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Abstract
The Institute of American Indian Arts, founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1962, has been widely credited with fostering a “New Indian Art” that removed stereotypic expectations to allow for innovation in technique, style, and subject. Students were encouraged to use their “cultural difference as a basis for creative expression,”1 and to develop strategies for modern applications of traditional forms. Hailed as a success story of minority arts education and revised Indian policy, the school met with enthusiastic response from the popular press, the federal government, and the international arts community.
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Joy Gritton
JOY GRITTON, a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, teaches art history at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the author of articles on Native American art.