Broken Boxes

Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action and Dialogue has won the 2025 New Mexico Book Award in the Arts category! Graditide to @josiemlopez for supporting the dreams of this book (and the exhibition)! And thank you to the incredible team at @unmpress for taking on this ambitious project. Most of all thank you to all the incredible artists for doing the important work and sharing the critical knowledge contained within these pages. Of course artists front and center always all ways ✊🏽❤️ #brokenboxespodcast

Long Con: Sterlin Harjo & Cannupa Hanska Luger @cannupahanska @sterlinharjo Long Con is a series of conversations between Director Sterlin Harjo and Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger about life, art, film, history and everything in between - informally shared from the lens of two contemporary Native American artists and friends actively participating in the record of the 21st century. In this almost 3 hour long episode and the fourth conversation between Harjo and Luger on Broken Boxes, the artists speak on hunting, vulnerability, taxes, land, fatherhood, facing becoming celebrity, growing up poor, fathers and their love language, the familiarity with relatives in prison, Reservation Dogs Season 2, Sterlin’s uncle Marty’s laugh, taking the time to call your friends and check in, Film Noir, Cannupa’s hats, fashion, ghosts, the art world, normalizing therapy to control inner chaos, writing versus directing, confronting the darkness in life, alcohol consumption, the Gotham Awards, and artmaking and what part of the process brings the most joy and what is the hardest point in the creative journey. Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experience. Harjo is a founding member of the five-member Native American comedy group, The 1491s. Sterlin’s latest project Reservation Dogs, is a television show created in collaboration with Taika Waititi, now available to watch on FX. Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental and situational installations and durational performance and often initiates community participation and social collaboration. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent. Featured Song: Can’t Wait by Labrys Long Con artwork by Cannupa Hanska Luger #cannupahanskaluger #sterlinharjo #brokenboxespodcast #artpodcast

OPENING THIS SATURDAY SEPT 7 @abqmuseum !!!! Join us for an incredible opening celebration including performance by @_indiasky_ and free concert by @matowayuhi & @thetewaofficial 😱 ! Plus a special live Broken Boxes podcast conversation with many artists from the exhibition. We will see you there!!! 📣 “Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue” features large-scale installation, sculpture, video, and a robust programming line-up celebrating the work and ideas of 23 revolutionary artists of our time who have contributed to @brokenboxespodcast over the past four years. The exhibition celebrates ten years of the podcast of the same name and amplifies the collective strength of contemporary artists. Presented at @abqmuseum September 7, 2O24 – March 2, 2O25, “Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue” is curated by Ginger Dunnill @awapuhilah and Josie Lopez @josiemlopez and is accompanied by a dynamic art book published through @unmpress . “Broken Boxes”—the podcast, the exhibition, and the exhibition catalog—centers around bringing artists together in dialogue with each other. By opening up the conversations across communities, groups, art practices, materials, and shared spaces, “Broken Boxes” demonstrates how artists are forging new forms of action. Participating artists: @sayawoolfalkstudio @ravenchcn @sterlinharjo @amaryllisrflowers @tsedaye @natalie_m_ball #AutumnChacon @cassilsartist @ortwoman @_indiasky_ @elisaharkins @guadalupe__maravilla @swoonhq @chsandoval44 @k8deciccio @tanyaaguiniga @pepepierce @mario_ybarra_jr @jetsonorama @jeremynative @marie_watt_studio @blackbelteaglescout @cannupahanska Special thanks to @WarholFoundation #NationalEndowmentfortheArts @WesternStatesArtsFederation @abqmuseumfoundation @cabqculture Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at #albuquerquecommunityfoundation #AlbuquerqueMuseum #OneAlbuquerque #BrokenBoxesPodcast

