Sturgeon Bay Artist Contributes to Fine Art Book

Richard and Heather Steinberger, a photographer-writer team from Bailey, Colorado, has joined forces with accomplished Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin-based photographer Matt Normann to develop a coffeetable book that will showcase the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in north-central South Dakota. The book will celebrate Cheyenne River’s landscapes, its flora and fauna, its communities, its traditions and its people.

“We want to create something that, if we put it into the hands of the Lakota elders, will give them a sense of pride, a feeling that we have honored them,” said Heather Steinberger, a internationally published magazine writer who also has worked closely with the Cheyenne River Youth Project® (CRYP) in Eagle Butte for the last six years.

The book will incorporate a broad range of fine-art images, captured by Richard Steinberger and Matt Normann through four seasons on Cheyenne River. And while Heather Steinberger will prepare an introduction for the book, the images will be accompanied by the words of Cheyenne River’s young people.

A portion of the book’s proceeds will support CRYP’s youth programming and family services.

For more information email [email protected] or visit http://www.facebook.com/CheyenneRiverArtProject.