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The Custer Stampede project is sponsored by the Custer Area Chamber of Commerce
and the Custer Area Arts Council. Each buffalo is a one-of-a-kind,
large as life, work of art. Selected artists will each craft a buffalo in
using their own style and medium.
The buffalo art will be displayed beginning May 2006 at various locations
in the Custer area. The committee will have a 'Buffalo Trail' map available
to visitors and locals who want to visit each completed buffalo and learn
more about the artist. On September 30, 2006, the buffalo will be
rounded-up for the auction to be held at Way Park
in downtown Custer at 4PM.
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Custer Stampede Buffalo Art 2005 |
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Sandra Achterling, Stanchfield, Minnesota
Sponsor:Carson
Drug & Custer
Community Hospital
Vision: Morning Star Buffalo
Morning Star Quilt symbolizing the first nations history with bison and
the Black Hills.
This buffalo now grazes in Custer, SD. |
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Mike Bray,
Monticello, Minnesota
Sponsor:Ron &
Diane Trithart, Marcia & Duane Murphey, Custer Gold,
Colleen Hennessey & James Frank
Vision: Elders of the Black Hills
Depicts the buffalo as a tribute to the past and present. The eagle,
buffalo and Indian are all symbols of strength, pride and honor. They
remind us to survive and flourish once more.
This buffalo grazes in Rapid City, SD |
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Ginny Butcher,
Evansville, Wyoming
Sponsor: Telco, Larry & Jean Mattheson
Vision: Prairie Thunder
A buffalo stampede coming at the viewer from the area of the hump on
down toward the rib area with dust and buffalo emerging from the dust,
with a suggestion of local landscape in the background. The head and
tail and legs are painted realistic by fading into the stampede.
This buffalo grazes in Michigan |
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Dennis Cumin,
Billings, Montana
Sponsor: May B TV
Vision: Blackbirds Watching
Reflect the buffalo’s home, history, and history with man and what of
its future. The sides are a canvas of plain scenes. The hump is the
blue sky. Indian corn goes up the side of the head with corn tassels by
the ears. Domesticated corn is grown up from the front legs. Cat tails
and buffalo grass is on the rear legs.
This buffalo grazes in Custer,
SD |
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Pati Deuter, Ree Heights, South Dakota
Sponsor:Custer State
Park Resort Company, Custer State Park, Black Hills
Playhouse
Vision: Sacred Stars
On one side of the buffalo a Native girl throwing stars into the sky
from a basket. The stars go over the black buffalo head and transform
into buffalo. Some of the stars are painted with glow in the dark
paint. On the other side another girl accepts a herd of different
colored buffalo into a shield. A quill strip runs down the back of the
buffalo.
This buffalo now grazes in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. |
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Tom Eastburn, Hot Springs,
South Dakota
Sponsor: Surroundings
Vision: Colorful Buffalo of the Black Hills
Cover the back portion of the buffalo with a thousand multicolor
miniature buffalo pieces to look like the plains. The mane has a topographical map of the Black
Hills and incorporate the seven sacred points. The
horns have Raku pottery
that have a copper appearance.
This buffalo grazes in Loveland,
Colorado |
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Steven Fink,
Woonsocket, South Dakota
Sponsor: Gerald Baldwin Law Office
Vision: The Journey
Incorporate the Missouri River and
Lewis and Clark’s expedition across the back of the buffalo to
represent the coming of civilization. The mane has a seven strand cable
that is frayed out and it opens up and looks like hair. Railroad tracks
are attached from one horn to the other horn, which symbolizes the
joining of the east, and west coasts and eventually the demise of the
buffalo as the prairie became more populated. On the sides both a log
cabin or sod house and a windmill made out of steel.
This buffalo lives in Hot
Springs, SD |
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Sharon Fridley,
Edgemont, South Dakota
Sponsor:
Vision: Mosaic Buffalo
Hand made tiles to make mosaic scenery of the history of the Black Hills. As the mosaic flows across the
buffalo there will be scenes of animals, then teepees, the gold rush,
pioneers, and last the modern civilization. Buffalo will be incorporated into
each scene.
This buffalo grazes in Custer, SD |
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Bonnie Hartpence, Custer, South Dakota
Sponsor: First Western Bank, Bear Rock Art, Battlecreek
Real Estate Agency
Vision: Mitakuya Oyasin
(All My Relations)
The use of symbols of the
indigenous culture to show how all the mineral, plant, animal, mankind,
and spiritual are related. Colors of the directions of the Medicine
Wheel are used to represent that direction, but also wisdom and the
buffalo. Each place on the wheel is endowed with many layers of
understanding and all are necessary for the healthy whole of both
individuals and society. The buffalo is encased in many mini quilts
each fitting together like puzzle pieces. In addition the teaching
stories of the Sundance are included.
