Indian Market is one of Santa Fe's most popular events, so this year we've put together a special calendar of Indian Market events to make life just a bit easier. Now, where you're going to park...that's up to you.
Thursday/17
Indian Market/SWAIA Benefit
Vanessie
434 W. San Francisco St., 982-9966
4:30 pm-close
You need a place to eat and you love piano music, right? So Vanessie is the place to go, with a percentage of all sales benefiting Southwestern Association for Indian Arts.
Friday/18
Award-Winning Artwork Preview and Silent Auction
Inn and Spa at Loretto
211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-5220
7:30-9:30 pm
The preview and silent auction, open only to SWAIA members, has been held at the Sweeney Center for years. Now that Sweeney is a pile of dust, the Inn at Loretto is picking up the slack. If you're not a member, you better join up!
Saturday/19
Indian Market
Santa Fe Plaza, 983-5220
7 am-5 pm
More than 1,000 artists will fill the Plaza and surrounding streets this year for Santa Fe's biggest art event. This is the reason you drove all the way here from...wherever, so get up early, grab some coffee, slather on that sunscreen and drop the kids' inheritence on art.
Youth Indian Market
First National Bank Parking Lot, 983-5220
7 am-5 pm
Sometimes a young artist isn't following in his parents' tradition. These young artists don't have family in the Market to show alongside, so they get their very own mini-market.
Indian Market Stage Events
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Santa Fe Plaza Gazebo, 983-5220
7 am
In addition to words of welcome and an opening prayer, the Black Eagle drum group, which won itself a Grammy in 2004, will perform and the non-profit group, HawkQuest, presents a real live American Bald Eagle.
9 am
HawkQuest has come all the way from Colorado for three presentations, featuring live birds of prey.
Noon
SWAIA honors the winners of this year's Lifetime Achievement, Povika and Fellowship awards.
12:30 pm
HawkQuest swoops in again with their second presentation featuring birds of prey.
1:40 pm
Radmilla Cody sings traditional and original Navajo songs.
2:30 pm
Native folk, rock and flute might sound like an odd combination, but when in the hands of the Bill Miller Trio, they're Grammy award-winning magic.
3:10 pm
The Spirit Wind Pueblo Singers show off their New Mexico pride with traditional song and dance from throughout the New Mexican Pueblo cultures.
3:30 pm
The Walatowa language is only spoken by a few in the Jemez region of northern New Mexico. Elders from the Jemez Pueblo share it with us through hymn.
Indian Market Book Tent
Santa Fe Plaza, 983-5220
9 am
Tim Giago, president of the Native American Journalists Foundation, Inc., and publisher of Indian Education Today Magazine, signs his latest work,
Children Left Behind
.
10 am
Andrea Portago presents her beautiful
Classic Hopi & Zuni Kachina Figurines
.
11 am
Art continues to dominate the book tent throughout the morning with Shelby Tisdale's
Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest
.
Noon
Children's authors Jonathan Warm Day and Kristy Orona-Ramirez share tales from and about youth through their respective works
Taos Pueblo Painted Stories
and
Kiki's Journey
.
1 pm
Lee Marmon's photography comes alive in
Pueblo Imagination
and Joe S Sando and Herman Agoyo get political with
Po'pay: Leaders of the First American Revolution
,
Pueblo Profiles
and
Pueblo Nations
.
2 pm
Painting the Underworld Sky
is Mateo Romero's unique vision come to life, and complements the more down-to-earth
American Indian Baskets I
, from Greg Schaaf.
3 pm
Saints of the Pueblos
author Charlie Carrillo and Robert Bauvar, who penned
Navajo and Pueblo Earrings
, pair up for a little spirit with jewels.
4 pm
Remember this year's Indian Market all year long with Ken Blackbird's lovely
Indian Country Calendar
.
Sunday/20
Indian Market
Santa Fe Plaza, 983-5220
8 am-5 pm
Getting started an hour later on a lazy Sunday, this is your last chance for a whole year!
Youth Indian Market
1st National Bank Parking Lot, 983-5220
8 am-5 pm
Indian Market Stage Events
Santa Fe Plaza Gazebo, 983-5220
9 am
The crowd favorite Clothing Contest takes the stage early with both traditional and contemporary fashion.
Noon
Live birds of prey flock to the Plaza for the 3rd and final HawkQuest presentation.
1:40 pm
Native fusion from Anaheah blends instrumentation and tradition by this intertribal group.
2:30 pm
Shelly Morningsong has shared the stage with Charlie Daniels, Juice Newton and Robert Mirabal; now she and her guitar take it over alone.
3:10 pm
Soni is known as 1/3 of the group Ulali; for this performance he sings and drums solo.
3:30 pm
New Mexico's own Moeity adds a modern touch to Native American music and instrument.
4 pm
The end has to come sometime, but it comes with flair in the form of a closing ceremony and, of course, thank yous.
Indian Market Book Tent
Santa Fe Plaza, 983-5220
9 am
Johnny Rustywire starts the day off right with his fictional account of growing up on the Rez in
Navajo Spaceships
.
10 am
David Gomez and Anna Marie Houser sign books on two of Native America's most recognizable artworks, turquoise and the work of Allan Houser.
11 am
Roberta John's pride is at the forefront in her two works,
Red is Beautiful
and
Proud to be a Blacksheep
.
Noon
Perhaps a touch of politics with your lunch, from authors Greg Cajete (
A People's Ecology
) and Simon Ortiz (
Men on the Moon
,
Speaking for the Generations
and
The People Shall Continue
).
1 pm
Sunpainters
author Baje Whitethorne shares the tent with Marian Rodee and her works
One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs
,
The Fetish Carvers of Zuni
and
Zuni: A Village of Silversmiths
.
3 pm
Indian Market's final author signings showcase Barbara Harjo and her
Artistic Tastes
as well as the prolific Marcia Keegan, who writes everything from books on
Pueblo Girls
to the
Southwest Indian Cookbook
.
