After calling off her wedding, Aya leaves Ivory Coast for Guangzhou’s vibrant “Chocolate City,” where African and Chinese cultures meet, and begins working in a tea shop run by Cai.
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.
A highlight of recent additions to the permanent collection through new mixed-media works by Sandra Rowe. The work provides insight into the artist’s evolving practice and regional significance. Visitors encounter themes of abstraction, memory, and experimentation.
