Sandy Rodriguez (2021 Creative Capital Awardee) returns with her most ambitious installation yet. Drawing on The Huntington’s 19th-century maps and boundary surveys, she presents a monumental five-part map of the United States, a series of plant portraits, a hand-painted book, and a new landscape painting, all rendered on hand-processed amate-fiber paper. Using natural pigments from native plants and minerals, Rodriguez blends Indigenous cartographic traditions with archival research to reclaim land-based knowledge and examine border politics, ecological healing, and cultural resilience.

Sandy Rodriguez is Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Fellow (2020–21) and Hannah and Russel Kully Distinguished Fellow in the History of American Art (2025–26).