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a fully funded, 5 week, ceramics intensive for queer indigenous artists, creatives, and community archivists.


 In academia, oral histories are transcribed and saved in an archive. But in our lived experiences as Native peoples, oral histories are shared when we’re peeling cacao, o desgranando maíz, or running errands with our elders. Our stories are shared among friends and family in a way that is lived, practiced, and present. Not hidden in an inaccessible academic archive.

Through this new methodology, we created artistic documentation of stories that can be passed on. A bowl of soup shares stories about queerness, gender roles, and friendship. A ceramic ofrenda shares stories of a family matriarch, grief, and breaking generational curses.  A personified sculpture of Curicaueri, the Purépecha God of Fire, shares the story of the violence and lived realities of a queer community member, and in response our collective resistance. 

A critical piece of our oral histories is interacting with each other, and the culminated exhibit invites you to interact with these stories and sow the seed to document your own stories as well.