Voices of the West Online Exhibition, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Voices of the West Online Exhibition

 Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Kansas State University

February 4 - December 23, 2020

Film screening of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' -- October 29, 2020 @ 5:30p

Film screening of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' and livestream conversation with director Minisa Crumbo Halsey

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 made contributions to American culture as an artist, dancer, concert musician, art 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. 

Join the free live conversation via ZOOM. To register in advance and receive a link to the film, go to: https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_botObfTrTHu4WZJZCKLFlg 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the program. 

Organized by the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University.

Excerpts from 'Spirit Talk':

Excerpts from Spirit Talk:

The animals often associated with [the West direction] are the bear and the deer. However many people find that personal affinities with each of the directions may reveal themselves differently in time … Personal colors and animals may be added alongside the universal [Medicine Wheel] motifs, as contacts, experience, familiarity, and intuition accrues with the seasons … [West] is a direction of deep return and recognition. The west receives us in our mysterious entirety … links the physical plane—west, with the mental plane—east … With the arrival of autumn we reach a culmination of medicines and seasons. Our harvests, the time of gathering and picking is among the most mysterious, gathering these secretive and familial beings, the beings of seed. We can join our essences with theirs—our dualities, singularities, multiplicities, and universalities, unique and connected upon all directions of the Medicine Wheel, but especially the direction of the west in the autumn, twilight of the year. 

Voices of the West Online Exhibition, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Voices of the West Online Exhibition

 Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Kansas State University

February 4 - December 23, 2020

Film screening of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' -- October 29, 2020 @ 5:30p

Film screening of 'Woody Crumbo: Spirit Talk' and livestream conversation with director Minisa Crumbo Halsey

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 made contributions to American culture as an artist, dancer, concert musician, art 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. 

Join the free live conversation via ZOOM. To register in advance and receive a link to the film, go to: https://ksu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_botObfTrTHu4WZJZCKLFlg 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the program. 

Organized by the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University.

Fall Equinox

Greetings and bozho to all sweet grass swingersand Redbud Singers,

As we each move along on our personal path ... engage in home ceremony. At this time ... We seek to forge and maintain the center path that the balance of seasons offers. SPIRIT TALK (excerpts below) may offer some support if you want to have a look and this might be a good time to consider journaling, if not already doing so ... in order to accurately track our story and to set, purify and hold positive intentions.

 

This is who we are and what we have.
I go with you, Mamogosnan.
Blessings and Bama pi,
Dawn Woman

Excerpts from Spirit Talk:

The animals often associated with [the West direction] are the bear and the deer. However many people find that personal affinities with each of the directions may reveal themselves differently in time … Personal colors and animals may be added alongside the universal [Medicine Wheel] motifs, as contacts, experience, familiarity, and intuition accrues with the seasons … [West] is a direction of deep return and recognition. The west receives us in our mysterious entirety … links the physical plane—west, with the mental plane—east … With the arrival of autumn we reach a culmination of medicines and seasons. Our harvests, the time of gathering and picking is among the most mysterious, gathering these secretive and familial beings, the beings of seed. We can join our essences with theirs—our dualities, singularities, multiplicities, and universalities, unique and connected upon all directions of the Medicine Wheel, but especially the direction of the west in the autumn, twilight of the year.

Bodewadmin Longhouse Message

Good morning ... mno waben aanii ... good day friends ...
I am expanding this mailing in order to initiate important plant talk into our fall and winter gestational honor seasons, whereby we recognize and honor those seeds with which we sat and prayed last winter in the Bodewadmin Longhouse. As with the natural world or a tended, intentional garden, part of the growth can be predicted or shaped and part cannot. At this time we all, here on Turtle Island, find ourselves coming into new awareness and balance with the Great Mystery. The inner and outer landscapes are shifting. This offers so much opportunity for not only sacred choice to the exercised but also a vastly expanded view of Medicine Wheel teachings and disciplines by which to institute these choices ... then bringing these ones into the inner longhouse for growth and endurance prayers. 

This time of harvest is when the serious work of the next year's harvest begins ... praying over the seeds of this year. 

Now, some of this year's harvest produced undeniably questionable yields. To these things we might ask, who are you and what do you want? We always have the right to ask these questions ... and should ... in the interests of connection, honoring, knowledge, life, right livelihood and growth. The question is: do we want to know? Whether we do or we don’t is okay ... that’s the way it is with us ... however, these are our growth points or seeds, if you will. Harvest is the time to select the strongest and most desirable seeds to BEGIN bringing forward for the new season.

With these things in mind, a plant TEACHER AND HELPER  will be offered to assist renewed, or initiated, unity in our Earth Walk as we approach  a very important new vision quest season. The opportunity and indeed necessity to make and renew authentic approaches to our Earth Walk as Two-Leggeds is apparent to each of us.  Let us endeavor to make these Walks in harmony and balance with the Creator and Creator’s first, most beautiful and enduring gifts to us of our Mother Earth and our Father Sky-Sun.

Here is a great healing herb to become aware of that also happens to grow abundantly in our Oklahoma area ... Prunella Vulgaris. This program comes to us highly recommended, on YouTube from the Herbal Jedi. I invite you to visit and surf his site for many other important winter study considerations. 

Personally, I find that a tea of this plant journeys immediately to calm not only the solar plexus but the entire system ... especially the mind. Balance is felt in the liver and kidneys ... seats of anger and fear by the system of Chinese Medicine. These are two emotions that can be ‘doctored’ by self heal or Prunella vulgaris. Each person will have a personal experience to sensitize, honor and remain aware of its effect, should you feel guided to ‘make medicine’ with this or any plant being. When the mind is then calmed, endeavor to notice and remain fused with this plant blessing, as long as possible ... it will not last long ... but long enough to give us a ‘leg up’ toward reaching and maintaining a higher quality of life, a measure of equanimity ... and TIME  by which to ‘seat’ these ephemeral blessings. Do not expect this period to last longer than 20 minutes or so ... hold the focus and make the most of the gift.

In support of these new ‘relations’ a good WAY to pick will be offered as part of the fall (dwaget) and winter (pon) studies. For now, begin thinking of making an approach to this being and leaning into ‘coming to know’ this beautiful being.

The picking season is actually mostly past but this gives us the opportunity to Begin - coming into balance - with this little, mighty self healing plant for the coming gathering season, next  May-June.

Now, if you live in this Oklahoma temperate zone and have a full sun growing spot, this third week of August is the final planting window for seeding a winter garden. The autumn sun soon softens its vigor so planting any time after this does not support a completion growth cycle ... the plant can make a strong start but cannot grow strongly into November or in the case of some greens like collard greens, all winter. This can be one of the driest months so keep the ground well watered and do not allow the seeds or small plants to dry out until the rains begin.

Bama mine.
Be well.
Much love,
Minisa
Wabaksekwe-Dawn Woman
CPN

minisacrumbo.com 

http://dawnwoman5.blogspot.com/