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Heads Above Grass, Provocative Native American Public Art and Studio Practice

The ASU Library Channel presents the thirteenth installment of The Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture, and Community with Heads Above Grass, Provocative Native American Public Art and Studio Practice by artist Edgar Heap of Birds.

Professor of Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma, Edgar Heap of Birds describes his lecture as one spanning many different generations of time, and space, and culture, coming from Oklahoma, and going outward internationally, from Venice to other places in the world, to Italy, and so on. He shares some short videos showing these places and the work on location.

Edgar Heap of Birds works with multi-disciplinary forms of public art, large scale drawings, acrylic paintings, prints, and works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel, on steel, outdoor sculptures. He was named a USA Ford Fellow in 2012. His seminars explore issues of the contemporary artist on local, national, and international level. His artwork was chosen by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian as their entry towards the competition for the United States Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. The artist has exhibited his works across the world, in various venues, from New York's Museum of Modern Art, to the grand ballet in Paris.

The art is really the art of living, the art of life. And Edgar Heap of Birds is one of those peoples that bring us art by working with art means that he works with the kind of life that we live. - Professor Simon Ortiz

ASU Sponsors: American Indian Policy Institute | American Indian Studies Program | Department of English | Faculty of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies | Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation (all units in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) | Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law | Labriola National American Indian Data Center

Community Partner: Heard Museum ​

Recorded March 20, 2014 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore


00:01:42 1 History
00:03:51 1.1 Preserving the dunes
00:05:37 2 Geography
00:07:10 3 Geology
00:10:14 4 Flora and fauna
00:10:29 4.1 Rare, threatened, and endangered species
00:11:27 4.2 Species count
00:11:36 4.3 Wildlife
00:12:05 4.4 Flowering plants
00:12:40 4.5 Invasive plants
00:13:03 4.6 Unusual sightings
00:13:38 4.7 Extirpated species
00:13:57 4.8 Exotic and invasive species
00:14:31 4.9 BioBlitz
00:15:27 5 Natural areas
00:15:36 5.1 Calumet Prairie
00:16:04 5.2 Cowles Bog
00:16:46 5.3 Great Marsh
00:17:57 5.4 Heron Rookery
00:18:33 5.5 Hoosier Prairie
00:19:06 5.6 Miller Woods
00:19:41 5.7 Mnoke Prairie
00:19:57 5.8 Mount Baldy
00:21:03 5.9 Pinhook Bog
00:21:46 6 Historic areas
00:21:55 6.1 Bailly-Chellberg Farms
00:22:14 6.2 Bailly Homestead
00:22:42 6.3 Chellburg Farm
00:23:05 6.4 Bailly Cemetery
00:24:39 6.5 Century of Progress Architectural District
00:25:09 6.6 Good Fellow Club Youth Camp
00:25:44 6.7 Lustron Homes
00:26:24 6.8 Swedish Farmsteads Historic District (pending)
00:26:59 7 Recreation
00:29:49 7.1 Trails
00:33:27 7.2 Burnham Plan trails
00:33:59 7.2.1 Water Trail
00:34:21 7.2.2 Long Distance Hike/Bike Trail
00:35:12 7.3 Lake Michigan
00:36:39 8 Education
00:36:48 8.1 Public programs
00:38:14 8.2 Rail programs
00:38:50 8.3 Field trip programs
00:42:12 8.4 Professional development
00:43:00 8.5 Sister park
00:43:15 9 Accessibility
00:44:00 10 Facilities
00:46:57 11 Climate
00:48:25 12 Gallery
00:48:34 13 Dunes National Park Association
00:49:14 14 See also
00:49:46 14.1 People associated with the Dunes
00:52:30 14.2 National park units in Indiana



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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is a unit of the National Park System designated as a U.S. National Lakeshore located in northwest Indiana and managed by the National Park Service. It was authorized by Congress in 1966. The national lakeshore runs for nearly 25 miles (40 km) along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, in Chesterton, Indiana. The park contains approximately 15,000 acres (6,100 ha).
The National Lakeshore has acquired about 95% of the property within the authorized boundaries. Its holdings are non-contiguous and include the 2,182-acre (883 ha) Indiana Dunes State Park (1925), which is owned and managed by the state of Indiana.
The park is physically divided into 15 disconnected pieces. Along the lakefront, the eastern area is roughly the lakeshore south to U.S. 12 or U.S. 20 between Michigan City, Indiana on the east and the ArcelorMittal steel plant on the west. A small extension, south of the steel mill continues west along Salt Creek to Indiana 249. The western area is roughly the shoreline south to U.S. 12 between the Burns Ditch west to Broadway, downtown Gary, Indiana. In addition, there are several outlying areas, including; Pinhook Bog, in LaPorte County to the east. The Heron Rookery in Porter County, the center of the park, and the Calumet Prairie State Nature Preserve and Hobart Prairie Grove, both in Lake County, the western end of the park. Also within the National Lakeshore is the Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve, managed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.