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BIO:

Marty Two Bulls Sr. is a member of the Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He spent his childhood in Rapid City, S.D. It was at the Rapid City Central High School’s student newspaper the Pine Needle, that Two Bulls first started drawing editorial cartoons.

Marty studied commercial art at the Colorado Institute of Art. Two Bulls worked television, commercial printing, and newspapers. He would become the graphics editor at the Rapid City Journal and later The Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Leaving newspapers he returned to college to finish his BFA degree at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, N.M.

His work focuses on issues of political interest to Native American peoples who have been historically persecuted and marginalized by the dominant culture, which has reduced them to a minority in their own lands.

Two Bulls embraced a growing readership of non-Natives cultivated through social media, in the hope that one Lakota man’s point of view will bring a better understanding and support for issues that affect Native American Indians.

Marty currently works as a freelance artist, graphic designer and political cartoonist.

m2bulls.com

https://www.patreon.com/m2bulls

https://www.facebook.com/martytwobulls

https://www.gocomics.com/m2bulls

https://www.instagram.com/m2bullz

https://twitter.com/m2bulls

Access to the Northern Plains Summer Art Institute 2021 application:

https://plainsart.org/northern-plains-summer-art-institute-application/

Access to the Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute 2021 application:

https://www.usd.edu/fine-arts/art/ohsai-registration

And good luck!

Oscar De Leon is a Mexican-American filmmaker based out of Fargo, ND. He often operates under his artist name, “Guero,” which roughly translates to “white boy”, a nickname he grew up with. De Leon has been working independently since the age of 18, eschewing film school to pursue his passions. He has since gone on to write, direct, and edit award-winning short films and documentaries.

As an artist, De Leon changes styles depending on the subject he’s working on. His portfolio includes a vast array of work ranging from personal music projects, podcasts, commercial writing, and screenplays.

In 2014, he and Kevin Ackley created Chamber Six Media, a media group doing both commercial and artistic work that serves as a form of expression for both artists. Together they have had success as independent filmmakers with their work being accepted into international film festivals.

Chamber Six Media: http://www.chambersixmedia.com/

The Human Family: https://www.human-family.org/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/fargoguero

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent. Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms—through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, new media, technology and repurposed materials, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st Century Indigeneity. This work provokes diverse audiences to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring, and often presents a call to action to protect land from capitalist exploits. He combines critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages.

Luger is a recipient of a 2021 United States Artists award, 2020 Creative Capital Fellow, a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, the recipient the 2020 A Blade Of Grass Artist Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art and the recipient of the Center For Crafts inaugural Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship for 2020. He is the recipient of a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants, a 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Honoree and the recipient of the Museum of Arts and Design’s 2018 inaugural Burke Prize. Luger has exhibited internationally including venues such as the Gardiner Museum, Washington Project for the Arts, Art Mûr, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, among others. He lectures, participates in residencies and large scale projects around the globe and his work is in many public collections. Luger holds a BFA in studio arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts. www.cannupahanska.com @cannupahanska #cannupahanskaluger

Website: www.cannupahanska.com

Gallery: https://www.garthgreenan.com

Social media: IG @cannupahanska #cannupahanskaluger

Upcoming exhibitions:

https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/each-other

https://mesaartscenter.com/index.php/museum/art/exhibits/cannupa

Current projects you must check out:

STTLMNT: https://www.sttlmnt.org

Future Ancestral Technologies: http://www.cannupahanska.com/fat

Do It: Home: https://curatorsintl.org/special-projects/do-it

Laura YoungBird completed her BFA, MA & BS for Art Education from Minnesota State University Moorhead. She is the former Director of Native American Art Programs at Plains Art Museum. She also taught art at Circle of Nations School in Wahpeton ND, as an Artist-in-Resident for the North Dakota Council on the Arts and Fargo Public Schools. Laura has received several awards including a 2018 First People’s Fund–Artist in Business Fellowship, Artist Initiative Grants in 2009 & 2013 from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and a Jerome Fellowship in 2003 to work & study with master potter, Richard Bresnahan at St. John’s University, MN. She recently received an Artist in Residence Fellowship from the Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM. Laura has a Masters in printmaking and is a practicing artist working in mixed media-drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramics. Her work has been shown in numerous regional and national galleries and exhibitions.

Photo Credit: Ann Arbor Miller

Jeremy Red Eagle is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. He lives in the Enemy Swim District and for employment he currently oversees the Dakota Language Institute for the tribe. This position is a great honor for him.

For the past ten plus years, he has been working diligently to learn the Dakota language from various tribal elders in order to pass it and the culture on through teaching cultural activities to both young and old.

An artist steeped in the Dakota language and culture, he is a recipient of the Minnesota Historical Societies Artist in Residence for 2019/2020 and now a fellow from the First Peoples Fund as well as a recipient of various other honors.

