Mr. Two Bulls spent several years as a working artist with exhibitions in New Mexico where he was an organizer, Director of Operations at 333 Montezuma Arts and the gallery manager at Santa Fe Clay before he came home to teach at Oglala Lakota College where he runs a graphic arts program he founded. After applying for the position he has just been named 2024 Artist in Residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility or SURF in the former Homestake Mine under Lead, South Dakota.
Democratic former US Senators Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson brought the need for a research facility to Congress and worked tirelessly to bring the project to fruition. But today, South Dakota is dumbing down requirements for math teachers because graduates flee and the state's governor is a reactionary cracker, the Republican Party ridicules educated people and perennially threatens funding for public radio.
“Open pit mining and mineral extraction was a major wound, not just to the land, but also, to my people,” Two Bulls said. “Our history is not necessarily an easy conversation to have in the Black Hills, but ignoring it is not the best way forward. I do come from a population whose version of history hasn't really been told. Art has the potential to express complex ideas in very short amounts of time. My goal as an artist, and also as an educator, is to be a good communicator and teacher who can express complex ideas and help people understand some of this difficult history.” [Marty Two Bulls Jr. Named SURF 2024 Artist in Residence]
That a dark matter lab named for a usurious, lecherous Republican billionaire would select an enlightened, forward-looking tribal leader to a residency sends an undarkened signal to the SDGOP to just shut the fuck up.
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— interested party (@larry_kurtz) January 10, 2015
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