Loloma: Beauty Is His Name by Martha Hopkins Streuver. Paperback.

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Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum, May - October 2005.

Text by Martha Hopkins Struever, guest curator of the exhibition

Photos by Addison Doty

With the assistance of Jonathan Batkin and Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle

224 pages

279 color and 13 black-and-white illustrations

11" x 9"

Softcover $45, plus shippping/handling $15 BJ278S

The catalog features nearly 450 examples of Loloma's work, together with jewelry by his two apprentices, Verma Nequatewa and Eveli Sabatie.

Charles Loloma (Hopi, 1921-1991) is arguably the most influential Native American jeweler of the twentieth century. An artist of astonishing creative energy, he found fame as a jeweler, ceramist, painter, and poet. He traveled extensively and seemed comfortable among affluent art connoisseurs. His bold, innovative designs departed dramatically from Hopi cultural beliefs, yet he was intensely traditional and served as a religious leader in his native community of Hotevilla.

Loloma was a powerful artistic force, an undisputed master who personally broke down the barriers of regionalism and helped give contemporary Native American art worldwide recognition. He was also a gentle man who enjoyed people and cared deeply about their responses to his jewelry.

This exhibition catalog includes substantial information about Loloma never before published, as well as illustration of the most comprehensive grouping of his work ever assembled, comprising jewelry, ceramics, and other items made between 1939 and 1989.