https://www.eastwindow.net/collaborations daily 0.75 2021-02-11 https://www.eastwindow.net/contact daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/mission daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/2025 daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/e73d042b-38db-4547-9943-c62ff333623d/TOM+JONES+02+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Tom Jones (window) Ho-Chunk Veteran Memorials November 13th 2025 - February 21st 2026 Opening Reception November 13th 7-9:00pm Tom Jones (Professor of Photography, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an artist, curator, writer, and educator. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. Jones’ artwork is a commentary on American Indian identity, experience and perception. He is examining how American Indian culture is represented through popular culture and raises questions about these depictions of identity by non-natives and Natives alike. He continues to work on an ongoing photographic essay on the contemporary life of his tribe, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. Jones co-authored the book “People of the Big Voice, Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1943.” He is the co-curator for the exhibition and contributing author to the book, “For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw” for the National Museum of the American Indian. His artwork is in numerous private and public collections, most notably: The National Museum of the American Indian, Polaroid Corporation, Sprint Corporation, The Nerman Museum, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Contemporary of Native Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Microsoft. © Tom Jones - “Mitchell Redcloud Sr.” - Photograph BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/6108407b-a5bb-459f-abf5-2e26d7ffec16/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/9dc2783a-41be-41c6-9d79-ea2f6a83f306/WWW-SOLOMAN+03.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Soloman Chiniquay & Jaz Whitford (window) Ake Huchimagachach March 1st - June 20 2025 This work is an excerpt from a larger work in progress with photography from Soloman Chiniquay, ink & acrylic in collaboration with jaz whitford & a cover for the final publication by Kwiis Hamilton. Soloman & jaz's collaborative processes have always been a conversation about intentions, audience and experiences of home, grief and loss. Conversations are followed by independent creative decisions based on the gnawing aftermath of our sharing. Soloman Chiniquay is a documentary photographer and filmmaker living between xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territory and his homelands of Treaty 7 territory. His lens-based work explores the ways he is welcomed to witness expressions of Indigeneity, creating imagery that attempts to show, in sometimes raw ways, the land and the people on it, the ways people use and connect to the land, and the artifacts they leave on it. Jaz Whitford is a mixed secwe̓pemc & scottish interdisciplinary artist who embodies anti-professionalism & anti-colonialism as a way to move toward a future where indigenous knowledge and ways of being are not only respected, but valued & revered. using a range of materials, forms and mediums they work to investigate and express their lived experience and understanding of spirituality, resistance, ancestral connections, and community care. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/012bbfd0-5e8d-405c-ab05-2d8d7d01cf2d/JEREMY+DENNINS+03-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/365a56d9-7e5f-45b3-b05e-d028d2a76e99/ANNA+TALK+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Artist Talk • January 23rd 2025 • 7-9:00pm DARIA Review by Paloma Jimenez Photography by Dona Laurita This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder Arts Commission BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2801112c-f893-4e63-8864-674908a01e2e/visit+boulder+logo+x+3+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/24e7d0ff-a8d0-4a6d-a90d-6b17b3fadc6a/visit+boulder+logo+x+2+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Funded in part by Visit Boulder, Create Boulder and CU Boulder Department of Slavic and Germanic Studies BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/88237176-e668-42a1-b465-385bfc4f2f1d/BOOKFAIR+2025+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Month of Photography 2025 Book Fair Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 Time: 5:30pm to 8:00pm Location: The Studio Loft at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1001 14th Street, Denver Colorado (at Curtis Street) Come visit East Window at the 2025 Month of Photography Book Fair. Alongside amazing publishers from the Front Range and beyond, we will have all of East Window’s publications for sale, as well as all of our merch available for you, including T-shirts, tote bags, mugs, our new collection of East Window greeting cards, and other fun items. All proceeds go towards honorariums for the artists we exhibit. Hope to see you all there! For questions, please feel free to call us at 303.837.1341 or email info@denvermop.org or info@eastwindow.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/8aee61e1-fc4e-46e9-b714-54ac07d1578c/WWW-RODDY.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out RODDY MACINNES (window) July 4th - October 31st 2025 The intimate association between photography and death is inherent. Much has been written on the subject. I’ve read some. I get the idea: my photographs will most likely outlive me. Since 1964 I’ve employed photography's magical ability to freeze time and mirror reality in contemplation of life and meaning. Since arriving on my seventieth birthday, the imminence of death has become a preoccupation. Not death in the macabre sense, but death as a reminder to live. I have vivid impressions of what my younger self looked like because my parents memorialized significant milestones with photographs. When I began making my own pictures the tempo of documentation increased. Consequently, I have a relatively comprehensive visual record of my journey through time and space since 1953. Appreciating that I have no control regarding where and how my journey will end, this portfolio presents idealized scenarios. Ironically, staging death suggests maintaining control - an illusion, of course. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5602a45c-ac3b-475a-8c33-d3543a9c37d0/SV-02-14-25-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/900c68b4-a3ca-471a-80df-3caa027174fa/hissong+07-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Jenna Hissong / Bathroom March 1st- June 20 2025 Opening Reception March 7th Jenna Hissong — IN PERSON 7-9:00pm Jenna Hissong is a graduate of University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied sculpture and installation in the fine arts program. Hissong’s series Bathroom documents her father’s bathroom as a conduit for generational storytelling, a previously unknown reflection of familial influence in the most intimate space. “My work in various media explores the intersection of human interaction with institutions, nature, internal conflicts, and identity dysphoria. I aim to bring immaterial thoughts and desires into material being. Through my arts practices, I focus on exploring how masculinity and femininity interact both personally and culturally, seeking to understand the relationship between traditionally gendered materials as it reflects how they complement or dominate one another. I aim to defy the expectations of my own femininity through the materials and processes I use.” –Jenna Hissong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/aab3625c-d105-4329-8011-47c1dbd4d527/FOOTER-03-CAL-2025.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4913f2e9-f43f-4111-aaaf-b2a89b67a60b/smut+verse+feb+2025-2+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out SMUT-Verse: Open Mic Curated by Aimee Herman February 14th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Co-sponsored by Rocky Mountain Equality (formerly Out Boulder) SMUT Verse is a night celebrating sexy words and stories. Come to be turned on, or step to the mic and share some of your words at the open mic! 18+. Aimee Herman is a gay, nonbinary writer and educator. They currently host several monthly series throughout Boulder including And Now: Featuring...Variety Show and Queer Art Organics Open Mic. Their erotica has been published in "Nice Girls, Naughty Sex", "Me and My Boi: Queer Erotic Stories", "Best Mammoth Book of Erotica 11", among many other anthologies. Aimee is the author of two books of poems and the novel, "Everything Grows". They are turned on by public libraries, garage sales and postal workers. Tyler Hurula is a poet born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She is queer, polyamorous, and lives with her wife and two cats. She is the events coordinator for Beyond the Veil Press. Author of Love Me Louder (Querencia Press). Her poems have been published previously in Anti-Heroin Chic, Aurum Journal, Quail Bell Magazine, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, and more. She values connection, authenticity, and vulnerability, and tries to encompass these values in her writing as well as everyday life. Angela Palermo is 5’9” 142 lbs. She loves running and hiking in the mountains, not to mention, beautiful sunsets. She swears she’ll name her next dog Bliss. She’s a big-time film, music, book and history nerd, and hopes you are too. You should also be intelligent, articulate, queerly sexy and an SJW. Are you into polyamory? She’s cool with that, but thinks it could be emotionally exhausting. If you bring her a pint of oat milk ice cream, you are guaranteed to melt her sometimes cold heart. Angela is also one of the hosts of KGNU's Outsources radio show. And guests: R.S. Quirk, Jesse, Kade, Trae, Kolyah, Eric Fischman, Jona, Megan, Ruben Martin, Doc Martin, Cortney Collins, Lee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/159bac7b-f60d-49e8-acda-c340d5230e6f/Jeremy+Dennis_www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Jeremy Dennis (window) Nothing Happened Here Through February 28th 2025 Lights on until 11:30pm every day Nothing Happened Here, explores the violence/non-violence of post-colonial Native American psychology. Reflecting upon his own experience and observations in his community, the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton, New York, specifically the burden of the loss of culture through assimilation, omission of his history in school curriculum, and loss of land and economic disadvantage. This series illustrates the shared damaged enthusiasm of living on indigenous lands without rectification. Dennis was one of 10 recipients of a 2016 Dreamstarter Grant from the national non-profit organization Running Strong for American Indian Youth. He has received the Creative Bursar Award from Getty Images in 2018 to continue his series Stories—Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams and Myths. Jeremy currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b5458ebd-b193-4bed-8a45-c3e2bec4e1c5/FRAME-+HOLDER-GRN-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out FRAME : Literary Salon Curated by the Literary Ladies Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz November 7th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. More details forthcoming BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/850dd443-6f39-4fe9-881c-4fb56b606baf/smut+verse+feb+25+-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out SMUT-Verse: Open Mic Curated by Aimee Herman Featuring Jona Fine and Kolyah Shoni June 13th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Co-sponsored by Rocky Mountain Equality (formerly Out Boulder) SMUT Verse is a night celebrating sexy words and stories. Come to be turned on, or step to the mic and share some of your words at the open