Inspiration related to creativity, the creative process and writing sometimes comes when you least expect it. Like when you’re on vacation and trying your hardest not to think about work at all.
During a recent trip to Denver, the friends I had gone to visit and I went to the Denver Art Museum to see the Super Indian: Fritz Scholder exhibition that will there their until January 17, 2016. Fritz Scholder, who is a quarter Native American and a registered member of the Luiseño tribe, was the first artist to veer away from the noble savage depiction of American Indians. Not only did his revolutionary imagery, a blend of figurative, abstract and pop art, challenge romantic stereotypes by showing Native Americans in contemporary settings, it often revealed the ugly side of their new reality.
It’s hard not to be moved by the vibrancy of the Scholder’s color palette or the occasional darkness of his subject matter. What surprised me more, however, was how much I was moved by his words about creativity and the creative process. 
Scholder once said, “The positive does not exist without the negative, and the role of the artist is not to compromise, but to express the truth with all the power of which he is capable.” That’s just the start.
Meet Fritz Scholder, his insights and his art.
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