Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue

Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue celebrates ten years of Ginger Dunnill’s podcast of the same name and exalts the intersectionality of contemporary artists. Intersectionality studies the overlapping and intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, and discrimination. Here are twenty-three extraordinary artists bringing the creativity of their processes and identities to life in the Albuquerque Museum’s exhibition and in this accompanying book. Broken Boxes delves deeply into the realm of intentionality, challenging not just how artists create, but why. And Broken Boxes—the podcast, the exhibition, and the book—thrives on bringing artists together in dialogue with each other through the artist’s own words. This book provides an opportunity to introduce the larger public to artists committed to creating, sustaining, and encouraging solidarity. By opening up the conversations across communities, groups, art practices, materials, and shared space, we hope to demonstrate how artists are forging new forms of action.

Originally from Maui, Hawai’i, New Mexico–based creative Ginger Dunnill is the founder of the Broken Boxes podcast, a decade-long celebrated underground broadcasting project amplifying systemically undervalued voices in the arts. A producer, journalist, curator, community organizer, and sound artist, Dunnill collaborates with artists globally, creating work that inspires human connection, promotes plurality, and advocates for social justice. Over the past two decades, Dunnill has produced numerous social-engagement projects, community programs, and public exhibitions globally.

Josie Lopez is an independent art historian and curator. She has published widely and curated numerous exhibitions on art and activism, photography, printmaking, New Mexican art, and Chicana/o art. Lopez was a contributor to the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition catalog Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map. She is the coauthor and cocurator of Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue. Lopez has served as the head curator at the Albuquerque Museum and has organized numerous exhibitions and catalogs including Danny Lyon: Journey West, The Printer’s Proof,The Carved Line: History of Block Printmaking in New Mexico, and many more.