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Joelle E. Mendoza (JEM)
Joelle E. Mendoza (JEM) is an Indigenous-Chicana artist and writer based in East Los Angeles. JEM is currently an MFA student in fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She also works with clay and adobe along with contributing to local Native gardening practices and collectives.
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From the Ruins of the Past, Indigenous Artists Fashion New Futures
Future Imaginaries gathers work by a range of Native artists who are wielding fashion, technology, and sci-fi to carry ancestral knowledge forward.
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Meet the People Cultivating the Indigenous Art of Puppetry
The inaugural Indigenous Puppetry Institute saw the convening of contemporary practitioners of a form practiced for centuries.
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River Garza Shows Us What a True Land Acknowledgment Looks Like
The artist’s “landscape” paintings juxtapose imagery from Tongva culture with the architecture that was built over it, asserting an ongoing Indigenous presence.
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Nani Chacon Finds the Essence of Home
Her exhibition +Home+ is a mediation on notions of home through the lens of her ancestors, lived experience, and the legacies we leave.
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The Living Legacy of Pueblo Potter Maria Martinez
The Sunbeam Indian Arts Gallery booths at the Santa Fe Indian Market tell the story of a six-generation family of potters, guided by the inerasable legacy of their matriarch.
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An Indigenous MFA Program Moves Beyond “Mastery”
Beyond Mastery illustrates how the Institute of American Indian Arts is liberating and expanding truly beyond those expectations of Indigenous art.
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Grounded in Clay and Moved by Spirit
An exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, curated by over 60 individual members of 21 tribal communities, paves the way for equitable collaborative possibilities.
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When a Solo Exhibition Is Created by a Community
Maria Maea’s All in Time continues an intergenerational conversation and exemplifies the artist’s process, not simply the finished pieces.
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Artists Reimagine Nike’s Cortez Running Shoe
At LaPau Gallery, nine West Coast Latinx artists show the power of personal and cultural agency.