OFFERINGS: Artists Respond to the Mourning, Grieving and Fires on Lake Street
Displayed alphabetically by Artist's first name
Amber Lee
Puppets resembling jellyfish give space to all the dead including all those murdered by injustice.
Andréa “Dre” Wakely
Sculpture offering a physical space to receive the sunflower’s message and its healing medicine.
Baki Z. Porter, Rox Anderson and Chaim Budenosky
A multimedia project on reverence that inhabited R.A.R.E. House on Lake St.
Christie Marie Owens, Mack the Barber, and Samuel Babatunde Ero-Phillips
Focused on healing and beauty practices in the South Minneapolis Black community by providing opportunities for haircuts and self-care.
Elliott Etzkorn
A ghostly white horse puppet addressing white supremacy and people moving forward together.
Graci Horne
Honoring Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Black Lives Matter on Dakota Makoce.
Gustavo Boada Rivas
Mural portraying the goddess of water and inspired by the United Farmerworker Movement.
Hannah Missississippi
A mobile (bike) puppetry of a ghostly white horse addressing white supremacy and how communities moves forward.
Ifrah Mansour
Puppet Halima who is curious about her feelings of healing had taken a meditation walk to her favorite places down Lake St.
Indigenous Roots Arts Center
Youth organizers perform to grieve and create awareness of the children who have died at the hands of ICE.
Kallie Melvin
Flowers crafted out of found objects, lighting, fabric and text addressing grief and loss.
Kari Tauring and Kurt Seaberg
Textile sculpture hung at Ingebretsen’s that connects Nordic root culture and responsibility.
Kieran Myles-Andrés Tverbakk and Johanna Keller Flores
Altars made of prose, flowers and rubble and salvaged materials along Lake St.
Laura Korynta
A sculpture offering a moment to reflect on our place within oppressive systems and move toward transformation.
Margo McCreary
A jacket and hat worn by the character Auntie Dote who carries a paper fortune teller while doting on passersby.
Marian Lucas
Embroidery on a window screen with cooking pot lids that bang together and sign the words, equal justice.
Mary Plaster
Artist’s pilgrimage to revisit Duluth’s history of lynchings and reflect on the Minneapolis uprisings.
Mina Leierwood
13 chalkboards of stanzas from the Jewish poem, “We Remember” were mounted on telephone poles.
MollieRae Miller
Thoughts that were soaked into the artist’s surroundings as she processed her reactions to quarantine and the fires on Lake St.
Naye-Taye Burnett
A sculptural fist representing Black pride and Black Trans Lives Matter.
Niziah Osheen Burnett
Online feature. A felted dress wrapped in imagery and lights depicting the protests and their aftermath on Lake St.
Oanh Vu
Coming soon: in Vu’s short film, Pie in the Sky, puppet friends Ruff the Dog and Bao the Bird grapple with questions about police abolition and community safety through song and dance.
Ofunshi Oba Koso
The altar was a space for reflection and to honor the ancestors that took place overnight on Oct. 30.
Orren Fen
Life-sized wolf marionettes symbolizing the people who protected Lake St.
Queen Serena Black
Mural expressing the artist’s gratitude for ancestors, grief for loved ones lost to gun violence and frustration about police brutality toward her people.
Tara Fahey
Textile art work of crocheted tear lanterns that hold layers of grief and were hung in trees on Lake St.
Theresa Linnihan
Over 30 figures—mourners for the many fallen to racial prejudice, gun violence, police brutality, abuse of our planet, and the pandemic.
Venus de Mars
An epic compilation of BareBones Orchestra Music 2015 to 2019 during her five years as the BareBones Music Director.