Susan Trinkle
Susan has been an arts educator and administrator for over 20 years. She holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Notre Dame. Her recent areas of interest include historic garments and fashion design. As a college instructor, she has taught history of fashion, history of design, color theory, art history, origins of humanities, non-western interior design, history of architecture among other specific art history courses. As an administrator, she served as dean of the humanities and arts at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska, and served as the public art manager for the college. She currently teaches at Metropolitan Community College and the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Steve Tamayo
Steve holds a BFA from Sinté Gleska University. He is a culture bearer and an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Steve is the founder of Bluebird Cultural Initiative, a non-profit cultural preservation organization in Omaha, Nebraska. His work with educators, youth, elders, and people in recovery aims to revitalize Native American culture through the arts. His partners include the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Joslyn Art Museum, The Rockwell Museum, and numerous colleges and Universities. Steve has been creating, restoring, and conserving traditional Native American art and regalia for over 30 years. Steve is currently working on a publication about Lakota featherwork and is undergoing a fellowship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.