Colleen Cutschall
{{Short description|Canadian artist}}
Colleen Cutschall, (born 1951) also known as Sister Wolf, is an Oglala-Sicangu Lakota artist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who works in Manitoba.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artsforall.ca/index.php/AFA/article/colleen_cutschall|title=Colleen Cutschall {{!}} Arts for All|last=Dyck|first=Richard|website=www.artsforall.ca|access-date=2017-03-11}}
Biography
Colleen 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.{{Cite web|url=https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/an-interview-with-colleen-cutschall-cathy-mattes|title=An Interview with Colleen Cutschall – Canadian Dimension|last=Mattes|first=Cathy|website=canadiandimension.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-11}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40179730|title=Native American art in the twentieth century|date=1999|publisher=Routledge|others=Rushing, W. Jackson.|isbn=0415137470|location=London|oclc=40179730}} Cutschall studied with painter Oscar Howe in the late 1960s.{{cite web |title=Artists |url=https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/artists/cutschall.html |website=epe.lac-bac.gc.ca |publisher=Library and Archives Canada |access-date=20 January 2024}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesutherland.ca/archives/colleencutschall.htm|title=Thresh Hold|last=Mattes|first=Cathy|date=2012|website=www.thesutherland.ca|access-date=2017-03-11}} Some themes of her work include Lakota mythological archetypes, human relationships to the cosmos, and the implications of exploration. Her work is described as being flexible and situational and incorporating elements of anthropology, feminism, natural sciences, and cultural identity.
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.{{Cite book|title=Blanket[ed]|last=Henry|first=Cheyanne|publisher=Urban Shaman|year=2002|isbn=0973193506|location=Winnipeg|pages=35}}{{Cite web|url=http://wag.ca/art/collections/canadian-art/display,contemporary/53202|title=Canadian Art {{!}} Winnipeg Art Gallery|last=Lizard|first=Visual|website=wag.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-03-16}}
Cutschall is known for designing the sculpture Spirit Warriors, installed at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxwjTcP5H70C|title=Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists|last=Pearce|first=Richard|date=2013-06-13|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=9780816599820|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/cultural_diversity/Little_Bighorn_Battlefield_National_Monument.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510223653/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/cultural_diversity/Little_Bighorn_Battlefield_National_Monument.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 10, 2012|title=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|website=www.nps.gov|access-date=2017-03-29}} Cutschall's sculpture commemorates Native American warriors in the Great Sioux War of 1876. File:Little-bighorn-memorial-sculpture-2.jpg
University career
In 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.brandonu.ca/news/2016/09/29/professor-emerita-colleen-cutschall-to-speak-at-brandon-university/|title=Professor Emerita Colleen Cutschall to speak at Brandon University|work=Brandon University|access-date=2017-03-11|language=en-US}}
Significant exhibitions
- "Voices in the Blood," Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 1990. 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.
- "Sister Wolf in Her Moon," Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1995.{{Cite book|title=Sister Wolf in her Moon|last=Clark|first=Janet|publisher=Thunder Bay Art Gallery|year=1996|isbn=0920539467|location=Thunder Bay}}
- "House Made of Stars," Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1996.{{Cite book|title=House Made of Stars|last=Shirly|first=Madill|last2=Ryan|first2=Allan|last3=Phillips|first3=Ruth|publisher=Winnipeg Art Gallery|year=1996|isbn=0889151784|location=Winnipeg}}
- "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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08iden.html|title=Identity by Design: The Stories and Labor Behind Native Women's Dresses|last=Rosenberg|first=Karen|date=2008-10-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-03-29|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|url=https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/exhibitions/20080417_IBD_release.pdf|title=Exhibition of Native American Dresses to Open in New York|last=Smithsonian|date=April 17, 2008|work=National Museum of the American Indian News|access-date=2019-10-18}} Colleen Cutschall also wrote a chapter, Dress, Designers, and the Dance of Life, for a book which accompanied the exhibition.{{Cite book|title=Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2007|editor-last=Her Many Horses|editor-first=Emil|location=New York}}
- "….Dies Again!," [http://urbanshaman.org/ Urban Shaman], May 27, 2005 - July 2, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba.{{Cite web|url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/resources/searches/event_detail.html?languagePref=en&vk=11987|title=Event Detail|last=The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art|website=The CCCA Canadian Art Database: Chronologies|access-date=2019-10-18}}
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