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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...

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,...

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...

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 teac...

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...

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 prof...

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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 me...

Dedra Zephier is a citizen of the 3 Affiliate Tribe in North Dakota, and was born and raised in North Dakota. She was the first Native American who graduated from the North Dakota State College of Science’s Culinary Arts program. She has worked for nearly a decade as a chef in the Fargo Moorhead area.

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Inkpa Mani is an artist working in the Northern Plains. He received his Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of South Dakota in 2019 and is working on his Dakota Teaching Certificate and Business Administration Degree at Sisseton Wahpeton College. He has been accepted to the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art for fall 2021. Inkpa was born in the Twin C...

Artist Reyna Hernandez utilizes mixed media across disciplines to investigate the concept of identity hybridity in relation to her Indigenous bloodlines and westernized arts education. Reyna attempts to investigate her place in the world while examining the complex connections between western discourse, epistemic violence in academia, and her own sense of Dakota identity. 
 
Reyna has exhibit...

Matt Barse is a Wichita/Kiowa/Dakota screenwriting and filmmaker residing in Norman, OK. He developed his creative skills at the University of Oklahoma and is a current candidate for a Bachelor’s in Art. Technical know-how was achieved at Oklahoma City Community College with a Certificate of Mastery in Digital Cinema Production as well as an Associate in Arts. Matt has found time to produce short...

Michael LeBeau, MD, serves as the president of the Sanford Health Bismarck region, overseeing the administration of health services and is responsible for the successful planning and implementation of operational and strategic goals for the Bismarck region. Dr. LeBeau has been with Sanford Health for more than 10 years. He began at Sanford as a physician specializing in kidney care as a nephrologi...

Ciciley Littlewolf is a proud citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. She received two bachelor's degrees first from the University of South Dakota in Criminal Justice and in Zoology from North Dakota State University. She went on to get her Doctor of Medicine from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health sciences. She is currently in her 2nd year of Internal Medicine Residency...

Mariah Cooper is a 4th year medical student in the INMED program at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. She is a citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation, near Hayward, Wisconsin. Her biography is as follows. Boozhoo! My name is Mariah Star Cooper and my Ojibwe/Anishinaabe name is Waabizhiiqua...

Kristal Hudson is a Navajo fourth-year medical student at the University of North Dakota, currently finishing up her rotations in Fargo, ND. She has earned an Associates of Science from San Juan College in addition to Bachelor of Science in Biology and Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a Minor in Music from the University of New Mexico. Originally from Farmington, NM where most of her upbringing...

Mylan Panteah is a current scholar in the Young Innovative Investigator Program (YIPP) at the University of Connecticut. He finished his didactic and clinical rotations at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine in May 2019. He is originally from the Navajo Nation, born in Gallup NM, and is an enrolled member of the Navajo tribe but recognizes hi father's Zuni half as well. This current...

Dwayne Wilcox “is entirely self taught--learning from friends and family. ‘I lived in Washington, DC for a few years and I managed to go through every museum archive I came across that contained ledger art. Ledger art had such a deep feel and I found it the most versatile of all Lakota arts’” (George E. Foster, Jr. Gallery of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, sponsored Harwood Museum). “Dwayne “C...

Kayla Aubid, an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has devoted her career to the arts as a curator, educator, equity advocate, and arts administrator. She holds a BA in psychology and American Indian studies from St. Cloud State University. She currently serves in the role of Community Learning Catalyst with Arts Midwest continuing to live and work in 1855 Treaty Territory in Grand...

Joseph Allen has been creating and exhibiting his art for over 30 years. His photographs are in the collections of the Weisman Art Museum, the Minnesota Historical Society and the C. N. Gorman Museum, at UC Davis. He is a past recipient of a McKnight Photography fellowship, an alumnus of Intermedia Arts’ Creative Community Leadership Institute, a 2012 First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadersh...

Follow Wade on IG: https://www.instagram.com/wade_patton/ http://wadepatton.com/ From Wade Patton: The spare beauty of the prairie resonates in my work. I’m an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe and grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation surrounded by a rich culture of music and art. After obtaining a BA in art from Black Hills State University and having a solo exhibit at the Sioux...

Award winning artist Hillary Kempenich, is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Kempenich is an established studio artist and advocates for the Arts, Education, Social Justice, and Indigenous Human Rights issues. Raised on the Turtle Mountain reservation, Kempenich continues to advocate for better educational and cultural standards for our Native Indigenous people, and for all people,...

Ashley Pourier (Oglala Lakota), Curator of The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School. Born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After undergrad, Ashley then returned home to serve her community. Her time with the Center has allowed her to support local, Native artists, while continuing to focus on museum...