Performance in collaboration with
the Gay Rodeo, Great Plains Rodeo Association
Tierras Libres is a project that transforms geopolitical man-made symbols -as flags and monuments- into borderless objects from nature, approaching decolonial identities through the imagery of wild vegetation and trees. The performance and installation is a common flag made of local flora from Ralph’s Ranch, and carried out by a group of cowboys from the Great Plains Rodeo Association, an LGBTQ+ community of cowboys based in Oklahoma. Cowboys and horses are united by a multi-pole series of flags, created by Braceli and visitors of Oklahoma Contemporary.
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Tierras Libres. Miguel Braceli in collaboration with the Great Plains Rodeo Association.
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 2026.
Great Plains Rodeo Association
Clay Moore, Colton Edwards, Chris Sherman, Anna Sherman, and Russell Rooms.
Community Representatives
ᎤᎶᎩᎳ/Schon Duncan and Shea Vassar, Angel Little and Nicole Poole (with SPARK!), Salvador Ontiveros and Jennifer Ontiveros (with Latino Community Development Agency), Lawrence Naff, and Brandon Pascua
Acknowledgements
Trent Riley
Taylor Geldar
Christine Gibsont
Documentation
Daniel Poulain
Daniel Loveland