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<h1 style="font-size: 2.75rem;">Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection</h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection” includes more than two hundred gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s. </span></p>
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<p><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/opowa-omeng-the-art-and-legacy-of-jody-folwell"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-109560 size-full" src="https://images.artsmia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/23155326/Jody-Folwell-Tah-p-ah-sawae-Dads-Fish-1-760x570-1-e1727125274849.jpg" alt="" width="391" height="261" /></a></p>
<h2>O’ Powa O’ Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell</h2>
<p>Potter Jody Folwell has revolutionized Pueblo pottery—and Native art more broadly—over the past five decades. Explore this free exhibition in the Cargill Gallery until January 26.</p>


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<h2>Become a Mia Member</h2>
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<h2>Youth and Family</h2>
<p>Make memories every month at Family Day, get creative in studio programs, and play and learn with your toddler in the Family Center and Mini Mia.</p>


<div style="display: none";><strong>General admission is free.</strong> Special exhibitions, classes, and some talks and special events do require <a href="http://tickets.artsmia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tickets</a>: reservations are recommended.</div>
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<li>Monday: Closed</li>
<li>Tuesday: 10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Wednesday: 10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Thursday:  10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–9<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Friday:  10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Saturday:  10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
<li>Sunday: 10<span style="font-variant: small-caps">am</span>–5<span style="font-variant: small-caps">pm</span></li>
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<p><i>The museum is closed July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.</i></p>
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Plan Your Visit

Vitality Arts: Watercolor Workshop 2.0

Vitality Arts: Portraiture for Everyone!

Vitality Arts: The Art of Weaving: An Introduction to Frame Loom Weaving

<p>Tapestry weaving has been practiced across cultures for more than two thousand years and is a fascinating contemporary art form. Weavings can be created using inexpensive tools and simple techniques, making it a highly engaging and accessible medium.</p>
<p>This five-session workshop, led by visual artist, designer, and tapestry weaver Lynda Monick-Isenberg, will teach you how to weave patterns and pictorial designs in brilliant colors and textures. You will prepare the frame loom, practice fundamental weaving techniques, and finish the textile—all within a collaborative learning environment. We will visit Mia’s galleries to view works in the museum’s textile collection and learn about tapestry’s place in historical and contemporary art.</p>
<p>Tuesdays (five weeks), 1 to 4 p.m.<br />
November 12–December 10, 2024<br />
Studio 112 at Mia<br />
No experience necessary<br />
All materials provided<br />
Anyone 55+ is welcome to register</p>
<p>We offer a limited number of scholarships and a sliding scale of ticket prices to accommodate all learners.<br />
Pay what you can: $225 / $175 / $125<br />
Please email <a href="mailto:vitalityarts@artsmia.org">vitalityarts@artsmia.org</a> for scholarship information.</p>
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<p>Have you always wanted to try portrait drawing but didn’t know where to start? Mia’s beginner portraiture class will help you gain the skills and confidence to succeed at drawing the human face. Each week students will create gesture drawings, contour drawings, and even collage from a live model. We’ll explore a range of drawing styles, such as cubism, realism, and cartoon art, and take short tours of Mia’s galleries to inspire and inform our projects.</p>
<p>Wednesdays (five weeks), 1 to 4 p.m.<br />
October 23 – November 20, 2024</p>
<p>Studio 112 at Mia<br />
No experience necessary<br />
All materials provided<br />
Anyone 55+ is welcome to register</p>
<p>We offer a limited number of scholarships and a sliding scale of ticket prices to accommodate all learners.<br />
Pay what you can: $225 / $175 / $125</p>
<p>Please email <a href="mailto:vitalityarts@artsmia.org">vitalityarts@artsmia.org</a> for scholarship information.</p>
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<p>Back by Popular Demand! In this 5 week workshop students will work from observation, photographs, and their imaginations to create vibrant, delicate, and luminous works using this translucent medium. Learn new skills or refine your existing painting practice.</p>
<p>Students will learn traditional and non-traditional approaches to watercolor painting, including how to transfer an existing drawing to be used as the base for a painting, how to execute washes and blends, and how to achieve a variety of textures. Traditional techniques such as wet on wet, wet-on-dry, and dry brush will be demonstrated.</p>
<p>Wednesdays (five weeks) 1:00-4:00PM<br />
September 18, 2024 – October 16, 2024</p>
<p>Studio 112 at Mia<br />
No experience necessary<br />
All materials provided<br />
Anyone 55+ is welcome to register</p>
<p>We offer a limited number of scholarships and a sliding scale of ticket prices to accommodate all learners.<br />
Pay what you can: $225 / $175 / $125</p>
<p>Please email <a href="mailto:vitalityarts@artsmia.org">vitalityarts@artsmia.org</a> for scholarship information.</p>
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"Vitality Arts Workshop: Exploring Watercolor" on view at Mia.

Upcoming Events 

Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month with classic photography

The Tibetan Sand Mandala: A Short History

A shrine to understanding: How a major collection of Tibetan religious objects came to Mia

Becoming art smart: How Mini Mia helps preschoolers discover the value of creativity—and museums

Black and white photo showing Andean peasants in church

Mandala of colored sand on wood; Close up of outermost series of concentric bands; outermost represents burial grounds with a landscape and animals; moving inward are a circle of flames, a circle of 'vajras' and a circle of lotus petals

A glittering gold figure of a deity with hands crossed.

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An older woman an a child join other families at Mini Mia in May 2024.

Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection

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O’ Powa O’ Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell

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