• In Town — Los Angeles and environs

Jackie Amézquita is a Los Angeles–based artist exploring ancestry, ecology, memory, and cosmology through earth-based materials. Using soil, charcoal, rainwater, masa, and limestone, she creates works examining land, material, and collective histories.

As Maker-in-Residence at Craft Contemporary, Amézquita invites visitors into her process by transforming the gallery into an active studio space. Using soil gathered from across the United States, she combines earth with masa, cacao, spring water, and copal to create pebble-like sculptures shaped by hand. The residency encourages audience participation while revealing the artist’s material process, inspired by cycles of preservation, transformation, and the rhythms of the natural world.