Events
Nurtured Flames: Curatorial Walkthrough with joel garcia
Join joel garcia for a walkthrough of Nurtured Flames: The Medicine of Fire. Through conversations around contemporary Indigenous art, cultural memory, and relationships to fire, the tour explores how artists reclaim ancestral knowledge while envisioning more resilient futures. RSVPs are appreciated.
About the Curator
joel garcia (b. 1977, Huichol; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) is an Indigenous artist, cultural organizer, educator, co-founder, and Director of Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles. In various artistic roles, he’s worked with Indigenous communities across borders to support land, access, and self-determination issues. His art (printmaking, dye making, public programming) explores healing and reconciliation, as well as memory and place, garnering national press in publications such as the LA Times, New Yorker, and Artforum, among others, for his use of art in changing policies in support of Indigenous Peoples and issues.
He’s a former Stanton Fellow, artist-in-residence and fellow at Monument Lab ('19, '22), as well as OXY ARTS.