she asked me to be her keeper - Megan Driving Hawk
she asked me to be her keeper
Megan Driving Hawk
At the Summer Solstice,
the morning sun is quiet,
but behind spotty clouds
she becomes quieter.
The light is on fire.
She asked me to be her keeper.
I performed the fire ceremony.
If I hadn’t been standing
in that moment,
in that light,
I wouldn’t have known.
What a gift.
The stillness of nature is medicine.
The trees are dying, and my heart is exploding.
I have decided to stop thinking that I feel too much.
Megan Driving Hawk (BFA, MFA, MEd, NBCT) is an artist/mother/educator using habits of the heart to facilitate connection, healing, and learning through photography, poetry, & traditional needlework. Creatively she researches collective healing, memory, and time. Academically she researches culturally responsive fine arts education.
She has spent over 10 years in the classroom creating and teaching culturally responsive art education curriculum. Her artwork has been reviewed, collected, and exhibited throughout the present-day U.S. and internationally. She has been invited as guest lecturer, workshop facilitator, and panelist for events at the national, state, & local level. She has been selected as a 2023 artist-in-residence at the Tempe Center for the Arts, 2023 Arizona Art Educator of the Year, and 2025 ED&I Agent of Change. Currently she is the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Rep for the Arizona Art Education Association, a Running with Purpose Artist/Athlete Advocate, and member of Kinship Photography Collective.
Driving Hawk currently lives in the Sonoran Desert on O’odham, Yavapai, Akimel O’odham (Upper Pima) and Hohokam lands (Phoenix, Arizona). She is of Celtic ancestry and a wife & mother of two in a Lakȟóta Thiwáhe. Her life is a residency in Matrescence & outdoor learning through Indigenous ways of knowing.
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