The Fantastic Celebration of Something Shared

by Danielle Peterson
18″ x 24″ – three-color screen print

I dove into the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Collection of Historic Images and became completely enamored with the photos from the late 1800s and early 1900s.

When I spend time in our parks, I think of the generations of people before us that have laughed, cried, told secrets, danced, played and spent time on these same lands.

I used historic images and illustrated on top of them the magic of the normal days lived generations ago. I also want to acknowledge that Minneapolis is on the sacred land of the Dakhóta Oyáte (Dakota People) and that the Anishinaaben (Ojibwe) and other indigenous peoples also shared and stewarded this land. Minnesota comes from the Dakota name for the area, Mni Sota Makoce — “the land where the waters reflect the skies.”