Excerpts from "The Jacobson House, 1930"

A Theatrical Storytelling by Russ Tallchief. The historic Jacobson House Native Art Center in Norman, OK, presents "The Jacobson House, 1930," a theatrical storytelling which transports gallery guests back in time to join Oscar Jacobson and his wife, Jeanne d'Ucel, for an art talk and dance demonstration with the renowned artists known as "The Kiowa Five." The performance will took place on April 27, at the Jacobson House, located at 609 Chautauqua Ave (the corner of Boyd Street), on the University of Oklahoma campus.
"Kiowa Five" were actually six artists in total: Spencer Asah (1905 or 1910-1954); Jack Hokeah (1902-1969); Stephen Mopope (1898-1974); and Monroe Tsatoke (1904-1937); and Lois (Bougetah) Smoky (1907-1981), the youngest and only female member of the group, who was later replaced by James Auchiah (1906-1974).
The Kiowa Five's work marked the genesis of contemporary Native art in Oklahoma, as well as Native art as a distinctly American art. The art which emerged from this group of determined and passionate Kiowas was a visual memoir of their own religio-cultural experiences, as well as the preservation of the cultural memories of their Kiowa elders of life before the reservation, government schools, and assimilation. While the art of the Kiowa Five is important in its artistic merit, the Kiowa cultural expression preserved in their painting is also vitally important as an archive of Kiowa culture. Kiowa and other American Indian artists that have followed the Kiowa Five to the University of Oklahoma's School of Art continue to preserve the history of contemporary Native art, while also evolving Native art in their own respective artistic voices.

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• Kiowa
• Five
• Spencer
• Asah
• Jack
• Hokeah
• Stephen
• Mopope
• Monroe
• Tsatoke
• Lois
• (Bougetah)
• Smoky
• James
• Auchiah