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!
Creator’s Club art supplies and awards!
Rockyford student Malia White Eyes accepts her award
Creator’s Club and Award Winners at Rockyford School!
Wolf Creek Elementary School
Wolf Creek Elementary school 1st Place winner Kinsey Hill!
Wolf Creek Middle School artists!
Little Wound artist Tara Rouillard
Little Wound Creator’s Club and award winners
Pine Ridge School
Pine Ridge honors their artists during homecoming!
Young artists at Loneman School
OLL Artists!
Anpo Wicahpi artists!
Red Cloud Artist Emilee Swalley
Red Cloud artists Wazi Thunder Hawk
Multiple award winner Baylie Her Many Horses
Oelrichs winners Baylie Her Many Horses and Denato Two Bulls
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
Shay recording vocals with Paul
Corey and Charlie practicing the flute parts with Jill
Dante editing and composing tracks.
Erin laying down piano tracks
Photo Credit: Jessie White Face
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!
Photo by Sweetgrass American Horse
Photo by Jessie White Face
Camera work
Directing the camera
Students work on the final edit
Practicing
Recording vocals
Practicing the flute parts
Photo By: Sweetgrass American Horse
Dante and Paul edit the final song
In the creek-side writing cabin!
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 …
theȟpí! (a soft tanned hide)
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!
wahápaȟpA: fleshing the hide
Stretching the fleshed hide in the frame
Moving the hide-frame into the sun to dry
De-hairing!
Teamwork!
wahátka: scraping the dry hide
tȟahásaka: the untanned hide(s) with hair removed and dried
Elbow-grease!
carefully scraping the hide with the wahíŋtka (elk-horn scraper)
Sanding the hide
wakpáŋyAŋ (tanning) the hide by stretching
yuȟúŋtA: softening the hide by rubbing it back and forth against the iyúȟuŋte (softening rope)
Smoking the hide with cottonwood
Success!
The theme for October is NATURE. This idea can be interpreted any way you want using any mediums you want. The deadline for submissions is October 1st.
Students can submit several ways – the most preferred is through your school. You can also email us directly or submit via Facebook. Every artist needs to fill out a release form. You can download here: Mitakuye Artist Info & Release Form 2018 UPDATE
Some helpful notes on submitting:
Please make sure all submissions have the students full name, age, school, and grade. Submissions come in best when they are scanned using a color printer. If you are going to take a photo – please stand the picture against a wall in good light (preferably out doors) with no shadows. Images are best when they are shot straight on and the art work is filling the frame. We want to give the highest quality version of your artwork to our judges! Video files and sound files can be sent for submissions that include dance, music, film, or other mediums that can not be photographed. Writing can be submitted as a PDF file or Word doc.
If you have questions feel free to email us at info@mitakuyefoundation.com or give us a call (605) 454-4000.