art Festival 2023
THE POEH CULTURAL CENTER TO CELEBRATE ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY AT ITS PATHWAYS INDIGENOUS ARTS FESTIVAL
Santa Fe’s Fastest-Growing Native Art Market to Showcase More Than 450 Artists in August
PUEBLO OF POJOAQUE, NM — The Poeh Cultural Center is pleased to announce its third annual PATHWAYS Indigenous Arts Festival at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino from August 18th through August 20th, 2023. This year also marks the 35th anniversary of the Poeh Cultural Center.
PATHWAYS has become a premier destination for visitors and collectors to discover vibrant and top-quality Indigenous artwork in diverse genres, created by well-respected artists from traditional Pueblo potters to contemporary emerging artists. The Poeh Cultural Center is committed to showcasing exceptional work from across Indian Country. What makes PATHWAYS unique is that the festival is the first satellite art market, during Indian Market weekend, to be held on tribal land.
“We’re excited to celebrate our 35th anniversary at this year’s PATHWAYS. Over the last two years, the Poeh has proven to be a regional force and a major player in Santa Fe’s cultural transformation. We couldn’t have accomplished so much if it weren’t for the support from the local arts communities,” said Karl Duncan, Executive Director of the Poeh Cultural Center. “With recent funding from the Ruth Arts Foundation, we will be able to have special round tables discussions and demonstrations from Poeh Arts Class students at this year’s PATHWAYS.”
Duncan also noted that funding from the USDA allowed the Poeh to purchase hundreds of tables and chairs and other supplies that can be used for various events, including Pathways and other Poeh Farmers and seasonal markets.
Honoring its commitment to providing opportunities and services to Indigenous artisans, the Poeh Cultural Center is adding approximately 100 booths to this year’s PATHWAYS due to popular demand. As is a tradition, the first 20 outdoor single booths are free and are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Elder and disabled artists can apply in person at the Poeh Cultural Center or can call 505-455-5041.
Further details on programming and music performers will be released in the coming months. For more information and to sign up for the Poeh newsletter, please visit poehcenter.org/pathways/
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MEDIA CONTACT
COUGAR VIGIL
OUTREACH COORDINATOR
505-455-5061
CVIGIL@POJOAQUE.ORG
Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival 2023
August 18, 2023 @ 8:00 am – August 20, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
The Poeh Cultural Center Receives A Grant from the Ruth Foundation for the Arts
Funding Will Be Used to Sustain Pueblo Arts Instructional Programs
PUEBLO OF POJOAQUE, NM – The Poeh Cultural Center (the Poeh) was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Ruth Foundation of the Arts (Ruth Arts) through its inaugural Core Grant program. This grant provides approximately $50,000 in funding to each of 84 nonprofit arts organizations – $4.5 million in total. The one-year program builds out the Foundation’s programmatic scope and geographic reach.
“We are proud to be a recipient of the Ruth Arts Foundation because of this shared vision to support artists in their communities,” said Karl Duncan, Executive Director of the Poeh Cultural Center. “Here at the Poeh, our traditional core values guide us in our programming and have led us to create free Pueblo Arts classes for the Native community and to establish community-based arts markets, such as the Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival, that feature many of our art students.”
“With these funds, traditional arts from the Pueblo People will continue to flourish into the next generation,” said Cris Velarde, Poeh’s Cultural Arts Specialist. “As an elder, we need to do everything we can to revitalize our culture because it is our identity as Tewa People.”
The Poeh Arts program was founded to help Native Americans, specifically the northern pueblo tribes and regional communities, preserve and promote the cultural arts of Northern New Mexico.
The grant adds to an already ongoing successful year of fundraising, as this is the second grant received from Ruth Arts. The first was received in the spring of 2022, obtained through a nomination process by Santa Clara Pueblo artist Rose B. Simpson.
“These programs are at once forward-facing and anchored in Ruth DeYoung Kohler II’s inimitable legacy,” says Executive Director Karen Patterson. “We’re proud to honor Ruth’s lifelong commitment to the arts by continuing to fund the organizations she personally supported and to develop new programs in her spirit of experimentation and community-building.”
These new grant programs, alongside the Artists Choice Grant announced earlier in 2022, total $12.75 million in grantmaking by Ruth Arts. Consideration for future grant cycles will continue on an invitation-only basis as Ruth Arts grows and develops. Additional programs currently under development will be announced in the coming year. For more information about the Foundation’s grants and programming, please visit rutharts.org.
