Start up funding from the Administration for Native Americans allowed us to undertake sound planning and to incorporate all our ideas into the Poeh Center, which was approved by Pojoaque’s Tribal Council in 1988.


The Center’s Arts Training Program began in 1989. The first instructors went from Pueblo to Pueblo teaching the arts. They sometimes taught in an extra room in someone’s house or, even, on a porch. In 1991, the Center opened the Poeh Museum in a 1,200 square foot space that had been a pizza parlor.