BOOK NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from the Paul Dyck Collection” by Emma I. Hansen. Emma I. Hansen will sign copies of her highly anticipated book on Thursday, June 14 from 4–6 PM at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Copies are available for purchase on-site at the museum store, […]
Originally published in Points West magazine Summer 2002 Continuity and Diversity: The Art of Arthur Amiotte By Emma I. Hansen Curator Emerita, Plains Indian Museum Note: In 2002, the Buffalo Bill [Center of the West] hosted a special exhibition titled The Arthur Amiotte Retrospective: Continuity and Diversity, then the most comprehensive exhibition to date of […]
Originally published in Points West magazine in Summer 2004 By Anne Marie Shriver Former Web Content Developer; current Executive Assistant to the Executive Director and the Board of Trustees These are notes to lightning in my bedroom. A star forged from linen thread and patches. Purple, yellow, red like diamond suckers, children of the star […]
Originally featured in Points West in Spring 2010 Arthur Amiotte, an Oglala Lakota artist and member of the Plains Indian Museum Advisory Board, believes that as a teacher, artist, and art historian, he should be a master of many artistic mediums in order to encourage students and other artists to understand Native American cultural traditions. Amiotte’s […]
Originally published in Points West in Winter 1999 Adversity and Renewal By Emma I. Hansen Curator Emerita, Plains Indian Museum A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota (Sioux) holy man, called Drinks Water, who dreamed what was to be; and this was long […]