mic! 18+. More details forthcoming Aimee Herman is a gay, nonbinary writer and educator. They currently host several monthly series throughout Boulder including And Now: Featuring...Variety Show and Queer Art Organics Open Mic. Their erotica has been published in "Nice Girls, Naughty Sex", "Me and My Boi: Queer Erotic Stories", "Best Mammoth Book of Erotica 11", among many other anthologies. Aimee is the author of two books of poems and the novel, "Everything Grows". They are turned on by public libraries, garage sales and postal workers. Jona Fine is a non-binary queer poet, writer and artist. They have a Masters in Writing and Poetics and recently received their Masters in Social Work. They are obsessed with Circles and are currently working on a novel where Open Circle lives in the moment of 11 AM perpetually on repeat. They live with their leopard gecko named Max and a fish tank full of baby shrimp. When they aren’t thinking about mental health their love language is feeding their friends big bowls of salad and cuddling. Kolyah Shoni is a singer/songwriter/poet/multi-instrumentalist/visual artist. With a Leo Sun and Rising and Aries Moon, he is 'hot hot heat.' After coming out as trans at 15 but saying he was a boy since age 3, it has been tumultuous but he wouldn't have it any either way. Being trans, autistic, and Jewish are all full-time jobs he wishes he got paid for. He is so grateful to have the opportunity for such a beloved poem to be showcased here in this zine, an incredibly gorgeous and integrative virtual space! He is the best hugger out there and is always working on allowing the love in that he gives out- which is a constant flow of pure light. He started T in 2019 and is very excited about his darkening mustache and deepening voice, which he is getting back into country music so he can sing it better. Chances are he will be your friend, and you can find his instagram with more poetry at @menschdaddy and his daily gratitude posts. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3a5a5ecc-c529-42cf-8b70-ed06e5eae752/AMITIS+RECEPT+SML+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Photography: Leo W. Reis-Larson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f1f37829-aa1d-41e8-95cd-df57d7238d81/APRIL+FRAME+2025+-+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out FRAME : Literary Salon Curated by the Literary Ladies Toni Oswald & Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Friday's Fable Releases Anxiety in the Mosh Pit of Empowerment April 25th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Featuring: Suzi Q. Smith, Natalie Hodges, Nancy Stohlman, Shannon Malloy Visual Art: Kelsey Cruz-Martin Music: Max Davies FRAME is sponsored in part by the Boulder Arts Commission Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning poet, author, interdisciplinary artist, music maker, and dreamer of dreams who lives in Denver, Colorado. While primarily known for her poetry, Suzi is also an organizer, an educator, a singer-songwriter, playwright, and interdisciplinary creative. She has created, curated, coached, organized, and taught for over 25 years, touring throughout the United States. The author of poetry collections Poems for the End of the World, A Gospel of Bones (winner of the 2019 Electric Press Award), and the chapbook collection, Thirteen Descansos, Smith is the Lead Editor for Creative Nonfiction for Revolute! Literary Magazine. Smith is also the co-editor of two anthologies, Tell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Writers from Colorado's Prisons and All the Lives We Ever Lived, Volume I, both Finalists for the Colorado Book Award. Born and raised in a Korean-American family in Denver, Natalie Hodges has performed as a classical violinist throughout Colorado and in New York, Boston, Paris, and the Italian Piedmont, as well as at the Aspen Music Festival and the Stowe Tango Music Festival. She graduated from Harvard University and writes about music, science, religion, racial politics and cultural assimilation, and Korean and Korean-American history. Her first book, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time, was published by Bellevue Literary Press and was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award. She is currently at work on a novel about postwar Korean immigration to Colorado. Nancy Stohlman is the author of six books including After the Rapture (2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), and Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020). Her books have been awarded in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, The Foreword Indies, The International Book Awards, Reader Views Book Awards and the Colorado Book Awards. Her stories have been anthologized widely, appearing in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and holds workshops and retreats around the world. Shannon Malloy is a neurodivergent, crip poet. She studied poetry at the College of Santa Fe and English Lit and Sociology at University of Denver, though after an accident where she was internally decapitated, a traumatic brain injury erased most of that education. She has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember, but after she regained some of her brain power post-injuries, shifted from love angst and depression based work to poetry that centers more around trauma—from sex, gender, and emotional trauma, to the trauma that causes and lives in a broken body. She has battled mental illness and addiction for much of her life. She has found writing as a way to process tragedy and answer, “Why me?” She believes poetry is her way to connect to and give a voice to other survivors, but also often to make others as uncomfortable as she is. She lives in Denver with her crazy pups, Gertie Stein and Fanny Howl. She comes with her own trigger warning. Kelsey Cruz-Martin is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans writing, sound, sculpture, and print. Her work explores themes of experiential knowledge, ancestral lineage, the voice, and the relationship between language and the body. Interested in the voice as both a tool of transmission and a marker of culture and identity, Cruz-Martin merges seemingly disparate subjects to challenge conventional perceptions of the public and private, interior and exterior, and human and non-human forms. Through the visceral power of repetition, she confronts the fragility of the body and reflects on the cyclical nature of life and death. Often examining rituals and belief systems, Cruz-Martin investigates how these frameworks adapt and persist alongside humans during times of uncertainty. Working with clay, metal, sound, and light, she creates immersive installations that encourage deep listening and immersion. Her recent work focuses on protective patterns, human behaviour, and bodily boundaries. Kelsey Cruz-Martin (b. 1991, Walyalup, Fremantle, Western Australia) is a UK based artist. She completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Bath School of Art and Design in 2018. Selected exhibitions: Clouds of Abstract Information, 2024, +1ART, Osaka, Japan, HERE, NOW, BayArt, Cardiff, 2024, A Flowing Body of Snake, 2023, SHIFT, Cardiff, Stunning, Fierce & Yellow Vol.2, The Auxiliary, Middlesborough. She was awarded the Culture West Creative Freelancer Grant, 2024, a-n Artist Bursaries, 2023, Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, 2022, Scottish Sculpture Workshop residency, 2022. She is currently artist in residence at Cardiff Met University, on the Freelands Studio Fellowship 25/26. Max Davies is known for his diverse musical work on guitar and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist. His music has been featured in Artforum, Guitar World and Guitarist magazines, at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the Everest Awakening benefit album. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians, and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and many others. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/bb1f5c14-ad52-4e30-9f68-675642d808a4/hissong+08-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Jenna Hissong / Bathroom March 1st- June 20 2025 Jenna Hissong is a graduate of University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied sculpture and installation in the fine arts Jenna Hissong is a graduate of University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied sculpture and installation in the fine arts program. Hissong’s series Bathroom documents her father’s bathroom as a conduit for generational storytelling, a previously unknown reflection of familial influence in the most intimate space. “My work in various media explores the intersection of human interaction with institutions, nature, internal conflicts, and identity dysphoria. I aim to bring immaterial thoughts and desires into material being. Through my arts practices, I focus on exploring how masculinity and femininity interact both personally and culturally, seeking to understand the relationship between traditionally gendered materials as it reflects how they complement or dominate one another. I aim to defy the expectations of my own femininity through the materials and processes I use.” –Jenna Hissong BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7fb24ee4-54e7-4573-a02e-de82bbfc1cb2/BBCB+2025+-+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BANNED BOOK CLUB BOULDER 2025 Identity Polyptych by Meca‘Ayo April 11th, 2025 5-7:00pm ONLINE MEETING - preliminary April 27th, 2025 7-9:00 pm ONLINE MEETING - with the author more info at info@eastwindow.org Banned Book Club Boulder (BBCB) offers you a chance to get in on the newest, most exciting book club in Boulder. Enrollment in the BBCB is FREE! For the first BBCB meetings of 2025, we are honored to offer Identity Polyptych, by Meca‘Ayo a multi-part, multi-genre work that explores familial estrangement, identity as a mixed-race Black person, and movement towards reconciliation. It can be considered a memoir. The book works to find an impossible peace as it relies on the trickiness of memory, the effects of trauma, the necessity and constant work of healing, and the unfulfilled wish to feel a true sense of belonging. Meca’Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, and point-and-shoot art dabbler in Denver, Colorado. Their work explores heartbreak and healing, finding the words for our experiences, familial estrangement, being ‘in-between’ things, finding beauty, even during times of strife, and movement towards reconciliation. Their writings have been published in pulpmouth, Rigorous Magazine, Inverted Syntax, Full Stop Reviews, Heavy Feather Review, Lambda Literary, and more. Their photography has been featured in literary magazines and in other venues. For more information about Tameca’s work, BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4dc45c50-5d00-4c2f-98cb-3660ce7d8039/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/fb8b0890-dee1-42cb-8a7d-e6bffba13c2f/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3c3689a8-7c56-46f7-b951-645f9a7a3687/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7a87cb71-30d7-4a4e-a593-a9e74062dddd/sarah-m-03+-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out A Fish Tank For My Fish, 2023, acrylic on canvas board, 20” x 24” Artistic Freedom: Creating While Incarcerated Work by Hector Castillo, Sonny Lee, and Mario Rios Curated by Impact Arts Opening Reception: June 27th 2025, 7-9:00pm Panel Discussion and Reception: Aug 23rd 2025, Time TBD Impact Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to generating arts classes, programs, and exhibitions in and around the criminal-legal system in Colorado. They bring visibility to the creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists and advocate for the importance of the arts as a healing and transformative tool in carceral spaces. For this exhibition at East Window Gallery, Impact Arts presents works by three artists incarcerated at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility: Hector Castillo, Sonny Lee, and Mario Rios. All three men are gifted painters and storytellers who use their artwork to convey deep and uncomfortable truths about our system of mass incarceration. Exhibit runs June 27th - August 29th 2025 BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/84b9860b-fb24-4f07-a3bf-9f79baca816a/WWW-AMITIS-04.