Eagle Village
Artist Book/Archiving Project2023–25
Limited edition of 150 numbered copies
Linen wrap hardcover with deboss, 9 x 12 inches
392 pages / 234 photographs
Published: June 2025
ISBN 978-2-9823098-0-7 © 2024 Sheila Nadimi
Text and Photography
Sheila Nadimi
Book Design
Hassan Saab, John Vaccaro, and Sheila Nadimi
Contributions by Gail Nahwahquaw (Menominee), Emory Shaw, Ronald Geronimo (Tohono O’odham), and C.J. Guadarrama
Printing/Binding by Graphiscan
Book Photographs by Tavish Kincaid
Eagle Village: A Deep Mapping of Fallow Architecture assembles a decades-long engagement with a vast network of boarded-up military buildings at the edge of Brigham City, Utah. Using the same architectural footprint, this infrastructure shifted from a WWII Army Hospital to the Intermountain Indian School—the largest of the off-reservation federal Indian boarding schools in the Unites States. After an effort to repurpose the site into a New Urbanist townhome community to be called “Eagle Village,” the masterplan was abandoned, the buildings demolished, and the land cleared. Initiated in 1996, Eagle Village reveals the cultural and political forces that re/shaped this site over time and generates a spatial archive of place following over 25 years of observation, outreach, research, and contemplation. At its core, this project is an engagement with the material traces of some of the key narratives of American society; more than clarifying what unfolded on this parcel of land, Eagle Village presents its contradictions and paradoxes.
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Eagle Village: Sheila Nadimi
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
December 2024 – January 2026
Contributed two digital maps drawn in collaboration with Sheila Nadimi and Hassan Saab.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
December 2024 – January 2026
Contributed two digital maps drawn in collaboration with Sheila Nadimi and Hassan Saab.