February’s Featured Artist: Myja Lark
February 7 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Myja Lark is an artist, author, and civil servant whose life’s work lives at the intersection of memory, systems, and spirit.
She believes art is not separate from living. It is how we make sense of where we come from, how we survive what tries to break us, and how we imagine something better into being.
Myja’s visual work is rooted in ancestry and imagination. Locs become landscapes. Trees become memory. Ordinary Black people are rendered monumental. Through painting, printmaking, and writing, she explores lineage, belonging, and the quiet, radical act of returning home to oneself.
Alongside her creative practice, Myja serves in local government, where she leads innovation and continuous improvement efforts focused on people, process, and possibility. Her work in civil service is an extension of the same questions that guide her art. Who is seen. Who is supported. What systems shape our lives. How might they be reimagined with more care.
This dual life as artist and public servant deeply informs her practice. The same tenderness she brings to a canvas, she brings to rooms where decisions are made. The same systems thinking she applies in government, she carries into her storytelling. For Myja, creativity and service are not separate paths. They are braided.
Her growing body of work includes the Nappy Roots book and art series, large scale portraiture, and immersive community experiences designed to slow people down, open memory, and invite reflection. Whether her work appears on a wall, on a page, or in a shared space, the intention remains the same. To tell the truth with tenderness. To create beauty that is accessible and honest. To leave people feeling more whole than when they arrived.
Myja lives and works in Arizona. She paints, writes, builds systems, and believes deeply in the power of remembering ourselves, each other, and what has always been sacred.
This is not just art. It is a life practice.
You can view a selection of Myja’s work in the Museum’s Art Studio during the month of January.