Making in Between: Indigenous Americans Catalog

Making in Between: Indigenous Americans is the third and final exhibition in AMOCA’s “Making in Between” series, which brings together works by artists who explore identity, culture, and community. 

In 2020, Making in Between: Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics featured works by six first- and second-generation artists who shared themes of cultural heritage, identity, language, politics, migration, and displacement. In 2023, Making in Between: Queer Clay shifted the lens to consider influences on identity, centering queerness as an unapologetic presence and featuring works by historical artists whose identities have remained largely unseen alongside contemporary makers.

Making in Between: Indigenous Americans exhibits works by Mercedes Dorame, Anita Fields, Courtney M. Leonard, and Cannupa Hanska Luger, artists who embrace their heritage and explore boundary-pushing themes of identity, culture, history, and community. MIB: IA introduces a breadth of unique narratives from these trailblazing artists and complicates viewers’ expectations of what constitutes contemporary Indigenous art. 

This catalog features full color images and new essays by Kendra Greendeer, Larissa Nez, and Isabella Shey Robbins.

Making in Between: Indigenous Americans is co-curated by Beth Ann Gerstein and Pam Aliaga.

This full-color catalog and accompanying exhibition is funded, in part, by grants from the DEW Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.

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