END TIMES FOR BEGINNERS is an irreverently earnest manual, artist book, and treasure trove of collected knowledge gathered from the middle of apocalypse on how to survive absurd times. The book was designed, edited, riso-printed, and hand-bound by Amaryllis R. Flowers at the Shandaken Projects artist residency, with incredible contributions from: Adeeba Afshan Rana Alex Dolores Salerno Alisa Sikelianos-Carter Amaryllis R. Flowers Antoinette Chensee Azza El Siddique Cannupa Hanska Luger Chitra Ganesh Chrissandra Andra Clarity Haynes Cease Martinez Colleen Asper Crow Darling Dana Balicki Devon Walsh-Lang Dominic Chambers Felipe Baeza Ginger Dunnill India Sky J. Workman Johnathan Payne Jesse Harrod Kambui Olujimi KC Crow Maddox Kingston Farady Lucas de Lima Marcus Rodgers Phakiso Collins Queerly A. Criminal Rafa Xivosol Rose B. Simpson Sean Desiree Suguey Hernandez-Rico Theo Knox Trevon Latin Birds Nest Family A huge thank you to Nick Weist and Planet Earth for your invaluable support and expertise. See you on the other side of (this particular) apocalypse. - @amaryllisrflowers

📣 @brokenboxespodcast Final Episode 📣 A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue - Closing program with curators Ginger Dunnill @awapuhilah and Josie Lopez @josiemlopez In this episode, we present the final transmission of live recordings from the exhibition program that accompanied Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue at the Albuquerque Museum. This live conversation between exhibition co-curators Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez took place on March 2, 2025, and served as the closing event for both the exhibition and its programming. @abqmuseum Josie Lopez is an independent art historian and curator. At the time of this conversation, she was the head curator at the Albuquerque Museum. Ginger Dunnill is the creator and host of Broken Boxes podcast. Ginger is a producer, story archivist, curator, community organizer, sound artist and writer. ✍️ A note from Ginger Dunnill on the end of an era for Broken Boxes: This episode will mark the end of Broken Boxes as we’ve come to know it. This work is not finished. It’s transforming. This podcast, and the communities it has brought together, have deeply shaped my life and heart. I am forever grateful to be in conversation with so many creative thought leaders of our time. The Broken Boxes podcast will remain accessible online for as long as I’m able to maintain it. I’ll also continue producing The Long Con series with Cannupa Hanska Luger and Sterlin Harjo on its own platform—so stay tuned for more on that project’s evolution. And of course, Broken Boxes will carry on through underground music and performance events, and other small activations, both on- and offline. This work continues—it’s just taking new forms. Since beginning this podcast, I’ve had the profound privilege of being in community with some of the most visionary artists of our time. My deepest respect and love goes to every creative mind who has contributed to this project. Your ideas continue to shape how we survive as artists and use our platforms for change. To the many listeners who have grown with Broken Boxes: I’m with you. Thank you, always. Here’s to breaking boxes—and building worlds. I’ll see you in the streets!

📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce and Christine Howard Sandoval @chsandoval44 in conversation with Josie Lopez @josiemlopez This episode continues our live recordings from the exhibition program which accompanied Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue at the Albuquerque Museum. This program took place on January 16th, 2025, with exhibiting artists Joseph M. Pierce and Christine Howard Sandoval, speaking to the theme of Movement, Memory, and Land. Each artist began the conversation with remarks on their respective practices. After their introductions, the artists joined Broken Boxes exhibition co-curator Josie Lopez, and the dialogue expanded to explore deeper considerations around migration, memory, and land. Together, Joseph and Christine reflect on what it means to belong, and how their practices uncover and give voice to those stories. Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the intersections of kinship, gender, sexuality, and race in Latin America, 19th century literature and culture, queer studies, Indigenous studies, and hemispheric approaches to citizenship and belonging. Joseph is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Christine Howard Sandoval is an interdisciplinary artist and an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Praxis in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC. Howard Sandoval’s practice challenges the boundaries of representation, access, and habitation through the use of performance, video, and sculpture to make work expounding on the stories of contested places. Howard Sandoval is an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation in Bakersfield, CA. Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue was curated by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez and featured large-scale installation, sculpture, video, and a robust programming line-up celebrating the work and ideas of 23 artists who have contributed to Dunnill’s Broken Boxes podcast. The exhibition celebrates ten years of the podcast of the same name and amplifies the collective strength of contemporary artists. #brokenboxespodcast

