The Buffalo Bill Center of the West has won a $30,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The monies go toward the Center’s upcoming exhibition Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West, on display at the Center June 8–September 30, 2018. The exhibition then travels to Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, […]
Hunter C. Old Elk, curatorial assistant for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Plains Indian Museum, was recently accepted into the Western States Arts Federation’s (WESTAF) Emerging Leaders of Color (ELC) program, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She accepted the fellowship in September 2017. “I just returned from the annual conference […]
National Endowment for the Arts awards more than $27.6 million across nation Includes $20,000 awarded to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West This week, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced awards totaling more than $27.6 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2016, including an Art Works award of $20,000 […]
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman, Jane Chu, announced this week that the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is one of only 163 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Challenge America grant. The Center will use the funds toward its upcoming exhibition, Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley on the […]
Past Exhibition: Textured Portraits: The Ken Blackbird Collection Native photographer Ken Blackbird observes that photographers are “the image keepers of history.” Ken Blackbird is Gros Ventre/Assiniboine and an enrolled member of the Fort Belknap Indian Community of Montana. He has been a photojournalist and freelance photographer in a career that spans more than 30 years. […]
The vision of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and its Plains Indian Museum, to share the Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, gathered even more momentum with two additional grants received in late 2012. The funds are bringing to fruition the highly anticipated exhibition of these objects of the Native people of the Great […]