Painting Taos; Paula Interview, Pueblo Cover

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2009

Interview with Paula (Rivera?), who talks about Taos society artists' impact on Indian individuals, including her relatives, and her conflicted feelings about positive interactions, but also how their depictions of Indians lent themselves to stereotypes. She describes Taos Pueblo history, language, and culture and stresses that Taos society artists did not bring 'art' to the Pueblo, they already had art all around them, these artists imposed and taught their style of art to some, but Peublo culture and art was always inherent and thriving in their own culture. Various shots of Taos landscape and architecture. Raw footage shot for the program, "Painting Taos." In the early 20th century, six relatively unknown painters -collectively known as the Taos Society of Artists - helped turn a small mountain village in New Mexico into the premier American art destination. PAINTING TAOS reveals how these young, ambitious artists captured the "vanishing" West for an America on the brink of modernity.