Arigon Starr, a singer, actor, playwright, and comic book writer will visit Bowling Green as a guest of BGSU’s In the Round series.
Starr will speak:
Friday, March 21, Public Lecture at 5:30 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall in the Moore Musical Arts Center on the BGSU campus.
Saturday, March 22 at 10 a.m. in the Bowling Green Library Atrium.
Both public events are free. Since 2021, the In the Round has featured indigenous creators from a variety of disciplines
Starr is an enrolled member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma.
Starr grew up moving frequently as the daughter of a career Navy man.
Starr settle Los Angeles, where she worked behind the scenes at entertainment companies like Viacom Productions and Showtime Networks. During those years, she honed her songwriting and performance skills at coffeehouses in Los Angeles and Hollywood. In 1996, she left her corporate job behind and became a full-time musician and artist.
Starr’s artwork has been featured in exhibitions at the Heard Museum, National Museum of the American Indian and Oklahoma Contemporary.
Named “Songwriter of the Year” by the Native American Music Awards, Starr’s recordings have received numerous awards. She has toured extensively.
In April 2011, Starr published “Super Indian” online as a webcomic. The comic boasted a new panel every Monday continuously for almost five years. The weekly webcomics were compiled and published as “Super Indian Volume One” in 2012 to immediate acclaim.
Her work has been highlighted in the publications “First American Art” and “Native Peoples,” featured on the national news program “PBS News Hour” and on the arts blog of the National Endowment for the Arts. “Super Indian Volume Two” was published in 2015 and “Super Indian Volume Three” was published in 2024. Starr is at work on a fourth volume.
Arigon created and edited “Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers,” a comic anthology featuring stories from different tribes that were part of the US military’s use of tribal languages as unbreakable codes. The anthology was named the Best Middle School Book by the American Indian Library Association in 2018.
Sixth and seventh grade students and teachers at BGCS, St. Aloysius, and Montessori of BG will be given free copies of “Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers”. Additionally, the first 50 families to attend Starr’s talk at WCDPL will receive a free copy of “Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers.” The free books are provided courtesy of the BGSU Arts Unlimited fund.
