Guss Yellow Hair, far right, with Oglala Lakota students. Photo from Facebook
OLC Opens 12th Annual Summer Artist series
By Native Sun News Staff Writers KYLE –– Oglala Lakota College (OLC) opens its 12th Annual “A Vision of Our History by Lakota Artists” summer artist series with featured artist Warren “Guss” Yellow Hair with his traditional art. Warren’s art medium includes painting on hides and parfleche, drum making and other traditional art forms. He will be displaying his artwork and offering demonstrations from June 8-12, 2015. The summer artist series runs from June 8 through August 28, 2015. The series features twelve Oglala Lakota artists at OLC’s Historical Center located at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College, six miles southwest of Kyle, South Dakota.
A sample of Guss Yellow Hair's hide work. Photo from Facebook
"The summer artist series promotes public awareness of the arts of the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding area and educates our own people and the people of other cultures and places to the richness and the importance of the arts to our culture and our traditions," the tribal college said. "A Vision of Our History by Lakota Artists” coincides with the summer opening of the Oglala Lakota College Historical Center. The center contains a prominent display of art and photographs that chronicle the history of the Oglala (Lakota) Sioux from the early 1800’s to the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. An audiotape of this history provides greater meaning to the displays. The Historical Center is open full-time from June 8 through August 28, 2015, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Free admission. For more information contact Marilyn E. Pourier, OLC’s Development Director, at (605) 455-6045 or mpourier@olc.edu or Wanda Reddy at (605) 455-6042 or wreddy@olc.edu. Copyright permission Native Sun News
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