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Amitis Motevalli (main) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel & Jokes on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke March 1st- June 20 2025 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel is a reflection on the coming of consciousness of the artist. The absurd images of myself as a baby with weapons and guerrilla masks, becomes almost a real documentation of my childhood. These images blend in with photographs and films often seen in various media of people in political/national/ cultural struggles. With current technology, there is always a questioning of the levels of reality but even of the absurdity of the reality itself. Performed in multiple countries, Jokes on Me/Stupid Muslim Joke, is an interactive public performance, to confront the personal and collective perception of Muslims, as a cultural group and as individuals. I researched jokes spread on the web about “Stupid Muslims”, mostly written in the UK, US and Denmark. The jokes are on stickers all over my body and I ask people to read the jokes and write a response directly onto my body as the site of the contested intelligence and the target of aggression. “Throughout my career as an artist and an educator in the Los Angeles area and internationally for the past 20 years, my work has consistently explored and upheld the cultural resistance and survival of people, particularly women or femme identified individuals, living in situations of poverty, conflict, and war. I am drawn to the aesthetics of Islamic Art as rooted in devotion and love through resistance, rebellion against unjust authoritarianism and personal sacrifice but also media and contemporary imagery which has derailed the international perception of these messages.” – Amitis Motevalli Vist the Roses by Other Names database LENSCRATCH Review by Paloma Jimenez BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4962125e-50fa-466c-9506-a2718b691b0d/RENLUKA-+HOLDER-YELLOW-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Renluka Maharaj (main) November 13th - December 31st 2025 Opening Reception November 13th 7-9:00pm My family’s history as indentured laborers in Trinidad and Tobago has been a point of departure for ongoing dialogue and research. My work is ultimately autobiographical and is influenced by the narratives, myths and folklore born from the women who migrated from India to the Caribbean. I investigate themes of history and memory and explore how these inform identity. Renluka Maharaj was born in Trinidad and Tobago and works between Colorado, New York City and Trinidad. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder where she earned her BFA , and her MFA at The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago in. She has received numerous awards including Martha Kate Thomas Fund, the Presidential Scholarship at Anderson Ranch Center and the Barbara De Genevieve Scholarship. Her works are in institutional collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Joan Flasch artist book collection, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Flaten Museum, Bank of America, Special Collections at the University of Colorado, Boulder as well as numerous private collections. Her work has been recognized through various fellowships and residencies including Project For Empty Space, Golden Arts Foundation, Fountainhead Residency, Vermont Studio Center to name a few. Her work has also appeared most recently in Washington Post, Elle India, Harper's Bazaar India, New American Paintings, Coolitude Volume II, Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic. Artist Talk TBD This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder County Arts Alliance BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ae54c276-3462-49be-bbf0-16c08230b9d9/CLAXTON_www+copy.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Dana Claxton (patio) Headdress January 1st - April 26th 2025 In her series Headdress, Dana Claxton continues to extol indigenous cultural abundance. The personal collections of five womxn are featured: Jeneen’s collection of beadwork spans three generations from Old Crow Yukon, with designs that are specific to the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation; Connie, matriarch of beadwork, adorns her own hand beaded pieces; Shadae mixes it up with hip-hop baseball caps, a Coast Salish woven cedar hat, and her husband’s pow wow/peyote fans; Dee and Dana wear pieces of the same inter-tribal collection made by beaders from the four directions. In these portraits, the beadworks cover and espouse the womxn’s silhouettes, becoming more than just objects: the beadworks are cultural belongings, and the womxn are cultural carriers. Dana Claxton is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in Southwest Saskatchewan. Claxton is a critically acclaimed artist who works with film, video, photography, single/multi- channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, MN), Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City (UT), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (IN), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN) and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f6b1c48e-71e4-478d-a9a0-6c6b1b5cc61f/FRAME-+HOLDER-YELLOW-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out FRAME : Literary Salon Curated by the Literary Ladies Toni Oswald & Sarah Elizabeth Schantz August 29th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. More details forthcoming BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3731bd34-4fca-431d-8351-1aa248d07d94/UKRAINE+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7e85cc80-c771-4f69-ac22-fdda6cf7cb8f/sarah-m-02+-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Hector Castillo, Prison Ruins, 2023, acrylic on canvas board, 18” x 24” Artistic Freedom: Creating While Incarcerated Work by Hector Castillo, Sonny Lee, and Mario Rios Curated by Impact Arts Opening Reception: June 27th 2025, 7-9:00pm Panel Discussion and Reception: Aug 23rd 2025, Time TBD Impact Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to generating arts classes, programs, and exhibitions in and around the criminal-legal system in Colorado. They bring visibility to the creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists and advocate for the importance of the arts as a healing and transformative tool in carceral spaces. For this exhibition at East Window Gallery, Impact Arts presents works by three artists incarcerated at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility: Hector Castillo, Sonny Lee, and Mario Rios. All three men are gifted painters and storytellers who use their artwork to convey deep and uncomfortable truths about our system of mass incarceration. Exhibit runs June 27th - August 29th 2025 BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/64fd0f2b-b7a7-49b1-bcfb-e55e889c13f0/CLAXTON-02_www+copy.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Dana Claxton (patio) Headdress January 1st - April 26th 2025 In her series Headdress, Dana Claxton continues to extol indigenous cultural abundance. The personal collections of five womxn are featured: Jeneen’s collection of beadwork spans three generations from Old Crow Yukon, with designs that are specific to the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation; Connie, matriarch of beadwork, adorns her own hand beaded pieces; Shadae mixes it up with hip-hop baseball caps, a Coast Salish woven cedar hat, and her husband’s pow wow/peyote fans; Dee and Dana wear pieces of the same inter-tribal collection made by beaders from the four directions. In these portraits, the beadworks cover and espouse the womxn’s silhouettes, becoming more than just objects: the beadworks are cultural belongings, and the womxn are cultural carriers. Dana Claxton is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in Southwest Saskatchewan. Claxton’s practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, MN), Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City (UT), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (IN), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN) and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN). This program is funded in part by Boulder Arts Week, Visit Boulder and Create Boulder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/d6342e4e-19e4-421d-9cb3-3f16edd706d1/APAH-WWW-01A.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Benson Apah (patio) Photographs and Poems May 1st - August 30th 2025 Benson Apah is a photographer and poet, born in Warri, Nigeria. His unique artistic approach has often been described as combining poetic expression and elements of conceptual photography. His elegant photographic portraits reveal an enigmatic complexity, honoring the many ways we come to represent ourselves, socially, intimately, and culturally. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4e377713-406b-42f3-b96f-75026db76964/Screenshot+2025-02-06+at+10.11.21%E2%80%AFAM+copy.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Launch Party! October 9th 2025 7-9:00pm East Window is excited to announce the release of the East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts: Volumes 1 and 2. With this journal we continue our mission to support and amplify the art and culture of underrepresented communities and provide a platform for artists and writers from around the world to share their hearts and minds. Volume 1/1 features works by: Eli Clare, Harry James Hanson, Eric Raanan Fischman, Amy Kohut, Aimee Herman, André Ramos-Woodard, Rajiv Mohabir, Lucky Garcia, Alec Dai, Cal Duran, Charlotte Piper, William E. Jones, Crisosto Apache, James Hosking, Jason Masino, Kanthy Peng, Aurora Levins Morales, Narcissister, R. H. R. (Riley) Surgener, Deneishia LeArtiste, Shadows Gather, Zoid Hæm. These 22 brilliant contributors were selected from an open call for work as well as by invitation. Their words and images confront the realities of racial injustice, inequity within queer communities, the widening chasm of class divides in a political landscape riddled with toxic rhetoric and systemic oppression, and other important topics that tend to get swept under the rug. We invite you to join our growing readership and immerse yourselves within this platform in efforts to forge new connections, to provoke, disrupt, inspire, and heal. Thanks in advance for your support and engagement. Contributors to volume 2 will be announced soon — stay tuned! Read Online - Volume 1/1 Order print version - Volume 1/1 Contact: info@eastwindow.org with any questions. Cover art by James Hosking BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/87ce78f7-4094-45bb-864c-73b1c528a7ff/STAS+03.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out STAS GINZBURG (Patio) Sanctuary September 2025 - December 2025 Stas Ginzburg (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Ginzburg immigrated to the U.S. from Russia as a queer Jewish refugee. In 2006, he graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC, where he studied photography. Since then, he has expanded his practice to include sculpture, installation, and performance art. When the protests for racial justice ignited at the end of May 2020, Ginzburg returned to photography to document the faces of young activists fighting for Black liberation. He has been focused on portrait photography ever since, with an emphasis on the LGBTQIA+ community. In the fall of 2022, a selection of Ginzburg's portraits of young queer and trans activists was shown at Broward College in Florida. His photographs were also on view at the Queens Museum and Photoville as part of Live Pridefully, Caribbean Equality Project in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Most recently, his images were shown at the Vail Public Library in Colorado during the Pride month of June, 2023. Ginzburg's photographs are featured in Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, a book published by Aperture in the fall of 2022. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4c91f6c0-f7d9-4efa-b23f-109acc20a065/MOP+FOOTER+SML+copy.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/e29b41ae-7355-4d74-a783-6199c95ef647/WWW-RODDY.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out RODDY MACINNES (window) July 4th - October 31st 2025 The intimate association between photography and death is inherent. Much has been written on the subject. I’ve read some. I get the idea: my photographs will most likely outlive me. Since 1964 I’ve employed photography's magical ability to freeze time and mirror reality in contemplation of life and meaning. Since arriving on my seventieth birthday, the imminence of death has become a preoccupation. Not death in the macabre sense, but death as a reminder to live. I have vivid impressions of what my younger self looked like because my parents memorialized significant milestones with photographs. When I began making my own pictures the tempo of documentation increased. Consequently, I have a relatively comprehensive visual record of my journey through time and space since 1953. Appreciating that I have no control regarding where and how my journey will end, this portfolio presents idealized scenarios. Ironically, staging death suggests maintaining control - an illusion, of course. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f8c65672-b8d5-4dfe-ad83-ac57ab497fc6/LAUREN-CASS-MECA%27AYO-WWW-SML.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Readings Lauren Samblanet, Meca'Ayo, Cass Eddington June 11th 2025 7-9:00pm $5.00 suggested donation no one turned away for lack of funds. The authors request that everyone wears a mask for this event. lauren samblanet (they/she) is a hybrid writer who cross-pollinates with other forms of making & other makers of forms. while she studied poetry, they most often write essays and fiction that intermingle with poetics, performance, sound, video and visual art. they are disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, gender fluid, and queer. she received her mfa from temple university, and currently resides in colorado. punctum books published her first book, like a dog. some of their publications include: a shadow map: an anthology by survivors of sexual assault, FENCE, just femme and dandy, dreginald, entropy, bedfellows, and the tiny. lauren is a teacher and guide, offering workshops, creative process support for individuals and collaborators through their passion project, reinventing creative process. her dream is to guide other creators toward more embodied, pleasurable and emotionally safe creative processes that help their creative ideas thrive. Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a queer singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, massage therapist, and point and shoot art dabbler in Denver Colorado. Their writing and photography are featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, newspapers, and other venues and publications. Their first book an identity polyptych debuted from The Elephants in 2021, and considers familial estrangement, being in-between things as a mixed-race Black person, and moving towards reconciliation. Meca’Ayo Cole is a published author of poetry, creative nonfiction, journalism, fiction, and hybrid works and was a two-time poet laureate finalist in Adams County and for Colorado State in 2023. They create many community-centered projects, gatherings and collaborations, and practice as a massage therapist in Denver, Colorado. Cass Eddington is a trans poet, educator, artist, and ecological landscaper. They hold a PhD in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver and are the founder of Vocational Poetics, a vocational arts platform with offerings from teaching artists and radical educators. They are the author of Vernal Hurt (Magnificent Field) and TRANSIT (Spiral Editions) with their full-length book The Fold is forthcoming with beautiful days in Fall 2026. As an ecological landscaper, they help create place-based relationships in conversation with the land and its inhabitants. They live and love with their dog Jupiter in so-called Denver, Colorado. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/56ae4b60-31c9-4172-8fc2-d4c6cd781e1d/SHADOW-04-WWW-2025.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out SHADOWS GATHER (main) September 5th - October 31st 2025 Often compared to Nan Goldin and Andy Warhol, Shadows Gather is a photography project that documents the alternative nightlife scene and the colorful individuals that thrive in it. Based out of Denver, Colorado, Shadow uses non-conventional techniques, such as pairing a Fuji Instax Neo Classic Mini with lighting from an iPhone flashlight, to create striking instant photographs that preserve and celebrate underground culture. In her photos you’ll find energetic portraits from a mixture of scenes, gutter punks, drag artists and creatures of the night. Shadow has directly experienced the growth and cultural changes that have occurred in Denver and has focused her work on ensuring that the visual narrative of her subjects remains as the city continues to evolve. She celebrates the beauty of those on the cultural fringes and provides a sense of community and a safe haven to folks that have been deemed misfits by mainstream culture. Following the project launch in March of 2019, Shadow has since become a staple in music venues, nightclubs, and bars across Denver, as well as traveling to locales like Austin, Texas and Los Angeles to further her work. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/e1d481e0-95ff-481e-8f63-47226fe3c132/TAMECA-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) - Collaborative Poetry Workshop May 17th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a queer singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, massage therapist, and point and shoot art dabbler in Denver Colorado. Their writing and photography are featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, newspapers, and other venues and publications. Their first book an identity polyptych debuted from The Elephants in 2021, and considers familial estrangement, being in-between things as a mixed-race Black person, and moving towards reconciliation. Meca’Ayo Cole is a published author of poetry, creative nonfiction, journalism, fiction, and hybrid works and was a two-time poet laureate finalist in Adams County and for Colorado State in 2023. They create many community-centered projects, gatherings and collaborations, and practice as a massage therapist in Denver, Colorado. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/03692c0b-9bfa-47fb-ba19-802494f74315/LYDIA+WWW+SML.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Lydia Lunch Spoken Word DEOMONOCROCY: A DISS-ERTATION June 25th 2025 7:00pm $5.00 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Lydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational and bold. Whether attacking the patriarchy and their pornographic war mongering, turning the sexual into the political or whispering a love song to the broken hearted, her fierce energy and rapid fire delivery lend testament to her warrior nature. Queen of No Wave, muse of The Cinema of Transgression, writer, musician, poet, spoken word artist and photographer, she has released too many musical projects to tally, has been on tour for decades, working with such luminaries as Nick Cave, Thurston Moore, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Karen Finley, Jerry Stahl, The Last Poets, and Hubert Selby JR. She has published dozens of articles, half a dozen books translated into 9 languages, appeared in numerous documentaries, conducted workshops, taught at Universities including The San Francisco Art Institute and simply refuses to just shut up. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/69049c16-550c-4eca-b1e1-5fda616efb5e/++++FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/d41997ba-cf33-4809-9dac-b3b607b92566/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2f6d8b1b-96d6-4c0e-9a9d-bdbf291b0411/APAH-WWW-03.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Benson Apah (patio) Photographs and Poems May 1st - August 30th 2025 Benson Apah is a photographer and poet, born in Warri, Nigeria. His unique artistic approach has often been described as combining poetic expression and elements of conceptual photography. His elegant photographic portraits reveal an enigmatic complexity, honoring the many ways we come to represent ourselves, socially, intimately, and culturally. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/163d0dd9-c71f-4aae-a8a8-71b1104a9187/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c44e1352-4afd-425c-ba7f-b813d044fb2f/visit+boulder+logo+x+3+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/821614f2-929a-421e-8e00-0fdb803d5ba8/STAS+01.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out STAS GINZBURG (Patio) Sanctuary September 2025 - December 2025 Stas Ginzburg (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Ginzburg immigrated to the U.S. from Russia as a queer Jewish refugee. In 2006, he graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC, where he studied photography. Since then, he has expanded his practice to include sculpture, installation, and performance art. When the protests for racial justice ignited at the end of May 2020, Ginzburg returned to photography to document the faces of young activists fighting for Black liberation. He has been focused on portrait photography ever since, with an emphasis on the LGBTQIA+ community. In the fall of 2022, a selection of Ginzburg's portraits of young queer and trans activists was shown at Broward College in Florida. His photographs were also on view at the Queens Museum and Photoville as part of Live Pridefully, Caribbean Equality Project in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Most recently, his images were shown at the Vail Public Library in Colorado during the Pride month of June, 2023. Ginzburg's photographs are featured in Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, a book published by Aperture in the fall of 2022. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/26596d18-85f2-41ba-8932-9d1d1052d26d/visit+boulder+logo+x+2+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/0e501f47-9f69-4ac5-bea8-d473da5aaff8/APAH-WWW-02.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Benson Apah (patio) Photographs and Poems May 1st - August 30th 2025 Benson Apah is a photographer and poet, born in Warri, Nigeria. His unique artistic approach has often been described as combining poetic expression and elements of conceptual photography. His elegant photographic portraits reveal an enigmatic complexity, honoring the many ways we come to represent ourselves, socially, intimately, and culturally. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/816054c1-ec4f-4004-9c41-9f229f30e55f/visit+boulder+logo+x+2+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ff01bef5-b2db-4ca9-9bd0-6173ef65c511/WWW-RODDY.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out RODDY MACINNES (window) July 4th - October 31st 2025 First Friday July 4th The intimate association between photography and death is inherent. Much has been written on the subject. I’ve read some. I get the idea: my photographs will most likely outlive me. Since 1964 I’ve employed photography's magical ability to freeze time and mirror reality in contemplation of life and meaning. Since arriving on my seventieth birthday, the imminence of death has become a preoccupation. Not death in the macabre sense, but death as a reminder to live. I have vivid impressions of what my younger self looked like because my parents memorialized significant milestones with photographs. When I began making my own pictures the tempo of documentation increased. Consequently, I have a relatively comprehensive visual record of my journey through time and space since 1953. Appreciating that I have no control regarding where and how my journey will end, this portfolio presents idealized scenarios. Ironically, staging death suggests maintaining control - an illusion, of course. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/796b8ceb-d572-4954-a382-1310a9ff7ca5/WWW-SOLOMAN.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Soloman Chiniquay & Jaz Whitford (window) Ake Huchimagachach March 1st - June 20 2025 This work is an excerpt from a larger work in progress with photography from Soloman Chiniquay, ink & acrylic in collaboration with jaz whitford & a cover for the final publication by Kwiis Hamilton. Soloman & jaz's collaborative processes have always been a conversation about intentions, audience and experiences of home, grief and loss. Conversations are followed by independent creative decisions based on the gnawing aftermath of our sharing. Soloman Chiniquay is a documentary photographer and filmmaker living between xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territory and his homelands of Treaty 7 territory. His lens-based work explores the ways he is welcomed to witness expressions of Indigeneity, creating imagery that attempts to show, in sometimes raw ways, the land and the people on it, the ways people use and connect to the land, and the artifacts they leave on it. Jaz Whitford is a mixed secwe̓pemc & scottish interdisciplinary artist who embodies anti-professionalism & anti-colonialism as a way to move toward a future where indigenous knowledge and ways of being are not only respected, but valued & revered. using a range of materials, forms and mediums they work to investigate and express their lived experience and understanding of spirituality, resistance, ancestral connections, and community care. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/017cb81c-f6da-4eca-a4bd-6ed01b9aa4a1/CLAXTON-03_www+copy.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Dana Claxton (patio) Headdress January 1st - April 26th 2025 In her series Headdress, Dana Claxton continues to extol indigenous cultural abundance. The personal collections of five womxn are featured: Jeneen’s collection of beadwork spans three generations from Old Crow Yukon, with designs that are specific to the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation; Connie, matriarch of beadwork, adorns her own hand beaded pieces; Shadae mixes it up with hip-hop baseball caps, a Coast Salish woven cedar hat, and her husband’s pow wow/peyote fans; Dee and Dana wear pieces of the same inter-tribal collection made by beaders from the four directions. In these portraits, the beadworks cover and espouse the womxn’s silhouettes, becoming more than just objects: the beadworks are cultural belongings, and the womxn are cultural carriers. Dana Claxton is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in Southwest Saskatchewan. Claxton’s practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, MN), Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City (UT), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (IN), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN) and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/bfe928b9-917b-4869-89bd-a217bf30e0bb/WWW-AMITIS-03.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Amitis Motevalli (main) March 1st- June 20 2025 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel & Jokes on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke Amitis Motevalli Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel is a reflection on the coming of consciousness of the artist. The absurd images of myself as a baby with weapons and guerrilla masks, becomes almost a real documentation of my childhood. These images blend in with photographs and films often seen in various media of people in political/national/ cultural struggles. With current technology, there is always a questioning of the levels of reality but even of the absurdity of the reality itself. Performed in multiple countries, Jokes on Me/Stupid Muslim Joke, is an interactive public performance, to confront the personal and collective perception of Muslims, as a cultural group and as individuals. I researched jokes spread on the web about “Stupid Muslims”, mostly written in the UK, US and Denmark. The jokes are on stickers all over my body and I ask people to read the jokes and write a response directly onto my body as the site of the contested intelligence and the target of aggression. “Throughout my career as an artist and an educator in the Los Angeles area and internationally for the past 20 years, my work has consistently explored and upheld the cultural resistance and survival of people, particularly women or femme identified individuals, living in situations of poverty, conflict, and war. I am drawn to the aesthetics of Islamic Art as rooted in devotion and love through resistance, rebellion against unjust authoritarianism and personal sacrifice but also media and contemporary imagery which has derailed the international perception of these messages.” – Amitis Motevalli Vist the Roses by Other Names database LENSCRATCH Review by Paloma Jimenez BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/579d4069-3def-4ce4-8658-aff68ee078e5/visit+boulder+logo+x+2+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/72c6cfef-a3e3-4aee-945a-565772d80b2f/TINYSPOON+PH.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Tiny SPOON Literary Magazine Issue 13 Launch Party May 31st 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Tiny SPOON presents work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring, experimental, innovative, quirky, thoughtful, vulnerable, electric, eccentric. In other words, our inner workings expanded and exposed, raw and immediate; our fragile soul parted at the seams into our bound paper glossary of tiny wonder. Voices that are beautiful, edgy, infinite, experimental and unique. If you’ve had trouble finding a home for your work because it doesn’t fit into generally recognized categories, chances are your home is right here with us. More details soon! BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1587d121-41a0-4cc9-8fd3-85a5ca4e0922/APAH-WWW-04.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Benson Apah (patio) Photographs and Poems May 1st - August 30th 2025 Benson Apah is a photographer and poet, born in Warri, Nigeria. His unique artistic approach has often been described as combining poetic expression and elements of conceptual photography. His elegant photographic portraits reveal an enigmatic complexity, honoring the many ways we come to represent ourselves, socially, intimately, and culturally. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/430e2b84-02d1-472c-abbc-7540c4a15c1a/A-JENNA-OPENING-02-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Opening Reception: Photo by Niko Laurita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7122c8a5-1071-47a6-9d6d-cbfc73efa138/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/fbc453be-1f07-4e88-86d4-44d9b69f0134/WWW-RODDY.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out RODDY MACINNES (window) July 4th - October 31st 2025 The intimate association between photography and death is inherent. Much has been written on the subject. I’ve read some. I get the idea: my photographs will most likely outlive me. Since 1964 I’ve employed photography's magical ability to freeze time and mirror reality in contemplation of life and meaning. Since arriving on my seventieth birthday, the imminence of death has become a preoccupation. Not death in the macabre sense, but death as a reminder to live. I have vivid impressions of what my younger self looked like because my parents memorialized significant milestones with photographs. When I began making my own pictures the tempo of documentation increased. Consequently, I have a relatively comprehensive visual record of my journey through time and space since 1953. Appreciating that I have no control regarding where and how my journey will end, this portfolio presents idealized scenarios. Ironically, staging death suggests maintaining control - an illusion, of course. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/169c25d4-4ea1-4d4d-9d9a-8927bdff6516/visit+boulder+logo+x+3+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out This program is funded in part by Boulder Arts Week, Visit Boulder and Create Boulder BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/10e95315-a64a-4224-bd5e-3cc57affc052/www-frame-jan-25jpg.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5735da75-a2cb-47a5-9d48-41521a973f43/WWW-AMITIS-02.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Amitis Motevalli (main) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel & Jokes on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke March 1st- June 20 2025 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel is a reflection on the coming of consciousness of the artist. The absurd images of myself as a baby with weapons and guerrilla masks, becomes almost a real documentation of my childhood. These images blend in with photographs and films often seen in various media of people in political/national/ cultural struggles. With current technology, there is always a questioning of the levels of reality but even of the absurdity of the reality itself. Performed in multiple countries, Jokes on Me/Stupid Muslim Joke, is an interactive public performance, to confront the personal and collective perception of Muslims, as a cultural group and as individuals. I researched jokes spread on the web about “Stupid Muslims”, mostly written in the UK, US and Denmark. The jokes are on stickers all over my body and I ask people to read the jokes and write a response directly onto my body as the site of the contested intelligence and the target of aggression. “Throughout my career as an artist and an educator in the Los Angeles area and internationally for the past 20 years, my work has consistently explored and upheld the cultural resistance and survival of people, particularly women or femme identified individuals, living in situations of poverty, conflict, and war. I am drawn to the aesthetics of Islamic Art as rooted in devotion and love through resistance, rebellion against unjust authoritarianism and personal sacrifice but also media and contemporary imagery which has derailed the international perception of these messages.” – Amitis Motevalli Vist the Roses by Other Names database LENSCRATCH Review by Paloma Jimenez BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/762ce231-4ed5-4e31-a95d-0c8334dcd698/sonny+lee+-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Sonny Lee: Mass Incarceration, 2023, acrylic on wood panel, 12” x 16” Artistic Freedom: Creating While Incarcerated Work by Hector Castillo, Sonny Lee, and Mario Rios Curated by Impact Arts Opening Reception: June 26th 2025, 7-9:00pm Panel Discussion and Reception: Aug 23rd 2025, Time TBD Impact Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to generating arts classes, programs, and exhibitions in and around the criminal-legal system in Colorado. They bring visibility to the creative work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists and advocate for the importance of the arts as a healing and transformative tool in carceral spaces. For this exhibition at East Window Gallery, Impact Arts presents works by three artists incarcerated at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility: Hector Castillo, Sonny Lee, and Mario Rios. All three men are gifted painters and storytellers who use their artwork to convey deep and uncomfortable truths about our system of mass incarceration. Exhibit runs June 27th - August 29th 2025 BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/db787bbe-055e-4a51-bee6-3c693a5416af/WWW-AMITIS-01.