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Angelica Trimble Yanu’s artworks embody an epic journey of healing through honoring her Oglala Lakota roots in profound ways. In this tender conversation, she shares how her printmaking and site-specific sculptures reclaim sacred relationships to the earth as they carry the creative lives of her ancestors through layers of time and space. Angelica’s art is collaborative – with family or dynamic landscape (and the Great Spirit that lives in all the mountains, hills and lakes). Her works reference sacred sites in South Dakota, and implicitly resist a history of displacement, silencing and erasure. Her intentional titles draw from the poems of her sister, a native poet, to continue a tradition of cultural transmission. She refines her palette to the four Lakota colors to harness the power of their cosmology, as invocation and homage. Weaving the rich visual and oral languages of Lakota knowledge systems in her art, Angelica restores the wisdom, stories and voices of her ancestors for this contemporary moment. Explore the way her creative practice forges paths for healing, forgiveness, and grace. Discover how, beneath it all, is a fierce life celebration.     

4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:

1. Until the late ‘70s, it was illegal for Lakota peoples to create, hold ceremonies, or speak their language.
   
2. Find out how the sacred directions are included in her color palette. She was taught that the ancestors are drawn to the color red, often used in regalia and beadwork for this purpose. Angelica also uses red in her art as a powerful call to them. 
   
3. The star tattooed on her throat, signifying the Lakota peoples, the Star Nation, is a reminder of “where we came from,” and to continue learning the language and speaking from a place of truth.     
   
4. The historical, contemporary and futurist converged when Angelica had to learn how to use AI tools to scale her work to fit the expansive space of the flagship Google store.   

Explore Angelica Trimble Yanu’s art and discover a sense of awe: instagram.com/angelicayanu  and angeltrimbleyanu.com

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