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Artist Edgar Heap of Birds to Deliver Pitzer College’s 2018 Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture

Claremont, Calif. (January 9, 2018)—The artist Edgar Heap of Birds will deliver the Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture, “Influences, Mentors, Colleagues and Our Homage to this Earth,” on January 23 at Pitzer College. Heap of Birds is a citizen of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma whose art decries the colonization of indigenous lands and [Read More...]

January 9, 2018

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Pitzer College Art Galleries Spring 2018 Exhibitions Explore the Art of Protest and Prose

Claremont, Calif. (January 8, 2018)—Pitzer College Art Galleries’ spring 2018 exhibitions, Edgar Heap of Birds: Defend Sacred Mountains and Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal, explore the power of protest and prose as an art form. The exhibitions open on January 20, 2018, and run through March 29, 2018. In Defend Sacred Mountains, the artist and activist [Read More...]

January 8, 2018

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Bill Anthes’ New Book Illuminates the Art of Edgar Heap of Birds

Claremont, Calif. (August 24, 2015)— Professor of Art Bill Anthes’ Edgar Heap of Birds is the first book-length study of the Native American artist Edgar Heap of Birds, whose multi-media work is rooted in Cheyenne spirituality and an indigenous way of seeing the world. The book will be published by Duke University Press in September. [Read More...]

August 24, 2015

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Pitzer College’s art+environment Program Unveils Edgar Heap of Birds Artwork

Claremont, Calif. (January 25, 2013) — Pitzer College’s new art+environment program is kicking off its inaugural year with a public art installation by Edgar Heap of Birds, the program’s first artist-in-residence and an internationally-recognized contemporary artist. The installation, Native Hosts, will be on display for two years in various locations across Pitzer’s campus. Native Hosts [Read More...]

January 25, 2013