 The Mekanon Gallery in the Watermark Arts Center is dedicated to displaying art created by Native Americans. Reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about the latest exhibit in this week's In Focus. My expressions are stories and that's usually where I pull my work from is my heritage again my Ojibwe heritage. Welcome to the latest exhibit in the Mekanon Gallery at the Watermark Arts Center. It's called Gide Badja Woman or We Tell Stories. The exhibit features mixed media prints and artwork created by two artists named Gordon Coons from the Lakkuture Reservation in Northern Wisconsin and Anna Johnson from the Turtle Mountains in North Dakota. I take a lot of inspiration from the Turtle Mountains because of the beauty and the trees and the nature and everything and my birch bark comes from there the stuff that I use in my collages comes from the Turtle Mountains. In this new exhibit in the Mekanon Gallery the artwork speaks for itself. Each painting tells the story of the artist's background, life, or aspirations. It's an image I did with 24 karat gold leaf representing the sun and I did the rest with sear smoke. Sear smoke is a spiritual smoke and I want to do something like this. To make their artwork the artists pull from different materials such as fabric, newspaper clippings, flowers, twigs, and gold leaf. Both artists say being featured at the Watermark Art Center is something extraordinary. I live in Minneapolis and this is quite a fabulous star for the north. It's a great gallery. I hope everybody comes on and sees not only my work but Anna Johnson's some of her works. I don't have shows very often so it's a huge honor for me to be anywhere outside of where I'm from to have my artwork displayed. You can check out the exhibit at the Watermark until November 3rd. Reporting of Amidjou with this week's end focus, Sheramore Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.