Virtual Reading with Heid E. Erdrich about Carl Gawboy (2021-06-08)

Abstract

The Tweed Museum of Art presents a virtual reading of an essay about Ojibwe and Finnish artist Carl Gawboy's artwork written by award-winning poet and writer Heid E. Erdrich. Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and is Ojibwe-enrolled at Turtle Mountain. Her new poetry collection Little Big Bully won a National Poetry Series award in 2019 and was published by Penguin in 2020. She edited the 2018 anthology New Poets of Native Nations, which won an American Book Award. Her work has won awards, including a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship and two Minnesota Book Awards for poetry. Heid teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program of Augsburg University. She is the 2021 Glasgow (virtual) Visiting Professor at Washington and Lee University.