![]() Intern Gilbert White in the paint booth.Meow Wolf Community Engagement Specialist Fawn.More than half of the interns were Native American: Jazmin Novak (Dińe), Gilbert White (Dińe), Britney King (Dińe), Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache), and Lindsey Toya-Tosa (Jemez Pueblo). For this effort, Meow Wolf partnered up with the IAIA and UNM to select nine interns from diverse artistic backgrounds, ranging from sophomores to graduate students. The internship was propelled forward by the work that came out of our Inclusion Diversity Equity Accessibility (IDEA) team, putting words to action in efforts toward achieving equity in our company and community. Photo by Kate RussellĪccording to Fawn, Meow Wolf established their first official internship in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which took place over the course of eight weeks. We discussed the many levels of Indigeneity in Convergence Station: Sand Creek Massacre Remembrance Room, exhibits by Indigenous artists, IAIA and UNM Internships with Native American students, opening ceremonies, land acknowledgments, cultural appropriation training for employees, and more. To help me understand this effort I talked with Meow Wolf Community Engagement Specialist and Nuwuvi Artist Fawn Douglas, who is a member of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe. As with the other Meow Wolf locations that have built relationships with the local Indigenous populations in the area, Convergence Station included the Denver Native community in the planning, making, and launching of its newest location. ![]() Meow Wolf has taken steps to include Indigenous people in the creation of Convergence Station. Meow Wolf’s three locations all sit on the ancestral lands of the Pueblo, Southern Paiute, Southern Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, and Oceti Sakowin (Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota) peoples. In addition, Meow Wolf acknowledges and celebrates Indigenous people today and every day. Meow Wolf also gives back to and participates energetically in the surrounding communities of the locations, actively supporting innovative, community-focused art and social projects. At each location, Meow Wolf prioritizes collaboration with local artists in the area of each exhibition. Meow Wolf employs numerous full-time artists on staff who work in a wide range of media including sculpture, painting, fabrication, digital art, writing, film, and many more. Meow Wolf is different from any other attraction or exhibition. Aeriel view of Meow Wolf Convergence Station. Attendees can expect a brand new experience, otherworlds-ly art, and plenty of opportunities to get lost through portals and wormholes. At Convergence Station, you discover immersive psychedelic, mind-bending art, and an underlying rich narrative as you take a journey of discovery into a surreal, science-fictional epic. In the Denver location, Meow Wolf’s third permanent exhibition called Convergence Station officially opened to the public in September 2021 and is considered unforgettable and transformational. ![]() Now, Meow Wolf is an arts production company that creates immersive, multimedia experiences that transport audiences of all ages into fantastic realms, and has four art installations in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Las Vegas, Nevada, and now Denver, Colorado. These collaborative roots lay the foundation for Meow Wolf’s distinctive style of immersive, maximalist environments that encourage audience participation. Meow Wolf began in 2008 as an informal DIY collective of Santa Fe artists who were considered outsiders of the Santa Fe art scene.
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