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    Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds: New Native Art Criticism

    Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds: New Native Art Criticism

    Presented by College of Communication & Fine Arts, U of Memphis

    February 9, 2012

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    Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds, a citizen of the Diné/Navajo Nation and an independent scholar, noted critic, and art historian of contemporary Native American art, will give a lecture about “New Native Art Criticism” at the University of Memphis on Thursday, February 9. Ketchum-Heap of Birds teaches in the Native Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma and lectures, both nationally and internationally, about contemporary issues in Native art.
    Her work has appeared in Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art (London) and Estrago (Latin America), Vision, Space, Desire: Global Perspectives and Cultural Hybridity (NMAI Edition) the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Massachusetts College of Art, and the The Hugo Boss Prize 2008 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum).


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        Art and Communication Building, University of Memphis

        3715 Central Ave.
        Memphis, TN 38152

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        February 9, 2012

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        6 p.m., 250 Art & Communication Building

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