Cannupa Hanska Luger, a renowned Native American artist born on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, will be at Fresno State from March 27 to April 7.

The College of Arts and Humanities’ Center for Creativity and the Arts, in collaboration with the Department of Art and Design, is hosting the artist.

Luger will give a talk from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, in the Conley Arts building (Room 101). An exhibit and reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 6, at the M Street Graduate Studios.

The Center for Creativity and the Arts commissioned Luger to create a sculpture that reflects his values as a Native American artist. His sculpture will be titled “Pillar” and will consist of life-sized slip casts of buffalo head forms, which will be glazed or rendered in various colors representing minerals and other resource materials extracted from sacred lands throughout the U.S.

A dedication ceremony for “Pillar” will take place at 1:30 p.m., April 7, on the west lawn of the Conley Arts Building.

Luger is a contemporary multimedia sculptor who deconstructs world perceptions about Native identity in his works. He made mirrored shields for water protectors at the protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

His heritage comes from the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota tribes, as well as from Austrian and Norwegian descent. He has a studio practice in New Mexico and exhibits at galleries, cultural institutions and museums worldwide.

For more information, contact CCAFresnoState@csufresno.edu or 559.278.8341.

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