Quest for the Pipe of the Sioux

10/12/2024

FACEBOOK DELETED MY POST | Hi Friends! FB deleted one of my posts for breaking their rules (although I am unclear the rule I've purportedly broken...?). I have appealed the decision by their bots, HOWEVER it reminded me that our presence here can be ended at the whim of Meta and its Bots.

To that end, I invite you to keep in touch with me via my eNewsletter that I just set up tonight. There is a landing plage where you can add your name and email addy to my new MailChimp list.

https://mailchi.mp/c848cbba75ce/adrienne -

I'm thinking that I'll put all my creative project updates in blog posts on my website (https://adriennefritze.com) starting sometime soon-ish.

Updates likely will be about:

>> new art I am creating for a solo exhibit at the New Zone Gallery in Eugene Oregon which will run through October 2025 - in one year;

>> progress on "Playing with History" non-fiction book about the power, and practicality, of bringing gamification to all things history and culture related;

>> tales about re-igniting development on a long mothballed transmedia story and adventure project I began a decade ago - Shoebox Tales (https://shoeboxtales.com/).

Who knows, maybe there will be other stuff there too, like other artists' work that I admire with an essay, or poem, or treatise on why I like what they do! And random sketches. And photos from my journeys. You know, stuff.

So, go ahead and sign up so no matter what happens here in Meta-land, we will still be in touch!

Go here: https://mailchi.mp/c848cbba75ce/adrienne

~ Adrienne Fritze

10/12/2024

I'M THIS } { CLOSE | I thought I'd get the first (very rough) draft of Playing with History done today....but nooooooooo! Argh! So close!

The funniest (i.e. oddest) thing about writing this book thus far is that the most difficult and time-consuming writing was of the Introduction! It is the most personal, to be sure...

The rest is A) philosophy, and learnings about why gamification works to bring history to life, and TO life; and B) How YOU can Create History-based Games to activate your communities.

Tomorrow is another day...mayhaps the draft will be complete then...

02/01/2019

01/14/2019

HISTORIC NEWS | about newly elected Native American women to congress goes unnoticed in the press.

Read what Bernie Meyers shares in his article, "Why You Couldn’t Find Big Media Coverage of Haaland and Davids," here:

The hunger for validation from the legacy press of the authentic Indigenous narrative is no longer a hunger but a famine imposed on our very democracy; that to understand the story of this great nation can not be done without including the Indigenous narrative.

06/16/2016

REMAINING | Raggedy Assed...

From the family of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash to YOU.

https://youtu.be/Un6fAIxaDKY

https://www.facebook.com/AnnieMaePictouAquash/ http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php/news/investigations/286-aquash-peltier-timeline-1975-2010/2101-annie-ma...

04/14/2014

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03/08/2014

PLEASE JOIN ME | this Sunday, March 9th during our "Meet the Artists" reception from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. at Concordia University for the opening of "Honoring Our Native American Art" - an exhibit of contemporary / current work by Native artists in our area.

I am fortunate to be included in this exhibit, along with these amazing artists:
- Lillian Pitt
- Toma Villa
- Mark Shelton
- Ruth Gourdine
- Byron Kalama
- Ed Edmo, and
- Kaila Farrell-Smith

Please stop by, I'd love to see you and show you some of my new work and share with you the work of my fellow artists.

Here's the Gallery info:
George R. White Library and Learning Center
Concordia University Library
2800 NE Liberty Street, Portland 97211

Art sales benefits the Red Lodge Transition Services and COncordia University Libraries' Art & Culture Program.

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The Story Behind the print "Courageous Daughter" by Adrienne Fritze

While I was at the Dakota Conference on Wounded Knee a couple of years back, where I was able to face the men who had taken my family and I hostage during the occupation of Wounded Knee some 40+ years earlier, I was fortunate to meet a young Lakota woman, Karin Eagle. She is a reporter by trade, and was there covering the conference. She is also a resident of the Pine Ridge (family home) and Rapid City (where she works for the Native Sun News and lives with her children).

Karin, in a show of support for me as I was sitting on a panel during the conference, took off her journalist credentials and stood at the back of the room where I could see her and she stood in camaraderie with me as I shared the details of my harrowing and heart breaking experience during the 1973 Occupation of my home town of Wounded Knee.

She and I had not yet met, and there she was offering me her support, standing where I could clearly see her, silently giving me the will and courage to continue sharing.

When she and I finally introduced ourselves to each other following the panel, there was an outpouring of experience and sister-hood that I have rarely experienced to such depths in an instant as I did with her. We have been powerfully bonded ever since.

Toward the end of last year I started a sketchbook project I call “Borders and Lines” and I invited my friends/family/acquaintances on Facebook to offer topics to fill in the borders I’d created. I collected everyone’s input, put the ideas in a hat, and then drew out one concept to create an artwork reflecting that topic. I drew Karin’s suggestion of a puzzle, and knew exactly what I wanted to do.

That year Karin’s daughter, Maya, had been plagued by bullies in her school – other native girls who would gang up on her, beat her up and steal her things. This artwork came out of how courageous Maya was in the face of her bullies… Maya had experienced a particularly rough beating, and rather than let the bullying dictate how she would live her life at school, she picked herself up, brushed herself off, put back the pieces of her dignity and pride, and showed up at school the next day. Even though the girls were there trying to intimidate her, she carried on in the face of that threat, undeterred.

I was deeply moved by Maya’s courage, and that became the inspiration for the artwork.

12/09/2013

From A's Desk: The [h]IT LIST December 2013 Art Exhibits at Portland's First Thursday http://ow.ly/2BZwEO

12/06/2013

From A's Desk: Admiration for the Work of Korean Artist Jee Young Lee http://ow.ly/2BXKNU

11/07/2013

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