• With Pitzer Since: 2006
• Field Group: Art History
• Campus Address: Scott 202
• Phone: 909.607.3176
• Campus email: bill_anthes@pitzer.edu

Education:

• BFA, Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder
• MA, Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder
• PhD, American Studies, University of Minnesota

A member of the Art Field Group at Pitzer College and of the Joint Art History Program of the Claremont Colleges (with Pomona College and Scripps College), Bill Anthes earned a B.F.A. and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. He teaches courses and writes about art history and theory with an emphasis on contemporary art in global context, photography, and Native North American art and visual culture.

His first book, Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. His essays and reviews have been published in the American Indian Quarterly, Art Papers, caareviews, Great Plains Quarterly, Journal of the West, New Mexico Historical Review, Number: An Independent Journal of the Arts, and Visual Anthropology Review. He is co-author, with Rebekah Modrak, of Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice (forthcoming in 2010 from Routledge Press). He is currently writing the first monograph on the career of the Cheyenne-Arapaho contemporary artist, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds.

His fellowships and awards include a Residential Fellowship at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2003-2004); a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2005-2006); and a Visiting Fellowship in Theorizing Cultural Heritage, a program supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and housed at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in Washington, D.C. (2007); a Graves Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Actual Teaching in the Humanities (2008); and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2009).

Recent and upcoming courses taught at Pitzer College/Joint Art History Program:
– ARHI 137, Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art.
– ARHI 139, Seminar: Topics in Native American Art History. (Topics include: Native American Painting; Native California; Contemporary Native American Art; Native American Renaissance: The Arts of the Reservation Era)
– ARHI 181, Modern into Contemporary: Art from 1945-1989
– ARHI 183, The Art World Since 1989
– ARHI 186A, Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Art (Topics include: James Turrell and Contemporary Site-Specific Art; The Artist as Traveler)
– ARHI 186B, Theories of Contemporary Art