Through his work across many media, Houston and Los Angeles-based artist Vincent Valdez bears witness to the world around him, chronicling an America at the margins. Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… features work from over twenty years and writings addressing Valdez’s work through the lens of politics, history and humanity. Valdez’s approach to imaging his country, its people, politics, pride, and foibles includes boxing, lynchings of Mexican Americans, border walls, politics, greed, the Ku Klux Klan, and the failings and triumphs of American society.

Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean, edited by Cassandra Coblentz, brings together diverse writers, scientists, artists, activists, and thinkers to investigate social and environmental issues throughout the entirety of the Pacific Ocean. The authors and contributors are leading figures in the field of Blue Humanities—an emergent discipline ranging from historical to visual to cultural and literary studies on oceans. Transformative Currents addresses an important gap in art historical literature by not only addressing the complexities of this crucial subject matter, but also offering a platform for Indigenous writers and artists’ voices to be considered in dialogue with their Western colleagues.

We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro is a publication that directs dialogue and points of exchange among art, science, and environmental justice in the Americas. The project stems from the work of Los Angeles-based Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo, whose art and activism engage with issues related to water rights, land stewardship, food sovereignty, and just energy transition. This expansive publication features diverse artworks by Caycedo and collaborators from across the Western Hemisphere. It also highlights the research and ecological and social transition practices of more than 20 affiliated environmental organizations and social movements through poems, essays, and writing.

Everything Belongs to the Cosmos is a publication that captures six painted works from 2024 by Los Angeles– and Berlin–based painter Alexandra Grant, based on texts by Polish writers and poets Anna Adamowicz, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Julia Fiedorczuk, Bianka Rolando, Olga Tokarczuk, and Urszula Zajączkowska. The six participating writers and poets were commissioned by Grant for this body of work in 2021 and early 2022 with the assistance of poetry editor Marcin Orliński and translated from Polish into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The publication, in a folder emblazoned with Grant's neon sculpture soc som (2024), features six fold-out posters of Grant's painted works and an accompanying booklet of the poems or texts of each author, with an introduction by Orliński in Polish and English.