Congratulations to the winners and everyone who participated in our Spring 2018 Art Contest: FREEDOM!
Congratulations to everyone who submitted!
Congratulations to the winners and everyone who participated in our Spring 2018 Art Contest: FREEDOM!
Congratulations to everyone who submitted!
We are excited to announce that Josh Fox, the Emmy-award winning director of Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock and Gasland, is joining with us in support of the Mitakuye Foundation and the 500 Mile Sacred Hoop Run!
In 2016 the Mitakuye Foundation sponsored a prayer run, led by spiritual leader Ricky Gray Grass, that brought kids from Pine Ridge to Standing Rock to stand in solidarity with the water protectors. The kids were honored with a horse and police escort into the camp, were greeted by the whole camp with a powerful drum circle and ceremony, and had a special meeting with the tribal president. (See blogpost here)
We filmed the prayer run as part of our upcoming feature Running On A Wing and a Prayer (watch a sneak peak of Running On A Wing And A Prayer here) and released a short video of the Standing Rock Run on You Tube (See the film: “Prayer Run to Standing Rock”).
Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock shares some of the footage of the Sacred Hoop Runners on their journey. This beautiful film tells the story of the #NODAPL movement and the water protectors at Standing Rock Reservation in the summer and fall of 2016. We are excited that our kids got to be a part of this important film!
We are very happy to have Josh and his team as partners! We appreciate his support of the 500 Mile Sacred Hoop Run and all of the programming we do at Mitakuye to empower and uplift Native youth. We look forward to expanding the ways we support each other in our mutual goals of empowering the youth and bringing attention to the ongoing political, environmental, and economic abuses that continue to take place in the Lakota homelands!
Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock
HOLY MAN: THE USA vs DOUGLAS WHITE
We had a beautiful week of teaching, visiting schools and handing out awards to our Art Contest Winners!
We handed out awards to our Art Contest Winners at schools across the reservation!
HOYE WAYELO SUMMER ARTS INTENSIVE
JULY 1 – 6, 2018
APPLICATIONS DUE JUNE 5th
The 2018 program will be held at Camp Placerville in the Black Hills from July 1-6. All students who are selected will receive full tuition scholarships, room and board and transportation to and from the Black Hills. There will be local drop off points in each district.
We had a record number of submissions for our Winter 2018 Art Contest IMAGINATION!
Congratulations to everyone who submitted!
The theme for the Spring Art Contest is FREEDOM!
Deadline for submissions is May 5th.
The theme for the Winter Art Contest is IMAGINATION!
Deadline for submissions is February 1st.
We are happy to announce the winners of our 2017 Fall Art Contest!
There are so many ways to interpret this idea. While some of the work focused on color and incorporated color into the work – some submissions were about the absence of color and how that artistic choice made an impact.
Every student who submits artwork for a contest is automatically enrolled in our Creators Club. Every time they submit work they earn points to save up for prizes. We are most interested in keeping young people engaged in the creative process – and the Creators Club was born for that very purpose. It goes us a way to reward effort as well as merit and keep kids engaged in the ongoing process of creativity.
2017 was a busy year at Mitakuye!
We gave out hundreds of prizes and awards for our Monthly Art Contests and Creators Club.
We sponsored the 500 mile Sacred Hoop Run with over 130 runners
The Hoye Wayelo Arts Intensives brought teachers from all over the globe to work with young Lakota Artists in the fields of Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Filmmaking, and Traditional Arts:
Check out the 2017 Summer Films here:
Lakota Lady Warriors: https://vimeo.com/242417125
The Institution: https://vimeo.com/242418054
We sponsored the Thunder Lake Boxing Club for Boys and Girls in events all over the region:
We launched our LIFELINE posters – designed by winners of the poster contest.
We did a Spring School Tour in schools across the reservation. We brought art opportunities, handed out prizes for our Art Contest Winners and Creators Club participants, and shared posters and information for the LIFELINE and other suicide prevention programs run by the BEARS.
We brought prom dresses and make up for kids going to prom!
We worked with the BEAR program to help get Pine Ridge Youth to the Unity Conference in Arizona:
Brian Sherman, one of the young people we mentor, was selected as a 2017 Running Strong For American Indian Youth DreanStarter! We helped Brian apply for the grant and developed a training program and curriculum for him to realize his goals of bringing dance to the Pine Ridge Reservation. We brought Brian to Los Angeles in June to train at studios all over Los Angeles and to receive his Zumba Certification so he can teach not only on the reservation but any where across the world.
And we are not done yet! Our New Year’s Safe Events for all ages will run from 6pm 12/31 to 6 am 1/1/18.
2018 is shaping up to be even more exciting! Thank you for all you do to help support these young people. Don’t forget to make your Year End Donations here: https://mitakuyefoundation.com/donate/
Submit to our Winter Art Contest!
What does the idea of IMAGINATION inspire you to create?
All forms of creativity are encouraged!
Deadline is February 1st 2018.