Creative Native 101: Empowering the Indigenous Imagination
About This Session
Description
CREATIVE NATIVE 101: Empowering the Indigenous Imagination
This session brings out the creative imagination for each participant through the use of: Art, Language, Culture, Music, and Storytelling. The use of any of South Dakota's Indigenous Languages is the foundation of our storylines, character development, and storyboarding brings out the expert in all of us. The main outcome of this shared time is to begin the process of telling our own personal, life story that both attracts attention and captivates audiences. Each participant will have the opportunity to develop their own comic strip/comic book storyline with characters from their own creative imagination.
Session Presenter(s)
Mark Mindt
Educator
Educator
As an educator and citizen of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation of North Dakota, Mr. Mindt is focused on brining his comic book character to every tribal nation throughout North America. His background is in K-8 Classroom Teaching and School District Administration. As an author/illustrator of the KODA the Warrior graphic novel series, he sees the need for building youth literacy and goal setting for all children and young adults through the format of sequential art and storytelling of comic books. Today, Mark travels North America bringing the story of a superhero/teacher named KODA Two Hearts to readers and artists of any age and skill level.