School of Education

Sharron Ahtone Harjo is a Kiowa artist and educator with a career spanning over five decades. Ahtone Harjo studied the traditional Indian style of painting at Bacone College under Cheyenne artist Dick West. Ahtone Harjo will speak about her career as a Kiowa Plains artist of Ledger and Painting styles. Publications include Women and Ledger At: Four Contemporary Native American Artists, and Gifts of Price and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles. Lecture in Farber Hall at 7 p.m. Reception to follow at 8 p.m. in the Oscar Howe Gallery, Old Main.

The Community Response to Child Abuse Conference will bring together more than 600 professionals, advocates and students to share information and receive local training on innovative solutions and best practices to increase awareness of, improve the response to and prevent child maltreatment at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. It's jointly hosted by the Unified Judicial System (UJS) Court Improvement Program, the Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment and Child's Voice Child Advocacy Center at Sanford USD Medical Center. This year's edition will feature nationally renowned keynote speakers Sasha Joseph Neulinger and Kay Glidden and Beth Reynolds-Lewis of Compassion Resiliency. Five tracks of breakout sessions will provide additional learning sessions for educators, social workers, law enforcement, medical professionals and community members. Early Bird pricing and student discounts available.