SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market

More than 1,200 artists from 220 tribes compete in a rigorous process to show at the SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, held every August in the Santa Fe Plaza. Art ranges from pottery and jewellery to textile weavings, paintings, beadwork, and basketry by well-known artists like Comanche painter Nocona Burgess. Graffiti artists Jaque Fragua, El Mac, Yatika Starr Fields, and Hoka Skenandore were launched onto the national stage through their showings at the event in 2013, and the market has increasingly sought to include a variety of creative forms in the week-long celebration. Where beadwork and ceramic works once dominated the entire show, book signings, fashion, performance art, theatre, photography, and music are increasingly finding a home in the market’s diverse mix.
Good to know: The market takes place the first or second week of August each year.