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Fabric Demos
Free Coloring Pages of the 3 Sisters/Sage & DIY Seed Packets
(Free download) Lyric Poster Collaboration with Tufawon
Free Coloring Book of Dakhóta plants & Landmaps of Mnísota
Design your own Dakota Floral worksheet

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the art of marlena myles

Marlena is a self-taught digital artist located in St. Paul, Minnesota. She uses her art to celebrate her Indigenous culture and language (Spirit Lake Dakota, Mohegan. Creek). She is the illustrator of Thanku: Poems of Gratitude and is currently creating her first Dakota culture coloring book, to be published early 2021.

email: me [at] marlenamyl.es

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Added new Father's Day Dakota coloring pages and c

Added new Father's Day Dakota coloring pages and cards to @wiyounkihipi, you can download through the link in the bio on that account.

Also included is audio guides and phrases by @huhamaza to help you practice your Dakota.

#dakotamakoce #dakotafloral #dakotalanguage

Timelapse of a coloring page I'm creating for fath

Timelapse of a coloring page I'm creating for father's day, 60 minutes into 1 min. You'll see it on my publishing company's page in a couple of days: @wiyounkihipi

#adobeillustrator

Demoing a revamped version of my Unci Maka puppet

Demoing a revamped version of my Unci Maka puppet in Adobe Character Animator and rambling about how the program works, since I haven't really talked about it in a while 😌

#adobecharacteranimator #characteranimator #animationvideo

Demoing a fragment of my upcoming augmented realit

Demoing a fragment of my upcoming augmented reality public art installation, the Dakota Spirit Walk (with artistic collaborators Todd Boss and Jeff Stevens/Pixelfarm, in association with MōMōVA: The Moving Museum of Virtual Art).

Opening this summer at the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, stay tuned~

#DakotaHomelands #augmentedreality #adobeaero #augmentedrealityart

Happy to be selected as one of the muralists for t

Happy to be selected as one of the muralists for the Chroma Zone mural & art festival here in the Creative Enterprise Zone, St Paul.

You can check out the other selected artists through the link on @chromazonefest

And the first event to start the mural season will be the 2021 Chroma Zone OPEN STREET Kick Off Celebration this Saturday from 1-5pm.

Kick off a summer of murals at a free, outdoor family-friendly art and community event on the closed streets of Bradford and Endicott Streets in the @cezmsp. There will be live painting, open house tours of local art businesses, live music, food trucks, self-guided mural tours and more.

INDIGENOUS WEALTH Double-sided vinyl window mural

INDIGENOUS WEALTH
Double-sided vinyl window mural commissioned for the City of Minneapolis Public Service Center by Art in Public Places program.

The City of Minneapolis developed its foundational economic wealth in the area around Saint Anthony Falls during its early days. Those same falls are featured in the Seal of the City located in the lobby of the new Public Works building. To Dakota people, whose homelands Minneapolis resides upon, those same sacred falls known as Owámniyomni (“three whirlpools”) represent a different economic meaning. As stated in one oral tradition, the Horse Nation met the Dakota/Lakota at “great whirlpools” and those horses would bring great economic benefits to the people.

Within the tribes’ thiyóšpaye (community), everyone had kinship roles to maintain — one must be a good relative to one another and to the natural and supernatural worlds. Men often provided security, women provided clothing and housing for their families and together they would carefully raise the children. When a newborn arrived, the infant was happily welcomed into the community with a cradleboard which featured sacred designs that represented love, protection, and hope for that child’s future. This piece brings those traditional meanings of the importance of serving one’s community as well as the Dakota historical and cultural connections to the area, so that we may act as better stewards of the city for future generations.

See closeups & learn more about the process to create this mural link in bio.
#dakotamakoce #dakotanation #indigenousart #muralart #minneapolis

I have added new Dakota coloring pages and cards f

I have added new Dakota coloring pages and cards for upcoming Mother's Day for free download at @wiyounkihipi (link in bio on that account) 🎨👩‍🎨🖌️

There's also audio and phrases provided by @huhamaza

#wiyounkihipi

UŊKTÓMI & THE COPYRIGHTS OF THE DAKOTA/LAKOTA LA

UŊKTÓMI & THE COPYRIGHTS OF THE DAKOTA/LAKOTA LANGUAGE
Vector Illustration, 2021.

You can read the full Uŋktómi story about this piece through the link in bio, where you can also learn more about protecting Indigenous languages, tribal data and cultural property.

Uŋktómi (also spelled Iktomi, Ukto/Ikto, Unktome, Inktomi) is the trickster spirit in Dakota/Lakota culture, with many, many stories existing that illustrate lessons we should be aware when it comes to our behaviors and others. One such story told by Oliver Gourd, a tribal elder from my reservation, the Spirit Lake Dakota tribe, tells us of Uŋktómi’s prediction of how we would lose our culture.

I adapted that story to warn about the modern dangers of outside entities copyrighting Indigenous languages and preventing tribes from using their ancestral knowledge without paying for it. I have started my own Dakota publishing company, @wiyounkihipi to help keep the language part of the tribe’s communal culture. We all should be aware of the need to both speak and protect our languages.

To celebrate Earth Day and Uŋčí Makhá everyday

To celebrate Earth Day and Uŋčí Makhá everyday, I created free Dakota floral coloring pages on my @wiyounkihipi publishing company for you to download and enjoy~ 🌎💚

Download through link in bio~

#motherearth #grandmotherearth #dakotamakoce #dakotafloral #wiyounkihipi #EarthDay2021

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