ARTIST PROJECT
Wounded Knee Art & Health Memorial Center
Joseph Kunkel & Tammy Eagle Bull
Joseph Kunkel is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, is the Director of the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab based in Santa Fe, New Mexico operating within MASS Design Group. As a community designer and educator, his work explores how architecture, planning, and construction can be leveraged to positively impact the built and unbuilt environments within Indian Country. In 2019 Joseph was awarded an Obama Foundation Fellowship for his work.
Tammy Eagle Bull is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, with over 30 years of architectural design and project management experience. She has successfully led large, diverse, multi-disciplined design teams through all project phases. Tammyhas been on the board of the American Indian Council of Architects and Engineers (AICAE) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Nebraska Chapter.
The Wounded Knee Art & Health Memorial Center is a community arts and health hub on the site of the Massacre of Wounded Knee in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. It’s aim is to heal and strengthen the economic, cultural and societal health of an at-risk community through programming, vocational training and the best of traditional and contemporary healthcare.