Winter Vision Quest Cave

Winter Vision Quest Cave

In this season, many inner compasses will begin turning toward seeking, creating and crawling into the blessed peace of the seasonal vision quest cave.

Inside, a deep breast of the resting Mother Earth, is where the Medicine Wheel slowly turns in an earthly circumambulation of all seed dreams, penetrated by fiery shafts of our Father Sky Sun into the mind, heart, body and Spirit of individual inner pools of quiet.

Here, ones bones can and may be deeply CLEANED: healed and loosened from the labors, challenges, cares, aspirations and fulfillments of the previous season, then slowly put back together as an honoring dream dance echo of all the ancestral journeys made before ours and those yet to come. The womb quest awaits. Draw aside a veil of the great mystery, breathe your name, make an offering and ask permission to replicate and renew the journey that all beings have made, do make and will make..from earth to sky ... breath into clay ... so we are made and so we reenact the sacred moves, as we see them.

For, we are the new myth makers. Many dreams and messages have been brought forward, by ourselves and others … accept these offerings, feast upon the tears of bitterness and gratitude from which they were born and prepare to embark upon making the new myths and creation stories … OUR new myths drawn from a place where our sacred beingness meets with and is fused with mysterious elements emanating from an indivisible and indestructible connection with divine consciousness and personal discernment.

This is how we stay alive and keep the world alive. This then, is our Sacred Charge. Where we will feel most alive and know who we are.

Many are the ways of personal, creative ceremony ... Now, it is time to smudge off, pray for the highest good for all concerned and ask that bravery, wisdom, willingness and endurance walk with us.

Know that one may emerge, or come and go, from the cave at any time and trust that commitments and responsibilities in the outside world reside on physical and mental arms of the Medicine Wheel and will not suffer from ‘medicine’ attention directed elsewhere.

When ones visit to the cave is accomplished there will be a natural and unremarkable reunification of elements. The shifts and gifts will be ours for life. Do not speak of these things too soon but hold them close to mature and unfold. Journaling is a creative thing to do as many of the realizations, visitations or visions will be of an ephemeral nature. Do not censor or process the writing, that can be done later.

May we be eternally rich in Spirit, have good minds and strong bodies. May we know no fear and may we have hearts filled with love..now and forever more.

AHO!

Dawn Woman

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

From: February 27, 2020

Online Exhibition: Voices of the West

 

 

 

 

A closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the museum's Voices of the West exhibition (2020). Guest speakers are Norman Akers (Osage), Lauren Ritterbush, and Minisa Crumbo Halsey (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Muscogee). 

 

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' (YouTube)

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk'

From: October 29, 2020

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Voices of the West Online Exhibition

Join artist and filmmaker Minisa Crumbo Halsey as she responds to questions about her efforts to document the career of her father, Woodrow (Woody) Crumbo (1912-1989), a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Crumbo’s career included contributions as an artist, dancer, concert musician, arts educator, and museum administrator. During the late 1940s, he was hired to assemble the American Indian art collection for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa. He later became director of the El Paso Museum of Arts in Texas.

'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' by Minisa Crumbo

Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists (SAAM)

Picturing the American Buffalo: A Conversation (SAAM)

Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists (SAAM)

Buffalo Hunt by Woodrow Crumbo (SAAM)

'Hunting the Spirit Buffalo' by Woody Crumbo (1930s)   

Woodrow Crumbo

Crumbo was born in Lexington, Oklahoma, the son of an Indian mother and a French father. He attended government schools as a child and showed such promise that he received a scholarship to the American Indian Institute in Wichita for his last two years of high school. While at the Institute, he became interested in expressing Indian tradition and culture through his art. After three years at the University of Wichita he transferred to the University of Oklahoma where he studied with Oscar B. Jacobson. At the early age of 21, Crumbo was appointed Director of Indian Art at Bacone College, the only institute of higher learning exclusively for Indians. Bacone offered Crumbo the unique opportunity to familiarize himself with his heritage and to instill in him cultural pride. At that time he conducted research into Indian design and revived ancient techniques of silverwork, vegetable dying, and weaving.

Crumbo’s career has been diverse; known also as a musician and Indian ceremonial dancer, Crumbo played the cedar wood flute and danced with Thurlow Lieurance’s symphony in Wichita. He also worked as a designer with the Douglas Corporation, with the Gilcrease Collection in Tulsa, and from 1960 to 1968 as curator of the El Paso Museum of Art.

A Pottawatomie Indian, Crumbo explores in his art the traditions and ceremonies of his own tribe as well as those of the Creek, Sioux, and Kiowa nations, and says of his work, ​“I have always painted with the desire of developing Indian art so that it may be judged on art standards rather on its value as a curio—I am attempting to record Indian customs and legends now, while they are alive, to make them a part of the great American culture before these, too, become lost, only to be fragmentarily pieced together by fact and supposition.

Crumbo works in oil and egg tempera, as well as in watercolor, sculpture, stained glass, and silkscreen. Under the guidance of Olle Nordmark, he also learned etching. The largest collection of Crumbo’s work, about 175 paintings, is owned by the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, although his work has been exhibited in many museums throughout the United States.

Virginia Mecklenburg The Public as Patron: A History of the Treasury Department Mural Program (College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland, n.d.)

Winter Vision Quest Cave

Winter Vision Quest Cave

In this season, many inner compasses will begin turning toward seeking, creating and crawling into the blessed peace of the seasonal vision quest cave.

