Tank Standing Buffalo

As a child, Tank Standing Buffalo got a job selling cotton candy at the circus. When the crew packed up and left, he ran away and met them at the next town with plans for a life-long career with the travelling show. Although the carnival workers refused to accept him, Tank followed his big top dreams as a young man, designing and building travelling haunted attractions and his own sideshow.

A compulsive creator, Tank draws, paints, carves, tattoos, and makes tiki mugs, props, puppets, movies, and more. Tank works relentlessly on his own self-directed film projects as well as many commissions. Ancestors on his mom’s side followed the Underground Railroad to the Potawatomi of Caldwell First Nation who helped them escape slavery.