From the Editor

Front Cover: BROKEN MASK-Allan Houser, Artist's Collection SIOUX PORTRAIT - Fritz Scholder, Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin EARTH RAINBOW, Bracelet-Charles Loloma, Private Collection Back Cover: REFLECTIONS - R. C. Gorman, Elliott Glasser Collection POTTERY MINIATURES - Joseph Lonewolf and Grace Medicine Flower, Private Collection WINTER AWAKENING OF THE O-KHOO-WAH - Helen Hardin, James T. Bialac Collection

From the Editor: This edition was conceived some two years ago after our first exposure to the Charles Loloma film over Channel 8, Public Broadcasting Service's Station KAET, Arizona State University at Tempe. Jack Peterson was the executive producer and the film was shot on location on the Hopi mesas. Several months later we met Jack Peterson at one of Tanner's All-Indian Show previews and were fascinated by his projected plans to film more noted Indian artists. Late in 1975 Jack telephoned to invite us to view some pre-edited footage on the new American Indian Artist series. We had known the artists mostly through their art and at several art gallery "meet the artist" confrontations where the images are perceived vaguely through people and cocktail glasses. Seeing the artist as "plain people" in his native environment is something else. We thought that during this Bicentennial Year, television viewers would be rewarded and amazed at seeing the American Indian Artists series over their local public television channel. We are proud of this Arizona product and especially of the talented young people on the KAET production staff.

We had known the artists mostly through their art and at several art gallery "meet the artist" confrontations where the images are perceived vaguely through people and cocktail glasses. Seeing the artist as "plain people" in his native environment is something else. We thought that during this Bicentennial Year, television viewers would be rewarded and amazed at seeing the American Indian Artists series over their local public television channel. We are proud of this Arizona product and especially of the talented young people on the KAET production staff.

In the pure sense of metaphor we share symbiotic interest in the field of communications, and hope this presentation will create a broad public awareness for this outstanding series attesting to the character and quality of a very special kind of Native American. These are "The Great Ones," the trail cutters who are establishing new channels into the mainstream of national and international art.

The name Joseph Stacey is a familiar one on this page. He was, of course, Editor until his retirement last December 31. Joe has made a valuable contribution with this issue to the ARIZONA HIGHWAYS "Collector Series" he began in 1974.

Next Month: Writer Joe Stocker will take readers on a tour of Arizona's famed Apache Trail. There was at least one "goodfellow" living in Tombstone during its heyday. Historical writer John Hubner will tell about Dr. Goodfellow, who became something of an expert in treating what else? gunshot wounds. We will also look at the ever-popular Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Navajo Community College. Our color section concentrates on those lighting conditions for which Arizona is so popular sunrises and sunsets.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

AUGUST 1976 VOL. 52, NO. 8 James E. Stevens, Director of Publications Tom C. Cooper, Editor Wesley Holden, Associate Editor Marvin Beck, Circulation Manager

Raul H. Castro, Governor of Arizona

This Issue: American Indian Artists Series

Non-Indian Americans seem to have a boundless desire to learn more about Indians, Indianism and their arts and crafts. The American Indian Artists Film Series adds new dimensions to the art of understanding the Indian as an individual and as an artist on his home ground.

Television assures the viewer the best reception of all, easy and relaxed, so that the Indian artist and his art can be interpreted and evaluated with minimal barriers. We, through the printed page and impact of superb Microcolor graphics hope to motivate our readers to check their Public Television for dates of the American Indian Artists Series showings.

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