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Heidi Connors brings painted Southwestern animal skulls to Beaver Island

Also Art of the Southwest comes to Beaver Island · Heidi Connors painted skull art

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TypeEvent
Date2004-03
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Summary

The March 2004 Beaver Beacon profiled Heidi Connors’s painted animal-skull art, which combined Southwestern and Native American influences with her family’s Beaver Island creative life.

Evidence limits

The profile describes the artist’s account and gallery sales, not an independent catalog or appraisal of the work.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, March 2004, “Art of the Southwest comes to Beaver Island”.
    Profiles Heidi Connors’s move from greenhouse growing into painted elk, ram, horse, goat, and mule-deer skulls, including Southwestern and Native American influences and gallery sales. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the profile and photographs.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-03_Beaver-Beacon

Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Heidi Connors brings painted Southwestern animal skulls to Beaver Island”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-heidi-connors-art-of-the-southwest-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2004, “Art of the Southwest comes to Beaver Island”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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