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"Kiowa Chanter"
14" High
Series Limit 20
Artist, Jack Osmer.
Photographed by
Peter Bloomer.
26
Pastel,
"Don Padilla"
Artist.
Theron Imlay.
Collection of
Valley National •
Bank,
Phoenix, Arizona
Photographer:
Phil Dunham
'Pueblo Buffalo Dance"
the AICA has for the western historical
accomplishments of the people of San
Dimas."
The AICA is a forum for the artists
who have strong convictions in the
American way of life, who have faith that
man can bridge the gap of apprehensions
and fear that separate men of different
origins and ideologies and who
believe in the benefits of goodwill and
trust. In a sense, AICA artists are historians
and therefore must, in their visual
essays, speak with trust and authenticity
so that history is not betrayed in
the eyes of future generations. Agreed,
history is viewed differently by people of
varied ethnic and sociological backgrounds,
and so it's true that the works
of the AICA speak in varied tongues,
though eloquently of different times and
beginnings.
These requirements to promote good-
. will and understanding, to demonstrate
that peoples of different historical backgrounds
can work together in harmony
and trust and to depict the courage and
daring found among American Indians
and Caucasians in their struggle to build
America's evolving West, demands of
the membership a bigness of spirit and
the realization of the potential for nobility
in man. Thus, above all things, its
members must have a great capacity for
maturity, the ability to live up to responsibility
and dependability.
Each year, nationally accepted invitational
artists are invited to exhibit with
the AICA. Together they compete for
nominations in each of the show's five
categories: oil, watercolor, mixed media,
drawing and sculpture. From the nominations
one in each category is judged as
Desert/April 1979