NOTE: This post is from the 2023 Wakpa Triennial Festival. To see information about the 2026 Wakpa Triennial Festival, visit: https://publicartstpaul.org/103672-2/ 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…
NOTE: This post is from the 2023 Wakpa Triennial Festival. To see information about the 2026 Wakpa Triennial Festival, visit: https://publicartstpaul.org/103672-2/ 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….
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…
NOTE: This post is from the 2023 Wakpa Triennial Festival. To see information about the 2026 Wakpa Triennial Festival, visit: https://publicartstpaul.org/103672-2/ 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!…
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.
Email resume and cover letter to Ruby Kinney (ruby@publicartstpaul.org) by Sunday, May 14, 2023 for consideration. Communications Intern June 5, 2023 – October 1, 2023 $1,500 stipend 15 hours/week Public Art Saint Paul Public Art Saint Paul is a private nonprofit that places artists in leading roles in our community to shape public spaces, improve city systems,…