Exhibits and Programs

Manifested Destiny

Featuring the Art of Larry McNeil (Tlingit, Nisga)

September 20 - December 16, 2011

Larry McNeil makes art that is a visual manifestation of the provocative times in which we live.  Employing irony and satire, McNeil's art is about the intersection of cultures, American mythology, and embodies a distinctive sense of American identity.

McNeil is a Full Professor in the Art Department at Boise State University.  He has also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.  He has won numerous fellowships and awards for his art, which reinforces his idea that art may strive to embody relevance, meaning and, hopefully, a sense of grace.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 4:30-7:00 p.m. with a lecture by the artist at 6:00 p.m.

Image at left: In the True Spirit of White Man, Larry McNeil, 2002, digital print, 24" x 48"

A Celebration of Souls: Day of the Dead in Southern Mexico

A traveling exhibition developed by the Field Museum

September 29, 2011 - December 29, 2011

Each November 1 and 2, on the Christian holidays of All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day, families in villages across Mexico gather to welcome home the visiting spirits of departed relatives on el Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).  Mexicans prepare for the celebration - which often includes decorating burial plots, lively family reunions, and the preparation of special foods - for weeks in advance, decorating altars in honor of the deceased.

The 26 stunning photographs in A Celebration of Souls: Day of the Dead in Southern Mexico show villagers immersed in all aspects of the celebration.  The exhibit will include artifacts from the Schingoethe Collection and an altar created by Aurora University Latino students.

Special Feature: Students in Aurora University's Latin American Student Organization (LASO) will create the altar for our display.

Reception & Celebration of the Altar: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Lincoln and His Times: A Pan-American View

A lecture by Dr. Antonio Delgado

During the time of Lincoln, the institution of slavery, territorial conflicts, war, and other national crises occurred in all of the Americas: North, Central, South and the Caribbean.  This Power Point presentation consists of historical photographs, caricatures, maps, and other period images which convey the pan-American nature of these issues and the relations between the US and Latin America.  Comparisons will be made between Lincoln and Mexican President Juarez.

 Delgado holds a PhD in Urban Planning and Public Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.  He has been a Smithsonian Institution Visiting Scholar and a guest speaker at various universities in Illinois, New Mexico, California, and Texas.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. (Aurora University students, faculty and staff only) and 6:30 p.m. (public lecture)

Alone Together: Objects as the Architects of Our Intimacies

A lecture by Dr. Sherry Turkle

The world of objects - and of course the world of technological objects - proposes itself an architect of our intimacies.  These days, our technologies offer us substitutes for direct face-to-face connection with people in a world of machine-mediated relationships on networked devices.  As we instant message, e-mail, text and Twitter, technology redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude.  Sometimes, people experience no sense of having communicated after hours of connectivity.  In all of this, there is a nagging question: does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters of every kind?  This lecture surveys the new "object relations" of contemporary culture.

One of the few researchers in her field, Professor Turkle offers a unique perspective on technology and social interaction and on the psychological dimensions of technological change.  Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.  She is also the author of several books, including Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet and Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in Crimi Auditorium

This lecture is part of the Arts & Ideas series

Reservations are required for this event.  To make reservations, please call Arts & Ideas at 630-844-4924 or e-mail artsandideas@aurora.edu.

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Process and Perception

Curated by Meg Bero, Gallery Director

January 19 - February 29, 2012

Images from left to right: Portland (detail) by Matthew Picton, Ode to Blue Sharpie by Sarah Steinwachs, Totem (detail) by Brian Dettmer

"Rock, Paper, Scissors" explores the relationship between an artist's vision, medium and process.  Results are sometimes literal, sometimes abstract and often enigmatic.  The artists reference a variety of landscapes: social, political and other.

Featuring works by Marissa Bero, Robert Blunk, G.E. Colpitts, Brian Dettmer, Katie Kahn, Kari Kraus, Nancy Legner, Matthew Picton, Mark Rospenda and Sarah Steinwachs.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:30-7:00 p.m.

