After a 25-year exploration of all aspects of Lakota lifeways through ceremony, dance, and prayer, Gerald Cournoyer presents his observations in his newest solo exhibition, Sending A Voice. Gerald Cournoyer rejects Edward Curtis’s observations that the Lakota are a people of the past.

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In its fourth year, Plains Art Museum and Circle of Nations School implement an incredible learning opportunity for Native American youth who are emerging student artists. The Museum engages some of the highest quality contemporary Native artists who are educators and mentors for these artists as they approach life as an artist after high school.

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Everything is more complex than it appears. This is Not Black and White is an exhibition featuring works from Plains Art Museum’s permanent collection that underscore spectrums of complexity. The works in the exhibition reflect a diversity of place, ethnicity, culture, gender, and medium but are aesthetically linked by artistic use of strong blacks and whites.

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