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Celebrated Cheyenne artist speaks on campus

Hock e aye vi Edgar Heap of Bird

Hock e aye vi Edgar Heap of Bird

The University of Winnipeg’s Indigenous Studies Department and Office of the Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs, in partnership with the University of Manitoba’s Native Studies Department, are pleased to present a public talk by respected Cheyenne artist Hock e aye vi Edgar Heap of Birds. He will be speaking at UWinnipeg’s Convocation Hall on Thursday, September 17 at 12:00 p.m.

Hock e aye vi Edgar Heap of Birds serves as a leader of the Traditional Cheyenne Elk Warri-or Society and his artworks have been exhibited at the 2007 Venice Biennale; the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Documenta, Kassal, Germany; Grand Palais, Paris, France and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. His teaching assignments include Yale University and Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town, South Africa. The artist continues his professorial appointment at the University of Oklahoma, where he has taught since 1988. Duke University Press published a book on his life and art in 2015, and Heap of Birds was named an USA Ford Fellow in 2012 in Los Angeles. His artistic creations and efforts as an advocate for indigenous communities worldwide are focused upon social justice first; then the personal freedom to live within the tribal circle as an expressive individual.