# @project_backboard on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30053825-project-backboard-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-01T18:59:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Project Backboard (@project_backboard) — https://gondola.cc/project_backboard

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“I went out first to make a painting and then the Earth taught me how to make those shapes and the Neuf series… so the sovereignty of those [Neuf] paintings is very pronounced, they were made on Cheyenne-Arapaho territory, I made them myself, and I explored them myself, and then the politicized ideas came out of that.”

- Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds

Edgar Heap of Birds
𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘧𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘖𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢, 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴
📍Campbell Art Park and Sculpture Garden okcontemporary 

NOW ON VIEW: okcontemporary Oklahoma Contemporary presents the first major retrospective of Oklahoma City-based artist Edgar Heap of Birds (b. 1954, Wichita, Kansas; Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation), who is known internationally for conceptual artwork that addresses Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and relationships to place.

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds: HONOR SONG is a landmark for American art, for the region, and for the city: the artist’s first institutional survey in his home-state of the last forty years. The exhibition spans over four decades of art production, tracing Heap of Birds’s trajectory from the 1970s to the present through colorful prints, abstract paintings, drawings, glassworks, sculptures, and public works.

Thank you the #deptof🎨🚧🏀 jzzam_peterson weigsworld ralph_sunga21 swishhdreams and everyone else who helped make this possible.

#edgarheapofbirds #honorsong #neufs #commonpractice #basketballandcontemporaryart #projectbackboard #okcontemporary #okcbasketball

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honorsong, okcbasketball, projectbackboard, basketballandcontemporaryart, edgarheapofbirds, commonpractice, neufs, deptof, okcontemporary

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