Annual High School Art Show

Featuring West Aurora High School

March 13 - April 5, 2012

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Annual Aurora University Graduating Art Major Exhibit

April 12 - September 15, 2012

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:30-6:30 p.m.

"It Was Only a New World to Columbus"

Curator: Meg Bero

An exhibit featuring stone tools and a timeline of human history in the Americas.

All in a Day's Work: The Art of Native American Beading

April 23, 2010 - January 30, 2013

This exhibit was curated by students in the Museum Exhibitions course MST 2200, a part of Aurora University's Museum Studies program.

A Warm Relationship in a Cold Climate: People and Animals in the Arctic

May 2011 - January 2013

This exhibit was curated by students in the Museum Exhibitions course MST 2200, a part of Aurora University's Museum Studies program.

April 1 - September 5, 2011

Tenth Annual Aurora University Student Show

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 7, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

March 17 - May 27, 2011

History Re-Imagined: The Art of Chris Pappan

21st Century Ledger Drawings, Paintings, and Installation

Revealing portraits of profound insight, contemporary artist Chris Pappan (Osage, Kaw, Cheyenne River Sioux) uses the ledger art form as a platform to reflect on current issues for American Indians.

Corresponding lecture: In Two Worlds: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians presented by Meg Bero, Executive Director of the Schingoethe Center

Wednesday, March 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the Schingoethe Museum

Image at right: "Chris-Cross Applesauce," Chris Pappan

March 3-31, 2011

Annual High School Art Show

Featuring Batavia High School

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Scholarship award presentation at 6:00 p.m.

Images (clockwise): Brendan McGee, Ian Bosak, Gabrielle Domena, Mega Pieterick

February 8, 2011

"Black, Red & Deadly: The Cherokee Frontier Police of the Indian Territory Cherokee Slave Revolt of 1842" with Art Burton

Art Burton is most noted for his research on African Americans and Native Americans who were outlaws and lawmen on the western frontier after the Civil War.  He will speak on this topic as well as the relationship between African Americans and Native Americans in the Indian Territory prior to Oklahoma statehood in 1907.  In addition, he will touch on African slavery in the Five Civilized Tribes, which includes the 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nations.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 3:15 p.m. (Aurora University students, faculty and staff only) and 6:30 p.m. (public lecture)

January 24-28, 2011

Artist in Residence: William Yellow Robe, Playwright and Poet

William Yellow Robe was the 2010 recipient of the Native American Achiever's Award from the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian for his work in Native American theater.

His two published books are Where the Pavement Ends and Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories.

William Yellow Robe will work with Aurora University theater and creative writing students.

January 10 - February 27, 2011

Recent Works by Steve Lowery, Professor of Art at Aurora University

Steve Lowery has been teaching at Aurora University for nearly 25 years.  He is a painter whose work can be categorized as abstract expressionism or surrealism.  Many of his more recent pieces will be on display at the Schingoethe Art Gallery.  The exhibit is sure to inspire current art students and captivate the general public.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 18, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Image at right: "Sunny Afternoon," Steve Lowery, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 45" x 45"

December 18, 2010 - February 27, 2011

IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas

Traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution

This exhibit explores the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:30-6:30 p.m.

November 4, 2010

"Everything You Known About Indians Is Wrong" with Paul Chaat Smith

Lecture corresponding with Native American Heritage Month.

Paul Chaat Smith, curator at The National Museum of American Indian and leading cultural critic, will discuss his book of memoir and commentary Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong and the deeply disputed role of American Indians in the United States.

Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. (Aurora University students, faculty and staff only) and 7:00 p.m. (Arts & Ideas) in Perry Theatre

Part of Arts & Ideas

October 12, 2010

"Race, Roots & Relations: Native and African Americans" with Terry Strauss, PhD

Action anthropologist Dr. Terry Strauss (University of Chicago) and members of the Chicago African-Native American community will share their efforts to preserve their heritage and determine their future.  Her presentation will reflect her latest book Race, Roots & Relations: Native & African Americans.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 3:15 p.m. (Aurora University students, faculty and staff only) and 6:30 p.m. (public lecture)

September 29, 2010

Aztec Stories

Michael Heralda and his family present a culturally educational, interactive musical performance.  Using traditional hand-made instruments, they sing stories that reveal the history and culture of the tribes of Mexico.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Perry Theatre

September 21 - December 10, 2010

Celebrating 20 Years: Looking Back, Moving Forward

The Schingoethe Center at Aurora University opened its doors in 1990.  Since that year, tens of thousands of people have chosen to visit the museum to learn about America's first peoples.

The exhibit will be on display in the Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures

Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 21, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Image: "Turquoise Bear," Tony Da

September 14 - December 17, 2010

Just as Curious When It's Sung

Featuring work by Katie Kahn

In this show, Kahn explores a place of engagement between the personal, political and natural worlds in order to examine that interaction, and to discover wherein lies individual and communal responsibility.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 14, 4:30-6:30 p.m. followed immediately with a lecture by the artist

Image at right: "Empty Stage," Katie Kahn, 2004-2009, oil on canvas, 58" x 68"

April 1 - September 1, 2010

Aurora University Senior Exhibition

April 1 - June 30, 2010

Intrigue and Novelty

Contemporary Native American Women artists interpret their world and their place in it through painting, drawing, and photography.

Artists: Christine Caluya, Amber Gunn Gauthier, Nadya Kwandibens, Linda Lomahaftewa, Erica Lord, America Meredith, Rose B. Simpson, Debra Yepa-Pappan, also featuring work by young Native artists.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 4:30-7:00 p.m.

Image at right: "Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe (This is not a pipe)," Debra Yepa-Pappan, 2008, digital media, 15" x 10"

March 17, 2010

"Tecumseh, Native America and the Other American Dream" with filmmaker Ric Burns

Well-known filmmaker Ric Burns will give a talk based on his recent ninety-minute documentary film, which is part of a five-part PBS series on the history of Native America entitled We Shall Remain.  His segment chronicles the story of the life and times of the great Shawnee warrior and politician, from his birth in the Ohio River Valley in the years leading up to the Revoluntionary War, down through his death on the field of battle during the War of 1812.

March 17, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Crimi Auditorium

March 1-31, 2010

February 2 - March 28, 2010

Frida Kahlo Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray

Exhibit of 46 Color Photographs

Nickolas Muray captures famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) in photographs.  Between 1920 and 1940, Nickolas Muray made over 10,000 portraits of such celebrities as Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Eugene O'Neill and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  He began photographing Frida Kahlo in color in the winter of 1938-1939, while Kahlo was in New York attending her exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery, and he continued to do so until 1948.  Muray photographed Frida more often than any other single person.  While married to famous Mexican Muralist, Diego Rivera, Kahlo and Muray had a ten-year affair which resulted in intimate portraits and unlimited access to the artist.

The exhibit in the Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures at Aurora University is part of a national tour over a two and a half year period containing forty-six photographic prints reproduced from the original negatives.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 2, 4:30-7:00 p.m.

January 12 - February 25, 2010

Aurora University Faculty/Staff Fine Art Show

Many Aurora University faculty and staff lead a double life: artist/teacher, administrator, graphic artist, etc.  The visual creativity of the AU community will be on display in this third (not annual) AU Faculty/Staff show.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14, 2010, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

November 4, 2009

"A Traditional Woman in a Contemporary World" with Marjorie Waheneka

Marjorie Waheneka is a member of the Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Eastern Oregon.  She is the Naami Nishaycht Living History Coordinator at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute in Walla Walla, Washington.  Ms. Waheneka will share some of the challenges of adhering to traditional beliefs in a contemporary world from a woman's perspective.