Inside, a deep breast of the resting Mother Earth, is where the Medicine Wheel slowly turns in an earthly circumambulation of all seed dreams, penetrated by fiery shafts of our Father Sky Sun into the mind, heart, body and Spirit of individual inner pools of quiet.

Here, ones bones can and may be deeply CLEANED: healed and loosened from the labors, challenges, cares, aspirations and fulfillments of the previous season, then slowly put back together as an honoring dream dance echo of all the ancestral journeys made before ours and those yet to come. The womb quest awaits. Draw aside a veil of the great mystery, breathe your name, make an offering and ask permission to replicate and renew the journey that all beings have made, do make and will make..from earth to sky ... breath into clay ... so we are made and so we reenact the sacred moves, as we see them.

For, we are the new myth makers. Many dreams and messages have been brought forward, by ourselves and others … accept these offerings, feast upon the tears of bitterness and gratitude from which they were born and prepare to embark upon making the new myths and creation stories … OUR new myths drawn from a place where our sacred beingness meets with and is fused with mysterious elements emanating from an indivisible and indestructible connection with divine consciousness and personal discernment.

This is how we stay alive and keep the world alive. This then, is our Sacred Charge. Where we will feel most alive and know who we are.

Many are the ways of personal, creative ceremony ... Now, it is time to smudge off, pray for the highest good for all concerned and ask that bravery, wisdom, willingness and endurance walk with us.

Know that one may emerge, or come and go, from the cave at any time and trust that commitments and responsibilities in the outside world reside on physical and mental arms of the Medicine Wheel and will not suffer from ‘medicine’ attention directed elsewhere.

When ones visit to the cave is accomplished there will be a natural and unremarkable reunification of elements. The shifts and gifts will be ours for life. Do not speak of these things too soon but hold them close to mature and unfold. Journaling is a creative thing to do as many of the realizations, visitations or visions will be of an ephemeral nature. Do not censor or process the writing, that can be done later.

May we be eternally rich in Spirit, have good minds and strong bodies. May we know no fear and may we have hearts filled with love..now and forever more.

AHO!

Dawn Woman

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

From: February 27, 2020

Online Exhibition: Voices of the West

 

 

 

 

A closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the museum's Voices of the West exhibition (2020). Guest speakers are Norman Akers (Osage), Lauren Ritterbush, and Minisa Crumbo Halsey (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Muscogee). 

 

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' (YouTube)

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk'

From: October 29, 2020

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Voices of the West Online Exhibition

Join artist and filmmaker Minisa Crumbo Halsey as she responds to questions about her efforts to document the career of her father, Woodrow (Woody) Crumbo (1912-1989), a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Crumbo’s career included contributions as an artist, dancer, concert musician, arts educator, and museum administrator. During the late 1940s, he was hired to assemble the American Indian art collection for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa. He later became director of the El Paso Museum of Arts in Texas.

'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' by Minisa Crumbo

 

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

From: February 27, 2020

Online Exhibition: Voices of the West

 

 

 

A closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the museum's Voices of the West exhibition (2020). Guest speakers are Norman Akers (Osage), Lauren Ritterbush, and Minisa Crumbo Halsey (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Muscogee). 

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' (YouTube)

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk'

From: October 29, 2020

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Voices of the West Online Exhibition

Join artist and filmmaker Minisa Crumbo Halsey as she responds to questions about her efforts to document the career of her father, Woodrow (Woody) Crumbo (1912-1989), a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Crumbo’s career included contributions as an artist, dancer, concert musician, arts educator, and museum administrator. During the late 1940s, he was hired to assemble the American Indian art collection for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa. He later became director of the El Paso Museum of Arts in Texas.

'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' by Minisa Crumbo

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

From: February 27, 2020

Online Exhibition: Voices of the West

 

A closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the museum's Voices of the West exhibition (2020). Guest speakers are Norman Akers (Osage), Lauren Ritterbush, and Minisa Crumbo Halsey (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Muscogee).

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' (YouTube)

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk'

From: October 29, 2020

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Voices of the West Online Exhibition 

Join artist and filmmaker Minisa Crumbo Halsey as she responds to questions about her efforts to document the career of her father, Woodrow (Woody) Crumbo (1912-1989), a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Crumbo’s career included contributions as an artist, dancer, concert musician, arts educator, and museum administrator. During the late 1940s, he was hired to assemble the American Indian art collection for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa. He later became director of the El Paso Museum of Arts in Texas.

'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' by Minisa Crumbo

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

From: February 27, 2020

Online Exhibition: Voices of the West

 

A closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the museum's Voices of the West exhibition (2020). Guest speakers are Norman Akers (Osage), Lauren Ritterbush, and Minisa Crumbo Halsey (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Muscogee).

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' (YouTube)

Conversation with Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Director of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk'

From: October 29, 2020

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Voices of the West Online Exhibition 

Join artist and filmmaker Minisa Crumbo Halsey as she responds to questions about her efforts to document the career of her father, Woodrow (Woody) Crumbo (1912-1989), a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Crumbo’s career included contributions as an artist, dancer, concert musician, arts educator, and museum administrator. During the late 1940s, he was hired to assemble the American Indian art collection for the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa. He later became director of the El Paso Museum of Arts in Texas.

'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' by Minisa Crumbo

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Panel: Native American Perspectives (YouTube)

Sponsored by: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

From: February 27, 2020

Online Exhibition: Voices of the West

 

A closer look at historic and contemporary Native American imagery in the museum's Voices of the West exhibition (2020). Guest speakers are Norman Akers (Osage), Lauren Ritterbush, and Minisa Crumbo Halsey (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and Muscogee).