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Mayumi:
Mayumi Amada is a Minneapolis-based artist who moved to the U.S. from Japan in 1998. She earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota. She is interested in ancestry, the circular nature of life cycles, and the environment. Mayumi Amada’s Japanese cultural heritage is interwoven with the work she creates. Reflecting on it from the United States, she explores how reusable materials and recycling echo concepts from Buddhism and Zen philosophies. Through repeated stitches and patterns, Mayumi explores the repetition of generations using traditional techniques and their iconography.
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Marlena:
Marlena Myles is a self-taught Native American (Spirit Lake Dakota, Mohegan, Muscogee) 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.