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Amitis Motevalli (main) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel Jokes on Me : Stupid Muslim Joke March 1st- June 20 2025 Opening Reception March 1st 7:00-9:00pm Amitis Motevalli — IN PERSON Vist the Roses by Other Names database LENSCRATCH Review by Paloma Jimenez Lecture/ Discussion February 28th 4:00-5:30pm CU Boulder Department of Art & Art History Amitis Motevalli — IN PERSON Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel is a reflection on the coming of consciousness of the artist. The absurd images of myself as a baby with weapons and guerrilla masks, becomes almost a real documentation of my childhood. These images blend in with photographs and films often seen in various media of people in political/national/ cultural struggles. With current technology, there is always a questioning of the levels of reality but even of the absurdity of the reality itself. Performed in multiple countries, Jokes on Me/Stupid Muslim Joke, is an interactive public performance, to confront the personal and collective perception of Muslims, as a cultural group and as individuals. I researched jokes spread on the web about “Stupid Muslims”, mostly written in the UK, US and Denmark. The jokes are on stickers all over my body and I ask people to read the jokes and write a response directly onto my body as the site of the contested intelligence and the target of aggression. “Throughout my career as an artist and an educator in the Los Angeles area and internationally for the past 20 years, my work has consistently explored and upheld the cultural resistance and survival of people, particularly women or femme identified individuals, living in situations of poverty, conflict, and war. I am drawn to the aesthetics of Islamic Art as rooted in devotion and love through resistance, rebellion against unjust authoritarianism and personal sacrifice but also media and contemporary imagery which has derailed the international perception of these messages.” – Amitis Motevalli Nowruz Mobarak! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/d0bd445e-7692-4a73-996d-5b997d150838/WWW-MOP+LOGO.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out March 1-31, 2025. East Window is excited to be a part of this year’s Month of Photography Festival (MOP), a biennial festival that celebrates the photographic medium through public exhibitions, events and programs at more than 60 museums, galleries, and other participating spaces across the Front Range, including Denver, Boulder and beyond. Read more about this month’s provocative exhibits and programming below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a9168e1e-3e04-4bbf-99e1-6a8d918cda6b/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/fc0b909e-f806-45cd-a009-cab78c85c588/WWW-BLODY.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BLOODY HANDSOME: Menstruation Poems Curated by Aimee Herman September 26th 2025 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation but no one turned away for lack of funds Aimee Herman (they/them) is the author of the novel, “Everything Grows” (Three Rooms Press) and two full length books of poems, “meant to wake up feeling” (great weather for MEDIA) and “to go without blinking” (BlazeVOX books), in addition to being widely published in journals and anthologies including BOMB, cream city review, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). Aimee is a queer writer and educator and a founding member alongside David Lawton in the poetry band, Hydrogen Junkbox. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/03ab06c2-f144-43ce-8d93-752b5f58dfd3/CLAXTON-04_www+copy.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Dana Claxton (patio) Headdress January 1st - April 26th 2025 In her series Headdress, Dana Claxton continues to extol indigenous cultural abundance. The personal collections of five womxn are featured: Jeneen’s collection of beadwork spans three generations from Old Crow Yukon, with designs that are specific to the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation; Connie, matriarch of beadwork, adorns her own hand beaded pieces; Shadae mixes it up with hip-hop baseball caps, a Coast Salish woven cedar hat, and her husband’s pow wow/peyote fans; Dee and Dana wear pieces of the same inter-tribal collection made by beaders from the four directions. In these portraits, the beadworks cover and espouse the womxn’s silhouettes, becoming more than just objects: the beadworks are cultural belongings, and the womxn are cultural carriers. Dana Claxton is a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations located in Southwest Saskatchewan. Claxton’s practice investigates indigenous beauty, the body, the socio-political and the spiritual. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis, MN), Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City (UT), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis (IN), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, AU), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (TN) and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MN). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/8d3220e5-d4f4-4c3f-a078-e6326bb114a9/SHADOW-02-WWW-2025.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out SHADOWS GATHER (main) September 5th - October 31st 2025 Opening Reception September 5th 7-9:00pm Live Performance - Shadows in person - September 20th 7-9:00pm Often compared to Nan Goldin and Andy Warhol, Shadows Gather is a photography project that documents the alternative nightlife scene and the colorful individuals that thrive in it. Based out of Denver, Colorado, Shadow uses non-conventional techniques, such as pairing a Fuji Instax Neo Classic Mini with lighting from an iPhone flashlight, to create striking instant photographs that preserve and celebrate underground culture. In her photos you’ll find energetic portraits from a mixture of scenes, gutter punks, drag artists and creatures of the night. Shadow has directly experienced the growth and cultural changes that have occurred in Denver and has focused her work on ensuring that the visual narrative of her subjects remains as the city continues to evolve. She celebrates the beauty of those on the cultural fringes and provides a sense of community and a safe haven to folks that have been deemed misfits by mainstream culture. Following the project launch in March of 2019, Shadow has since become a staple in music venues, nightclubs, and bars across Denver, as well as traveling to locales like Austin, Texas and Los Angeles to further her work. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3217b622-507c-4fa5-93d1-6f117f448178/ANNA-WWW-2025.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder Arts Commission BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/334e54b9-5504-4556-a5dc-757eef28766b/WWW-SOLOMAN.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Soloman Chiniquay & Jaz Whitford (window) Ake Huchimagachach March 1st - June 20 2025 7-9:00pm This work is an excerpt from a larger work in progress with photography from Soloman Chiniquay, ink & acrylic in collaboration with Jazmin Whitford & a cover for the final publication by Kwiis Hamilton. Soloman & Jaz's collaborative processes have always been a conversation about intentions, audience and experiences of home, grief and loss. Conversations are followed by independent creative decisions based on the gnawing aftermath of our sharing. Soloman Chiniquay is a documentary photographer and filmmaker living between xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territory and his homelands of Treaty 7 territory. His lens-based work explores the ways he is welcomed to witness expressions of Indigeneity, creating imagery that attempts to show, in sometimes raw ways, the land and the people on it, the ways people use and connect to the land, and the artifacts they leave on it. Jaz Whitford is a mixed secwe̓pemc & scottish interdisciplinary artist who embodies anti-professionalism & anti-colonialism as a way to move toward a future where indigenous knowledge and ways of being are not only respected, but valued & revered. using a range of materials, forms and mediums they work to investigate and express their lived experience and understanding of spirituality, resistance, ancestral connections, and community care. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a90bb962-01c4-4712-a124-8f1f1d4df5ab/hissong+09-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Jenna Hissong / Bathroom March 1st- June 20 2025 Jenna Hissong is a graduate of University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied sculpture and installation in the fine arts Jenna Hissong is a graduate of University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied sculpture and installation in the fine arts program. Hissong’s series Bathroom documents her father’s bathroom as a conduit for generational storytelling, a previously unknown reflection of familial influence in the most intimate space. “My work in various media explores the intersection of human interaction with institutions, nature, internal conflicts, and identity dysphoria. I aim to bring immaterial thoughts and desires into material being. Through my arts practices, I focus on exploring how masculinity and femininity interact both personally and culturally, seeking to understand the relationship between traditionally gendered materials as it reflects how they complement or dominate one another. I aim to defy the expectations of my own femininity through the materials and processes I use.” –Jenna Hissong BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/062786bd-66b7-4f41-a5b2-44ed68f6ffbb/smut+verse+feb+25+-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out SMUT-Verse: Open Mic Curated by Aimee Herman October 17th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Co-sponsored by Rocky Mountain Equality (formerly Out Boulder) SMUT Verse is a night celebrating sexy words and stories. Come to be turned on, or step to the mic and share some of your words at the open mic! 18+. More details forthcoming Aimee Herman is a gay, nonbinary writer and educator. They currently host several monthly series throughout Boulder including And Now: Featuring...Variety Show and Queer Art Organics Open Mic. Their erotica has been published in "Nice Girls, Naughty Sex", "Me and My Boi: Queer Erotic Stories", "Best Mammoth Book of Erotica 11", among many other anthologies. Aimee is the author of two books of poems and the novel, "Everything Grows". They are turned on by public libraries, garage sales and postal workers. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2b39d72c-c1ba-440b-a1b2-382e36e6475d/JEREMY+DENNINS+02-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Jeremy Dennis (window) Nothing Happened Here Through February 28th 2025 Lights on until 11:30pm every day Nothing Happened Here, explores the violence/non-violence of post-colonial Native American psychology. Reflecting upon his own experience and observations in his community, the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton, New York, specifically the burden of the loss of culture through assimilation, omission of his history in school curriculum, and loss of land and economic disadvantage. This series illustrates the shared damaged enthusiasm of living on indigenous lands without rectification. Dennis was one of 10 recipients of a 2016 Dreamstarter Grant from the national non-profit organization Running Strong for American Indian Youth. He has received the Creative Bursar Award from Getty Images in 2018 to continue his series Stories—Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams and Myths. Jeremy currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5cf0dd18-46f8-4135-be83-5649ac6fbda9/WWW-SOLOMAN+02.