Art and Artists: Contemporary
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Arts, Social Science
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Native Americans, American Indians, Crafts
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: Drawing both on antiquity and on the present, Indian artists depict their history, legends, insights, and sorrows
Contemporary American Indian art was spawned by the mid-1960’s Civil Rights movement and the 1962 founding of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. By the late 1960’s, the innovative work of Fritz Scholder (Luiseño) and his student T. C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo) had alerted other American Indian artists to new ways of depicting the world. Today’s Indian artists balance the traditional and the contemporary,...
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