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Newsletter Volume XII, No.4 July 1999 ALLAN HOUSER GIVING INCENTIVE Allan Houser (1914-1994), distinguished Native American sculptor and painter, grandson of the legendary Chiricahua Apache chief Mangas Coloradas, began his formal art training when he entered The Studio, established by Dorothy Dunn at the Santa Fe Indian School. In the late 1930's, he ran a small studio of his own in Santa Fe with the Navajo painter, Gerald Nailor, and his paintings were exhibited in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. He supported his family during World War II doing war-related industrial work in Los Angeles and from 1951 to 1962 Houser was teacher and artist-in-residence at the Inter-Mountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah. When the Institute of American Indian Arts succeeded the The Studio in Santa Fe in 1962, Houser was a member of the founding faculty. He retired as the head of the sculpture department in 1975 to devote himself fully to his own work. His numerous honors included a Guggenheim Fellowship (1949), Les Palmes Academiques awarded by the French Government (1954), and the National Medal of Arts (1992). Houser's sculptures and paintings have been collected widely by American institutions, and in the last decade of his life, major exhibitions of his work were held in Berlin, Paris, Vienna and Tokyo. The NAASA board of directors is pleased and honored to accept a donation of 100 posters (see photo at right) from Allan Houser Incorporated to be given to donors supporting scholarship funds distributed by NAASA. Minimum donations of $40 in U.S. funds can be sent to Bill Mercer, Portland Art Museum.