A group exhibition by 14 Indigenous artists opens Oct. 2 at the Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts in Olympia.

The show, titled "Temporal: Stories of Indigenous Present, Re-imagining Indigenous Futures," reimagines the museum at 120 Olympia Ave. N.E. as the Coast Salish Museum of Fine Arts (CSMoFA), which organizers describe on the museum's website as "an indigenous takeover of a Museum in Thurston County."

The exhibition runs through Dec. 11.

Admission is free.

Curator Mikaela Shafer, a Hopi artist and community advocate, organized the show in partnership with the Indigenous Creatives Collective. The exhibition features multigenerational Indigenous artists working in performance art, large-scale installation, digital and video art, two-dimensional work, and customary forms such as weaving and beadwork.

In a Sept. 15 preview published by First American Art Magazine, Shafer said the show "encourages the artists to take up space and command the present and envision a future where our stories are told by us, not for us."

The opening reception runs 6–9 p.m. Oct. 2 and features a song by Andrew Roibal, a performance by Megita Denton, Indigenous foods and a chance to meet the artists. The Olympia Arts Walk named the exhibition its Innovation Award recipient for fall 2026.

Among the 14 artists is Miki'ala Souza, a Native Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) printmaker based in Astoria, Oregon. Souza creates monotype prints by rolling thick printer's ink onto plexiglass, printing the image onto heavy cotton paper, then layering cut-paper shapes and previously printed scraps through the press again. The result is richly textured prints that evoke currents, waterways and migration.

Souza, who was born in Honolulu and moved to Astoria in 2010, told Cascade PBS in a Sept. 18 profile that water runs through everything she makes. "I think about water a lot … and its ability to move and connect all of us," she said.

Her collage scraps, stockpiled from earlier works and sometimes years old, serve as what the Cascade PBS profile called "a mooring line" tying her pieces together across time. Souza draws inspiration from kapa, the ancient Hawaiian tradition of bark cloth decorated with geometric and floral patterns.

Other participating artists include Tammie Dupuis (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), Epiphany Couch (Puyallup/Yakama), Traci Jones (Tulalip Tribes), Daniel R. Smith (Swinomish) and Ash Frantz (Makah), among others.

The exhibition is funded in part by the Inspire Olympia Grant and the Washington State Arts Commission. Regular gallery hours are Fridays 2–6 p.m., with extended hours until 9 p.m. on first Fridays, plus Saturdays and Sundays noon–4 p.m.