BERKELEY — Multimedia artist LoWell Waters Brook will unveil two statues at her North Berkeley hills home on Father’s Day as a reminder to the community that they stand on Ohlone ground, her publicist said in an announcement.
The Standing Rock bronze sculptures will be unveiled from 4 to 5:30 p.m. June 18. The public is welcome. To find out the exact location, email lowellbecomingfree@gmail.com.
Some leaders of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and its planned routing under the Missouri River will attend the unveiling and will provide an update on their actions, project manager Teresa Ruelas said, adding that Brook is known as “a protector of water.”
As the occupation of Standing Rock was building, Brook, who also is a Unitarian Universalist minister, guided the transformation of eight-inch clay figures she had modeled 15 years earlier into the six-foot bronze sculptures she eventually named Standing Rock in honor of the water protectors, Ruelas said.
“How we relate to each other and all of the earth and at this moment — especially the decisions that we make about protecting the water — is in consideration for our children and our grandchildren and our great grandchildren and our great great grandchildren and all the generations to come,” Brook said in the release.
