Artist: Sandra Wasko-Flood

#14 on the Tour Map, located at 26 Bonita Lane

Sandra Wasko-Flood, is an artist, teacher, poet, and founder of Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc. In 1943, she was born in Flushing, Long Island, New York City, to a meteorologist, scientist, and, an elementary school teacher mother. When she was three years old, and her sister was three months old, her meteorologist father, Peter E. Wasko, got a job weather forecasting for Pam Am in Lisbon, Portugal. After three years, when her family returned to the U.S., her dad moved every two years across the U.S. always looking for a better job. Sandra went to Hinsdale Township High School, near Chicago, and took advanced English classes.

She received a B.A. in English from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1965. In 1998, she became a founding member of the International Labyrinth Society, and directed its first project, a demonstration for inner peace on the east lawn of the U.S. Capitol in 2000. She created many programs in the D.C. area, and in New Mexico, and in some other states. The students walked labyrinths for peace, and made peace wishes for themselves, friends, communities, and the world.

In 2022, Sandra received the Paul Re Peace Prize. Let us Live Labyrinths for Peace!

Directions: Leaving #13 go back to Mountain View Blvd. and turn right on Hwy 64. Turn left at the road to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Continue past the Memorial. (paved road turns into a dirt road) Continue on dirt road, Laguna St. Do not take the Laguna which goes off to the right but continue around as it turns past the garbage dump. Turn left on Pino Street at the dead end, then right onto Bonito Lane. Sandra’s house is the octagon glass house on the left side