Colleen Cutschall


Colleen Cutschall, also known as Sister Wolf, is an Oglala-Sicangu Lakota artist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who works in Manitoba.

Biography

Colleen Cutschall is a Lakota artist, art historian, educator, writer, activist, and curator from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who has lived and worked in Southwestern Manitoba since the 1980s. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Barat College and an Master of Education from Black Hills State University. Cutschall works in Painting, Sculpture, Photography, and Installation art. Some themes of her work include Lakota mythological archetypes, human relationships to the cosmos, and the implications of exploration. Her work is described as being flexible and situational and incorporating elements of anthropology, feminism, natural sciences, and cultural identity.
Colleen Cutschall's work is in the permanent collection of the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Government of Manitoba, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Kenderdine Art Gallery, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Oscar Howe Art Center, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Cutschall is known for her sculpture Spirit Warriors, installed at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. This iron sculpture at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, which was until 1991 named after George Custer, United States Commander in the American Indian Wars. Cutschall's sculpture commemorates Native American warriors in the Great Sioux War of 1876.

University career

In addition to maintaining her studio practice, Colleen Cutschall is Professor Emerita at Brandon University. After over twenty years of teaching at Brandon University in the Department of Native Studies, she founded the Department of Visual and Aboriginal Art.

Significant exhibitions