ABOUT THE POEH
Founded in 1988, the Pueblo of Pojoaque established the Poeh Cultural Center as the first permanent tribally owned and operated mechanism for cultural preservation and revitalization within the Pueblo communities of the northern Rio Grande Valley. The Poeh has since become a resource for Pueblo people to learn the arts and culture of their ancestors. The facility resembles a traditional Pueblo village with its adjacent art studio buildings and outdoor gathering areas. The Center emphasizes the arts and cultures of all Pueblo People, focusing on the Tewa-speaking Pueblos of Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, Santa Clara, Tesuque, and Nambé.
ABOUT THE RUTH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
The Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) is a new grantmaker based in the Midwest and dedicated to meeting the evolving needs and lived experiences of artists, communities, and arts organizations whose work is anchored by visual arts, performing arts, and arts education. Based in Milwaukee and national in scope, the Foundation reflects the culture and spirit of the Midwest, which long inspired its namesake and benefactor Ruth DeYoung Kohler II. Led by Executive Director Karen Patterson, as well as Program Directors Kim Nguyen and Rachel Reichert, the Foundation is a responsive and adventurous new force in the realm of arts philanthropy.
ABOUT RUTH DEYOUNG KOHLER II
A lifetime supporter of the arts, Ruth DeYoung Kohler II (1941-2020) was deeply committed to artists and consequently, broke down hierarchies and categories within the art world to center artists, support communities, and engage with overlooked art forms. She made significant contributions to the arts across the U.S., including serving as Chairman and member of the Wisconsin Arts Board, acting as a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Organization panel member and past site evaluator, as founder of the Preservation Committee of Kohler Foundation, Inc., and Director of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for more than forty years.
Among the many awards and honors Ruth received are the Governor’s Award for the Arts, Wisconsin; Visionary Award, American Craft Museum; Visionary Leadership Award, Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art; Visionary Lifetime Achievement Award, Museum of Art and Design; and honorary doctorates from various institutions of higher learning.
She believed passionately that the arts reveal who are as a people: past, present and future. She promoted equitable and inclusive access to the arts in her local community, her home state of Wisconsin, and on a national and international levels.
Source: Poeh Cultural Center and Ruth Foundation for the Arts
Media Contact: Cougar Vigil, Outreach Coordinator – cvigil@pojoaque.org
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ATALM Recognizes the Poeh Cultural Center as a Model for Museums and Cultural Centers
TEMECULA, CA – The Poeh Cultural Center received an award for the “Top Ten Models of Native Museums and Cultural Centers” from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Conference (ATALM) at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California.
The award ceremony, held Tuesday, October 25, marks a milestone in the Poeh’s ongoing commitment to serve Tewa Pueblo and the Indigenous communities. Alongside nine other tribal institutions, Karl Duncan, Executive Director of the Poeh Cultural Center accepted the award from ATALM Board of Governors member Rick West, President/CEO Autry National Center of the American West and Crosby Kemper, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
“We are humbled and grateful for this award. We are all about service and everything we do is about the people,” said Karl Duncan on receiving the award. “During the pandemic, we tried to find ways to help the community. Throughout the pandemic we did everything from meals on wheels to handing out thousands of dollars in direct financial aid to artists and people in financial need.”
ATALM recognized the Poeh Cultural Center for serving as a resource for Pueblo people to learn and continue the arts and culture of their ancestors. The Poeh Cultural Center provides a sustainable funding stream for cultural and artistic activities and stimulating knowledge of Pueblo legacies and traditions.
“We are trying to find other ways to train Native entrepreneurs and Museum professionals by utilizing what we have at the Poeh Center,” said Duncan. “This award is a nod that we are doing the right thing and that the work we do is important. I would like to thank the Pueblo of Pojoaque community, tribal council, tribal leadership, and everybody that has been a part of the Poeh story.”
Recipients of the Top Ten Model Museums and Cultural Centers Award include the Choctaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Citizen Potawatomi, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux, Shawnee, Southern Ute, Suquamish, Tribe, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Wyandotte Nation. These institutions served as models for the Culture Builds Community Project sponsored by ATALM with funding from IMLS and the National Museum of the American Indian.
ABOUT THE POEH
Founded in 1988, the Pueblo of Pojoaque established the Poeh Cultural Center as the first permanent tribally owned and operated mechanism for cultural preservation and revitalization within the Pueblo communities of the northern Rio Grande Valley. The Poeh has since become a resource for Pueblo people to learn the arts and culture of their ancestors. The facility resembles a traditional Pueblo village with its adjacent art studio buildings and outdoor gathering areas. The Center emphasizes the arts and cultures of all Pueblo People, focusing on the Tewa-speaking Pueblos of Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, Santa Clara, Tesuque, and Nambé.
Media Contact:
Cougar Vigil
505.455.5061
cvigil@pojoaque.org
SOURCE The Poeh Cultural Center
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