Casper Bluff
Casper Bluff is an Illinois Nature Preserve stewarded by Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation.
Please join us for the public opening of artworks at Casper Bluff Nature Preserve in Galena, Illinois.
Sunday, Oct 18, 3–5 pm
Free and open to the public. Please come.
Directions
From downtown Galena:
Follow South Main Street along the Galena River.
Turn left to follow Highway 20.
Take the fourth right on 4th Street, then the first left (at the fork) onto N. Blackjack Road.
After 2 miles, take the right fork onto N. Pilot Knob Road, following the sign for Casper Bluff Reserve.
Casper Bluff is about 2.5 miles down Pilot Knob Road, on the right.Collaborators & partners
Ho-Chunk Nation Cultural Resources Department (Bill Quackenbush, Zoe VandeBerg)
Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska THPO (Randy Teboe)
Meskwaki Nation THPO (Tieranny Keahna)
Otoe-Missouria Tribe THPO (Elsie Whitehorn, Kelene Deer, Naomi Roubedeaux-Quiroga)
Prairie Island Indian Community THPO (Franky Jackson, Noah White, Jordan Buck, Meya Callstrom, Rylee Hince)
Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation (Nathan Aaberg, Steve Barg, Hillary Holt, Jillian Jablonski, Jean Matthiessen)
Cedar artwork panels: Chloris Lowe III
Cartographic artwork panels: Margaret Pearce
Cedar structures: Bill Quackenbush
Helical piles: Brian Kelly (Techno Metal Post of South West Wisconsin)
Maxmetal print: Dolan Printing
Speech icon design: Otoe-Missouria Tribe, Ho-Chunk Nation, Meskwaki Nation, Cole Redhorse Taylor (Prairie Island Indian Community), Sydney Pursel (Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska)
Interviewers: Meya Callstrom, Jessie Conaway, Zoe VandeBerg, Margaret Pearce, Rebekka Schlichting
Transcribers: Meya Callstrom, Rebekka Schlichting, Margaret Pearce
Language support & review: Arthur Lockwood, Wayne Pushetonequa
Advisory Council: Sydney Pursel (Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska), Randall Blackdeer II (Ho-Chunk Nation), Jordan Buck (Prairie Island Indian Community)
Website: Rubina Martini (Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska)
Project manager: Joe Bardusk
Words by
Barbara Blackdeer-Mackenzie
Kelene Deer
Lance Foster
Barry Hand
Reuben Ironhorse-Kent
Tieranny Keahna
Tracy Littlejohn
Shelby Merry
Sydney Pursel
Bill Quackenbush
Brett Ramey
Robert Reider
Janice Rice
Jim Rock
Naomi Roubedeaux-Quiroga
Rebekka Schlichting
Randy Teboe
Zachary Towey
Joshua VandeBerg
Elsie Whitehorn
Kachina Yeager
With gratitude to our funders & supporters
Minnesota State Arts Board (2024, 2025)
Small Communities & Rural Placemaking Grant (Blandin Foundation) (2024)
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2025)
Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art Grant (2025)
Creative Capital (2026)
Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund
Corporation of Yaddo
American Philosophical Society
Art Omi
Guggenheim Foundation
A Studio in the Woods
With support from Anonymous Was a Woman in partnership with The New York Foundation for the Arts.
With support from Creative Capital Foundation.
This event is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, awarded to the Anderson Center, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Migwėtth mine, pidamayaye, pįįnagigi, we would also like to thank
Maureen Bardusk
Jen Bervin
Greg Blackdeer
Andrea Bohn
Andy Brown
Jayita Burman
John Cloud
Paul Culligan
Caroline Desbiens
Steve Dietz
Dolan Printing
Henning Garvin
Walker Good
Anamaria Gorius
Roxanne Gould
Henry Greengrass
Lenny Hosey
Brian Ickes
Ideal Printing
Illinois Nature Preserves Commission
Jenny Marie Johnson
Brian Kelly
Jeff Kruchten
Ricky Kubicek
Albert LeBeau
Ryan Mattke
Dana Peterson
Colleen Randolph
Jonathan Remo
Marty Reuss
Red Wing Public Library
Rockland Public Library
Amy Rosebrough
Ron Schirmer
Susan Snow
James Spartz
Joshua Wachuta
Caroline Wigginton
Brenda Williams
Chief Clayton Winneshiek
Kelly Wisecup
Jordan Yacoub
Miranda Yancey
Ginni Yarbrough