By Marcus Huff
Staff Writer 

'We are each other's medicine'

The art of Rodney C. Skenandore

 

September 10, 2016

Marcus Huff

Rodney Skenandore, Thermopolis artist and spiritual purveyor, speaks about his works from the backroom of the Crow Bar health food restaurant in Thermopolis. "Art is all around us, and we are each other's medicine."

THERMOPOLIS – "I've been carving since I was 8 years old," says Rodney Skenandore, pulling a pair of twin, pearl-handled pocketknives from his jeans pocket. "After all this time, it's just a habit now."

The 77-year-old native artist, a great-grandson of Shenandoah and born on the Crow Agency in Montana, finds inspiration for his metal and woodwork in the world around him, drawing on his trave...



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