Booking and details
Reserve Your SpotDates Fri, Jan 9, 2026, at 6:30pm
Venue Stuart and Mimi Rose Rare Book and Manuscript Exhibition Hall
Tickets Free, registration requested
Walk-up attendees will be accommodated day of, subject to availability.
Join us for a gallery talk with Dominick Porras as part of Contemporary Art at the Folger, a rotating series that showcases the work of Folger Artist Fellows.
Dominick Porras is an Indigenous multidisciplinary artist whose practice foregrounds community-based methodologies and intertribal collaboration through lens-based media, archival investigation, and Chicano/Coahuiltecan heritage.
During the gallery talk, Porras will discuss his use of digital interventions to interrogate the visual politics of early colonial representation and reassert Indigenous ecological and cultural knowledge systems.
About the artist
Dominick Porras
Dominick Porras is an Indigenous multidisciplinary artist and academic instructor residing in California. His practice, which is grounded in lens-based media, archival investigation, and Chicano/Coahuiltecan heritage, foregrounds community-based methodologies and intertribal collaboration. Over the past two decades, Porras has been a key cultural worker and co-founder of Sol Collective, a Sacramento non-profit that merges arts, activism, and community education. His photographic and media work has played a central role in defining the organization’s visual language and public presence. Porras earned his MFA in Studio Art from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2023 and currently teaches courses in photography and New Media.
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Reporting on the New World
This engraving from a 1590 second edition of Thomas Hariot’s A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia depicts different methods of catching fish.
On View: Dominick Porras
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