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NMAEA is an affiliate of NAEA and members enjoy dual membership. When you join one you join both. 

In 2018, the State of New Mexico adopted the National Core Arts Standards. Find these standards here.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that art education in New Mexico is taking place on occupied indigenous land of 23 tribes. It’s important that we acknowledge the history and ongoing colonization of where we live and work here and in our country. It’s also important to acknowledge our own place in the story of colonization. We don’t pretend to know the answers in undoing the ugly legacy of colonization, but at the very least, we can be accountable and deepen our understanding of our individual and our collective responsibility in fighting for change. As a member of NMAEA, we each have the opportunity to work for change.​

Adapted from a speech by Maria Archuleta 

 

Native tribes of New Mexico:​

  • Jicarilla Apache Nation

  • Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation

  • Ohkay Owingeh

  • Navajo Nation

  • Pueblo of Acoma

  • Pueblo of Cochiti

  • Pueblo of Jemez

  • Pueblo of Isleta

  • Pueblo of Laguna

  • Pueblo of Nambe

  • Pueblo of Picuris

  • Pueblo of Pojoaque

  • Pueblo of San Felipe

  • Pueblo of San Ildefonso

  • Pueblo of Sandia

  • Pueblo of Santa Ana

  • Pueblo of Santa Clara

  • Pueblo of Santo Domingo

  • Pueblo of Taos

  • Pueblo of Tesuque

  • Pueblo of Zia

  • Ute Mountain Tribe

  • Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation​

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    Black Lives Matter

    New Mexico Art Education Association affirms the heartfelt stance articulated by NAEA President-elect, Dr. James H. Rolling, Jr., in Black Lives Matter: An Open Letter to Art Educators on Constructing an Anti-racist Agenda. The heinous murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought to the forefront of our awareness the tenacious grip of injustice against Black men and women in the United States. This injustice has gone overlooked by many throughout our history as a nation.  As Dr. Rolling states in the Open Letter, any organization “that is not actively anti-racist is complicit with the outcomes of a society that has long institutionalized its racism.” As New Mexico art educators facing cultural and racial conflict in our own state’s history and present times, we acknowledge our failure to be anti-racist, creating structural and systemic change and equitably shaping human potential. Racism “violently impacts the lives of those we are entrusted to teach and protect.” With justice for our colleagues, our students, and their families as our goal, we seek to transform art education by collaborating to disrupt racism. 

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