Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue

by Ginger Dunnill, Josie Lopez

Overview

Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue celebrates ten years of Ginger Dunnill’s podcast of the same name and exalts the intersectionality of contemporary artists. Intersectionality studies the overlapping and intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, and discrimination. Here are twenty-three extraordinary artists bringing the creativity of their processes and identities to life in the Albuquerque Museum’s exhibition and in this accompanying book. Broken Boxes delves deeply into the realm of intentionality, challenging not just how artists create, but why. And Broken Boxes—the podcast, the exhibition, and the book—thrives on bringing artists together in dialogue with each other through the artist’s own words. This book provides an opportunity to introduce the larger public to artists committed to creating, sustaining, and encouraging solidarity. By opening up the conversations across communities, groups, art practices, materials, and shared space, we hope to demonstrate how artists are forging new forms of action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826366955
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	08/15/2024
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Originally from Maui, Hawai’i, New Mexico–based creative Ginger Dunnill is the founder of the Broken Boxes podcast, a decade-long celebrated underground broadcasting project amplifying systemically undervalued voices in the arts. A producer, journalist, curator, community organizer, and sound artist, Dunnill collaborates with artists globally, creating work that inspires human connection, promotes plurality, and advocates for social justice. Over the past two decades, Dunnill has produced numerous social-engagement projects, community programs, and public exhibitions globally.

Josie Lopez is the head curator and curator of art at the Albuquerque Museum. In addition to curating temporary art exhibitions, she oversees the collection and the permanent exhibition Common Ground: Art in New Mexico. Lopez completed a BA in history and a Masters in teaching at Brown University. She completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Lopez’s research and curatorial interests include examining art as a discursive agent in the political arena, the intersections of art and the environment, modern and contemporary Latin American art, and the history of Mexican and New Mexican art.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Score and a Map

• Maria Hupfield

Imagination Praxis

• Ginger Dunnill

Introduction

• Josie Lopez

The Artists
Saya Woolfalk
Raven Chacon
Sterlin Harjo
Amaryllis R. Flowers
Tsedaye Makonnen
Natalie Ball
Autumn Chacon
CASSILS
Laura Ortman
India Sky Davis
Elisa Harkins
Guadalupe Maravilla
Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon
Christine Howard Sandoval
Kate DeCiccio
Tanya Aguiñiga
Joseph M. Pierce
Mario Ybarra Jr.
Chip Thomas, aka jetsonorama
Jeremy Dennis
Marie Watt
Katherine Paul, aka Black Belt Eagle Scout
Cannupa Hanska Luger

Editorial Reviews

For a decade, Ginger Dunnill’s podcast, Broken Boxes, has functioned as a revolutionary archive, unveiling the strength of a community of artists and underscoring their substantial impact on both their local communities and the global stage.”—Marisa Sage, director of the New Mexico State University Art Museum

“Broken Boxes invites the reader on a lifelong journey of personal reflection and action. Through illuminating interdisciplinary artists’ transformational creativity, we are all implicated.”—Nancy López, coeditor of Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

“Broken Boxes invites the reader on a lifelong journey of personal reflection and action. Through illuminating interdisciplinary artists’ transformational creativity, we are all implicated.”—Nancy López, coeditor of Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

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