Arts and Crafts
"Native American art today is as exhilarating as a
newly formed rainbow - reaching out of the past, arching into the
future," write Inter-Tribal Ceremonial judge Clara Lee Tanner in an
issue of Arizona Highways magazine.
"Old colors blend with new themes; new colors
transform familiar motifs," she continued. Highly
individualistic styles augment or replace traditional tribal ones.
Skills have been refined and perfected; new materials have been invoked;
diamond raindrops sparkle in rays of golden sun. The results can be
dramatic, indeed startling, in their fresh, new beauty. "The
evolution of Indian art," she wrote, "has reached a new peak of
innovative, individualistic achievement that qualifies unreservedly as
fine art."
