Wendy Red Star: Biilukaa

Wendy Red Star: Biilukaa

Conversations with Wendy Red Star, Annika Johnson, Adriana Greci Green, Molly Malone, Chelsea Malone.

An artist's book of augmented portraiture, documenting the symbolism and material culture of the Biilukaa (Apsaalooke).

Wendy Red Star (born 1981) made her first big move off the Crow reservation to attend Montana State University in Bozeman. During one of her study sessions she discovered an image of Medicine Crow, an Apsaalooke chief, in a random book in the university library. Enamored by his image, she made a xerox copy and kept the chief's image in her sketchbook. A decade later, in 2014, she revisited this image to create an exhibition at the Portland Art Museum titled Medicine Crow & the 1880 Crow Peace Delegation.

Biilukaa builds upon this theme of researching historical photographs of Apsaalooke...

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