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The Art of Ceremony

Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon

By Rebecca J. Dobkins

Celebrates Indigenous renewal through ceremony, understanding the impact of the past and the possibilities for the future

The practice of ceremony offers ways to build relationships between the land and its beings, reflecting change while drawing...

Latinx Photography in the United States

A Visual History

By Elizabeth Ferrer

Shortlisted for the 2022 ASAP Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present

Showcases the exceptionally diverse photographic work of Latinx artists

Whether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley...

Alfredo Arreguin

Patterns of Dreams and Nature / Disenos, Suenos y Naturaleza

By Lauro Flores

Born in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse...

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

By Laura Kina, Jan Christian Bernabe, Susette Min, Kyoo Lee

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken...

William H. Johnson

An American Modern

By Teresa G. Gionis

"My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and...

Ruben Trejo

Beyond Boundaries, Aztlan y mas alla

By Ben Mitchell, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, John Keeble

“Multiple backgrounds can form such two- and three-dimensional ideas that they take you to the brink of lunacy, but I have used this rich background and ethnic landscape for creating art. As a student at...

Joe Feddersen

Vital Signs

By Rebecca J. Dobkins, Barbara Earl Thomas, and Gail Tremblay

Vital signs, the pulses and patterns of the body, are indicators of essential life functions. The powerful work of Joe Feddersen reveals, like vital signs themselves, the state of the human condition from the vantage...