This buffalo lives in Custer,
SD |
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Karen Henneck, Casper, Wyoming
Sponsor: Bates Motor Home Rentals & Ramkota
Companies
Vision: One Nation
Having vacationed in the Black Hills and experienced Mount
Rushmore and Crazy Horse and the history of the red man
with the white man and the animosity that was experienced the west.
Having both monuments in the state it is a representation of the people
of the nation coming together as a community. The buffalo will have Mount Rushmore on one side and a symbol of Crazy
Horse on the other. Both will be blended into the American flag so they
are one nation of all peoples. The flag will have a look like it is
fluid representing that it is a nation in process with growth between
its people.
This buffalo now grazes in Keystone, SD |
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Sonja Huff,
Casper, Wyoming
Sponsor: Mid-continent Media Foundation
Vision: Times Change
Landscape mural incorporating teepees, flowers and the native animals
of the hills.
This buffalo lives in Cedar, MN |
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Edie Reno,
Gillette, Wyoming
Sponsor: Bradeen Real Estate and Auctions
Vision: We Are All One Blood
Contemporary indigenous buffalo, infused with Great Plains, Black Hills flora and fauna, symbolism and icons
of persona and art history imagery.
This buffalo moved to Plymouth,
MN |
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Kathy Sigle, Spearfish, South Dakota
Sponsor: Edward Jones Investments - Jon Dahlstrom
Vision: Buffalo Legacy
Back of the buffalo is a Mandan
bonnet. The right shoulder is three realistic buffalo paintings. Three
buffalo Indian dancers on the neck. The left shoulder is a group of
cows and calves- realistic painting.
This buffalo lives in Albuquerque,
NM |
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Paula Tonemah, Hot Springs, South Dakota
Sponsor: First Western Community Foundation
Vision: The Spirit Within Us
Honoring all those who came before us. The buffalo has a mural of pioneers,
Native Americans and mountain men, symbols of ancestors of many
cultures and peoples.
This buffalo moved to Huron, SD |
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Jennifer Larsen, Billings,
Montana
Sponsor:
Vision: A Tribute to Forest
Firefighters
Honor firefighters as well as perseverance of the buffalo. Paint a
massive blazing fire that the bison is charging through.
This buffalo can be seen at the Custer Comfort
Inn and Suites, Custer,
SD |
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Kathy Morrow, Las Cruces, New
Mexico
Sponsor: SD Community Foundation
Vision: United We Stand
. Starting from the buffalo’s neck, shoulder, and side four buffalo of
red, yellow, white and black would overlap. These buffalo would
represent the people of the nations. Ribbons of color would trail from
each of the buffalo and would trail to the other side of the sculpted
buffalo and on that side would be a chief in a full-length buffalo
bonnet with buffalo horns. David Bald Eagle would by the model for the
face and bonnet.
Gerard Nervig –Custer,
South Dakota
Sculptor of the 2005 Custer Stampede Jumping Buffalo
This buffalo does its jumping in Albuquerque,
NM |
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Nikki Sigle, Spearfish, South Dakota
Sponsor: Elmen Family Foundation
Vision: Joe
. A buffalo of bright colors and designs similar to bead work on a
moccasin or quill work with triangles and geometric patterns.
This buffalo stayed at Surroundings in Custer, SD
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Richard Tucker,
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Sponsor: Custer Chamber of Commerce &Custer Area Arts Council
Vision: Spirit buffalo.
. A thunderbolt of bronze on one side surrounded by a blue arrow. The
other side has a medicine shield and a medicine pipe. The shield has
the four directions painted on it. The pipe has a bronze bowl and the
stem and feathers will be sculpted. The horns are covered with thin
bronze. Texture was added to the cape and head and then painted dark
brown and black. The rear is painted tan.
This buffalo is in Spearfish, SD |
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Dwayne Wilcox, Rapid City, South Dakota
Sponsors: Black Hills Power
Vision: American Bull
. There is a theme that has run throughout the artist's artwork from
his earliest pictures. It is a reoccurring red, white and blue color
scheme. People may see it as a patriotic theme; however, it is his way
of expressing the duty a moral obligation to honor those promises made
to this land’s Natives People. With this in mind, he painted the long,
shaggy hair blue with white stars and the short hind section hair, red
and white stripes.
This buffalo is in Custer,
SD |
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June Ironhawk-Lew
& Friends, Sturgis, South
Dakota
Sponsor: SD Community Foundation
Vision: In memory of June
Lakota mythology. Display each particular star of Lakota constellation
and the sacred site that it connects with. Acrylic paint and paper
collage with natural mixed media attached such as wood or stone carving
and deer hide. Cancer claimed June's life before she could complete the
project, but her friends carried it on in her memory. |
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