The foundation of Jeremy’s artwork is the Dakota culture finding expression through genuine love for his people.

Denise is an enrolled Citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Belcourt, North Dakota.

She has been involved in education for forty-four years as an Elementary teacher, Principal, and professor, earning her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate degrees from University of North Dakota. Dr. Lajimodiere is a retired Associate Professor from the School of Education, Ed. Leadership program, North Dakota State University, Fargo. She is one of the founders of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (N-NABS-HC). Denise is a poet – Dragonfly Dance; Thunderbird; Bitter Tears; His Feathers Were Chains (Oct. 2020), Children’s book author, Josie Dances (In press, 2021, and academic book author, Stringing Rosaries: The History, The Unforgivable, The Healing of Northern Plains Boarding School Survivors (2019). Denise is a traditional Jingle Dress dancer, Ojibwe Birch Bark Biting artist, and lives in a cozy cottage by a lake on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.

deniselajimodiere.com (website)

Dragonfly Dance book:

https://www.amazon.com/Dragonfly-Dance-American-Indian-Studies/dp/0870139827/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Dragonfly+dance%2C+denise+lajimodiere&qid=1612899628&s=instant-video&sr=1-1

Stringing Rosaries book:

https://epayment.ndus.nodak.edu/C22800_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=9430&SINGLESTORE=true

His Feathers Were Chains book:

https://epayment.ndus.nodak.edu/C22800_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=10486&SINGLESTORE=true

Josie Dances (children's book):

https://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/josie-dances

Facebook page about my birch bark biting art:

https://www.facebook.com/birchbarkbiting

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith calls herself a cultural arts worker. She uses humor and satire to examine myths, stereotypes and the paradox of American Indian life in contrast to the

consumerism of American society. Her work is philosophically centered by her strong traditional beliefs and political activism. Smith is internationally known as an artist, curator, lecturer, printmaker and free-lance professor as well as a mentor for she believes that Giving Back is a life philosophy. She was born at St. Ignatius Mission, raised by her father who was an illiterate horse trader, she had her social security card at age eight when she started work as a field hand year round, she worked as a waitress and in the canneries through high school. Smith earned an Art Ed degree at Framingham State, MA (now University) and a Master’s in art at the University of NM. Before completing her degree, Smith began exhibiting in NY at the Kornblee Gallery and organizing Native exhibitions. Smith organized and curated over thirty Native exhibitions in 40 plus years. Smith has given over 200 lectures at museums and universities internationally and has shown in over 125 solo exhibits and over 650 group exhibits. Her work is in collections such as Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, Quito Ecuador; the Whitney Museum NY; the Walker, Berlin Museum of Ethnology, Germany; University of Regina, Canada; the Museum of Modern Art in NY. Smith holds 5 honorary degrees and numerous awards such as: 1987 Academy of Art and Letters, Purchase Award, NY;1995 Painting Award, Fourth International Bienal, Cuenca, Ecuador S.A.; 1996 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award; 1997 Women’s Caucus for Art, Lifetime Achievement; 2005 New Mexico Governor’s Award; 2011 Inducted into the National Academy of Design; 2012 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Living Artist of Distinction; Honorary BA Degree, Salish Kootenai College, MT; 2018 Montana Governor’s Award; 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking, Southern Graphics Council International; 2019 Murray Reich Award, NY; 2020

United States Artists Fellowship. 2021 Brazilian Biennial.

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Vanessa Short Bull is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. She was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. She is a direct descendent of Chief Red Cloud, Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Little Wound, and the Ghost Dance leader Short Bull. She is a graduate of the University of South Dakota. She has served as the Co-chair for the Native Research Network. She was board member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Research Review Board and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, SD Affiliate. She was previously a Nike-endorsed fitness athlete for the N7 shoe. She resides in Philadelphia, PA.

She was the former Miss SD USA 2000 and Miss SD 2002. She has competed at both the Miss USA and Miss America Pageants. She is the first woman in South Dakota to garner both titles and was the first Native American to win both state titles. Vanessa is also a classically trained dancer. She studied Dancing at the University of Utah, Ballet West Conservatory, and School of Cleveland Ballet. She was featured in the American Indian College Fund’s campaign Have You Seen a Real Indian and in the book Real Indians. She served as an officer in the Army Reserve Medical Service Corps.

Her parents are Thomas Short Bull, President of Oglala Lakota College, and Darlene Short Bull, a retired Indian Health Service RN with over 30 yrs of service. Her husband, Major Christopher Gorham, is an entomologist with the Defense Logistics Agency, prior active duty Army officer, currently serves with the Army Reserves Medical Readiness Training Command, Ft. Dix, NJ.