@brokenboxespodcast Live @_desertx : Cannupa Hanska Luger (@cannupahanska ) and Gerald Clarke (@geraldclarkeart ) in conversation with Desert X Co-curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas (@_k__g__m__ ) This live conversation features artists Gerald Clarke and Cannupa Hanska Luger and Desert X Co-curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas and took place March 29, 2025 at the Thompson Hotel in Palm Springs, CA as a part of the Desert X 2025 program. Gerald Clarke is a visual artist, educator, tribal leader, and cultural practitioner whose family has lived in the Anza Valley for time immemorial. Gerald was a featured artist in Desert X 2023 and presented “Immersion”, a monumental artwork based on Cahuilla basket weaving knowledge while also embedding a game-like quality to the installation in order to educate our current generations on Indigenous knowledge and language of the region. Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multi-disciplinary artist and recurring host for Broken Boxes Podcast. Cannupa is featured in Desert X 2025, presenting a multi-pronged project titled G.H.O.S.T. Ride (Generative Habitation Operating System Technology), an evolving speculative fiction project which includes a mobile art installation, a poetic billboard triptic, and a new short film building upon ideas from his Future Ancestral Technologies series. This lively discussion between these two Indigenous artists unfolds reflections around land ownership, maintenance of culture and respect for place. Both Gerald and Cannupa have exhibited for Desert X, yet each chose different paths towards sharing their Indigenous views through their projects. Desert X Co-Curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas thoughtfully guides the conversation into deep considerations around what it means to create public art in an accessible way, where the audience is left to interpret the artist’s ideas on their own terms and in their own time. As Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield notes in the introduction to this conversation, “ Desert X operates on the legacy of Land Art, and one of the questions that legacy leaves unanswered is—‘whose land is it and what are our responsibilities to it?’. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

📣 @brokenboxespodcast Long Con Live with @sterlinharjo and @cannupahanska This special live program took place on November 2, 2024 and featured a screening of Sterlin Harjo’s documentary Love & Fury, a film where Sterlin follows Native artists for a year as they navigated their careers in the US and abroad. Love & Fury explores the immense complexities each artist faces in regards to their own identity as Native artists, as well as pushing Native art further into a post-colonial world. Following the film screening, the program included a live Long Con series episode with Sterlin Harjo and artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. This is the first time Long Con was presented in front of a live audience, and the conversation was anchored in themes drawn from the film, Love & Fury, and in the spirit of Long Con, Sterlin and Cannupa also shared vulnerable and hilarious reflections of their life as two friends sharing what it feels like to be contemporary Native American artists actively participating in the record of the 21st century. If you haven’t watched Love & Fury, do that now! Listen to Broken Boxes wherever you get your podcasts! This episode continues our series of live recordings from the exhibition program which accompanied Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue @abqmuseum Sterlin Harjo is an award winning Seminole/Muscogee Creek filmmaker who has directed three feature films and a feature documentary all of which address the contemporary Native American lived experience. Harjo is a founding member of the five-member Native American comedy group, The 1491s. Sterlin’s latest project Reservation Dogs, is a television show created in collaboration with Taika Waititi, now available to watch on FX. Cannupa Hanska Luger is an award winning multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental and situational installations and durational performance and often initiates community participation and social collaboration. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota. #brokenboxespodcast #sterlinharjo #cannupahanskaluger

📣 NEW EPISODE! Listen now to an inspiring conversation with members of the @planting.justice project! This episode continues our series of live recordings from the @brokenboxespodcast program which accompanied the exhibition, Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue. Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue co-curator @josiemlopez introduces this conversation with members from the Oakland, CA based project Planting Justice. This panel conversation took place live on October 17 2024 at the Albuquerque Museum @abqmuseum NM. Broken Boxes founder and exhibition co-curator Ginger Dunnill @awapuhilah joins Josie Lopez in conversation with artist Kate DeCiccio @k8deciccio and Planting Justice members Covonne Page @parkfamilybullies and Sol Mercado @solmercado.2020 . This conversation touches on the important work taking place at Planting Justice with formerly incarcerated community members and shares how the act of gardening is a form of justice and healing. The conversation covers community advocacy, social justice, and long-term actionable care. “Our purpose is to empower people impacted by mass incarceration and social inequities with the skills and resources to cultivate food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing. We are working toward economic and environmental justice by building a network of sustainable land–based social enterprises. We counter systemic oppression, violence, and inequity by creating good jobs with nature-based work, a healing environment with holistic community support, and real opportunities for personal growth.” - Planting Justice Listen to Broken Boxes Podcast now wherever you get your content ✊🏽 Shout out to artist Chip Thomas and his work with the Painted Desert Project. Chip was slated to be a part of this panel conversation but was not able to make it in person. Image: Planting Justice workshop. Photograph by Kate DeCiccio #plantingjustice #brokenboxespodcast

