Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star of Portland joins new class of MacArthur fellows

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday its 2024 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant.”

The list includes Wendy Red Star, an Apsáalooke (Crow) artist based in Portland. Red Star, featured on OPB’s “Oregon Art Beat” in 2016, seeks to to reclaim images of Native Americans from history by creating, beading, sewing, building, configuring and then photographing finished sculptures, paintings and photographs. LTC Eugene Chu Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Kim Patterson Maj (Join to see) MAJ Ken Landgren Capt Dwayne Conyers Capt Gregory Prickett CPT Gurinder (Gene) Rana MSgt Steve Sweeney MSG Stan Hutchison MSgt Michael Bischoff 1SG (Join to see) SSgt Richard Kensinger SP5 Dennis Loberger PO1 Tony Holland PO1 Brian Austin CPL LaForest Gray SrA John Monette A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney SPC Kevin Ford