2009 Outdoor Sculpture winner Voices of Our Ancestors by Heidi Mullins is no longer at the Bernice Garden.

About the Artist
Heidi Mullins is an Assistant Professor of Art in Art Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is a Native American artist and scholar who has recently received a Fulbright Scholar’s Award to Iceland. Her work focuses on indigenous histories and ideas and their relationship to contemporary society. Foundational to her work is the notion of “story” where the personal, collective, and cultural converge. She received her doctorate in Art Education from University of Houston, in Houston, Texas.

Proposal for the Bernice Garden
Voices of our Ancestors is an interactive sculpture based on the story of Diodema, a Lenni Lenape (Delaware) daughter born on the Trial of Tears, a historically and culturally significant event, that has roots in Little Rock.