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Reflecting on the recent Wokiksuye remembrance of Robert Penn by the Dahl Art Center, Joe Williams is calling art Indigenous storytellers to start telling and representing their own stories such as Robert Penn's.

We messed up last week. We uploaded the unedited clip for the episode instead of the episode that was produced. Since we don't have an intern to blame and fire, and Joe would mean no staff would be on the podcast we will have to just offer our apologies for the mix-up. Please enjoy this redux episode of Keith Braveheart on Oscar Howe.

I want to introduce you to Angela Two Stars. She received her BFA in drawing from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. Angela is a Dakota from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate on the Lake Traverse Reservation in Sisseton South Dakota. She currently lives in St. Paul Minnesota and the first Indigenous artist to install work at the Minneapolis Sculpture in conjunction with the Walk...

Mary V. Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota) is the co-founder and creative director of Racing Magpie, a collaborative space with a Native art gallery and artist studios in Mnilúzahaŋ Otȟúŋwah (Rapid City, SD). She received her bachelor’s degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts and MFA from the University of the Arts, both degrees are in museum studies with an emphasis in exhibition design and plan...

Ann-erika White Bird is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She has a bachelor’s degree in English, Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has published poetry in various online platforms and anthologies. Her artwork is part of the permanent collection at the Denver Art Museum; one of her pieces travels in the permanent collection with the...

Emily Arthur (Eastern Band Cherokee descent) is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and serves as Chair of the Printmaking Area within the Art Department where they will host (SGCI) Southern Graphics Council Conference in March 16 – 19 2022 titled Our Shared Future. Arthur received an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and has served as a F...

Arik Williams is a Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ Dakota living on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota. Arik is gaming field agent with the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. But this seemingly dedicated civil servant has a a back story and creative side that is so fascinating. He was the youngest DJ at KSWS 89.3 FM radio station in the late 1990s and early 2000s and later KXWS 89.9 FM, a tribal radio station at th...

An internationally exhibited artist, Marwin Begaye examines the issues of cultural identity through the intersection of American Indian and popular cultures. His ongoing research investigates the technical processes related to printmaking and construction of mixed-media art. He has received numerous awards as an Artist in Residence and through juried exhibitions, often negotiating the cultivation...

Cameron Ulrich is a Cherokee Professional Theater Artist and Educator. Cameron has over 40 years of theater experience acting, directing, fight choreographing and producing theater. Cameron Holds a M.F.A. in Theater Direction from the University of South Dakota. He has worked as an educator for 28 years as a secondary teacher and adjunct professor. He is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Muddy...

https://www.hybridpress.net/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/hybridpress/ https://watermarkartcenter.org/bury-the-hatchet-prayer-for-my-pah-be-john-hitchcock/ John Hitchcock, born in Lawton Oklahoma, he is of Kiowa and Comanche decent. He’s a printmaker, musician, an educator, his CV is as long and adventurous as they come. He has been an artist in residence in Shanghai, China, Belgium, Italy, South...

Kaitlyn Jones is a Diné artist from New Mexico. Now attending the Institute of American Indian Arts, she is entering her junior year and is excited to continue her studies as a BFA major with a focus on painting. She just completed her first year as a counselor at the Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute after attending the program three years previously as a student. After graduating, Kaitlyn plans to...

Tylar Larsen is Bdewakantunwan Dakota from Cansayapi (Lower Sioux Indian Community, MN). He attended the Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute for two years as a student, and just completed his first year as a counselor. The OHSAI led him to the University of South Dakota, where he is an honors student currently studying psychology and public health. He plans to return to his community after obtaining h...

Join host Joe Williams as he sits down with Gerald Cournoyer and Inkpa Mani as they discuss Indigenous art education, the future, importance, and relevancy of Indigenous art education. It's an hour of shared stories and an insightful conversation you don't want to miss.

Let's listen to the story of Oscar Howe through the voice of John Day. Recorded in June 2002. We apologize for the recording quality, not the best recording from 2002, but the quality of the content is what this is about.

On the 30th anniversary of the Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute, host Joe Williams reflects on his association of the program starting in 1993 in a deeply personal story and tribute to the program and artist, friend, and mentor Robert Penn.

Prairie Rose Seminole is a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of ND, descendant of the Sahnish/Arikara, Northern Cheyenne and Lakota Nations. Seminole serves as a political consultant and coach, and policy analyst. They also serve as an Indigenous theological advisor and speaker. More recently,Prairie Rose Seminole served as the American Indian Alaska Native Program Director for the Evangelica...

Lyle Hudson is an educator, he's a citizen of the Navajo Nation, or more accurately, the Diné. A first grade teacher from a family of educators. He's an individual who practices gratitude the first spouse we've had on the podcast. Lyle has dedicated his career to not just educator our youngest of students, but to model what it is to be a great role model.

Don Anderson is a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, he’s a Behavioral Health Professional at Circle of Nations School in Wahpeton ND. He’s of the very few Native American men in the United States that has his bachelors of Social Work. Don is one of the most remarkable individuals I know. In my past work career working at Circle of Nations School we addressed numerous complicated and hard s...

We will not have an episode this week due to the passing of my father, Joe Williams. We'll be back next week with more new episodes. Joe Williams Waćiŋyaŋpi Wicaśta Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ Dakota 28 September 1934 - 10 May 2021

Athena LaTocha, born in Anchorage Alaska, and currently living in New York City, this Hunkpapa Lakota and Ojibwe artist creates artwork that fills entire walls that are large enough to hold her unique peaces. Two years ago I was fortunate enough to witness a landscape she created for the Plains Art Museum in a residency she created. But when I say landscape, this isn’t a traditional Romanticism on...

I want to introduce you to Waŋbdí Wašté. This Ihanktonwan Nakota is a citizen of the Yankton Sioux Tribe is a musician and filmmaker. Now, it is said that the backbone of any band is the drummer. They keep that beat that can either make or break any band, and as Ringo Starr once responded if he wanted a metronome, “He was the metronome! That means that Waŋbdí was the backbone to the greatest Nativ...

Micheal Two Bulls is a mixed media artist. He's a graduate of IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a CAIRNS Research Fellow, and a member of The Wake Singers. Join us in this fantastic 1/2 hour. IG: https://www.instagram.com/mtwobulls/ The Wake Singers on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thewakesingers/ The Wake Singers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEqoJbGexePR-mlf0b7ArEQ

I want to introduce you to Andrea Carlson. She’s a citizen of the Grand Portage Ojibwe, and is a painter & screen printer based in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, though currently lives in Chicago Illinois. She received her bachelor of arts at the University of Minnesota in 2003 and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2005. I think what makes Andrea so interesting is he...

Craig Howe, founder and Director of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS), earned a Ph. D. in architecture and anthropology from the University of Michigan. He served as Deputy Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American India...

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 p...