Campus Calendar
24Indian Corner Exhibition Reception and Gallery Talk
Location
I.D.E.A. Space
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave.
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Description
Curator and artist Wendy Red Star will give an informal gallery talk about the Indian Corner exhibition. Wendy Red Star was born in Billings, Montana, just outside of the Crow Indian reservation where she was raised. She grew up in a multicultural family. Her mother is of Irish decent, her father a full-blood Crow Indian and her older sister is Korean. Red Star left the Crow Indian reservation when she was 18 to attend Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, where she studied sculpture. She then went on to earn her MFA in sculpture at UCLA. Wendy currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is an adjunct professor of art at Portland State University. Her artistic work explores the intersection between life on the Crow Indian reservation and the world outside of that environment. She thinks of herself as a Crow Indian cultural archivist speaking sincerely about the experience of being a Crow Indian in contemporary society.
