Installation and multi-media artist Courtney M. Leonard, Shinnecock Nation, creates delicate ceramic sculptures grounded in the forms and histories of indigenous fishing technologies. In “Intermodal,” a new installation for the Pomona College Museum of Art, Leonard explores connections to and intimate histories of the aquatic environment and contemporary global shipping industries. Leonard’s installation has as its source a traditional burden basket from the College’s permanent collection and early twentieth-century photographs of indigenous life from Southern California. With her work, these become elements in a meditation on the effects of globalization on oceans and marine life. Utilizing ceramic sculpture, video, and a site-specific painting, Leonard re-contextualizes in material forms the memories and lived experiences of communities and their relationships with water. Image: Courtney M. Leonard, Installation view of Abundance: Desert Variance, 2017, Ellsworth (Santa Fe, New Mexico)