What INSPIRES you?
The theme for the December Art Contest is INSPIRATION
Submit anything the theme moves you to create – we encourage all forms of creativity! Deadline is DECEMBER 1st.
What INSPIRES you?
The theme for the December Art Contest is INSPIRATION
Submit anything the theme moves you to create – we encourage all forms of creativity! Deadline is DECEMBER 1st.
Earn points every month in our Creator’s Club! Students earn 10 points every month they submit to save up for great prizes. Get in the practice of creating every month and earn prizes along the way!
On contest months we provide a theme and students can win art supplies and cash awards.
A beautiful way to end the summer! We spent a week making art in a residency at Crazy Horse School in Wanblee and traveling around to schools across the reservation handing out awards to our Contest winners and our Creator’s Club participants!
Our film students learned all aspects of film making: pre-production, production and post! They created two special projects in narrative and documentary genres.
The narrative group created this short horror film “Camp Thunder”. The script was created by the whole group and all pitched in in different crew positions.The film was Directed by Charlie Plenty Wolf, Cinematography by Aurora Marshall, and features Nora Marshall, Brandy Marshall, Amerylexa Sharpish, Mia Ann Grant, Natalia Two Two, Destiny Ann No Moccasin, Deneja Pine, and special guest star Destiny Leftwich. Nora Marshall also created the props for the film and wrote and performed an original score!
Students working on the documentary project interviewed Lakota elder Pauline Wilson. They shot footage and used archival and stock footage to create this short documentary. The film team: Joey Hill, Maranda Joy Red Owl, Annette Red Owl, and Sweetgrass American Horse.
This original song was written, performed and produced by students of the Mitakuye 2018 Hoye Wayelo Summer Arts Intensive. Black Hills, South Dakota:
Beau Black Crow Jr. – Traditional Song and Drum
Charlie Plenty Wolf – Guitar & Production
Corey Short Horn – Traditional Flute
Dante Kaleb Sitting Up – Producer
Dora Red Owl – Synth Bass
Erin White Face – Guitar
Nora Marshall – Keyboard
Ted White Plume – Traditional Drum
Vocals and Lyrics by:
Shayondra Long
Teresa Isabel Graham
Waziyata Thunderhawk
Students created two short films, wrote and produced and original song, choreographed an original dance and learned choreography across multiple genres, wrote poems, prose, and personal essays, and studied the art of photography!
In addition to Traditional flutes, music, dance and brain tanning – students worked with various types of beads, leather and did a special program on plant medicines.
We were thrilled to have world renowned Lakota Artist, Dancer and Master of Traditional Flutes Kevin Locke join us for a flute making workshop. Kevin shared traditional teachings about the flute, took kids through the process of building their own flutes and taught them to play!
The art room was hopping from morning till night.
Students experimented with numerous mediums …
The Black Hills Arts Intensives included a 5-day workshop on hide-tanning. Students took three deer-hides – one already prepared as rawhide and two “green” hides that needed to be fleshed and de-haired – through the stages of soaking, stretching, fleshing, scraping, and tanning! It was a lot of work, but we had an awesome time! Avi worked around the clock to finish the first one, with the end result being beautifully tanned deerskin! Already looking forward to next year!