Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: Speak Indian

HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS: SPEAK INDIAN
September 25- October 5, 2019
College of Visual Arts and Design
Cora Stafford Gallery

Reception, September 30, 1-2pm
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm / Saturday, 1pm-5pm
1201 W. Mulberry St., Room 100

Denton, TX  76201

 

HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS LECTURE

September 30, 2019

5:30pm artist talk, followed by a reception

Greater Denton Arts Council

400 E Hickory St, Denton, TX  76201

Free and open to the public

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds  is an artist and an advocate for indigenous communities worldwide. His text-based work includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large-scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. His most recent works address injustices and current views of Native American people, illuminating the struggles within the lives of Native Americans, as well as acknowledging Native Americans’ cultural differences through coupling positive and negatives, the past and the present though language.

His work has been exhibited at some of the most renowned institutions in the world, including The Museum of Modern Art; Orchard Gallery, Northern Ireland; the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations Reservation in Oklahoma; SITE Santa Fe Museum, New Mexico; Grand Palais in Paris, France; and Documenta, Kassel, Germany. His work holds a place in the collections of many museums, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Most recently his work appears in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the British Museum in London; Anchorage Museum in Alaska; and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.