Who owns history?

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HOCK E AYE VI Edgar Heap of Birds Presents Heads Above Grass: Indigenous Voices of Political Public Art

This question is what Edgar Heap of Birds will address at his upcoming lecture at the University of Utah on April 5, 2012.

Edgar Heap of Birds is a multi-disciplinary Cheyenne- Arapaho artist whose work ranges from conceptual public art messages to paintings, prints, and monumental sculpture.  He chronicles violence against aboriginals in word pictures created by rubbing red ink from white paper, as in Point of Sword Who Owns History, or in a more poetic diatribe against complacency: Will Get Ill from Static Beliefs.

Heap of Birds is a professor of Native American Studies and Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma.  With over 30 years of experience, Heap of Birds work draws upon language (in form and content), history, and memory.  His work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (New York), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), and numerous other galleries and museums in the United States and internationally.

is lecture entitled "Heads Above Grass: Indigenous Voices of Political Public Art" will be held at the University of Utah on Wednesday, April 5th at 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Film and Media Arts Building Auditorium, 375 S 1530 E. Salt Lake City.  The lecture is free and open to the public.  Heap of Birds will present eight of his contemporary public art projects that were deployed here in the U.S., Canada, and Italy dating from 1983 to 2007.