Bill Anthes
Assistant Professor of Art History

With Pitzer Since: 2006
Field Group: Art History
Campus Address: Scott 202
Phone: 909.607.3176
Campus email: Bill_Anthes

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

Bill Anthes teaches courses on contemporary art and art theory and writes on contemporary Native American art and visual culture. His book, Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. He is currently researching a project on Native American art and visual culture in a global age ­– including the appearance of Native American artists at major international art exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale; collaborations between Native American artists and other indigenous and postcolonial populations; the offshore manufacture of “Indian” artworks; and contemporary tribal revitalization as embodied in the Indian owned casinos, resorts, and other business ventures that bring Native communities into ever greater contact with transnational networks of media, finance, technology, and tourism. He has been an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee; a Visiting Scholar at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the summer 2007, he will be a Visiting Fellow in Theorizing Cultural Heritage, a program supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and housed at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.