Indian Boundary Cultural Center Decor Conversation with Shane Waters and Casey Brown
Please join us for a conversation that centers a Native perspective about some of the history and future of the current decor featured at Indian Boundary Cultural Center on Saturday March 14th from 10:30am-12pm.
This event is hosted by park Arts Partners in Residence Khecari and features invited guest artists Shane Waters and Casey Brown.
We will begin the day with coffee, food and conversation at 10:30 followed by a presentation from 11-11:30 and end with a Q&A & sharing session.
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ABOUT THE PRESENTING ARTISTS:
Casey Brown (Ho-Chunk) is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, American Indian activist, and comedian. While serving as Executive Public Relations Officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, he won his tribal nation its first Emmy for Exploring the Artistic Process of Truman Lowe. He is currently working on Indian Mounds in a Year, a documentary that recontextualizes the study of Indigenous earthworks from a Native perspective. In 2025, Melissa Etheridge opened for Casey—while the whole story is more complex, both parties agree that this statement is accurate. He lives in Gųųšgoonąk or Skunk Run (sometimes called Chicago, Illinois).
Shane Waters :: Shane Waters (Ho-Chunk) is an Elementary school art teacher in the western suburbs of Chicago, Artist, and father. Born and raised in Las Vegas Nevada he came home to the Chicago area where he earned his bachelor’s degree in graphic design and Masters degree in elementary education. It wasn’t until his daughter Penny, while in Kindergarten, came home visibly upset by what she learned about native culture that he made the decision to make the move to education. Since the completion of his masters degree Shane has been an active participant in the standard creation and implementation of the Native American curriculum mandate here in Illinois and was a contributing author of the accompanying education resource guide. Shane resides on the ancestor homelands of his people in the northern suburbs of Chicago.