Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that Gerald Clarke, 54, of Anza’s Cahuilla Reservation has been appointed to the California Arts Council Thursday, Feb. 4.Clarke is an artist, cowboy, university professor and tribal leader. He is a member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians and lives on the Cahuilla reservation with his family on their ancestral land near Anza. He served two terms as a Cahuilla Tribal Council member and is an enrolled citizen of the tribe. He raises cattle as his father, grandfather and other Cahuilla Indians have done since the Spanish Colonial period over 250 years ago.As an artist and teacher, Clarke has served as a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California Riverside since 2016. He held several positions at Idyllwild Arts Academy from 1998 to 2016, in
