Walt Pourier
Walt Pourier is an American skateboarder, artist, designer, and skateboarding activist. Pourier is Oglala Lakota.
Walt Pourier
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- designer · skateboarder · painter
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Walt Pourier is an American skateboarder, artist, designer, and skateboarding activist. Pourier is Oglala Lakota.
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Early life
Early life
Pourier started skating growing up on Pine Ridge. As a child, he moved with his mother to Orange County, California for a period of time. In California, Pourier began hopping fences and skating pools. Pourier returned to Pine Ridge, where he worked as an artist, eventually starting his own business, Nakota Designs.
Art career
Art career
Pourier is an artist who paints and designs on skateboards, canvas, and other materials. He was Artist in Residence at the Denver Art Museum in 2017.
Wounded Knee Four Directions Skatepark Program
Wounded Knee Four Directions Skatepark Program
Murphy and Pourier developed the Wounded Knee Four Directions Skatepark Program dedicated to creating and sustaining skateparks in Native American communities. The program operates out of the 501(c) organization Stronghold Society.
Live Life Call To Action Campaigns
Live Life Call To Action Campaigns
Stronghold Society runs campaigns aimed at tribal youth, aiming to instill hope and support native youth movements. Pourier describes the work of the Stronghold Society and these Call to Action Campaigns as a subliminal mental health effort.
Recognition
Recognition
Pourier received the 2014 Governor's Creative Leadership Award from the State of Colorado for his work with the Stronghold Society.
Nakota Designs
Nakota Designs
Pourier is the founder and creative director of Nakota Designs, a graphic design and branding consultancy based out of Colorado. Nakota Designs works with a range of clients including the Tribal College Journal.
Wounded Knee 4-Directions Toby Eagle Bull Memorial Skatepark
Murphy and Wounded Knee Skateboards, with Pourier and the Stronghold Society; as well as, Jeff Ament, lead a successful skatepark campaign for the Wounded Knee 4-Directions Skatepark on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. The park opened in Pine Ridge Village in 2011.
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Stronghold Society
Pourier and Jim Murphy co-founded the Stronghold Society. Walt Pourier is the executive director for the Stronghold Society.
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- 1.Native Arts Artist-in-Residence Denver Art Museum. denverartmuseum.org.
- 2.Groovey. Walt Pourier: Artist Stronghold for Native Youth. AdobeAirstream. 2014-09-02.
- 3.This isn't an article about Native Skate Culture. 25 November 2018.
- 4.Native Arts Artists-In-Residence: Action X Community X Togetherness. Denver Art Museum.
- 5.The Skatepark Podcast - Presented by the Tony Hawk Foundation: Episode 35 – How It Happened: Pine Ridge with Walt Pourier. thfskateboardpodcast.libsyn.com.
- 6.Bachor, Kenneth. See How Skateboarding Is Changing Native American Youth Culture. Time.
- 7.Skateboarding for life: Native skate parks. Native America Calling. 2016-04-21.
- 8.WE REMEMBER ANDY KESSLER «.
- 9.Lakota Country Times: Skate competition moves to Pine Ridge. Indianz.
- 10.Walt Pourier. AAS20. March 2025.
- 11.TCJ Designer Walt Pourier honored. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. 2014-08-14.
- 12.nakota-designs. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education.
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