Colleen Cutschall

Colleen Cutschall (born 1951) also known as Sister Wolf, is an Oglala-Sicango Lakota artist from Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Colleedn Cutschall is a Lakota artist, art historian, educator, and curator from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, who has lived and worked in Southwestern Manitoba since the 1980's. She holds a BFA from Barat College and an MS.ED from Black Hills State University. Cutschall works in Painting, Sculpture, Photography, and Installation art. Some themes of her work include Lakota mythological archetypes, human relationships to the cosmos, and the implications of exploration.

Colleen Cutschall's work is in the permanent collection of the Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Government of Manitoba, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Kenderdine Art Gallery, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Oscar Howe Art Center, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Cutschall is known for her sculpture Spirit Warriors, installed at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. This iron sculpture at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, which was until 1991 named after George Custer, United States Commander in the American Indian Wars. Cutschall's sculpture commemorates Native American warriors in the Great Sioux War of 1876.

Indian monument at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

In addition to maintaining her studio practice, Colleen Cutschall is Professor Emerita at Brandon University. After over twenty years of teaching at Brandon University in the Department of Native Studies, she founded the Visual and Aboriginal Program.

• "Voices in the Blood," Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, 2009. Toured to the Oscar Howe Art Center, Dakota Gallery; Minnesota State University, South Dakota; the Art Gallery of Mississauga; the Thunder Bay Art Gallery; the MacKenzie Art Gallery; and more.
• "Sister Wolf in Her Moon" Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1995.
• "House Made of Stars" Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1996.
• "Identity By Design: Tradition, Change and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses" Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.