"Tuba City Spaceport," Ryan Singer, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40". Image courtesy of CBC Radio. An adobe building stands out in the middle of the landscape with a sign proclaiming it to be the Tuba City Trading Post in Arizona. People bring their wagons with goods to trade or buy and tie their animals up outside the store. Light, fluffy clouds sweep across the bright blue sky as the sun beats down upon the red clay earth of the American Southwest. But this is not the lan

In Revolt 1680/2180: Runners + Gliders, Virgil Ortiz continues telling his stunning, multi-year futurist narrative that builds on Native American history, time travel, and the power of resilience. Not many students learn about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 in their grade school classes but in Ortiz’s words, it’s the first American Revolution. The Spanish began to colonize Mexico in the 1500s and steadily made their way up to present-day Southwest America. In 1680, led by powerful