Is home necessarily tied to a physical place or is it an overall feeling of having arrived? What does it mean, and what does it take, to belong to a place? What are the rights and responsibilities that come with being part of a community? How can we create spaces where all of us feel valued? These are some of the questions that artist Cecilia Cornejo explores with her ongoing multimedia project, The Wandering House, that she is bringing to Red Wing October 3 -31!

Based in Northfield and originally from Chile, Cecilia is a documentary filmmaker, artist, and educator engaging rural communities in southern Minnesota in a multilayered exploration of home. As an artist-in-residence at the Anderson Center during the month of October 2022, Cecilia is utilizing The Wandering House, an ice-fishing house retrofitted as a mobile audio-recording studio, to offer an opportunity for Red Wing residents and visitors to speak candidly and privately about their understanding of home, along with their vision of and for their respective towns.

Cecilia’s work is known for placing community members at the center of the creative process, engaging them as active participants, co-creators of meaning, and architects of their representation. Cecilia, along with a group of volunteers, will be collecting stories and testimonies related to “home” at various locations around Red Wing. The Anderson Center invites you to contribute your testimony to this growing archive, or to simply stop by and find out more about the project and its next steps.

Since launching the project in 2019 with the communities of Northfield and Lanesboro in southeastern Minnesota, Cecilia has developed a multi-media body of work that is fostering dialogue across language, class and culture. Listen, learn and explore via The Wandering House website.