the Wanderer
A solo canoe constructed in 2023 using plans from MBW Boats. I wrote a full review of the design for small boats monthly
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HANABATA DAYS
Hanabata Days is a graphic memoir that explores the unexpected reunion of a father and son, 47 years after separation.The diasporic story unfolds visually over the span of 60+ years navigating shifting geographic and cultural dissonance, from pre-tourism Hawai’i to present day Middle America. Its central characters’ hidden pasts are made visible to one another after searching for answers compelled by hope, premonition, the stars, currents, and the introduction of ancestral coordinates unlocked via shared genetic data.How do two familial strangers proceed forward and make meaning together? What possible pasts can be known and never known? What secrets should remain buried? And is their path to redemption intricately dependent on one another? Hanabata Days connects two lives impacted by different forms of colonization, silence, and ambiguous longing. Each seeking to reckon with their complex pasts towards reclamation.
Interview with Haley Radke: 09/29/23 produced by Adoptees On.
Adoptees On: The podcast where adoptees discuss the adoption experience.
- Publisher : Michael Hoyt (May 24, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0578290987
- ISBN-13 : 978-0578290980
- Dimensions : 6.63 x 0.43 x 10.25 inches
Available for purchase at Xia Gallery or online.
DREAMSLAND (2015-present)
Dreamsland is a site specific community led public space that invites people to explore equitable land stewardship and practice creative neighboring. Dreamsland is an open platform where neighbors host gatherings and workshops, organize community action, share meals, incubate and test initiatives, and form deeper connections. Dreamsland will return to Lakota ownership on or before 2040.
Dreamsland open for activation year round. Over 200 events, gatherings, and initiatives have been convened by residents and artist organizers including;
the TRCSTR cohort, Twin Cities Sex Workers Collective, CANDO, Plant-Grow-Share, HECUA, Centra Area Graphic Art Collective, Creatives After Curfew, the Art Blocks initiative, Free Black Dirt, among others. Dreamsland can be reserved by calling: (six-one-two) 524-9407.
This film was made by students in the HECUA program Making Media, Making Change in partnership with Saint Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN). 2016