Always in Relation: Artworks from the Schultz Collection
Exhibition Dates
May 12, 2023 – January 8, 2024
Location Details
Schultz Gallery
Aways in Relation: artworks from the Schultz collection featured more than a hundred works including jewelry, 2D art, vessels and objects from the Estate of Ruth and Sidney Schultz. While some collections can be seen as an expression of taste and personal aesthetics, they are more importantly a map of mutual relationships developed over time. Works of art hold stories and memories; they always exist in relation.
Moving to New Mexico in the 1950s, Sidney (1921-2022) and Ruth (1923-2019) Schultz became passionate and prodigious accumulators of Indigenous North American art. Teenage sweethearts, the couple left their mark on the Southwest arts community in multiple ways. Sid was an orthopedic surgeon who performed one of the first total hip replacements in New Mexico and offered his services in exchange for artworks. Ruth was active in devising the Standards for SWAIA, a donor and Board member to the Wheelwright Museum and the Albuquerque Museum.
Always in Relation explored the beginnings of the Schultz’s relationship with the Southwest, a relationship forged for Ruth through a love of jewelry most particularly that of Kenneth Begay. The exhibit charted the Schultz’s growing appreciation for Indigenous arts, their deep relationships with artists, and how this growing passion was part of their dedication to the area. Always in Relation combined art, interviews and archives and was co-curated by Wheelwright Executive Director Henrietta Lidchi, Gail Bird (Santo Domingo Pueblo/Laguna Pueblo) and Yazzie Johnson (Navajo).
Always in Relation featured the work of artists both living and deceased including: Marcus Amerman (Choctaw), Kenneth Begay (Navajo), Shonto Begay (Navajo), Cippy Crazyhorse (Cochiti Pueblo), Teri Greeves (Kiowa), Ron Honyouti (Hopi), Darrell Jumbo (Navajo), Allen Kee (Navajo), Clarence Lee (Navajo) Charles Loloma (Hopi), Preston Monongye (Mission/Mexican), Johnny Pablo (Navajo), Norbert Peshlakai (Navajo), Leo Poblano (Zuni Pueblo), Sylvia Begay Radcliffe (Navajo), Kay Begay Rogers (Navajo), Liz Wallace (Navajo/Washo/Maidu), Wes Willie (Navajo), Denise Wallace (Chugach Sugpiaq) and Raymond Yazzie (Navajo) among many others.
The exhibition had a small accompanying booklet.
Previously On View
The multi-generational history of Native American painting as a woman’s art in the Southwest can be traced through the work of three women.
January 11, 1987 – February 21, 1987
Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage: Contemporary Art by Native American Women
The Native American Arts and Service Organization sponsored traveling exhibit, Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage-Contemporary Art by Native American Women.
Admission: $10.00
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