I went to Santa Fe to work on the administrative consolidation of an art school for Native Americans. It was a program at the Poeh Center founded by George Rivera. He had worked as a student and then as my assistant at Lacoste and became a good friend.
The Tewa pueblo culture is an incredibly rich one and a major goal of the Poeh Center is to help keep it alive and revitalize it. Unschooled about Native American culture, I learned an incredible amount, with the help of so many: students, teachers, administrators at the school, and many others.
The landscape of northern New Mexico was quite an instructor also. I enjoyed many drives to the north to draw at Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch. Those works on paper were never photographed.
I also made two sculptures and the photographs follow.
