Transcending Duality: The Santa Fe Studio Style

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Nov 17 2018 - Feb 18 2019

The young artists at Santa Fe Indian School, like Native students all over the country, left their homes behind to get an education at a government operated boarding school. For many, art became a way to maintain a relationship with their now distant sources of identity. They developed a distinctive style building on traditional symbolism and activities such as hunting, tending sheep and attending ceremonies. This visually dynamic exhibition, rich in color and symbolic meaning, looks at the work created by some of the Southwest’s greatest Native painters, including: Awa Tsireh, Ma Pe Wi, Fred Kabotie, Otis Polelonema, Tonita Pena, Julian Martinez, Abel Sanchez, Harrison Begay, Quincy Tahoma, Andy Tsinajinnie, Allan Houser, Robert Chee, Ha So Deh, Pablita Velarde, and Beatien Yazz

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.          

  • Various Media
  • Indigenous
  • 20th Century
  • Awa Tsireh
  • Ma Pe Wi
  • Fred Kabotie
  • Otis Polelonema
  • Tonita Pena
  • Julian Martinez
  • Abel Sanchez
  • Harrison Begay
  • and others

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