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 ongoing exhibition blends Indigenous ecological knowledge with contemporary art, exploring California’s environment through four themes: salmon, fire, desert, and waterways.
