Located at the Indiana State Museum, Gallery One

This interactive installation, called “Seed Swap,” which invites visitors to engage in the elements of dance, movement, play, sound, and imagination, is the creation of Indianapolis artistic duo, Shamira Wilson and designer Danicia Monét. The duo used their love for gardening and plants to present “a reflection of flora dancing, highlighting how plants play, and inviting we, the people, to play through the planting and sharing of seeds, bearers of life, among the earth and among friends.”

An informal trail reconnecting Indianapolis’ Black neighborhoods.

Spreading Microaffections citywide

Activation for the 2022 March Final Four

Under the canopy of the BroomTree, refuge is found. Broomcorn. Timber. Twine. Aluminum. The four intertwine to form the BroomTree, an interactive multi-sensory experience dedicated to playfulness, nostalgia, and sacredness. An aggregate of southern mythology, biblical wayfinding, and Caribbean spirituality, the open flow porch is designed to be a resting place for the weary, offering shade to the traveler, and ground for gathering. 

Creating an inside/outside oneness, users are pulled under the shelter of the canopy for a moment of transcendence. The porch offers unobstructed views of its surroundings, erasing dividing lines and inviting reconnection among guests. The canopy of large eaves made of natural fibers create a shady place to pause. Externally, the frame of aluminum beams offers support while mirroring and knitting the viewer into the structure of both the porch and their surroundings reflected behind them.

The BroomTree encourages those under its shade to engage and integrate themselves into the space by way of two invitations. The first, as a Sweeper, wherein guests can practice the meditative act of sweeping with one of the provided brooms. The second invitation is that of the Giver wherein one is invited to pen an emotion or memory onto any of the slips of cornhusk paper dangling from above. 

Inspired by the household broom, both tool and talisman, the elements of the BroomTree give reason for one to place eyes and heart upon the community, the porch here sets the tone where materiality and unity emerge as resounding themes. 

Tactical Urbanism Project in Windsor Park Indianapolis

When one of the oldest Black Cultural Center’s in the nation, turned 50, we were delighted to mine the archives and produce this multifaceted celebratory retropspective installation.

Reviving Old IFD 18 on Central State’s Campus

A public art census for growing communities