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Institute of American Indian Arts
The Institute of American Indian Arts, founded in 1962, is one of only a small handful of colleges in the country dedicated specifically to Native American and Alaska Native fine arts, and the school holds land-grant status as one of the nation's tribal colleges and universities. The institute's creative writing and studio arts programs have produced a significant number of prominent contemporary Native American authors and visual artists, reflecting IAIA's specific institutional mission of supporting Indigenous artistic expression and cultural preservation. The school's small size and its Santa Fe campus, itself a globally significant hub for Southwestern and Native American art markets and galleries, give IAIA students direct connection to a broader regional artistic and cultural ecosystem supporting their work. The institute's unique mission specifically serving Native American and Alaska Native artists, combined with its integration into Santa Fe's broader Native art market and cultural institutions, has made IAIA one of the most institutionally distinctive art colleges in the entire country.
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St. John's College
St. John's College's Santa Fe campus, established in 1964 as a twin campus to the original Annapolis, Maryland location, follows the identical Great Books curriculum at both locations, letting students study, transfer between, or split their time across either the New Mexico desert or Chesapeake Bay setting. The college's curriculum remains built entirely around direct reading and small-group seminar discussion of primary source texts spanning from ancient Greek philosophy through modern science, with no traditional majors, textbooks, or elective courses offered at either campus. St. John's Santa Fe campus, set against the dramatic backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, gives the college's distinctive academic program an equally distinctive high-desert Southwest physical setting, different from its Maryland twin's more traditional colonial New England-adjacent campus environment. The college's combination of its uniquely rigorous, universally shared Great Books curriculum and its dramatic New Mexico mountain setting has made the Santa Fe campus a distinctive choice among students specifically seeking that particular primary-text-based liberal arts approach in a Southwest desert environment.
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