Join us for the First Friday opening of “(Re)Connected” on March 1 from 5-7 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum with light refreshments. Visit the Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Studio & Education Lab during First Friday to create a print featuring a bird of the Great Plains.

The Great Plains Art Museum’s 2024 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence is Angela Two Stars, a multidisciplinary visual artist, public artist, and curator. By reconnecting with the Dakota language and her ancestral homelands, Angela addresses healing from historical, intergenerational, and personal traumas in her recent work. About this exhibition, she writes: “Through personal, vulnerable installations and performances, ”(Re)Connected” boldly addresses issues that have caused the traumas endured by Native women but also highlights their strength, beauty, and resilience, as well as their roles as leaders, caretakers, life-givers, and protectors of all their relations.”

Angela is the director of All My Relations Arts, a contemporary American Indian art gallery and arts program that is a project of the Native American Community Development Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and received her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. Angela’s public art graces the shores of Bde Maka Ska in Minnesota and honors the Dakota people of Mni Sota. Her sculpture, “Okciyapi,” was acquired by the Walker Art Center and is permanently installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Visit the artist during her residency at the museum from April 9 to 13 and June 11 to 15.

Also on view: “Sarah Kaizar: RARE AIR,” January 23–May 4, 2024