Colleen Cutschall, (born 1951) also known as Sister Wolf, is an Oglala-Sicangu Lakota artist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who works in Manitoba.[1]
Biography
editColleen Cutschall was born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She is a Lakota artist, art historian, educator, writer, activist, and curator from who has lived and worked in Southwestern Manitoba since the 1980s.[2][3] Cutschall studied with painter Oscar Howe in the late 1960s.[4] She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Barat College and a Master of Education from Black Hills State University. Cutschall works in Painting, Sculpture, Photography, and Installation art.[5] Some themes of her work include Lakota mythological archetypes, human relationships to the cosmos, and the implications of exploration.[5] Her work is described as being flexible and situational and incorporating elements of anthropology, feminism, natural sciences, and cultural identity.[3]
Colleen Cutschall's work is in the permanent collection of the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Government of Manitoba, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Kenderdine Art Gallery, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Oscar Howe Art Center, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.[6][7]
Cutschall is known for designing the sculpture Spirit Warriors, installed at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.[8] This iron sculpture at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, which was until 1991 named after George Custer, United States Commander in the American Indian Wars.[9] Cutschall's sculpture commemorates Native American warriors in the Great Sioux War of 1876.
University career
editIn addition to maintaining her studio practice, Colleen Cutschall is Professor Emerita at Brandon University. After over twenty years of teaching at Brandon University in the Department of Native Studies, she founded the Department of Visual and Aboriginal Art.[10]
Significant exhibitions
edit- "Voices in the Blood," Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 1990.[3] Toured to the Oscar Howe Art Center, Dakota Gallery; Minnesota State University, South Dakota; the Art Gallery of Mississauga; the Thunder Bay Art Gallery; the MacKenzie Art Gallery; and more.[6]
- "Sister Wolf in Her Moon," Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1995.[11]
- "House Made of Stars," Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1996.[12]
- "Identity By Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses," March 24, 2007 - August 3, 2008, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.; and September 26, 2008 - February 7, 2010, National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY, at the George Gustav Heye Center.[13][14] Colleen Cutschall also wrote a chapter, Dress, Designers, and the Dance of Life, for a book which accompanied the exhibition.[15]
- "….Dies Again!," Urban Shaman, May 27, 2005 - July 2, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba.[16]
References
edit- ^ Dyck, Richard. "Colleen Cutschall | Arts for All". www.artsforall.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ Mattes, Cathy. "An Interview with Colleen Cutschall – Canadian Dimension". canadiandimension.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ a b c Native American art in the twentieth century. Rushing, W. Jackson. London: Routledge. 1999. ISBN 0415137470. OCLC 40179730.
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- ^ a b Mattes, Cathy (2012). "Thresh Hold". www.thesutherland.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ a b Henry, Cheyanne (2002). Blanket[ed]. Winnipeg: Urban Shaman. p. 35. ISBN 0973193506.
- ^ Lizard, Visual. "Canadian Art | Winnipeg Art Gallery". wag.ca. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ Pearce, Richard (2013-06-13). Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 9780816599820.
- ^ "Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument--Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures Explore their Stories in the National Park System: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Professor Emerita Colleen Cutschall to speak at Brandon University". Brandon University. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
- ^ Clark, Janet (1996). Sister Wolf in her Moon. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Art Gallery. ISBN 0920539467.
- ^ Shirly, Madill; Ryan, Allan; Phillips, Ruth (1996). House Made of Stars. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery. ISBN 0889151784.
- ^ Rosenberg, Karen (2008-10-07). "Identity by Design: The Stories and Labor Behind Native Women's Dresses". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ Smithsonian (April 17, 2008). "Exhibition of Native American Dresses to Open in New York" (PDF). National Museum of the American Indian News. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
- ^ Her Many Horses, Emil, ed. (2007). Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses. New York: HarperCollins.
- ^ The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art. "Event Detail". The CCCA Canadian Art Database: Chronologies. Retrieved 2019-10-18.