The Poeh Arts Program offers two training components including Vocational Education and Traditional Arts. The vocational training component is based on the burgeoning cultural tourism industry of Northern New Mexico and prepares students to become active participants in the economy while working out of their homes. The U. S. Department of Education is the fiscal sponsor of the vocational training component and has validated the program as a viable post secondary educational alternative. Articulation agreements with Northern New Mexico Community College, Institute of American Indian Arts, and the University of New Mexico allow students the flexibility of concurrent enrollment to earn transferable college credits at these partner institutions. Students are encouraged to continue their art studies at one of these partner institutions upon completion of the Poeh Arts Program. Core classes include: jewelry, pottery, stone sculpture, and arts business entrepreneurial training.		The Traditional Arts component is based on surveys of Pueblo communities, which monitor the stability of the traditional arts throughout the Keresan, Tewa, Tiwa, and Towa communities. These arts are necessary for the continued practice of Pueblo lifestyles and ceremonial activities and celebrations including hide tanning, moccasin making, embroidery, basketry, etc. Students can learn these more traditional arts such as beading, drum making, moccasin making, and hide tanning among others. These skills are in danger of being lost in many communities throughout the United States, and especially, in New Mexico. The many artistic specialties are essential to the ceremonial vitality of the Pueblo communities and account for the variety of beautiful dance regalia. Skilled artisans who have learned their highly specialized techniques from their forefathers and other community members produce everything from footwear to the feather headdresses.
Poeh Arts conducts surveys within the classrooms and communities to determine the relative "health", or stability of the arts. Based on this information, plans are developed to include funding, location, and search for master artists willing to teach these classes at the Poeh Cultural Center and sometimes in the pueblo communities. As part of the Poeh Center mission, it is our goal to preserve the traditional arts for future generations by providing these learning opportunities for all Native American people. Whether the arts are considered contemporary or traditional, the overall goal is to keep our people in their respective communities while enhancing or supplementing their incomes.