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All in Native American Art
“The way that I learned was from my grandmother and my mother. A lot of what we were told was to be quiet, to sit there, to listen and to work. We listened to what our elders told us and we also obeyed whatever they told us to do,” said Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) Janice Rice.
An offshoot of Fermentation Fest and the Farm/Art Dtour in Sauk County, the Native American Arts Marketplace featured authentic Native art, crafts, storytelling, and food over the first two weekends of this month.
Back in October of 2020, I had published a story titled “WilloWood Inn: A special place in the Baraboo range”. The WilloWood Inn was purchased by Angie Lowe and her husband Aaron in February of 2018, and Angie has put in a considerable amount of time and hard work with the help of her family to improve the Inn.
Sweet and his wife Chrissy, always looking for a better way to promote the Native American arts, came across an opportunity to move the studio to a high traffic area in the Historic Baraboo Square.
This past weekend the collaboration between the Little Eagle Art Foundation and the Driftless Historium & Mount Horeb Area Historical Society continued with the latter hosting the 4th Annual Native Art Marketplace.
New interpretive panels were unveiled on May 14 at Man Mound National Historic Landmark near Baraboo.
Since my last reflection piece in 2019, well, a lot has changed. For one, me and my wife Amanda welcomed our daughter Aniah Princess Arentz into the world in September 2020.
Last month, District and school administrators gathered at the Jack Young Middle School, along with community members for an official ribbon cutting signifying the near completion of a $41.7 million renovation and addition project.
This year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day was recognized in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, and commemorated a bench, painting and interpretive panel, acknowledging the special relationship between the people of Reedsburg and the Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) Nation.
“I never thought I would actually have an art studio,” Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk)/Ojibeway artist Christopher Sweet said looking around his new place.
