“We are keepers of our stories,” writes Hopi artist Mikaela Shafer in a poem featured in her solo show at All My Relations Arts. “Matrilineal memories. I want my daughters to tell stories of love, of resilience. I am rewriting our tales for tomorrow.”
This weekend, that spirit of storytelling echoes across the Twin Cities. Shafer’s work traces grief, memory and ancestral strength in Minneapolis, while author Kao Kalia Yang carries the experiences of her Hmong refugee family forward in St. Paul. At the Weisman Art Museum, rugs from Lebanese, Afro-Caribbean, Chinese and Ukrainian artists thread stories of heritage, resilience and cultural survival.
Watercolors and poetry reach for ancestral memory…