Indigenous L.A.: Thriving and Vibrant

The Watts Towers Tour Guide Program offers visitors a unique andin-depth look at one of Los Angeles' most iconic landmarks.

Experience the interior of Hollyhock House at your own pace with a self-guided tour. Docents are on hand to provide information and answer questions.

Enrique Martínez Celaya’s There-bound mural welcomes guests to The Huntington’s Borderlands installation. Exploring identity, space, and migration, the artist paints on the glass façade to bridge interior and exterior experience through Latinx perspectives.

siapo—indigenous Samoan barkcloth abstraction—and solo—poetry in the Samoan genre and worldview, here composed in English—by Fa’afafine, non-binary Samoan artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin. Printed on cloth with ink painting, these works embody the fa’asamoa understanding that the body itself is an archive, carrying ancestral and personal memory through the mana of social and environmental relationships.

This exhibition examines incarceration across the western United States, including Native and Indigenous experiences, policing, resistance, and carceral systems from the 1800s through the present.