The Wandering House

10/10/2025

Time for my dear project, The Wandering House, to hibernate ✨
🌿🍂🌦 So glad the physical structure will be tucked away in my backyard, where I plan to use it as a writing and envisioning space. I look forward to whatever might emerge from this quiet, blissful time 🧵🎬🪡🦄

Heartfelt thanks to everyone and anyone who participated and supported the project this summer/fall, including my wonderful assistants, Adiana Contreras and Leo Hu, Carleton College's DIEC, and to my neighbor, a real Superman, also known as Scott Swanson, who transported the house in its multiple wanderings in and around Northfield.

10/03/2025

🎤🎧🎤 TOMORROW! Saturday 10/04 The Wandering House will be at Riverwalk Market Fair one last time.

Stop by to listen, record, or both!

🔥🙏🍁 Heartfelt thanks to my rock star assistants, Leo and and to Carleton College Division of Inclusion, Equity, and Community for their support 🙏🎉🙏

09/15/2025

Many thanks to everyone who came by this past Saturday and spent time with us. It was BUSY!!!! So much so that we forgot to take pics 🥹 So, here are a few of the house just after arriving to Central Park and ONE with my stellar assistants, Cinema and Media Studies majors at Carleton College, Leo and Adiana. I'm also sharing a few of the notes of appreciation that people wrote for us/the project.

We'll be at Riverwalk Market Fair this coming Saturday, this time set up as a RECORDING STATION, so please stop by!

My deep gratitude to the Carleton Division of Inclusion, Equity and Community for their support 🙏

09/12/2025

Dear folks in and around Northfield,

The Wandering House will be part of the Hispanic Heritage Celebration this SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, at Central Park. We'll be there from 11am until 2pm, sharing the Sonic Archive but also recording testimonials from community members. Like a modern-day confessional, The Wandering House offers an intimate and welcoming space for people to share their thoughts on home and reflect on the ways we build community, solidarity, and belonging.

If you cannot make it on the 13th, we'll be back at Riverwalk Market Fair the following Saturday, September 20, from 9am until 1pm.

We are deeply grateful to the Division of Inclusion, Equity, and Community at Carleton College for supporting this endeavor and the many people who come by and share their time and experiences with us.

We hope to see many of you!

08/25/2025

Thank you to everyone who wandered by us last Saturday at Riverwalk Market Fair! We are delighted with the questions we were asked, the visitors who came into The Wandering House to listen to the Sonic Archive, and the thoughtful comments people left. As one comment we received put it: “Listening to these testimonials took me to a place of wonder & beauty that brought tears to my eyes. This is the project that we didn’t know we needed.”

We will be back at Riverwalk on Saturday 8/30, so stop by if you haven’t yet!

With deep gratitude to the Center for Community and Civic Engagement and the Division of Inclusion, Equity and Community at Carleton College for their support.

08/23/2025

We’re at Riverwalk in downtown Northfield today until 1pm! Vengan a vernos and listen to testimonials about Home and what it means to belong to a place. With Palestine in my heart 🍉

08/19/2025

Excited to be back at Riverwalk Market Fair this coming Saturday, August 23, in downtown Northfield! Come explore the Sonic Archive and draw inspiration from a constellation of ambient sounds and testimonials shared by community members.

With deep gratitude to Carleton's Division of Inclusion, Equity and Community for supporting this project.

08/13/2025

After some much needed cleaning and painting, The Wandering House is several steps closer to welcoming the community into the revamped listening space—come find us at Riverwalk Market Fair on Saturdays, August 23rd and 30th!

So grateful to be working with Adiana Contreras, a Cinema and Media Studies major at Carleton College who is also my Public Scholarship Assistant for the summer. Deep thanks to the Center for Community and Civic Engagement at Carleton for making this partnership possible and to Jay Beck for offering a helping hand!

07/30/2025

After a very long time away from public view, sifting through many hours of audio testimonials, The Wandering House is back in Northfield!

Set up this time as a LISTENING SPACE, the house will offer community members the opportunity to enjoy a constellation of testimonials gathered in Northfield, Lanesboro, and Red Wing since the project was launched in 2019. This SONIC ARCHIVE is the result of a long-time collaboration with Kakare Interactive and made possible by the generosity of hundreds of project participants, multiple community organizations, audio editors, translators, and project supporters.

Come find us at Riverwalk Market Fair on Saturdays August 9, 21, and 30th and at Spring Wind Farm on dates soon to be announced.

04/25/2025

Very grateful to Andrea Duarte-Alonso for featuring my work for Project Optimist.

Cecilia Cornejo Sotelo’s films became community-focused after she moved to Minnesota. Since then, her projects have taken on new forms, such as storytelling and embroidery.

09/13/2024

My gratitude to Sahan Journal for highlighting "Latina and Latinx MN: Re/claiming Space in Times of Change." Curated by the indefatigable Zamara Cuyún and William Gustavo Franklin Torres,
the show features work by 42 self-identifying Latina women and non-binary Latinx Minnesota-based artists with ancestral roots in Latin America. The show is up until December 8 at the The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery which is located in 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul.

https://sahanjournal.com/culture-community/free-things-to-do-st-paul-thai-festival-mexican-independence-day/