Following their performance in Sheldon’s Great Hall, Native American dancers Mike and Denise One Star will join Duane Hollow Horn Bear and Steve Tamayo for a panel discussion that offers cultural insight to and deeper understanding of artworks in the Sheldon exhibition “Visualizing Survivance, Visualizing Permanence.”

Duane Hollow Horn Bear is a Sicangu Lakota Elder who was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in 1949. A revered educator, Hollow Horn Bear taught Lakota culture, history, language, philosophy, and social systems at Sinte Gleska University for 25 years. In 2021, he gained repatriation from the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, of a leather shirt that belonged to his great-grandfather Chief Daniel Hollow Horn Bear (Lakota: Mat?ó Hé?lo?e?a; 1850–1913). The exhibition “Visualizing Survivance, Visualizing Permanence” includes a photograph of Chief Hollow Horn Bear’s father, Chief Iron Shell (Lakota: Thukíha Máza; 1816–1896).

Steve Tamayo is an artist and educator whose heritage as a member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe offers a deep well of artistic and cultural inspiration for his work. Tamayo is the founder and culture bearer of Bluebird Cultural Initiative, a nonprofit organization created to provide meaningful programming that fosters understanding of the history and cultural traditions of Native American Peoples of the Great Plains.

Admission is free.