The 6pm Pre-Meeting:
This virtual event TBA

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If you have an idea or suggestion for a future upcoming pre-meeting program contact
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Upcoming Meetings:
March 20: Barbara Shapiro, indigo and baskets
April 17: TBD
May 15: Joell Baxter, printed & woven paper installations
June 19: Members’ Work
July 17: Carole Beadle, fiber sculpture

VIRTUAL MEETING
MIKAYLA PATTON
paper art, beading
FEBRUARY 21, 2024 aT 7PM
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 Mikayla Patton is a talented mixed media artist and proud member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Her unique sculptural pieces, created through recycled papermaking and earth elements, explore Indigenous intimacies, personal narratives, and the transformative power of repurposing materials. Drawing on her Lakota knowledge of creative methodologies and adornment, Patton aims to address shared themes of healing, growth, and renewal.

“By embracing the delicate balance between vulnerability and renewal, I am interested in exploring Indigenous intimacies, personal narratives, and the transformative power of repurposing materials. Through the interplay of recycled paper-making and earth elements, I create sculptural objects that utilize my Lakota knowledge of being, adornment, and artistic methodologies. I aim to address shared themes of healing, growth, and renewal.

I collect and combine intimate, often Indigenous informed articles such as glass beads, porcupine quills, leather, fabric scraps, sinew, plant dyes, inks, and nylon thread. These materials are embedded, woven, and pierced through the paper, creating poetic fragments of adornment. The identifiable materials I use help to harness their energies, further emphasizing the connection between my work and the land it represents.”
- Mikayla Patton