I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

In 1956 Scholder graduated from Ashland High School in Wisconsin and took his freshman year at Wisconsin State University in Superior where he studied with Arthur Kruk James Grittner and Michael Gorski. Cannon. That year Scholder returned to Santa Fe to open an exhibition Alone/Not Alone at Chiaroscuro Gallery.

Fritz Scholder (October 6 1937 – February 10 2005) was one of the most renowned Native American artists of the 20th century. Scholder's most influential works were post-modern in sensibility and somewhat Pop Art in execution as he sought to deconstruct the mythos of the American Indian.