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Earl Biss biography a finalist in American Book Fest’s 2019 Best Book Awards
Author Lisa Gerstner’s biography of the late, beloved Aspen-based artist Earl Biss took a fittingly winding and idiosyncratic road to publication. And, like Biss’ work, her book is now earning mainstream acclaim. Gerstner’s “Experiences with...
Published: January 9, 2020
Medicine Lodge native wins book awards for artist bio
Author Lisa Gerstner recently won two awards for the biography “Experiences with Earl Biss – The Spirit Who Walks Among His People.” She is an award-winning finalist in both the Art category and Biography category of the 2019 Best Book Awards, sponsored by the American Book Fest. Crow artist Earl Biss was a lead painter during the Contemporary Native Art Movement birthed in the 1960s during the formational years of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Gerstner credits Kansas roots as a fertile field for developing her interest in fine art and the culture of Plains Indians...
Dec. 26, 2019
New biography and retrospective exhibition celebrate artist Earl Biss
Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Aspen times. Dates, times and locations have been edited to reflect upcoming showings. When the famed Crow Nation painter and longtime Aspenite Earl Biss selected Lisa Gerstner...
Published: February 13, 2019
New biography and retrospective exhibition celebrate artist Earl Biss
When the famed Crow Nation painter and longtime Aspenite Earl Biss selected Lisa Gerstner as his authorized biographer in 1994, the groundbreaking artist and notorious local character unsurprisingly told the writer he did not want...
Published: January 10, 2019