
2008
In decades past, Native American artists who wanted to sell to mainstream collectors had little choice but to create predictable, Hollywood-style western scenes. Then came a generation of painters and sculptors led by Allan Houser (or Haozous), a Chiricahua Apache artist with no interest in stereotyped imagery and a belief that his own rich heritage was compatible with modernist ideas and techniques. Narrated by actor Val Kilmer and originally commissioned as part of an exhibit of Houser’s work at the Oklahoma History Center, this program depicts the artist’s tribal ancestry, his rise to regional and national acclaim, and the continuing success of his sons as they expand upon and depart from their father’s achievements. Key works are documented, as is Houser’s tenure at the Santa Fe–based Institute of American Indian Arts.

Val Kilmer
Narrator (voice)

Allan Houser
Self (archive footage)

Peng. Von Augenblick und Ewigkeit

Your War (I'm One of You): 20 Years of Joan of Arc

Ashes and Snow

Tales of the American

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

Something about Mamma

But They Did: The Re-entry Of The Pike River Mine

Father

Collaboration: Ron Padgett

K'anech'oxdekdiigh: I'm Not Going to Teach You

Betliarsky park a kaštieľ

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

October 7: Bearing Witness to the Massacre

Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism

Post New Bills: The Story of Green Patriot Posters

Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet

21 rue la Boétie

Pictura

Geronimo: An American Legend