![Introducing 1st year Megita Denton!Indigenous/French Intermedia artist Megita Denton hails from Texas and spent many years embedded in the Pacific Northwest region and cultures. Born on her grandmother’s couch in Galveston, Texas in 1979, Denton has been living and creating unconventionally ever since. Her intermedia practice is grounded in the land, motivated by connection, and envisioned for positive social impact. Denton’s recent site-specific public works are the next evolution of a practice that includes film, sound, metal and mixed media sculpture, painting, olfaction-scapes, woodworking, fiber arts, photography, projections, large scale public murals, performance, light composition, resilient landscape design, and artistic research.Working to re-create and restore human connection to the natural world, Denton draws on her Indigenous perspective, her farmer’s knowledge of the land, and her diverse community collaborations. Making work that speaks of the traditions of the past and responds to the challenges of the present, she locates our evolution and survival in our care of the land, offering alternative perspectives on the future.Denton’s work is site responsive, collaborative, and research based, designed to balance the gravity of today’s socio-political situations with elements of play, rest, empathy, and curiosity. Her offer to view, interact with, share, and be in conversation with her work is an invitation to experience the interconnectedness of all beings that allows the intellect to be the framework to connect to the heart. Denton reasserts her belief with her work: that artists have a social, moral, and spiritual responsibility to speak and react to the times in efforts of powerful positive change.Works List:Desert After A Monsoon, Sculpture Installation, wood, scent, textile, clay, The Repair Atelier.Desert Blue Hue, Sculpture, wood, glass, foam, photography, Resilience Magazine.Jacob’s Portal, Sculpture, wood, moss, lichen, rocks, steel, Sitka Arts & Ecology.Pull My String, Sculptural Performance & Film, steel, leather, wood, Walter Gropius rock.]()
Introducing 1st year Megita Denton!
Indigenous/French Intermedia artist Megita Denton hails from Texas and spent many years embedded in the Pacific Northwest region and cultures. Born on her grandmother’s couch in Galveston, Texas in 1979, Denton has been living and creating unconventionally ever since. Her intermedia practice is grounded in the land, motivated by connection, and envisioned for positive social impact. Denton’s recent site-specific public works are the next evolution of a practice that includes film, sound, metal and mixed media sculpture, painting, olfaction-scapes, woodworking, fiber arts, photography, projections, large scale public murals, performance, light composition, resilient landscape design, and artistic research.
Working to re-create and restore human connection to the natural world, Denton draws on her Indigenous perspective, her farmer’s knowledge of the land, and her diverse community collaborations. Making work that speaks of the traditions of the past and responds to the challenges of the present, she locates our evolution and survival in our care of the land, offering alternative perspectives on the future.
Denton’s work is site responsive, collaborative, and research based, designed to balance the gravity of today’s socio-political situations with elements of play, rest, empathy, and curiosity. Her offer to view, interact with, share, and be in conversation with her work is an invitation to experience the interconnectedness of all beings that allows the intellect to be the framework to connect to the heart. Denton reasserts her belief with her work: that artists have a social, moral, and spiritual responsibility to speak and react to the times in efforts of powerful positive change.
Works List:
Desert After A Monsoon, Sculpture Installation, wood, scent, textile, clay, The Repair Atelier.
Desert Blue Hue, Sculpture, wood, glass, foam, photography, Resilience Magazine.
Jacob’s Portal, Sculpture, wood, moss, lichen, rocks, steel, Sitka Arts & Ecology.
Pull My String, Sculptural Performance & Film, steel, leather, wood, Walter Gropius rock.
1 month ago