Ms. Waheneka is a woman of the Long House, where she practices the Natitayt (Indian) way.  She is a food gatherer and preserves all the roots, berries, fish and meat brought into the home for use at the Long House during funerals and special ceremonies.  She is a teacher to anyone who wants to learn about the Indian way.

Waheneka has served on various local and national committees as a tribal consultant for permanent museum exhibits ("By Hand Through Memory" at The High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon), traveling exhibits ("Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country - The Native American Perspective" at The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois), books relating to the care of Indian artifacts (Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide edited by Sherelyn Ogden, Minnesota Historical Society Press 2004), written articles for special edition releases (Oregon Historical Quarterly FALL 2005 Vol. 106, No. 3 "Indian Perspectives on Food and Culture") and magazines.

November 3, 2009 - January 2, 2010

Aurora, Apollo and Others: Narrative Paintings by J. M. Mesplé

Mythological imagery with a contemporary context is explored in the paintings, drawings and prints of J. M. Mesplé.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 4:30-6:30 p.m. followed immediately with a lecture by the artist

Image at right: "Elixir of Love," J. M. Mesplé, 2009, egg tempera and oil on canvas, 48" x 36"

October 14, 2009

A Presentation by Ramson Lomatewama

Ramson Lomatewama is a multi-talented Hopi artist from Hoatvela, Arizona.  His life on the Hopi Reservation is at the heart of his art and poetry.  He speaks his native language and is an active participant in his religion.  Ramson is a successful jeweler, glass blower, stained glass artist, poet and traditional style Katsina doll carver.  He lectures all over the country.  Ramson carves his Kachinas the old way using obsidian as tool to work the cottonwood root.  He uses natural pigments in all of his paintings.

He has published three books of poetry: Silent Winds: Poetry of One Hopi; Ascending the Reed; and Drifting Through Ancestor's Dreams.  He is also a consultant in the areas of creative writing, glass art, and cultural anthropology.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

September 8 - October 31, 2009

... of a Feather

Featuring drawings and prints by Peter Olson

Birds metaphorically represent the vast and complex natural world on many levels.  Although we as humans understand them in many ways, something about birds remains elusive, distant and unknowable.  They are always flying away from us.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 8, 4:30-7:00 p.m.

Image at right: "Palm Warbler," Peter Olson, 2007, mixed media, 29 1/2" x 21 1/2"

September 22, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915

Exhibit of 51 Black and White photographs

In 1898, amateur photographer Thomas Leander "Lee" Moorhouse began recording scenes in and around Pendleton, Oregon.  His 9,000 glass plate negatives are little known today, but they provide a rich and important visual record of the Interior Pacific Northwest as it transitioned from frontier life to the modern era.

Born in 1850 in Iowa, Moorhouse traveled with his family in 1861 by ox-drawn wagon across the Plains and settled in Washington Territory.  As an adult, he was employed as an Indian Agent and became friends with the local Tribes.  One of his most famous portraits is of Chief Joseph.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 22, 4:30-7:00 p.m.

April 24, 2009 - January 30, 2010

"From Bark to Beads and Everything in Between"

Curator: MST 2200 Museum Exhibitions Students

From the east to the west, from the north to the south, basket-making was an art form that has been a part of Native American cultures for thousands of years dating from as early as 7500 B.C.  Baskets were used in the Native Americans' daily lives, and each culture area developed different forms, materials, construction techniques, and uses for baskets.

Over time, each region perfected their way of basket-making.  In the Northeast Woodlands region, birch bark became the main material since the birch tree was common to the area.  the Southwest were among the tribes that used glass seed beads to decorate their baskets.  In the Plateau region, splints and roots of cedar were used to make large storage containers.  These baskets from the permanent collection highlight the artistry, history, and importance of baskets in the lives, past and present, of the First Nations.

This exhibit was created and developed by students in Aurora University's Museum Studies program.

April 7 - September 7, 2009

March 26, 2009

An Evening with Edgar Heap of Birds

In his presentation, Heap of Birds will discuss his installation "Most Serene Republics" at the 52nd Venice Biennale.  This 2007 piece was sponsored by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

This is a free presentation and open to the public.

