Member Event
Confluence Event: Marlena Myles Studio Visit
May 19 2026 | 6 - 7:30pm
FREE for Confluence Members
Offsite - Address will be shared upon registration
An Indigenous femme wearing glasses and a light pink jacket stands outdoors against a cloudy sky and a blurred city skyline.

Additional Details

Marlena Myles Studio Visit 

With the launch of WAM’s new membership program, we are thrilled to announce our first Confluence Event: a studio visit with St. Paul-based artist Marlena Myles on May 19th. Her practice centers on Indigenous history, language, and the inclusion of both within modernity. She is also collaborating with WAM on new work for the upcoming exhibition Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, opening September 2026 (more details coming soon!). Merciless is a commemoration of Indigenous resistance and a celebration of ongoing relationships to this place known as Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis). Featuring new indoor and outdoor installations by Natchez Beaulieu, Marlena Myles, and Missy Whiteman, the exhibition foregrounds Indigenous resilience and sustained connections to Wakpá Tháŋka, the Mississippi River.

Join us on May 19th for an intimate studio visit with Marlena Myles and co-led by WAM's Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions, Kendra Greendeer. The event will start with heavy appetizers by Owamni and a selection of non-alcoholic beverages. We will then have a private studio tour with a chance to view both works in progress and previous works. 

This event is FREE for all Confluence Members. Eligible Confluence Members will receive an invite at least four weeks in advance. If you haven’t received your invitation or would like to learn more about joining at the Confluence level, please email us at [email protected] or visit our Membership Page. We look forward to hearing from you! 

WAM Photography and Video policy: To help us promote future events and programs, WAM visitors may be photographed or recorded during museum events or in the exhibition galleries. By attending the Weisman's events and programs, you consent to appear in this documentation and to its future use by the museum. Please let staff know upon arrival if you prefer not to be photographed or otherwise recorded.

Accessibility
Wheelchair accessible
Plan Your Visit
Hours
Getting Here
Calendar
Accessibility
A woman with dark hair in two braids, wearing glasses and a pink blazer, pictured outside against the city skyline
About the Artist
Marlena Myles

Marlena Myles, Spirit Lake Dakota, Mohegan, and Muscogee artist, is based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Myles’s practice centers on Indigenous history, language, and the inclusion of both within modernity. By suggesting a continued Dakota culture that is illustrated within the digital sphere, Myles is portraying Native people in a space that others do not expect to witness Indigenous people and in a particular medium–as modern people utilizing the same technologies. Some of her most recent work includes an augmented reality installation, Spirit Door, at the Franconia Sculpture Park and a community cradleboard project with Dakota County Library. She is also creating new work for the Weisman’s upcoming exhibition, Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, which will open in September 2026. 

A woman with long dark hair smiles into the camer. Lake and greenery view appears behind her.
Kendra Greendeer
Kendra Greendeer, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendant of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, is the Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her research explores the work of contemporary Native American women artists who enact rematriation as a method, Indigenous museum practices, and land and materiality relations.
 
Dr. Greendeer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023. She earned her M.A. in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, and her B.F.A. in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She recently completed a fellowship as the Paul Mellon Guest Predoctoral Fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She has also assisted with numerous exhibitions and community-based projects relating to Ho-Chunk art and history. 

More Like This