A 3D Landscape invites you to imagine new ways to engage with land

Odyssey at The New Children’s Museum encourages visitors to be the creators, shaping and transforming the space day by day!

In this installation, visitors of all ages are immersed in a towering landscape as a massive airship floats mysteriously overhead. Optical devices scattered throughout the space invite us to shift our perspective and imagine new ways to engage with the land. Encouraging thoughtful future dreaming for how we engage with the world around us, this site-specific project is part of an ongoing series by Luger called Future Ancestral Technologies. Combining speculative fiction with an Indigenous lens, Luger’s work provides us a space for futuristic vision in which societies live in true reverence and acknowledgment of the land.

A 3D landscape looks different from every angle

Future Ancestral Technologies: Odyssey invites guests to interact from all levels of the Museum. Watch the floating airship hover over the massive hoodoo structures!

art is a verb

Art is an active, dynamic experience! This exhibition encourages visitors to be the creators, shaping and transforming the space day by day.

Who Made This?

Cannupa Hanska Luger
born
1979, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, ND
lives in
Glorieta, New Mexico
artist
www.cannupahanska.com/

In this installation, visitors of all ages are immersed in a towering landscape as a massive airship floats mysteriously overhead. Optical devices scattered throughout the space invite us to shift our perspective and imagine new ways to engage with the land. Encouraging thoughtful future dreaming for how we engage with the world around us, this site-specific project is part of an ongoing series by Luger called Future Ancestral Technologies. Combining speculative fiction with an Indigenous lens, Luger’s work provides us a space for futuristic vision in which societies live in true reverence and acknowledgment of the land.

Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is  Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota. His work, spanning installations, sculpture, and performance, highlights 21st-century Indigeneity and encourages land-based actions and social collaboration.

Art Workshops in December

Our newly expanded Art Studio is now offering workshops for toddlers, kids, and teens! From watercolor to oil painting to sensory play, there’s something creative for everyone.  Sign up today and look for more workshops in 2025!

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