This week we partner with the National Center for Civil and Human Rights to share the work of Indigenous Artists. Today at 12pm EST, there will be a conversation with several of the photographers featured this week. As written by our curator, Donna Garcia: “this initiative should educate the public, through lens-based art, regarding the […]
Indigenous Artists
Spirit: Focus on Indigenous Art, Artists, and Issues: Donna Garcia
“‘I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by the thousands, but the Indian removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.” Some months ago, I heard Donna Garcia discuss her project, Indian Land for Sale, as part of the Project 2020 Exhibition at the Los Angeles Center […]
Photographers on Photographers: Joe Harjo in Conversation with Mari Hernandez
I first came across Mari Hernandez’s work when she was collaborating with Mas Rudas, a collective of Chicana artists based in San Antonio, TX. What struck me about her work, then, and has stayed with me as she’s evolved into a solo artist, is her unflinching braveness and willingness to take on multiple mediums without […]