History
The Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development was a collaborative vision by an artist and Arizona-based real estate developer Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee) and Dr. George Boyce. IAIA is congressionally chartered, and was created by an executive order of former American President John F. Kennedy in 1962. In 1986, IAIA was granted non-profit, congressionally chartered status. The IAIA board of trustees were appointed by the President of the United States. In 1992 the IAIA Museum, which houses more than 7,000 piece National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art, opened in downtown Santa Fe. The college offered its first bachelor's degrees in 2001, and in 2006 graduated 43 students.
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