To R.S.V.P., please contact the Schingoethe Center at 630-844-7843 or museum@aurora.edu.

March 3-31, 2009

Annual High School Art Show

Featuring St. Charles East High School

February 2 - April 25, 2009

With a Little Help from Our Friends: Gifts and Loans from Local Collectors

Since opening its doors in 1990, the Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures has been the recipient of the generosity of collectors in the area.  Families seeking a good home for their treasures have donated them to the museum.  Others have loaned their collections to help the museum present a particular exhibit made possible only by the loan of materials not in the museum's collection.  We would like to share these artifacts and the wonderful stories of those who collected them.  This is our way of saying a very large thank you!

January 8 - February 25, 2009

"Confrontation/Contemplation" featuring Mike Knierim and Carolyn Bernstein

Curator: Meg Bero

Bernstein and Knierim face the world head-on in this show about issues of war, loss and humanity.  Life is messy.  In "Confrontation/Contemplation," the goal is not to prescribe answers but, in their belief that art can evoke empathy and thus change, to simply present in the power of the visual the opportunity to reflect.

Mike Knierim

Mike Knierim states, "Where you place your attention determines all."  Knierim tends to place his attention at the boundaries where things converge.  Such boundaries include encounters between natural and man-made, past and present, light and dark, right and wrong, have and have-not, levity and seriousness.  The list goes on...

For Knierim, these things are all metaphors for the border between the conscious and subconscious aspects of ourselves.  Knierim seeks to create images and experiences which mediate between these levels of consciousness and reflect the dual nature of our being.  "My ultimate goal is to express myself in a manner that has the capacity to improve our lives by creating greater awareness and understanding of ourselves, our neighbors and the world at large."

Carolyn Bernstein

The guiding features of Bernstein's work are questions about what sparks and sustains curiosity and empathy.  Her work explores ideas of transcience, loss, and transformation.  "I find meaning and poignancy through an artistic practice that demands the careful and sustained examination of things that our culture discards, overlooks, or chooses not to talk about."

November 19, 2008

January 31 - April 25, 2008

Weapons of Mass Media

Featuring work by Bunky Echo-hawk (Pawnee/Yakama)

Curated by Meg Bero, Executive Director of the Schingoethe Center

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 31, 2008, 4:30-7:00 p.m.

March 27 - April 27, 2007

"In Citizen's Garb: Southern Plains Indians, 1889-1891," a vintage photography display

March 14, 2007

September 14 - October 27, 2006

First Light II: New Artists, New Work

Work by Deann Alleman, Marissa Bero, R. Hope Le Van, Maureen McKee, Gerardo Rios, Juan Sepulveda, John Stanicek.

Opening Reception, Downstairs Dunham Gallery, adjacent to the Schingoethe Center.

Image at right: "Untitled," Marissa Bero, 2005, mixed media

October 3, 2006

Gwich'in Elder, Florence Thomas

Gwich'in elder Florence Thomas is from the Old Crow reservation in Canada.  Through an informal talk with artifacts from her reservation, she will share her culture.  Florence will be speaking specifically about the drilling for oil in the ANWAR (Alaska National Wildlife Refuge) and its impact on her people and their traditional way of life.

October 5, 2006

Ingrid Wendt and Ralph Salisbury

Born and raised in Aurora, Illinois, Ingrid Wendt has been a three-time Fulbright professor in Germany, and guest lecturer at several international universities.  She is the author of five books of poems, two anthologies, a book-length teaching guide, and numerous articles and reviews.  Winner of the D. H. Lawrence Award, the Oregon Book Award, the Yellowglen Prize, the Editions Prize, and the Carolyn Kizer Award, Ingrid will be reading and discussing the origins of poems from her last two prize-winning books, The Angle of Sharpest Ascending and Surgeonfish: wanderings through the world, through history, and through the heart.  She and her husband, Ralph Salisbury, live in Eugene, Oregon.  Ralph Salisbury, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, is the author of two books of short fiction and eight books of poetry, War in the Genes (Cherry Grove Collections, 2006) the most recent.  He has received many awards, among them a Rockefeller, a Chapelbrook, a Northwest Poetry Award; two Fulbright professorships to Germany and Norway; and an Amparts (USIS) lectureship in India.  He will read selections from his published work and present a talk based on his experience as a Native American poet, fiction writer and storyteller and on his co-translating Sami (Lapp) poetry.

