Institute of American Indian Arts

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.

From 1962 to 1979, IAIA ran a high school program, and began offering college- and graduate-level art courses in 1975.

In 1991 the college founded the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, now the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), in downtown Santa Fe, with a focus on contemporary intertribal Native American art, the MoCNA is housed in the historic Santa Fe Federal Building (the old Post Office), a landmark Pueblo Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

IAIA generally serves geographically isolated populations of Native Americans that have few other means of accessing education beyond the high school level.

Songs are selected from the Plains, Eastern, Great Basin, Southwest and Northwest Coast areas of Indian Country.

IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, 2004