7th Gallery: Artist Engagement Residency
August 10-14, 2022
About
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum worked with two social practice visual artists in residence, Ian Hanesworth and Marlena Myles, to engage with the museum, the museum’s garden, the Mississippi River, and the Winona community as they reimagine and sketch their visions of what this garden can represent going forward.
MMAM’s engagement of these two artists in this Arts Midwest GIG funded project intended to open the gardens to the artists’ creative process with community design over five days, August 10-14, 2022. The artists had time to explore the museum and Winona community, talk with museum stakeholders and community members, and sketch their ideas for community engaged artwork for MMAM’s gardens. They then presented their personal and joint visions for MMAM’s outdoor spaces during a final community presentation on Sunday, August 14.
Residency Photos
About the artists
Marlena Myles
Marlena Myles is a self-taught Native American (Spirit Lake Dakota) artist located in St Paul, Minnesota. She has gained recognition as being one of the few Dakota women creating digital art including fabric patterns, animations and illustrations to bring modernity to indigenous history, languages and oral traditions. Growing up on her traditional Dakota homelands here in the Twin Cities, she enjoys using her artwork to teach Minnesotans of all backgrounds the indigenous history of this place we call home.
Her professional work includes children’s books, fabrics, animations and fine art in galleries such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Russian Art, Red Cloud Heritage Center and the Minnesota Museum of American Art to name a few.
Ian Hanesworth
Ian Hanesworth is a queer artist/farmer/writer from Winona, MN (Dakota land) who recently moved to Missoula, MT (Salish, Kootenai, + Kalispel land). Their work and research centers on ideas of deep ecology, plant medicine, and environmental stewardship. Ian uses wild plant fibers and dyes to create artwork that asserts the critical interconnectedness of human and ecological wellbeing and argues for the place of gardening within a contemporary art practice. They received a BFA in Fine Arts Studio from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2018. Since graduating they have participated in residency programs such as Caldera AiR in Sisters, OR, and exhibited their work in numerous group and solo exhibitions. They are a recipient of the 2019 Jerome Emerging Fiber Artist Project Grant through the Textile Center of Minnesota and the 2020 Artist Initiative Grant through the Minnesota State Arts Board.
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Minnesota State Arts Board.