A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : REAL INDIAN HEAPS IRE ON FIRE.Art school officials have changed their minds and decided to fund a billboard painted by an Oklahoma Indian that depicts Chief Wahoo  Chief Wahoo is a trademarked mascot for the Cleveland Indians. , the red-faced, grinning Cleveland Indians' mascot, with the words ``Smile for Racism.'' The $700 billboard will be a public part of an exhibition opening today at the Cleveland Institute of Art The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private college of art and design located in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women. From 1891 until 1948 it was named Cleveland School of Art. . The show focuses on the works of Edgar Heap of Birds, as well as pieces he developed with 154 Aboriginal artists from Australia. Heap of Birds, who is half Cheyenne and half Arapaho, designed the 25-foot-by-12-foot billboard to protest the Indians' mascot. The team defends the logo as honoring Louis Sockalexis Louis Francis "Chief" Sockalexis (October 24, 1871-December 24, 1913), nicknamed The Deerfoot of the Diamond, was an American baseball player. Sockalexis played professional baseball in the National League for three seasons; and, he spent his entire career (1897-1899) as , a Penobscot from Maine who was the first American First American may refer to:
Heap of Birds, an associate professor of art at the University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. in Norman, plans to attend the opening and meet with students and faculty. Exercisin in the '90s Where exercisers who use aerobics equipment see boredom, marketers see opportunity. Some businesses are producing special travelogue videos, shot from the perspective of the sport that the exercise imitates. For instance, stationary bikers can ride by video through the Swiss Alps The Swiss Alps are the central portion of the Alps mountain range that lies within Switzerland. Regions From west to east, and south of Rhône, Hinterrhein and Inn: The goal is to keep people from quitting their exercise program because their minds can't take it any more, said a pioneer in the video getaway market, Dr. George L. Dixon, a retired orthopedic surgeon in Albuquerque, N.M. In 1981, Dixon had been seeing patients who tried running and had to stop because their legs couldn't take it. His proposed substitution was an exercise bike. But his patients weren't happy riding endless miles while never leaving their basements. ``They said it was dreadfully boring to watch the water heater,'' he said. Dixon then sent his newlywed daughter and her husband out with a home-movie camera to take pictures of scenic locations. Those pictures, shot with the camera mounted on a truck at what would be a biker's eye level, led to a genre of human-speed travelogue videos. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: no caption (Edgar Heap of Birds) (2) no caption (Indians logo -- Chief Wahoo) |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion