Tuscaloosa – Internationally known artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds headlines 
a series of events on UA campus October 8-24, 2018, centered around an exhibition of his work in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. During his visit, Oct. 22-24, Heap of Birds will present an artist lecture, gallery talk, book signing and reception, as well as a roundtable discussion with students. Spirit Citizen – An International Dialogue with Artist Edgar Heap of Birds will showcase more than thirty posters from Heap of Birds’s international and national exhibitions as well as a video created by Associate Professor of Art Sky Shineman and Assistant Professor of Journalism and Creative Media Nick Corrao, October 8-24, 2018, in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery. The public is invited to participate in all these events:
October 8–24
Edgar Heap of Birds Poster Exhibition
Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 109 Woods Hall
Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
October 22
Artist lecture by Edgar Heap of Birds
Gorgas Library 205
6:00 p.m.
October 23
Gallery talk by Edgar Heap of Birds with reception and book signing following
Sella-Granata Art Gallery, 109 Woods Hall
4:00 p.m.
Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954) is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Tribes of Oklahoma and an internationally known multi-media artist. Heap of Birds has exhibited his work in the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, South Africa, Indonesia, and China and participated in Documenta 8, and the Venice Biennale. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Lila Wallace Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust and the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others. Heap of Birds is the subject of a book by art historian Bill Anthes published by Duke University Press.
Edgar Heap of Birds maintains a disciplined
practice in multiple genres: public art installations; abstract-landscape paintings of his
ongoing Neuf series; large scale, text-based drawings; prints and
multiples; works in glass; and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.
Image credits: top: Edgar Heap of Birds in his studio in Oklahoma City, 2018. Photo by Shanna Ketchum Heap of Birds.
bottom: Edgar Heap of Birds, Neuf Painting for Autumn (2), 2014, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 44 inches.
Edgar Heap of Birds’s visit is sponsored by the Visiting Artists and Lecturers Series of the Department of Art and Art History, the College of Arts & Sciences Diversity committee, American Studies, Race & Gender Studies and is organized by Associate Professor of Art Sky Shineman.
Woods Hall is a six-minute walk from the Campus Drive Parking Deck and Bus Hub on Hackberry Lane. Gold 1, Crimson, Blue and Bronze CrimsonRide buses stop between Garland Hall and Gorgas Library. Information about visitor parking is available here: http://bamaparking.ua.edu/visitor-information/.