All Ages Artmaking: Magnetic Mosaic

Floor 3, Artspace

Open to all ages

Artists of all ages are invited to contribute to a collaborative magnetic mosaic inspired by Nourish by Dyani White Hawk. Arrange and rearrange colorful magnetic shapes to create your own designs, respond to others, and see how the mosaic shifts throughout the day!

Dyani White Hawk made this site-specific installation, Nourish, using thousands of handmade ceramic tiles. White Hawk is a woman of Sičangu Lakota and European American ancestry, raised within Native and urban American communities. Her art draws from Lakota traditions of beadwork, painting, and quillwork, a form of embroidery using porcupine quills. The abstract forms she creates using these traditions also respond to modernist painters who were influenced by Native American art, like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Sometimes these 20th Century artists are credited with inventing abstract art! White Hawk reminds us that abstraction is much, much older, tracing all the way back through ancient lineages of Indigenous women.

White Hawk chose the colors for the tiles after looking carefully at the natural landscapes of Wisconsin and Minnesota, where she was raised and lives today. The colors of the tiles mimic gradients found in the natural world.