CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Artist in Residence Program

Gateway to Ancient Cultures

October 2025 COMING SOON

An entire ancient metropolis, and one of the vital crossroads of Anasazi-Chacoan culture, the ancestral culture to today’s Rio Grande Pueblos. Chaco Culture NHP consists of ten+ ancient village complexes nestled in a long valley of dramatic cliffs and buttes. This park, because it is one of the least visited, is truly a secret jewel for artistic inspiration. Open to all artists, writers musicians, or performance artists.

Gateway to Ancient Cultures.

Founded as an Antiquities Monument in 1907, Chaco Culture National Historical Park was operated for most of the 20th century as an anthropological storehouse of knowledge and evidence of the Anasazi-Chacoan Culture, and are considered sacred ancestral homelands to the Hopi and Pueblo people. This beautiful and isolated complex preserves the historical traces of the sacred ancestral culture to many of the existing pueblos of the Southwest.
The park is also a Dark Skies certified location, one of the ideal places for astronomy and astrophotography. The Monument expanded to its present boundaries and park designation in 1980.

The park is located in the open plains of Northwestern New Mexico, sharing borders with the Navajo Nation and BLM land. A UNESCO World Heritage Site with Dark Sky certification, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States and one of the best sites in the world for archaeoastronomy and its interpretation.

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