Participatory Art

Over the last decade of creating interactive healing installation at ArtPrize, I have discovered that the audience reaction to the artwork often ends up being different from what I imagined. The visitors somehow end up creating their own unique response to the work. For ArtPrize 2013, we created four thousand origami birds and prepared 20,000…

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The Scarlet Cord: Making

The Scarlet Cord Collection, which first debuted at ArtPrize 2014, helps raise awareness for sex-trafficking. But it also speaks to deep emotional wounds caused by sexual abuse. Many male and female visitors have taken the first brave steps towards healing while experiencing the artwork. By using words or releasing tears in acknowledgement of what happened,…

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The Scarlet Cord: Culture Care

The Scarlet Cord can be described as street outreach—culture care to the most vulnerable in our communities. Visitors, struggling from child molestation, college date rape, or sex trafficking, verbalized their pain—maybe for the first time. Several actually laid their heads on my chest and sobbed. Thirteen women in West Michigan confided that they had been…

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