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Hardridge’s latest work “Unbridled” is on view at Santa Fe’s Blue Rain Gallery. The artist grew up in central Oklahoma surrounded by the artistic traditions of his culture. His formal training includes a fine arts degree in illustration and painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Later studies at France’s Nadaï Verdon Atelier of Decorative Arts emphasized harmony and composition. Hardridge once painted in a very traditional, muted style until the 2014 death of his father triggered a seismic stylistic change. “I was going through a transitional period in painting,” he said in a telephone interview from Knoxville, Tennessee. “I was studying the beadwork and trying to put together work representing loss and resistance at the same time, and the narrative of Southeast Native removal from Alabama to Oklahoma.” ....
Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit Glenn Adamson National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. What would burn, they burned. They crushed the rest underfoot. And when they were done, they blew up the whole thing with dynamite. The year was 1935. The setting, just a few miles outside of Spiro, Oklahoma. Centuries earlier, indigenous Americans had invested this site with great spiritual significance. On top of a sacred mound built by their own ancestors, they constructed a hollow chamber and placed within it a cache of valuable objects: textiles, engraved shells, copper axes and plates, wooden sculptures, large-scale effigy pipes. This “King Tut’s Tomb in the Arkansas Valley” (as one 1930s newspaper put it) was one of the most important archaeological repositories in America, indeed, the world. Yet it was all but completely destroyed in a moment of casual vandalism. ....