Social Issues Archives — Colossal

a detail image of a colorful mural divided into eight parts depicting women in various professions

A New Documentary Traces How a Faith Ringgold Mural at Rikers Island Helped Women Break Free

February 13, 2025

a still from the short documentary film 'I Am the Nature' featuring an Indigenous Achuar woman with traditional face paint and textile headband, with the subtitle text reading "We are in the place that we have to be"

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, ‘I Am the Nature’ Celebrates Indigenous Cultural Philosophy

February 12, 2025

Green-tinted woven wood covers the corners and leads to the middle where a woman in an orange cloak made from various wooden objects such as a wagon wheel holds a candle and looks to her right at a man entering into the room from a door. The man is wearing a blue cloak and is also comprised of wooden objects. In his right hand, he holds a white flower. Behind them, a clock hangs on the wall, and in the left corner, a blackbird perches on a chair.

From Remedios Varo to Laurie Simmons, a New Exhibition Forwards a Feminist View of the Uncanny

February 4, 2025

a vertical painting of a female figure seated centrally in the composition, looking to her right and observing a lily within a natural landscape

Elemental Shifts and Enigmatic Narratives Anchor Rupy C. Tut’s Mystical Paintings

February 3, 2025

a bead-and sequin-embellished fabric artwork of a lively scene of numerous people dancing and gathering around a fire in a "Caiman Wood Ceremony"

Embellished Vodou Flags by Myrlande Constant Spotlight ‘The Spiritual World of Haiti’

January 28, 2025

a ceramic sculpture of a tv dinner platter rotating inside of a lit microwave. three boxes of tv dinners sit above the microwave, including Stouffer's, Kid Cuisine, and Hungry-Man.

Through Ceramics, Stephanie Shih Considers the Disillusioning Price of Domestic Bliss

January 27, 2025

a detail of a long, rusted, pipe-like sculpture with cross-stitched flowers along the surface

Flowers and Butterflies Stitch Messages of Hope into Crumpled Metal and Corroded Barrels

January 24, 2025

a sculptural relief artwork resembling the textures and colors of a building's end wall where another structure was removed, leaving outlines of the floors and paint on the walls

Asya Marakulina Sculpts Poignant Ceramic Portraits of Demolished Homes

January 22, 2025

an installation view of a maximalist exhibition by artist Lauren Halsey, featuring numerous collaged photographs, reflective surfaces, Black figures, patterns, and prismatic colors

Lauren Halsey’s ’emajendat’ Is an Energetic Celebration of South Central Los Angeles

January 14, 2025

a quilted figurative portrait of a group of Black women lounging in the sun on a sandy riverbank

In Paintings and Quilts, Stephen Towns Spotlights Black Leisure in the Jim Crow South

January 2, 2025

a detail of an installation of various handmade fur and seal skin mittens illuminated in a gallery

Sonya Kelliher-Combs Merges Collective Knowledge and Native Alaskan Heritage in Mixed Media

December 26, 2024

a large-scale installation in the desert resembling the Hollywood sign that reads "INDIAN LAND"

Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Memory

December 24, 2024