The City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department is pleased to announce Winoka Yepa has been appointed a City of Santa Fe Arts Commissioner by Mayor Alan Webber and the City Council, effective March 13, 2023. Ms. Yepa’s term will run for two years.

Winoka Yepa (she/her/asdzaan), is Diné, originally from Shiprock, New Mexico, located on the Navajo Nation/Dinétah. Ms. Yepa brings a wealth of experience from the arts, museum, education, and Indigenous research fields. Ms. Yepa was formerly the Senior Manager of Museum Education at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, where she re-established and developed the museum’s education program and curated the museum’s first series of virtual residencies, virtual exhibitions, and first mobile application. She is currently a Data and Research Associate with Native Americans in Philanthropy and is a doctoral candidate in Education at the University of New Mexico. Ms. Yepa also serves as an advisory board member for Imagining America, a Humanities Advisor for gallupARTS, and an Education and Community Programming Advisor for Tse’Nato’. Her original position as alternate to the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission was unanimously approved at the Governing Body meeting held on August 31, 2022.  

The Arts Commission is a nine-member volunteer advisory body appointed by the Mayor with approval from the City Council. The Commission supports and advises the Arts and Culture Department as it provides leadership for city government to support arts and cultural affairs in Santa Fe.

For more information about the Arts Commission, contact the Arts and Culture Department at 505-955-6707 or artscommission@santafenm.gov