For many people language is culture. More than grammar, vocabulary, and communication, language carries the history of its people, lives and land, a worldview and a feeling about humanity. Language contains and reveals our values and lives in the body. This is especially true of indigenous languages – those threatened through colonialism but seeing a…
Mohannad Ghawanmeh is an experienced arts leader with a strong commitment to art that lifts up communities and share stories and histories. He is published scholar, with a dozen recognitions and distinctions, who has developed public art in multiple cities. He is returning to the Twin Cities and Minnesota, where he attended college and worked…
Wakpa Triennial was voted among the Best New Festivals! Nominated by a panel of experts at USA Today, the Wakpa Triennial was among 19 new festivals nominated to be in the Top Ten Best New Festivals in USA Today’s 10 Best Readers Poll. You voted us into the No. 5 spot in the top 10!…
Where to listen? “Listening to the Mississippi” is an iterative project, a grouping of underwater sounds recorded in and around the river, a series of artworks and actions that have unfolded over 10 years. In this iteration, the project takes the form as a series of seven soundtracks and a book, “notes for listening.” Visitors can…
PRESENTED BY OYATE HOTANIN WITH PUBLIC ART SAINT PAUL Saturday, June 24 11 AM – 12:30 PM FREE Raspberry Island, Saint Paul Schubert Club Bandshell On this first day that Triennial art projects and installations will be open to the public, we launch the Wakpa Triennial with an event in the heart of Wakpa…
Tickets Here! From all of us at Public Art Saint Paul, we hope you will join us for a fabulous evening to gather and welcome the first installation of the Wakpa Triennial Art Festival of the Twin Cities! Join us at the Intercontinental Saint Paul Riverfront Hotel in downtown Saint Paul on Tuesday, June 20th for a delicious…
Learn more about The Seven Council Fires from the Minnesota Historical Society here. The Seven Council Fires (Oceti Ŝakowiŋ) is an overview of Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota cultural objects — totaling approximately 1,000 items — that can be found in the Minnesota Historical Society’s artifact collection.
Read how the Dakota have shaped the state here: The Land, Water, and Language of the Dakota, Minnesota’s First People
Makxoche Washte, The Beautiful Country: A Lakota Landscape Map View the map here Rivers and streams are pinned at confluences. The only exception is the Mnishoshe (The Water-Astir; Missouri River), which is pinned at the mouth of that stream, which is the Gulf of Mexico; according to Blue Thunder, it is the Mississippi River which…