Interview with Mona Smith by Meher Khan Mona Smith’s in-progress piece, displayed at the M Museum, is an entryway into the space and will encourage visitors to consider their place in the space as well as the Dakota language. Through her work, we learn about Mona’s relationship with the Dakota language and her heritage and…
Interview with Chris Larson by Sheila Regan When most of us get dressed in the morning, or when we purchase an item of clothing at a store or with the click of a button online, we usually aren’t thinking about the people who made what we plan to wear. With “The Residue of Labor,” Chris…
Interview with Monica Moses Haller by Marianne Combs For the Wakpa Triennial, Monica Moses Haller has created materials that people access at “Check Out Stations” at 4 different places in St. Paul and Minneapolis. People will be able to take one of her books and connect to new sound compositions that allow them to “Listen…
Interview with Rachel Breen by Sheila Regan Rachel Breen brings together her commitment to social justice and activism with art-making, with the help of a sewing machine. Working with textiles, Breen’s art has critiqued ways that the fashion industry harms workers and the environment in projects like “The Price of Our Clothes,” created collaboratively with…
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…
Enjoy this beginning resource for understanding more about the Dakota people’s relationship to Minnesota from the Minnesota Humanities Center. Try traveling the directions in a traditional way – East (We Are Home), South (Dakota Greeting), West Mnisota: A Dakota Place) and then North for the core of the site – the Memory Map.