As part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival, moCa Cleveland partners with Case Western Reserve University's Baker-Nord Humanities Center to present an artist talk with Sky Hopinka. Known for his interdisciplinary practice spanning film, photography, and text, Hopinka's work explores language, Indigenous sovereignty, landscape, and memory. His current exhibition, The Myth is Now, is at moCa through August 2, 2026.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media.