The Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial, cast bronze figure and podium, plaza and benches.


Seminal  monument with Congressional Recognition. Federal Protected Park status pending.


Commissioned cast bronze sculpture and plaza for Argo Community High School with Till family input.

Life size cast bronze figure and podium. Congressional Recognition. Architectural plinth and plaza honoring Civil Rights Markers in history.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial

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Life size cast bronze figure and podium. Congressional Recognition. Architectural plinth and plaza honoring Civil Rights Markers in history.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial

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Life size cast bronze figure and podium. Congressional Recognition. Architectural plinth and plaza honoring Civil Rights Markers in history.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial

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Life size cast bronze figure and podium. Congressional Recognition. Architectural plinth and plaza honoring Civil Rights Markers in history.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial

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Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial hand carved life size figure and low-relief podium.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial, clay pattern.

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Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial hand carved life size figure and low-relief podium.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial, clay pattern.

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Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial hand carved life size figure and low-relief podium.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial, clay pattern.

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Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial hand carved life size figure and low-relief podium.

Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Memorial, clay pattern.

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Historic photo of Emmett Till, Rev. Parker and little boy riding Bikes.

Historic image

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Little boy on bike visiting the memorial.

Little boy on bike

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MLK Living Memorial

Memorial tribute to MLK and the grassroots  Fair Housing Marches which took place in Chicago in 1966. Marquette Park, 67th and Kedzie.

MLK Living Memorial, 67th and Kedzie, Chicago IL. Carved brick monument to MLK and the Fair Housing Marches in 1966. Three carved brick stele with low relief, oval plaza and curved benches with hand carved community tiles.

MLK Living Memorial

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MLK Living Memorial, 67th and Kedzie, Chicago IL. Carved brick monument to MLK and the Fair Housing Marches in 1966. Three carved brick stele with low relief, oval plaza and curved benches with hand carved community tiles.

MLK Living Memorial

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MLK Living Memorial, carved brick detail.

MLK Living Memorial- detail

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MLK Living Memorial, carved brick detail.

MLK Living Memorial - detail

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MLK Living Memorial, 67th and Kedzie, Chicago IL. Carved brick monument to MLK and the Fair Housing Marches in 1966. Three carved brick stele with low relief, oval plaza and curved benches with hand carved community tiles.

MLK Living Memorial- Aerial view

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MLK Living Memorial, carved brick detail.

Carving the relief pattern on wet brick.

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MLK Living Memorial, carved brick detail.

Carving the relief pattern on wet brick.

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Sonja Henderson and John Pitman Weber, sculptors and designers of the MLK Living Memorial.

Sonja Henderson and John Pitman Weber

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Marching the same path of MLK and the People for the Fair Housing Marches in 1966.

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Au/Gold- The Healing Element


Topography, excavation, memory, illumination. Finding oneself through the ancient and futurist landscape of gold.

Illumination. Mixed-media gold constructions- gold leaf, found object, turquoise, gold Smalti tiles.

As Above, So Below

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As Above, So Below detail

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Illumination. Mixed-media gold constructions- gold leaf, found object, turquoise, gold Smalti tiles.

God Particle I

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Illumination. Mixed-media gold constructions- gold leaf, found object, turquoise, gold Smalti tiles.

Cundinamarca

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Illumination. Mixed-media gold constructions- gold leaf, found object, turquoise, gold Smalti tiles.

Cundinamarca detail

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Illumination. Mixed-media gold constructions- gold leaf, found object, turquoise, gold Smalti tiles.

Road Less Traveled

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Road Less Traveled detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Beach Access. Mixed-media installation examining unlawful racial restrictions to public shoreline and land. It also includes Redlining and Racial Covenants.

Right to the Shoreline- Beach Access installation

Right to the Shoreline- Beach Access installation

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Right to the Shoreline- Beach Access installation

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Beach Access installation

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Beach Access installation

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Beach Access installation

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Racial equity lens

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Policy Poems

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Policy Poems

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Racial equity lens

Beach Access- detail

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Right to the Shoreline- Integrated wall.

Beach Access- detail

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Chicago Torture Justice Memorial


CTJM concept piece. 111 cast chairs with adornment, pathways and medicinal plants. Healing labyrinth and sacred space dedicated to the Jon Burge torture Survivors. 


"Thin Blue Line- Torture Chairs" 111 watercolor and charcoal drawings.

Chicago Torture Justice Memorial is a design competition held by the City of Chicago as a part of the Reparations Act for jon burge Torture Survivors. Reparations Won!

Remembrance Chairs- CTJM (Concept)

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Chicago Torture Justice Memorial is a design competition held by the City of Chicago as a part of the Reparations Act for jon burge and police Torture Survivors. Reparations Won!

Remembrance Chairs- CTJM (Concept)

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Chicago Torture Justice Memorial is a design competition held by the City of Chicago as a part of the Reparations Act for jon burge and police Torture Survivors. Reparations Won!

CTJM- Torture Chair

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Chicago Torture Justice Memorial (CTJM) Torture Chair- Thin Blue Line, 111 chair drwaings. Charcoal, ink, lead, blue conti, gesso on paper

CTJM 111 Torture Chair drawings-detail

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Chicago Torture Justice Memorial (CTJM) Torture Chair- Thin Blue Line, 111 chair drwaings. Charcoal, ink, lead, blue conti, gesso on paper

CTJM Torture Chair #45

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CTJM- Torture Chair, collage

CTJM- Torture Chair

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CTJM- Torture Chair, collage

CTJM- Torture Chair

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First Home- Ancestral Lodge 


Ancestral Lodge is 1 of a series of  temporal structures inspired by our First Home, the womb, and our first Earthly dwellings

Ancestral Lodge- Cast latex, hair, photographs, sinew, mixed-media found objects

Ancestral Lodge

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Ancestral Lodge- Cast latex, hair, photographs, sinew, mixed-media found objects

Ancestral Lodge

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Sculpture Magazine- The "A" List- article

Sonja Henderson- Ancestral Lodge, The "A" List

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Ancestral Lodge- Cast latex, hair, photographs, sinew, mixed-media found objects

Ancestral Lodge- Cast latex detail

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Ancestral Lodge- Cast latex, hair, photographs, sinew, mixed-media found objects

Ancestral Lodge- Cast latex detail

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First Home


A series of temporal structures inspired by our first Earthly dwellings and the womb.. The temporary structure mimic vaginal canals, pods and nests.



First Home is a temporary body of work made of organic material, earth and clay. They refer to the first structures built on Earth and our First Home in the womb. After exhibition the temporal structures were moved outside to melt back into the earth.

First Home- temporal earthen structures

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First Home is a temporary body of work made of organic material, earth and clay. They refer to the first structures built on Earth and our First Home in the womb. After exhibition the temporal structures were moved outside to melt back into the earth.

First Home- temporal earthen structures

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First Home is a temporary body of work made of organic material, earth and clay. They refer to the first structures built on Earth and our First Home in the womb. After exhibition the temporal structures were moved outside to melt back into the earth.

First Home- temporal earthen structures

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