Medicine Wheel

Medicine Wheel Productions is dedicated to the production of site-specific public art installations, both intimate and large-scaled, that invite people to use art to gain awareness of self, community, and the human condition. The Medicine Wheel model uses the medicine wheel as a metaphor: just as every spoke is essential to the wheel, every member of the youth program is essential to the group, offering something unique and essential to the success of the artwork. Collaborative art forms such as dance or landscape art provide rich opportunities to mentor the youth in putting the Medicine Wheel model into practice. The public art projects challenge the community to appreciate these young people as resources, leaders in creating evocative public art. This model has been very successful in transforming the lives of proven-risk youth for the past decade.

Visit the Medicine Wheel Productions Web site

Watch video of a Medicine Wheel installation at the Boston Center for the Arts


Media Coverage
'Luminaria' Raises Internal and Communal Awareness on World AIDS Day
By Brandon Simes, South End News
December 2, 2009

By the Hands of Many, a Park is Born
Boston Globe
September 14, 2009

Water Bearers
Visual Dialogues, Clark University
March 2007