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Soloman Chiniquay & Jaz Whitford (window) Ake Huchimagachach March 1st - June 20 2025 This work is an excerpt from a larger work in progress with photography from Soloman Chiniquay, ink & acrylic in collaboration with Jazmin whitford & a cover for the final publication by Kwiis Hamilton. Soloman & Jaz's collaborative processes have always been a conversation about intentions, audience and experiences of home, grief and loss. Conversations are followed by independent creative decisions based on the gnawing aftermath of our sharing. Soloman Chiniquay is a documentary photographer and filmmaker living between xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territory and his homelands of Treaty 7 territory. His lens-based work explores the ways he is welcomed to witness expressions of Indigeneity, creating imagery that attempts to show, in sometimes raw ways, the land and the people on it, the ways people use and connect to the land, and the artifacts they leave on it. Jaz Whitford is a mixed secwe̓pemc & scottish interdisciplinary artist who embodies anti-professionalism & anti-colonialism as a way to move toward a future where indigenous knowledge and ways of being are not only respected, but valued & revered. using a range of materials, forms and mediums they work to investigate and express their lived experience and understanding of spirituality, resistance, ancestral connections, and community care. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/bf7bd46e-a1b6-445a-b2b6-c6e3e4f49f03/ELLEN+FINAL+RS.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Ellen Orleans + Frankie Rollins + Teré Fowler-Chapmanand - Readings May 2nd 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Ellen Orleans loves exploring the world through words. A novelist, essayist, and creator of the occasional word collage, she writes in her nearby carriage house—the NoBo version of an artist’s garret. Ellen has written seven books, most recently Mother Blue and the Deep Down Under: Stories Inspired by Caribou Ranch Open Space, and Inside, The World is Orange, a memoir. Her lesbian parody, The Butches of Madison County was a 1995 Lammy Award winner. Her work has been published in a dozen anthologies, many literary journals, The Washington Post (pre-Bezos) and also performed on NPR’s “Hanukkah Lights.” She’s currently completing Red Threads, a novel based in Rocky Mountain National Park. Ellen’s website. Frankie Rollins has worked 41 different jobs in her desire to live a life that centers writing. Frankie has published Do You Feel Like Writing? A Creative Guide to Artistic Confidence, and two works of fiction, The Sin Eater & Other Stories, and The Grief Manuscript. In 2023, Frankie left academia and founded the Fifth Brain Collective, an online space of radiant warmth for the cultivation of creativity and artistic confidence, with a weekly conversational membership, coaching, and a free weekly writing sprint called Fruit Cup. Teré Fowler-Chapman (he/they) BFA, CLC, PRC, is a Black trans poet, educator, and certified life and recovery coach based in Denver, with roots in Tucson and Bossier City. An MFA student at Antioch University and the author of M O O N S H i N E, you can find Teré or his work at the Poetry Foundation, TEDx, NPR/PBS, HardBeauty, CAIR, AutoStraddle, Hugo House, UA Poetry Center, and The Huffington Post. He is also a Marsha P. Johnson Institute and National Arts Strategies alum, and a Rocky Mountain Regional Emmy nominee. Learn more at terefc.com. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7f019b93-4332-4cba-99e0-5b8247de660a/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/d91ec534-239d-4de3-8cba-854ba221826b/FRAME+SQUARE+www+JAN+2025.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out FRAME : Literary Salon Curated by the Literary Ladies Toni Oswald & Sarah Elizabeth Schantz January 31st 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds READINGS: Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. Seiji Takahashi is a Japanese and American writer who is originally from Tokyo but grew up in Singapore. He received his MFA in creative writing from Regis University and currently works in Educational Publishing. He mostly writes creative non-fiction but hopes to branch out into mystery. He often writes about the intersections of identity and culture. Benjamin Whitmer was born in 1972 and grew up in southern Ohio and upstate New York. He has just completed a trilogy of company-town western crime novels for the French and is now obsessing over gun culture for the next trilogy. Lindsay King-Miller is the author of Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls who Dig Girls (Plume, 2016) and The Z Word (Quirk, 2024). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Fireside Fiction, Baffling Magazine, The Deadlands, and numerous other publications. Her second novel This Is My Body is forthcoming from Quirk Books in 2025. She lives in Denver, CO with her partner and their two children. Patty McCrystal is from Arvada, Colorado. She received her MFA from Regis University. Her work can be found in Joyland Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, and more. In 2024, one of her stories was a finalist for the Salamander Fiction Prize, and made it on the fiction shortlist for the Disquiet International Literary Prize. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Best of Net nomination, a Best American Short Stories nomination, and has won the Slippery Elm Prose Prize. Patty is a Creative Writing Instructor for the Frames Prison Program through the Brink Literacy Project. The goal of the Frames Prison Program is to increase literacy rates, reduce recidivism, and use storytelling to empower incarcerated persons within the US prison system. MUSIC: Max Davies is known for his diverse musical work on guitar and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist. His music has been featured in Artforum, Guitar World and Guitarist magazines, at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the Everest Awakening benefit album. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians, and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and many others. VISUAL ART: Carolina Eusébio is a Portuguese artist based in Porto, whose multifaceted work spans photography, sculpture, painting, and abstract art. Her creations delve deeply into themes of identity, community, purpose, magic, and emotion. Inspired by music, literature, and the people around her, Carolina seeks to express herself across diverse mediums, exploring her identity and environment to forge a dialogue between the visible and the intangible. Her creative process oscillates between logic and spontaneity, embracing the beauty of imperfection. This openness to the unexpected allows unplanned elements to shape her work, blending emotion with thought and empowering her subconscious to find its voice. Carolina has held three solo exhibitions and participated in several group shows across Europe and the United States. She has also channeled her artistic vision into her passion project, collaborating with bands and music labels to design logos, album covers, and booklets. Her ongoing project and alter ego, A Lake, A Forest, embodies nature's essence—a tree, an animal, the sea. It is the breath of life, electric waves forming music and spoken word. It’s the beginning, the end, and every moment in between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/eebfbda7-49b3-4ed1-97cb-2474443122ae/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/73afd570-d92b-4c8d-b793-b85b20d4455e/WWW-ANNAEXT.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Anna Tsouhlarakis (main) YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE : A Native Guide Project November 1st 2024 - February 21st 2025 Inspired by the Ralph Ellison novel Invisible Man, YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE : A Native Guide Project deals with the artist’s venture of becoming a resident of this city. As a dark brown woman, her journey has been one of utter disbelief at the racial interactions—both subtle and direct. In cities such as Portland, OR; Scottsdale, AZ; St. Louis, MO; and Columbus, OH, the artist has created various iterations of THE NATIVE GUIDE PROJECT. For her installation at East Window, Tsouhlarakis uses the framework of THE NATIVE GUIDE PROJECT to reflect and illustrate these moments of absolute hilarity and horror. Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as Rush Arts in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Portrait Gallery. This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder Arts Commission DARIA Review by Paloma Jimenez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5281f217-5fdd-4efc-a165-a0e6e42ee110/STAS+04.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out STAS GINZBURG (Patio) Sanctuary September 2025 - December 2025 Stas Ginzburg (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Ginzburg immigrated to the U.S. from Russia as a queer Jewish refugee. In 2006, he graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC, where he studied photography. Since then, he has expanded his practice to include sculpture, installation, and performance art. When the protests for racial justice ignited at the end of May 2020, Ginzburg returned to photography to document the faces of young activists fighting for Black liberation. He has been focused on portrait photography ever since, with an emphasis on the LGBTQIA+ community. In the fall of 2022, a selection of Ginzburg's portraits of young queer and trans activists was shown at Broward College in Florida. His photographs were also on view at the Queens Museum and Photoville as part of Live Pridefully, Caribbean Equality Project in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Most recently, his images were shown at the Vail Public Library in Colorado during the Pride month of June, 2023. Ginzburg's photographs are featured in Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, a book published by Aperture in the fall of 2022. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/085acab1-dafa-44fc-a48c-7d43a4e6d51d/hissong+10-+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Jenna Hissong / Bathroom March 1st- June 20 2025 Jenna Hissong is a graduate of University of Colorado, Boulder where she studied sculpture and installation in the fine arts program. Hissong’s series Bathroom documents her father’s bathroom as a conduit for generational storytelling, a previously unknown reflection of familial influence in the most intimate space. “My work in various media explores the intersection of human interaction with institutions, nature, internal conflicts, and identity dysphoria. I aim to bring immaterial thoughts and desires into material being. Through my arts practices, I focus on exploring how masculinity and femininity interact both personally and culturally, seeking to understand the relationship between traditionally gendered materials as it reflects how they complement or dominate one another. I aim to defy the expectations of my own femininity through the materials and processes I use.” –Jenna Hissong BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a66932d1-34c4-441c-9803-75a32abf30a7/TOM+JONES+WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Tom Jones (window) Ho-Chunk Veteran Memorials November 13th 2025 - February 21st 2026 Opening Reception November 13th 7-9:00pm Tom Jones (Professor of Photography, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an artist, curator, writer, and educator. