Booking and details
Plan your visitDates Fri, Jan 9, 2026 – Sun, Feb 15, 2026
Venue Stuart and Mimi Rose Rare Book and Manuscript Exhibition Hall
Tickets Free; timed-entry pass recommended
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. At the Folger, his triptych de Bry’s Slipstream engages with Theodor de Bry’s 16th-century engravings and the ethnographic writings of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Through digital interventions, Porras interrogates the visual politics of early colonial representation and reasserts Indigenous ecological and cultural knowledge systems.
About Contemporary Art at the Folger
Each year, the Folger Shakespeare Library awards fellowships to artists whose creative work is grounded in research on the stories, art, and objects in our collection. From October 2025 to April 2026, the Folger will feature boutique-style solo shows highlighting selected works by artist fellows from across the country. The series will conclude with a final exhibition at Transformer DC, in the Logan Circle neighborhood.
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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Theodor De Bry
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.
Writing Native Stories in DC
A virtual conversation around writing Native stories in DC, featuring Suzan Shown Harjo and Dr. Elizabeth Rule in conversation with Mary Phillips.
About Folger Institute
The Folger Institute is a center for early modern research at the Folger Shakespeare Library that brings public audiences together with researchers to explore the cultures and legacies of the early modern world. Learn more.