Wathéča Records is a label and archival project focused on highlighting North American Indigenous musicians and artists who have often been overlooked within the canons of rock, folk, and country music. Wathéča Records was founded in 2022 by Justis Brokenrope (Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta), a musician, DJ, and educator currently residing in Bdé Óta Othúŋwe, Mní Sóta (Minneapolis, Minnesota).

Driven by Brokenrope’s dedication for building and sharing his still-growing archive of vinyl records, cassette tapes, and even 8-track tapes, Wathéča Records Sourcebook showcases what makes physical media and printed ephemera so memorable and ripe for connection while simultaneously documenting a deep reverence for the Indigenous musicians and artists featured throughout the book. From the likes of Floyd Westerman and Buddy Red Bow, to the Zuni Midnighters and the Navajo Sundowners, and many more, Wathéča Records Sourcebook is guided by the act of breathing energy and pride into the music for readers to connect with and appreciate.

Brokenrope describes the underlying aim of his archival project as providing a renewed platform (via live DJ sets, uploads to the Wathéča Records YouTube channel, Internet radio shows, etc.) to these underrepresented musicians and artists where their music can be heard and appreciated by a wider audience, where accessibility becomes a means of building community around the music, and where the virtues of the archive promote our bond with memory and history.

The pages of this illustrious book feature in-situ photography of album artwork and printed ephemera directly from Brokenrope’s collection, behind the scenes documentation of the making and curation of Wathéča Records, as well as an array of reprinted comments handpicked from the Wathéča Records YouTube channel. Posted by communities of fans and avid listeners, the inclusion of these joyous and meaningful comments connect readers with the memories and community that exists behind the music.


Era Editions No. 3
Offset-printed, soft-cover with open-spine sewn binding
135 x 190 mm (5.31 x 7.48 in.)
136 pages


Project support provided by the Visual Arts Fund, administered by Midway Contemporary Art with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.

This artist monograph featuring select works of LA-based artist Emma cc Cook weaves together compendious views of Cook’s paintings and sculptures along with free verse writings by the artist that invite us to step further into the worlds and narratives cultivating within Cook’s body of work. Furthermore, in conversation with the curious and fuzzy storyboard-like vignettes and overlaid imagery that often hover throughout Cook’s paintings, the book’s margins and gutters are activated by their own overlaid images that offer playful glimpses into the artist’s themes, research, and trove of collected visual references.

Featured prominently within Cook’s works are the unmistakable depictions of the landscapes and signifiers of a past era of the American agricultural Midwest. Within these vast depictions, acting as a visual archaeology of a nation steeped in expansionist drive, Cook pieces together certain defining myths of America. London-based art gallery Public wrote of Cook’s work for her 2025 solo-exhibition, stating: “Cook explores with systemic precision how accelerated capitalism and industrialization cast shadows across rural America. Her works serve as an archive, or perhaps a tombstone, blending speculative fiction with her Minnesota upbringing, to capture the no man’s land of the American mid-west — a hybridization of its mythical past and forgotten future — while advancing the contemporary genre of landscape painting.”


Era Editions No. 2
Offset-printed, soft-cover otabind with gatefold cover jacket
200 x 260 mm (7.87 x 10.23 in.)
96 pages


Project support provided by the Visual Arts Fund, administered by Midway Contemporary Art with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.

Part treatise in its adolescence, part foundational slab, part visual lexicon casually unfurled like a roll of film that you just in this exact moment remember is undeveloped and frantically rewind back into the camera. Gaze Palais presents the artist’s theory of The Image woven through arrangements of the image-relics underpinning this scopic palais.

Gaze Palais merges “Displaced Gaze” (a text first published by Ryan Gerald Nelson in 2015) and Nelson’s ongoing project titled Peripheries (2014–present).


Era Editions No. 1
First edition printing of 75

Printing: 3-color silkscreen, printed by hand (covers); 1-color black, sheet-fed printed on an HP LaserJet 5000n (pages)
Papers: French Paper Chipboard Kraft, 100lb cover (covers); Munken Print White 15, 80gsm (pages)
Binding: 3-hole pamphlet stitch with white thread
Dimensions: 200 x 280 mm (7.87 x 11 in.)
Pages: 48

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Era Editions is an artist-run publishing project

american argiculural midwest
america’s mythical past
an amorphous solid state
astronomical bodies
aura
defixio
dense fog
diffraction
displaced gaze
distancing effect
geodetic marks
good thick shrouds of mystique
impact of american expansionism
indigenous rockers
landscape painting
leaving the movie theater
lost in the engulfing mirror
native american rock/country/folk
objet petit a
printed ephemera
serigrafie
soft burn
the graven image
the image becomes a veil
the image field
the interstice
the periphery
ventifact
vinyl records archive
visual archaeology
etc
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