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Medicine Mountain Studios, Inc
Nambe Trading Post
20 A Summer Road, Santa Fe, NM 87506
505-470-6650
Filmography
HORIZON, PART 2
Feature
MADE KIOWA & COMANCHE PROPS, COSTUME RENTAL
OUTER RANGE, SEASON 2
TV
CONSULTANT, Created a Shoshone Village, props & sets
DARK WINDS, SEASON 2,3
TV
CONSULTANT, Set dec & Costume Rental
HORIZON PART 1
Feature
NATIVE COSTUME & PROP CONSULTANT, Made Apache Hero Costumes & Props
“1883”
TV
MADE LAKOTA PROPS
LONGMIRE
TV
NATIVE COSTUMES, PROPS, SET DEC
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Feature
MADE NATIVE PROPS
BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
Feature
CONSULTANT, MADE NATIVE COSTUMES & PROPS
WOMAN WALKS AHEAD
Feature
MADE NATIVE COSTUMES & PROPS
HOSTILES
Feature
NATIVE COSTUME/PROP RENTAL
THE JOURNEY OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN
Docudrama
COSTUME DESIGNER
FIRST NATIONS, THE IROQUOIS
Miniseries
COSTUME DESIGNER
Miniseries
Feature
CRAZY HORSE
Miniseries
CONSULTANT to Production Designer (Carry White)
BUFFALO GIRLS
Miniseries
MADE HERO COSTUMES (Van Ramsey, CD), SET COSTUMER
WILD BILL
Feature
MADE PRINCIPAL COSTUMES (Dan Moore, CD)
THE DESPERATE TRAIL
Feature
KEY SET COSTUMER (Sam Elliot)
LIGHTNING JACK
Feature
KEY SET COSTUMER, MADE NATIVE COSTUMES
LEGENDS OF THE FALL
Feature
CONSULTANT, MADE NATIVE COSTUMES
GERONIMO, AN AMERICAN LEGEND
Feature
CONSULTANT, SET COSTUMER, Made Hero Indian Costumes (Walter Hill, Director)
ON DEADLY GROUND
Feature
MADE STEVEN SEGAL’S COSTUMES, CONSULTANT
SILENT TONGUE
Feature
MADE KIOWA/COMANCHE COSTUMES, (Sam Shepard Director)
LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Feature
SPECIAL PORCUPINE QUILLWORK FOR NATIVE COSTUMES
SON OF THE MORNING STAR
Miniseries
EMMY AWARD: COSTUME DESIGN
DANCES WITH WOLVES
Feature
INDIAN SET COSTUMER, CULTURAL ADVISOR, Made all Indian costumes, OSCAR NOMINATION
Union Affiliation: IATSI Local 480 & Costume Designers Guild 892
SELECTED EXHIBITS - COMMISSIONS - LECTURES
2023
MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART
Santa Fe, NM
Featured speaker on Native Costume
2022-2023
BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM
Atlanta, GA
Solo Exhibit & Presentation of “The Shirtwearers,” The regalia of 12 historically important Plains Indian Chiefs.
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME
Ft. Worth, TX
Exhibit of Native Props and Costumes from “1883”
2020
MUSEUM OF WESTERN FILM & COSTUME (Cathy Smith, curator and founder)
Santa Fe, NM
Featuring movie costumes & props from over forty Westerns costumed by Smith
2018
EITLEJORG MUSEUM
Indianapolis, Indiana
Guest Speaker: “The Reel West,” exhibitor in the museum collection of film costumes
NAMBE TRADING POST
Santa Fe, NM
One Man show of Ledger Art
2016
CLAGGET REY GALLERY
Vail, CO
Exhibit & Sale of Ledger Drawings, bead and porcupine quillwork
WO-LAKOTA CONFERENCE
Pistoia & Florence, Italy
Exhibitor and featured speaker
COWGIRL UNIVERSITY
Paws-Up Ranch, Missoula, MT
Beadwork workshop leader and featured speaker
NAMBE TRADING POST
Santa Fe, NM
“WAKS’UPI IHUNKAHAN”- A show & sale of antique Plains Indian beadwork
2015
WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM
Santa Fe, NM
Guest Speaker
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S JOHN COCTEAU THEATER
Santa Fe, NM
Bents Old Fort Fur Trade History Conference: Speaker.
MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE PLAINS, PRAIRIES & PLATEAU CONFERENCE
Fort Larned, KS
Speaker
2014
NAMBE TRADING POST
Santa Fe, NM
Founded museum & shop of the early West & Native Americana
NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM
Santa Fe, NM
“I Can See By Your That You are a Cowboy’, Guest Speaker
EXXON CORP. EXECUTIVE MEETINGS
Dallas, TX
Featured Speaker
MILLICENT ROGERS MUSEUM
Taos, NM
Featured Speaker
2013
Inducted into the NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM HALL OF FAME
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME
Ft. Worth, TX
One Man Exhibit: Hanskaska: The ShirtWearers, Oct thru June, 2013
2012
BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM
Atlanta, GA
Guest Speaker
MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Prescott, AZ
Featured speaker
2011
EITLEJORG MUSEUM
Indianapolis, Indiana
“Quest for the West”, Guest Speaker
ONE BOOK FESTIVAL, SD HUMANITIES COUNCIL
Guest Presenter
GOODNIGHT TRAIL GALLERY
Mancos, CO
One man Show of paintings, ledger drawings
MANITOU GALLERY
Santa Fe, NM
Indian Market show of Paintings/artifacts
PHIPPEN ART MUSEUM
Prescott, AZ
Trappings of the American West: exhibitor & speaker
2010
GERALD PETERS GALLERY
Santa Fe, NM
Guest Speaker – Northern Trust Bank annual meeting
2009
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
Omaha, NE
Bodmer Society Guest Speaker
MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA
Flagstaff, AZ
Public Presentation: “Hollywood Meets the Sioux Nation”
TOHONA O’ODHAM BASKETRY FESTIVAL
Guest exhibitor, “Lakota Uses of the Buffalo”
2008
NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART
Santa Fe, NM
Public Lecture: “Dressing the American West”
2007
GARY CARTER’S WESTERN ART EXPERIENCE
West Yellowstone, MT
Featured speaker
2006
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
Phoenix, AZ
Featured speaker: “Taku Wakan: The Sacred Nature of Plains Indian Art”
UNIV. OF NORTHERN ARIZONA
Flagstaff, AZ
“The Demise of Tonto”
ARIZONA NORTHERN TRUST
”Crazy Horse & Quanah, Last Days of Freedom”
2005
WORKSHOP
Santa Fe, NM
“Finding the Sacred in the Everyday”
2004
CHARLEY RUSSELL SHOW
Great Falls, MT
Featured speaker: “Hollywood Meets the Sioux”
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME
Ft. Worth, TX
Exhibit of Smith’s Film Costumes, “Creating Hollywood’s West”
2003
RENWICK GALLERY OF THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Washington, DC
“I Can See By Your Outfit That You Are A Cowboy”
2002
WESTERN FOLK LIFE CENTER
Elko, NV
“Women’s Work: Cowboy Gear by Western Women.”
