Great Plains Art Museum to host artist Angela Two Stars

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Angela Two Stars

The Great Plains Art Museum’s 2024 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence is Angela Two Stars, a multidisciplinary visual artist, public artist and curator.

During her residency, Two Stars will create an artwork that will become part of the museum’s permanent collection. She also will lead educational programs and tours. Visitors are encouraged to see the artist in action in the lower-level Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Studio and Education Lab during the museum’s public hours. Her residency will run April 9-13 and June 11-15.

Native woman in front of yellow background with blue sofa, crosses with words next to them and colored stripes — Detail of “Wótehiŋda, Wóawaŋyaŋke, Wóohoda: Love, Care, Respect” by Angela Two Stars (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), 2024, acrylic, ribbon and paper

By reconnecting with the Dakota language and her ancestral homelands, Two Stars addresses healing from historical, intergenerational and personal traumas in her recent work. During her residency, titled “Okizipi (To Heal),” Two Stars invites the community to share in conversations that focus on healing. Two Stars also explores the healing process in her exhibition “(Re)Connected,” open in the lower-level gallery through July 20.

Two Stars 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. Her 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.

Mosaic star with tiles of red birds, blue fish and green turtles — “Almost Fractaled” by Angela Two Stars, 2017, linocuts on fabric

As part of the residency, the Great Plains Art Museum will host a 5:30 p.m. April 11 screening of “Bring Her Home,” a film that follows three Indigenous women — an artist, an activist and a politician —as they work to vindicate and honor their relatives who are victims in the growing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women. After the screening, stay for a discussion with Two Stars, who is featured in the film. “Bring Her Home” is a co-production of Twin Cities PBS and Vision Maker Media, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Since its inception in 2006, the Elizabeth Rubendall Foundation has funded the Artist-in-Residence Program, which creates opportunities for museum visitors and school groups to witness an artist in action. To schedule a group tour, email Alison Cloet at acloet3@unl.edu.

The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., is open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For more information, click here.