Histories are contained within objects. The artists presented at Studio at Ruby City each explore and acknowledge various material, social and political histories through the use of found or discarded objects, personal items and organic materials. In so doing, they establish new parameters for understanding history, ourselves and each other. Sculptural works by Melvin Edwards, Ann Johnson and Sondra Perry probe the American history of chattel slavery and Jamal Cyrus explores the triangular, transatlantic trade of arms, goods and human cargo. Ariel René Jackson’s site-specific installation examines the history of racial segregation of schools and a suspended installation by Mich Stevenson alludes to the dangerous history of hooded Ku Klux Klan figures. As a whole this exhibition presents new ways of seeing and interrogating the past and serves as a means of investigating and creating a new future.