lucky dougie padilla

thanks be (in no particular order):

susan jacobsen, xavier tavera and grupo soap del corazon, w.c. wormley and acme visual arts, karen mary davalos and the department of chicano and latino studios at the unniversity of minnesota, neal cuthbert, george roberts and homewood studios gallery, tina tavera and serpentina, ted king, josh blanc and clay squared to infinity, the northeast minneapolis arts district, artorg, art-a-whirl and nemaa, the jerome foundation, the minnesota state arts board, stewart turnquist and minnesota artists’ exhibition program,andy maus and the plains musuem, armando guttierez and crearte, chicano latino cultural center and museum, john hock and ne sculpture factory and gallery, california buidling gallery, tag gallery, medtronic gallery, the village of caurio de guadalupe, mexico, the quarter gallery, univeristy of minnesota, franconia sculpture park, franconia in the cities gallery, lyndel king and the weisman museum, modus locus gallery, zeitgeist center for arts and community, laura joseph and the minnesota museum of american art, jim denomie and diane wilson, CLUES, bob roberts, luna brava press, minneapolis city pages (artist of the year 2000), len peterson, minnetonka center for the arts, art jones gallery, dave felker and the international gallery of american art, hair police gallery, musee’ halle st. pierre, gallery co, robert bly, craig ungerman, james hillman and all the men of the minnesota men’s retreats, erika rasmussen and the gordon parks gallery at metro state university, matchbox gallery, salon artisimo, jerry gerasimo, ronnie nelson, echo bodine, stephen gasking, michael macmacha, aldo moroni, gus gustafson, malidoma some’, martin’ prechtal, dainin katagir roshi, mark wojahn and casket cinema, felicia gliden and projekt traum, nick harper and rogue buddha gallery, karna marks and immanuel lutheran church, artreach stillwater, wing young huie and third place gallery, jan and dave and 801 gallery, alex and the 404 gallery, the flyway film festival, the national mexican museum of american art, alan and abode gallery, center for the book arts, scott and eat my words books, millcity coffee gallery, intermedia arts, billy franklin and concordia college gallery, david sheridan and the breakwater, mojo gallery, electric machete studios/gallery, forecast public art, mn original and tpt, francois medion, swami venketesananda, swami vishnudevananda, dick and al, the american swedish institute, john and instinct gallery, jessen and ruff love gallery, erin and joyce bi-lingual preschool, ridgewater college, bhagwan shree rajneesh, st olaf college, cyndi randall and birdxbird, placement gallery, northrup king gallery, the soap factory, mcc gallery, bumpy dave monson and the tyler street gallery, mira gallery at el colegio, the outsider art center, n4th gallery, segura arts and the univeristy of notre dame, mark wooley gallery, marcela and mark and instituto chileno norteamericano de cultura and instituto culturo valparaiso, artrujillo studio gallery, harmony gallery, satsang thursday nights, frontera tarot, yuri and outsiders and others gallery, festival d’art singulaire, soo visual arts, paris northeast, olga viso and walker art center, rochester art center, catherine jordan and the blacklock nature sanctuary, gloria dei lutheran church, paul dickenson and speedboat gallery, access gallery, gallery schmallery, galleria san angel, gallery 360, the phipps center for the arts, cesar chavez high school, gateway sculpture park, the blake school, deborah ramos and zenteotl, bamgoo mountain eating and drinking association, consolidated container, the new french bar gallery, gallery west, babylon galley, l.a.g. (latino artists’ group). the clown lounge, resource center for the americas gallery, c.a.t. gallery, stuart devaan and savage aural hotbed (savage hotcakes), icebox gallery, d.i.f.a. art auction, aoso artists’ co-op, no name gallery, st. mark’s cathedral, inner space gallery, (famine) chorus gallery, the rajneesh ashram in pune, the sivananda ashram in val morin, 7th street entry/first avenue, minneapolis college of art and design, the california street building, the s&m tire building, ancient traders building, the 800 north washington building, the casket arts building, the village of pepin wisconsin, the people of northeast minneapolis, the farm, mill city co-op, the minnesota zen center and people’s bakery.

and, of course, donald gabino padilla and dagny may stenehjem padilla and their families, hannah padilla barajas and family, eli padilla and family. god bless.