BY KAREN BOSSICK

An Indigenous Futurism electronic music project dubbed “Wampum” will be among the highlights of the Sun Valley Museum of Art’s annual Summer Street Party tonight.

The party will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight—Friday, July 11—outside the SVMoA at Fifth and Washington streets.

It will include a DJ, food trucks, drinks and hands-on art activities for all ages.

Kicking off the evening will be an artist talk with Maria de Los Angeles at 5:15 p.m. She is one of the artists featured in SVMoA’s new exhibition “Mending Across Border & Boundaries,” which opens today.

The exhibition, co-curated by SVMoA’s assistant director Courtney Gilbert and Phoenix-based curator Erin Joyce, features six artists who use sculpture, painting, textiles and more to address migration as an ongoing process of adaptation, healing and cultural negotiation.

Maria de Los Angeles works across drawing, painting, printmaking, and wearable sculpture in New York and Jersey City, The assistant director for Graduate Studies at Yale School of Art, she created a commissioned garment sculpture that includes textiles designed by Wood River Valley residents for this exhibition.

She will be followed with an in-gallery performance at 5:30 p.m. by artist Elisa Harkins, who will sing Muscogee Creek and Seminole hymns and hand drum songs. Harkins will then head outside at 7 p.m. to perform Wampum.

A member of the Muscogee Nation, Harkins’ work has been featured as such venues as Crystal Bridges, The Getty, MoMA and the Spoleto Festival.