TRAPPINGS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Flagstaff, AZ
Lecture: “Waddies & Warriors: Natty & Noble Attire on the Plains: A Chronicle of 19th Century Fashion”
2001
WIND RIVER HISTORICAL MUSEUM
Dubois, WY
Parade of Historical Costumes by Smith, ”Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History”
CHARLEY RUSSELL SHOW
Great Falls, MT
Exhibit & sale of historical reproductions
TRAPPINGS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Flagstaff, AZ
Exhibit & sale of historical reproductions
COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM
New York City, NY
2000
THE MANE EVENT
Challenge NM
Equestrian art show: Native American Horse Regalia
DIAMOND TAIL BUFFALO RANCH
CO
Tipi Design & Decoration
TRAPPINGS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
Sedona, AZ
Beyond the 98th Meridian
CHARLEY RUSSELL SHOW
Great Falls, MT
SANTA FE SCREENWRITERS CONFERENCE
Santa Fe, NM
Lecture: “Costume in the Screenplay”
1999
COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA MUSEUM
Kerrville, TX
Exhibit & Lecture: “Dressing the West”
CHRISTIE’S
New York City, NY
Lecture & Slides: “The Demise of Tonto or Hollywood Meets the Sioux Nation”
HANSKASKA MUSEUM (Grand Opening)
Santa Fe, NM
The Regalia of 12 documented Plains Indian Chiefs, Begun in 1996, Smith’s 4 year re-creation of the outfits of 12 historically important chiefs
1996
SMITHSONIAN’S MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
New York City, NY
Exhibitor at first annual Gala art auction
1995
WOMEN OF THE WEST MUSEUM
Santa Fe, NM
Costume show, costumed entirely by Smith
SOUTHWEST MUSEUM
Los Angeles, CA
Lecture & Slides: “The Demise of Tonto or Hollywood Meets the Sioux Nation”
1994
DENVER INDIAN MARKET
Celebrity Exhibitor
WESTERN DESIGN CONFERENCE
Cody, WY
BIG HORN GALLERY
Cody, WY
“Women Artists of the West” Exhibition
1993
COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA MUSEUM
Kerrville, TX
Lecture/workshop: “Authenticity in Painting the West”
J.W. COOPER GALLERY
Coconut Grove, FL
One man show
COWBOY POETRY GATHERING
Elko, NV
“Cowboy Trappings” Show
1992
FUTURES FOR INDIAN CHILDREN BENEFIT SHOW
sponsored by Dances With Wolves
1991
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
Phoenix, AZ
Cowboy Artists of America, Annual Show presentation award
MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE
Santa Fe, NM
One Man Show
SOUTHWEST MUSEUM
Los Angeles, CA
One Man Show
EMMY AWARD
for Outstanding Achievement in Costuming for “Son of the Morning Star”
OSCAR NOMINATION
for Dances with Wolves
SWAIA INDIAN MARKET
Costume Contest Judge
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2019
“NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE SCREEN”
Costume Designers Guild Encyclopedia, Bloomsburg Press
2017
“THE DEMISE OF TONTO or HOLLYWOOD MEETS THE SIOUX”
a photo book of Smith’s Motion Picture Costumes
2013
“DRESSING THE WEST with Costume Designer Cathy Smith”
SOJOURNS, The Publication of the Peaks, Plateaus & Canyons Association, vol.8 No. 1, Sedona, AZ
2005
JUANA MESTENA
Screenplay (pilot)
2000
ARK OF THE FIRST MAN
Screenplay (feature film)
1989
“SILENT PARTNERS: NATIVE WOMEN IN THE FUR TRADE”
The Opposition Newsletter, Bents Old Fort Historical Society, La Junta, CO
1988
“TAKU WAKAN: THE SACRED NATURE OF PLAINS INDIAN ART”
The Opposition Newsletter, Bents Old Fort Historical Society, La Junta, CO
1987
“INDIAN WOMEN’S CLOTHING, PRE-1885”
Fifth Book of Buckskinning, Chapter I, Rebel Publishing Inc., Texarkana, TX
1986
“RENDEVOUZ & RELIGION: A COMMENTARY ON CONTEMPORARY CEREMONIALISM”
The Opposition Newsletter, Bents Old Fort Historical Society, La Junta, CO
1985
“PORCUPINE QUILLWORK: PRE 1850”
Third Book of Buckskinning, Chapter III,Rebel Publishing Inc, Texarkana, TX