Over the past year, I’ve been engaging people on the sidewalks from New York to San Francisco with this question: “How would you help heal our broken world?” Random people have been pausing to write well-thought-out answers on pieces of maps. Their unique responses, which included a tracing of their hand, have sparked the following…
While creatively traversing the country from New York to San Francisco, I’ve been asking random people on the streets or in coffee shops this question: “How would you help heal our broken world?” In response, individuals are invited to trace their hand on a piece of map, representing our world, and record their answer. This…
Where in the world is Open Hands now? While creatively traversing the country, we’ve been randomly engaging people on the streets with this question: “How would you help heal our broken world?” Open Hands, inspired by Babette’s Feast on stage, first debuted on the streets of New York City in March of 2018. This mobile…
As an artist, I usually think B•I•G. If my sex-trafficking exhibit requires a forty-foot storage container, I figured out how to rent one or borrow one. If my mental health exhibit requires 5,000 golf pencils, so that 70,000 people can write notes, I figure out how to buy 5,000 pencils (for only $200!). But while…
You are invited into my art. As a radical hospitality artist, I have created art that lets others respond. My interactive and collaborative work welcomes visitors like you into a healing place. Inside this safe space, viewers are invited to become active participants. This new type of art offers something unique: it lets you speak…
Broken Wings No. 2 Broken Wings to Resilient Wings A collaborative work with Girls Court of Michigan and artist Pamela Alderman In partnership with the generous support of PlexiCase, Inc. Every year thousands of Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. Somehow, millions of delicate butterflies successfully complete the dangerous 6,000 mile journey in order…
I had the privilege and honor to bring my Broken Wings art presentation into a kindergarten classroom. During the presentation, the children learned about the life cycle of the butterfly. Using our bodies, we pretended to break out of a chrysalis and take flight with our delicate new wings. We also discussed what kinds of…