Relational Technologies Speaker’s Series:

Artist talk with Marlena Myles

(Spirit Lake Dakota/Mohegan/Muscogee)

Thursday, March 14, 2024 | 12:30-2:00pm

Coach House, Green College UBC & online via livestream
Reception to follow

Join CEDaR (Community Engaged Documentation and Research) and Dakota artist Marlena Myles for a conversation about her art practice, which uses augmented reality and public art to tell stories that connect people to the history, land, language and culture of the Dakota people.

Marlena Myles is a self-taught Spirit Lake Dakota artist located in St Paul, Minnesota. Her art brings modernity to Indigenous history, languages and oral traditions while using the land as a teacher. Her professional work includes children’s books, augmented reality, murals, fabrics, animations and has shown her fine art in galleries such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Russian Art, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art to name a few.

She has installed three site-specific augmented reality public art installations: the Dakota Spirit Walk (Saint Paul), the Sacred Hoop Walk (Minnesota Landscape Arboretum) and the Wodakota Walk (Caponi Art Park). She owns a Dakota publishing company, Wíyouŋkihipi (We Are Capable) Productions, to create a wider platform that educates and honors the culture, language and history of Dakota people. In 2023, she was awarded the Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, Joyce Award and Rise25 Mozilla Honoree.