Joel Garcia
Joel Garcia (Huichol) is an Indigenous artist, cultural organizer, educator, co-founder, and Director of Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering Indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles. In various artistic roles, he’s worked with Indigenous communities across borders to support land, access, and self-determination issues. His art (printmaking, dye making, public programming) explores healing and reconciliation, as well as memory and place, garnering national press in publications such as the LA Times, New Yorker, and Artforum, among others, for his use of art in changing policies in support of Indigenous Peoples and issues.
He’s a current Stanton Fellow and formerly an artist-in-residence and fellow at Monument Lab ('19, and '22), and co-facilitator of the Intercultural Leadership Institute ('21-'23), which proposes to hold space for cultural production outside of white supremacist frameworks, OXY ARTS, and other acclaimed projects.