Created with the team of Angela Two Stars, Sandy Spieler and Mona Smith and with the guidance of descendants of Heyate Otunwe.

Here on Dakota Homeland, we offer DAILY THANKS for the glorious gift of “THIS PLACE”. Created by Luisa Cabello Hansel and Sandy Spieler with Thanks for inspiration from the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

This commission from Mayflower Church allowed me to remember the Christmas Story as a primal teaching of Love in defiance of empire.

For Pax Christi Catholic Community, Eden Prairie, Minnesota. September, 2017

Midtown Farmer’s Market, Minneapolis. A remembrance for the weekend of Dia de los Muertos honoring farmers all over the world struggling in their work to provide food for us all.

Painted Banners, Seed Shrines, and Sharing of Bread, honoring the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet, and all who work with love for the world.

Three Maple seeds with Illuminated Alphabets and three Figures to honor the incredible Maple Trees for which the library is named, reminding us of the parallel task of Maple Seeds to a Library.

Bristol, England 2004. This museum for the Age of Oil questions the Oil industry and my personal Oil consumption. It is also a response and honoring of the work of Platform of London, a group of artists investigating the crimes of corporations.

Originally made for In the Heart of the Beast Theatre’s 25th Mayday Ceremony, this figure now resides in the lobby of the Greenway building in Minneapolis. Thirteen feet tall, this commemorated the “green root of Mayday” – the green blood energy rising up each spring to nourish us all.

San Antonio, Texas. Flags and Banners of the 4 seasons to create special spaces for a onetime Youth Event in San Antonio’s historic district.

Street Banners, sidewalk stamps, and railings announcing “Bloom Lake” – as a location and also as a mantra of beauty. Commissioned by the City of Minneapolis Public Art.

The past and future meet as a “togethered tree”.

Puppet sequences for the film Tarantella by Helen De Michiel.