📣Broken Boxes is pleased to present the audio from a very special site specific experimental music performance by award-winning artists and longtime collaborators Raven Chacon and Laura Ortman. @ravenchcn @ortwoman This episode continues our series of live recordings from the exhibition program which accompanied Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue. The performance was held on the occasion of the exhibition Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue at the Albuquerque Museum. Curated by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez, the exhibition featured large-scale installation, sculpture, video, and a robust program celebrating the work and ideas of 23 artists who have contributed to the Broken Boxes podcast over the past 4 years. @abqmuseum Available to listen now @brokenboxespodcast wherever you get your podcasts ✊🏽 RAVEN CHACON, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, is known for his solo and collaborative works in contemporary art and music. His compositions range from highly experimental sound art to chamber music. His works have been featured at major museums and venues including the Whitney Biennial and documenta 14. Chacon has mentored over 300 Native American high school composers since 2004. LAURA ORTMAN, a member of the White Mountain Apache tribe, is a musician and composer whose work spans albums, performances, and multimedia. As a soloist, Ortman performs on amplified violin, vocals, piano, electric guitar, and keyboard. She has performed at prominent venues like MoMA and the Whitney Museum and received the United States Artists Fellowship in 2022. #brokenboxespodcast #ravenchacon #lauraortman #albuquerquemuseum

Join us this Sunday, March 2, 2pm @abqmuseum for a our closing program featuring a conversation between Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue curators Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez. @awapuhilah @josiemlopez We look forward to closing this celebrated exhibition with a thoughtful dialogue around the themes, artworks, and community that generated the exhibition, as well as the decade-long archive that is the Broken Boxes podcast. 🎤 Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue, curated by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez, features large-scale installation, sculpture, video, and a robust programming line-up celebrating the work and ideas of 23 artists who have contributed to Dunnill’s Broken Boxes podcast. The exhibition celebrates ten years of the podcast of the same name and amplifies the collective strength of contemporary artists. 📸 Image features artist @mario_ybarra_jr with curators Ginger Dunnill and Joise Lopez @abqmuseum

Last weekend to see Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue at the Albuquerque Museum. This show is so special, go see it one more time if you can! Sunday, March 2nd at 2pm curators @awapuhilah and @josiemlopez will give a closing talk @abqmuseum - stop by if you can for one last visit! ⚔️📦💥❤️‍🔥🎇 BROKEN BOXES: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue, curated by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez, features large-scale installation, sculpture, video, and a robust programming line-up celebrating the work and ideas of 23 artists who have contributed to Dunnill’s Broken Boxes podcast. The exhibition celebrates ten years of the podcast of the same name and amplifies the collective strength of contemporary artists. Image is an installation view Original Fragment of the Lost Girls Treasure Map at the Albuquerque Museum. In crystalized surfaces and pink and purple hues a land is laid out in cartoon cartography. The map holds keys to the following places: THE ASTRAL PLANE THE BONE YARD MEMORY PALACES OF FORGOTTEN SHMEMORIES TRAGIC FACTORY THE UNDERWORLD SHADOWLANDS TRIPLE DOG DARES NIGHTMARE ALLEY UNCHARTED WATERS BITCHES GET MONEY 7 RUNGS OF (INNER) HELL RAINBOW RANGES OF PLEASURE PRINCESS PORTAL (dirty girls only) NO MANS LAND GOOD GIRL SWAMPS THE (de) BASEMENT BEHAVIOR ISLANDS FOUNTAIN OF PROOF INNER SPACE OUTTER SPACE LIMINAL SPACE EXPERIMENTS IN RESSURECTION CANDY CAVES CRYSTAL COVES FORBIDDEN WINDS OF DESIRE Near this artwork in the exhibition image largescale paintings by @cannupahanska are visible. #amaryllisrflowers #brokenboxespodcast