Lunch & Learn: Earth Day with Gerald Clarke

This Earth Day, Cahuilla artist Gerald Clarke—featured in the Fire Kinship exhibition—will discuss traditional ecological knowledge as the foundation for an Indigenous understanding of the world, our relationship to fire, and his artistic practice.

Gerald Clarke is a visual artist, educator, tribal leader, and cultural practitioner whose family has lived in the Anza Valley since time immemorial. An enrolled citizen of the Cahuilla Band of Indians, Clarke lives in the home built by his grandfather (c. 1940) on the Cahuilla Indian Reservation and oversees the Clarke family cattle ranch. He also is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches classes in Native American art, history, and culture. As a visual artist, he has exhibited extensively; and his work can be seen in numerous shows and major museum collections.