This past Thursday, the Booth Western Art Museum unveiled Craig Bergsgaard's newest sculpture Memorare, Sand Creek 1864 (shown at left). Bergsgaard spoke about his inspiration for the piece which depicts a Native American man clutching a torn American flag with a woman's lifeless body laid over him. In addition to the sculpture unveiling, Don Vasicek showed an abridged version of his film Ghosts of Sand Creek. In the film , Cheyenne and Arapho descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre tell their personal oral history of the injustices committed by the U.S. Military. After the unveiling and film screening, researcher Jessica Osenbrugge joined Bergsgaard and Vasicek for a panel discussion about the 1864 event.
Pictured here (left to right): Don Vasicek, Jessica Osenbrugge and Craig Bergsgaard.
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