Join Tulsa Artist Fellowship and the Osage Nation Foundation for the Counterpublic 2023 closing weekend! On Sunday, July 16 at 10 am, Sugarloaf Mound will feature a performance by The Wah.zha.zhe Puppet Theatre, a water acknowledgment with artist Anita Fields, and a conversation between Dr. Andrea Hunter (Osage Nation) and Fields sited at her WayBack installation adjacent to the mound.

These closing events at Sugarloaf Mound underscore Counterpublic's ongoing commitment to the Osage Nation to support the rematriation of the mound as a core component of the Counterpublic 2023 exhibition.

The Wah.zha.zhe Puppet Theatre is the creation of artist, curator, writer, and Anita Field's daughter, Welana Fields, in collaboration with stage director Russell Tallchief, playwright Candice Byrd-Boney, puppet designer Christopher Lutter-Gardella of Big Animal Productions, sound designer Nokosee Fields, and the Osage community members who helped make the puppets and perform in the play. Conceptualized to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of the establishment of the Osage Reservation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Sky E.ko and Her Ni.ka.she (Sky Grandma and Her People) narrates Osage history from creation to the present through a suite of larger-than-life animals. A buffalo, swan, elk, wolf, and other animals unfold a different momentous event in Osage life along with the deep and complex cosmologies and worldviews that are interwoven into these histories.

We can't wait to see you this weekend!!

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