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Well-attended opening day in Snåsa and Steinkjer when the Arctic Highways art exhibition opened on 19 June

The touring exhibition Arctic Highways has opened at its final destination before it finds its permanent home in Granö. In collaboration between Saemien Sijte in Snåsa and Steinkjer Culture House, the art exhibition is on display until 19 September 2025. Steinkjer is located a few miles north of Trondheim and Snåsa a few more miles further north. The exhibition opened at 12 noon in Snåsa […]

Don't miss: Grand Opening of Arctic Highways in Snåsa and Steinkjer, Norway, 19 June 2025

In a collaboration between Saemien Sijte in Snåsa and Steinkjer cultural centre, the art exhibition Arctic Highways opens on Friday 19th June 2025. Steinkjer is located a few miles north of Trondheim, and Snåsa a few miles further north. The touring exhibition has been travelling around North America since 2022. Washington DC, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Minneapolis and Santa Fe in the USA, and Whitehorse […]

Winter greeting from AIAI in Santa Fe. The Arctic Highways exhibition has been seen by more than 12,000 visitors. On display until 2 March.

The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) reports that 12,282 visitors had seen the exhibition up to January 13th, and that 180 exhibition catalogues had been sold, making the catalogue one of their bestsellers. The exhibition has not only attracted the local public. Most visitors have travelled to Santa Fe to see the exhibition. And the visitors have been […]

The Arctic Highways exhibition has now opened in Santa Fe. At the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA)

The exhibition ”Arctic Highways” has now reached its seventh and final stop in North America before it returns to Europe and finally to Granö in Västerbotten. Jan Wejdmark, initiator of the exhibition, and Patsy Philips, director of the IAIA museum, inaugurated the exhibition. All of the exhibition's curators – Tomas Colbengtson, Gunvor Guttorm, Dan Jåma, Britta Marakatt-Labba – were present at the inauguration […]

Arctic Highways - Part of this year's ”Santa Fe Indian Market” 16-18 Aug 2024

For the 102nd time, the ”Santa Fe Indian Market” is being organised. Three days when Santa Fe's stages, parks, and ”La Plaza” are filled with markets, art, dance, music, fashion, seminars, and discussions. A thousand artists belonging to the indigenous peoples of America come to this classic event every year. This year, the opening of Arctic Highways is part of the programme. Thomas [...]

Arctic Highways was a success in Minneapolis. The exhibition is now moving on to Santa Fe, where it opens on 16 August 2024.

The exhibition period for the art exhibition Arctic Highways at The American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, which had been on display since 4th February 2024, concluded on 26th May 2024. As you can read in previous posts, the exhibition was a success in terms of both visitor numbers and media attention. Furthermore, the exhibition inspired new exhibitions and activities to be started on the theme of indigenous peoples. […]