Can We Find Our Way to Indigenous Joy?

As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Brian Johnson explores the decolonial practices of Indigenous and Native American poster designers.

Required Reading

This week, the boundless creativity of Audrey Flack, filmmakers memorialize the Haitian Revolution, medieval women’s embroidery, talking dogs, and more.

How Can a Poster Sing?

Learning the notes, melodies, and messages of posters by Indigenous designers will only strengthen our communities and add such needed songs back into humanity.

A Galician Artist’s Return Home

Vicente Blanco’s quietly complex drawings depict disorienting, spellbinding scenes in which things are rarely what they initially seem.

Summer Wheat’s Communal Eden

Rather than embrace individualistic “hustle culture,” the women in her paintings work communally and find time to rest.

Remembering Cecilia Gentili’s Singular Artistry

The late activist’s art transformed religious symbolism used to denigrate and debase, forging a path in the world for the undocumented community, sex workers, and transgender people.