November 6, 2006

Exhibit - A Moment in Time, Curator: Meg Bero

Opening Reception 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Roughly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) to the official closing of the western frontier (1890), there is a brief period in which the contact of white explorers and settlers coincides with a rising consciousness of cultural differences and the importance of recording the cultural experience of native peoples.  This exhibit displays some of the important work of artists and ethnographers in this period, drawing on the rare book collection of the Schingoethe Center.

Image at left: "Polishing Pottery," H. Nichols Sr., Annual Report 1882 plate XL from the Bureau of American Ethnology, care of the Schingoethe Center's rare book collection

November 6-10, 2006

Native American Film Series

(Titles TBA - call 630-844-5402 after October 15th for details)

November 7, 2006

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) - Bill Steinbacher-Kemp (this talk corresponds with our exhibit A Moment In Time)

In 1869, John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War Veteran from Illinois, led an epic three-month expedition through the last unmapped section of the continental United States - the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers.  After attaining national fame as the "Conqueror of the Grand Canyon," Powell became the architect for the federal science bureaucracy, organizing and leading the U.S. Geological Survey and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology.  This lecture is illustrated and is based on primary source research.  Bill Steinbacher-Kemp holds two MS degrees, the first in History from ISU, and the second in Public Affairs Reporting from the U of I at Springfield.  He has given numerous public lectures and tours concerning Illinois history, in addition to being a fulltime archivist and librarian at the McLean County Museum of History.  His talk is presented through the "Road Scholars" program of the Illinois Humanities Council.

November 8, 2006

Native American Dance Workshop - Lance Tallmadge

(University Banquet Hall) Are you ready to dance?!  Join Lance Tallmadge (Ho Chunk) and his company as he teaches us to dance Native American style.  Lance and his colleagues will share why dance is so important to their traditions, the symbolic meaning in their dances and regalia and the place of the drum in all Native cultures.  Then everyone will join the dance circle!  There is an admission charge for members of the public, and advance reservations are required because of limited space (630-844-7841).

November 8, 2006

Native American Club Supper Meeting - Learning about Powwow Traditions - Rita Reynolds

University Banquet Hall) Following the Dance Workshop: Supper meeting of Dreamcatchers, the Aurora University Native American Club.  Open to the public by advance reservation; there is a charge for dinner (call 630-844-7841).  Supper includes Native American foods and his accompanied by a teaching on the history, traditions, and techniques of dance in the context of the powwow, by elder Rita Reynolds (Dakota).

November 10, 2006

Woodland and Ojibwa Spirituality - Nick Hockings

Nick Hockings (Ojibwa) offers a world view of the Ojibwa and Woodlands people by focusing on the Madoodooswan (Sweat Lodge).  The Sweat is a ceremony done by all tribes for cleansing and healing.  Nick will delineate all aspects of the ceremony and relate them to the spiritual views of his people.  Hockings is a Cultural Consultant and the creator of Was-Wagoning, a recreated village in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin.  Nick is also famous for building the wigwam in the Schingoethe Center!

February 15 - May 1, 2006

A Voice of Their Own: Emerging Chicago Native American Artists

Curated by Meg Bero, Executive Director of the Schingoethe Center

Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Inupiaq), Chris Pappan (Osage, Lakota), Debra Yeppa-Pappan (Jemez Pueblo, Korean)

Image at right: "Fox Delegate to Washington D.C.," Chris Pappan, 2005, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 77.5" x 108", collection the Schingoethe Museum