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About the Enduring Vision Awards Recipients

2010 Recipients: Arthur D. Amiotte * Bounxou Daoheuang Chanthraphone * Paul Shambroom

Lakota artist and art historian Arthur D. Amiotte was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. His current work in collage documents the history and culture of the Sioux people. Amiotte uses images from epic, mural-sized drawings by his great-grandfather Standing Bear (1870 to 1930) to create a visual narrative of his family during this period. The collage materials tell the story of Lakota people adapting to the farming and ranching lifestyle, economy and society of the reservation in the late 19th and 20th centuries. After receiving the Arts International Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Artists Fellowship in 1997, Amiotte lived at the Claude Monet residence in Giverny, France, where he began making collages mixing images of Indians in tribal and historical settings. In Amiotte’s collages, the Sioux who traveled with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show are portrayed in European cities and landscapes as they reflect on the newness and strangeness of their experiences. The texts that appear in the paintings are the words of his great-grandfather, grandparents and others of their generation. The Bush Foundation previously awarded Amiotte a Bush Leadership Fellowship in 1980 and Bush Artist Fellowship in 2002. He lives in Custer, SD, and exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally.

Bounxou Daoheuang Chanthraphone was born in Laos in 1947 and learned Lao weaving arts from her mother and my grandmother. In the midst of war in the 1970s, she left Laos for Thailand with, in her words “my life and my weaving skills.” In Ubon Refugee Camp, she taught weaving to Lao women, enabling them to earn a living and regain their dignity. With their earnings, the women build a school for children in the camp. In 1982, she immigrated to the United States where she continues to teach traditional Lao weaving arts to young people and adults. She uses hand, eye, history, myth, lore and wisdom to tell stories of religion, family and friends, special celebrations and journeys. She often hand-dyes silk threads with berries, roots and tree bark before weaving traditional Lao skirts, dresses for traditional dancing, shawls and wall hangings covered with striking design motifs and symbolic images. Some of her intricate weaving takes as long as six months to a year to complete. In 2000, she was honored with the National Heritage Fellowship Award, a lifetime award for folk artists granted through the National Endowment for the Arts. Chanthraphone is the recipient of a 2002 Bush Artist Fellowship and lives in Brooklyn Park, MN, where she was instrumental in founding a Lao community center.

Paul Shambroom explores American power and culture through his photography. For over 20 years he has documented subjects as broad as industrial and office environments the U.S. nuclear arsenal, small town council meetings and post-9/11 Homeland Security preparations. His most recent project is Shrines: Public Weapons in America. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center and many others. His photographs were included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, and he has had solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and galleries in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and London. His work has been published in three monographs: Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power (2008), Meetings (2004) and Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality After the Cold War (2003). Shambroom has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Creative Capital Foundation, among others, including Bush Artist Fellowships in 1992 and 2002. He lives in Minneapolis.

See information about the 2009 and 2008 recipients of the Enduring Vision Awards.