He also founded the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1961 ... The textiles are adorned with nature-driven patterns from other notable Native designers who collaborated with his fashion house ...

Its female maker represented her community’s symbiotic relationship to the land and corn harvest in a snaking geometric pattern ... Native American designs with a Western modernist aesthetic.

His resistance is palpable in his aesthetic sensibility ... the artist draws on his heritage of Native American iconography for his work, which also takes equally from the history of modernism.