Through Their Eyes: Paintings from the Santa Fe Indian School
Exhibition Dates
May 17, 2009 - April 18, 2010
Featured Image Details Below
This exhibition focused on paintings from the Charlotte G. Mittler collection created by students who attended the Santa Fe Indian School between 1919 and 1945. Featured artists included Fred Kabotie, Velino Shjie Herrera, Allan Houser, Andrew Tsinjinnie, Pablitia Velarde, and Sybil Yazzie.
The Santa Fe Indian School has long been considered the birthplace of contemporary Native American easel painting. What has been written about the Santa Fe Indian School Studio and its place within the development of contemporary Native American painting concentrates largely on the patronage and the uniqueness of Santa Fe’s non-Native artistic and intellectual communities.
The purpose of this exhibition was to give voice to a Native American perspective and to reveal how these paintings reflect Native American thought and life as seen through the eyes of the youth during the years between the two world wars.
A catalog written by Michelle McGeough (Metis) accompanied this exhibit and is available at the Case Trading Post.
Featured Image Details
Untitled. Fred Kabotie (Nayayoma). Hopi. 1920-1930. 16.5″ x 22.75″
Previously On View
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.
The exhibition focused on Hopi weaver, Ramona Sakiestewa’s work and included traditional, contemporary, and commissioned pieces.
Admission: $10.00
Free for Museum Members, Native Americans, children under 12, students with a valid ID, and active military.
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