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. Jones’ artwork is a commentary on American Indian identity, experience and perception. He is examining how American Indian culture is represented through popular culture and raises questions about these depictions of identity by non-natives and Natives alike. He continues to work on an ongoing photographic essay on the contemporary life of his tribe, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin. Jones co-authored the book “People of the Big Voice, Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1943.” He is the co-curator for the exhibition and contributing author to the book, “For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw” for the National Museum of the American Indian. His artwork is in numerous private and public collections, most notably: The National Museum of the American Indian, Polaroid Corporation, Sprint Corporation, The Nerman Museum, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Museum of Contemporary of Native Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Microsoft. © Tom Jones - “Mitchell Redcloud Sr.” - Photograph BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3851f987-a54f-4250-83ce-4d041db83ec9/FRAME-+HOLDER-GRN-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out FRAME : Literary Salon Curated by the Literary Ladies Toni Oswald & Sarah Elizabeth Schantz May 30th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. More details forthcoming BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/9fc29909-443b-42a3-852b-fc786027be33/STAS+02.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out STAS GINZBURG (Patio) Sanctuary September 2025 - December 2025 Stas Ginzburg (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Ginzburg immigrated to the U.S. from Russia as a queer Jewish refugee. In 2006, he graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC, where he studied photography. Since then, he has expanded his practice to include sculpture, installation, and performance art. When the protests for racial justice ignited at the end of May 2020, Ginzburg returned to photography to document the faces of young activists fighting for Black liberation. He has been focused on portrait photography ever since, with an emphasis on the LGBTQIA+ community. In the fall of 2022, a selection of Ginzburg's portraits of young queer and trans activists was shown at Broward College in Florida. His photographs were also on view at the Queens Museum and Photoville as part of Live Pridefully, Caribbean Equality Project in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Most recently, his images were shown at the Vail Public Library in Colorado during the Pride month of June, 2023. Ginzburg's photographs are featured in Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, a book published by Aperture in the fall of 2022. BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/83b773b4-5cc5-454c-90ad-1fec55288d50/WWW-ANNAEXT.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Anna Tsouhlarakis (main) YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE : A Native Guide Project November 1st 2024 - February 21st 2025 Inspired by the Ralph Ellison novel Invisible Man, YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE : A Native Guide Project deals with the artist’s venture of becoming a resident of this city. As a dark brown woman, her journey has been one of utter disbelief at the racial interactions—both subtle and direct. In cities such as Portland, OR; Scottsdale, AZ; St. Louis, MO; and Columbus, OH, the artist has created various iterations of THE NATIVE GUIDE PROJECT. For her installation at East Window, Tsouhlarakis uses the framework of THE NATIVE GUIDE PROJECT to reflect and illustrate these moments of absolute hilarity and horror. Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as Rush Arts in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Portrait Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/0731fcee-817c-4b4a-b016-83263c62de41/visit+boulder+logo+x+3+www.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out This program is funded in part by Boulder Arts Week, Visit Boulder and Create Boulder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/17ffc0d5-0142-44db-936b-e04b72e6103c/WWW-UKRAINE-04jpg.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Short Film and Digital Works from Ukraine Curated By Elizabeth Crim March 18th 2025 7 - 9:00pm Elizabeth Crim in person $5.00 suggested donation but no one turned away for lack of funds. Tonight's film screening explores the work of ten Ukrainian artists functioning in states of displacement. These films explore memory politics, queer and feminist themes in war zones, gendered violence, and the implications of imperial language politics. Included in tonight’s program: Olia Fedorova, Anton Tkachenko, Zoya Laktionov, Mykyta Lyskov, and a collaborative project by Maryna Levchenko, Maria Varlygina, Hanna Shumska, Vlad Tretiak, Eva Holts. Elizabeth Crim is a M.A. candidate in the Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures at CU Boulder. Her research focuses on Art History with an emphasis on contemporary Ukrainian art. This exhibition is a culmination of her summer 2024 collaboration with Ukrainian artists and collectives in Germany and Austria. This program is sponsored by CU Boulder Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/6dbada5e-aff7-402e-9792-c76b07276f94/preliminary_image_2-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Aspects of Touching April 14-15 2025 Reception April 15th, 7-9:00pm This two day exhibition features seven artist’s books completed as part of the Graduate Drawing & Painting Seminar in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder. The seminar revolved around artist’s books and publishing as an artistic practice. We approached the notions of “book” and “publishing” in an open-ended manner by placing them in conversation with other artistic practices. The books presented in the exhibition explore aspects of remembering, preserving, imagining, transforming, translating, scrolling, and assembling. Artists: Andrea Caretto, Ethan Cherry, Brionna Garcia, Cesar Herrejon, Emily Moyer, Luis E. Perez, Hannah Purvis Mentor: Marina Kassianidou Kassianidou is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. She is Assistant Professor in Arts Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. Caretto, Cherry, Garcia, Herrejon, Moyer, Perez, and Purvis are visual artists and M.F.A. candidates in Arts Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. Image © the artists BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1b9105ba-587f-4b77-a316-36369a426ba9/FRAME-+HOLDER-BLU-WWW.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out FRAME : Literary Salon Curated by The Literary Ladies Toni Oswald & Sarah Elizabeth Schantz December 12th 2025 • 7-9:00pm $5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. More details forthcoming BACK TO TOP https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/729a06f4-df5a-47ad-a3ca-52cec633ebfc/RENLUKAI%CC%82-03-WWW-2025.jpg 2025 - Make it stand out Renluka Maharaj (main) November 13th - December 31st 2025 Opening Reception November 13th 7-9:00pm My family’s history as indentured laborers in Trinidad and Tobago has been a point of departure for ongoing dialogue and research. My work is ultimately autobiographical and is influenced by the narratives, myths and folklore born from the women who migrated from India to the Caribbean. I investigate themes of history and memory and explore how these inform identity. Renluka Maharaj was born in Trinidad and Tobago and works between Colorado, New York City and Trinidad. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder where she earned her BFA , and her MFA at The School Of The Art Institute of Chicago in. She has received numerous awards including Martha Kate Thomas Fund, the Presidential Scholarship at Anderson Ranch Center and the Barbara De Genevieve Scholarship. Her works are in institutional collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Joan Flasch artist book collection, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Flaten Museum, Bank of America, Special Collections at the University of Colorado, Boulder as well as numerous private collections. Her work has been recognized through various fellowships and residencies including Project For Empty Space, Golden Arts Foundation, Fountainhead Residency, Vermont Studio Center to name a few. Her work has also appeared most recently in Washington Post, Elle India, Harper's Bazaar India, New American Paintings, Coolitude Volume II, Juxtapoz and Hyperallergic. Artist Talk TBD This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder County Arts Alliance BACK TO TOP https://www.eastwindow.net/opening daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/home daily 1.0 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/72fa419f-0288-47bf-946e-27470378a580/FOOTER+LOGOS+800px.jpg home - Make it stand out East Window is funded in part by grants from The Boulder County Community Foundation, Boulder Arts Week and The Boulder Arts Commission an agency of the Boulder City Council We are Fiscally Sponsored by the Boulder County Arts Alliance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/cfea9515-539f-443e-9330-ed28a6af7a61/EW+HEADER-WWW-18+copy.jpg home East Window Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ffcc6386-49a2-4901-b3ce-6576444974df/ew+map.jpg home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.eastwindow.net/the-rest daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/specs daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/who daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7558848a-cc92-4e1e-a184-ef534fbcf899/X-DEI-AMANDA.jpg who - Make it stand out Amanda Coslor Amanda brings her knowledge of midwifery, somatic psychology, developmental theory and holistic reproductive health care to women recovering from a traumatic pregnancy, birth, or postpartum experience. She has also been involved in collaborative activism, policy alignment with grassroots movements and philanthropy. Amanda is also a board member of the Groundswell fund, Elephant Circle and Global Force for Healing, organizations focusing on reproductive justice, care, and rights for underserved communities of color, and transgender people in the U.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/739f61c6-413e-43cd-8c9d-0064a6196dee/X-DEI-TODD.jpg who - Make it stand out Todd Edward Herman: Founder / Director East Window is an annex to the studio of visual artist and founder, Todd Edward Herman. His work has generated collaborations with artists on books, films, performances and exhibitions around the world. Todd is a co-founder and long time collaborator with Sins Invalid a performance project that incubates, celebrates and centralizes artists with disabilities, artists of color, queer and gender-variant artists. Todd currently lives in Colorado with his family. Read the feature about Todd in the Fall 2020 issue of Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, in the September 2024 issue of Shout Out Colorado, in the October 2024 issue of Yellow Scene Magazine, Boulder Magazine and listen to Kevin Hoth’s interview with Todd for The NoBo Artist Podcast. For more information please visit ToddEdwardHerman.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/105c8000-4379-4433-8c3a-f07115c8d32e/X-DEI-CHARLOTTE.jpg who - Make it stand out Charlotte Piper: Project Manager / Gallery Assistant Charlotte is an author, entrepreneur, activist and advocate in many LGBTQI and BIPOC communities. She brings her experience in content creation and growth metrics to East Window and designs and implements all of East Window’s email campaigns and other forms of digital marketing media. Her published works cover a broad spectrum, from music and entertainment journalism to educational workshops and curriculum. Her passion is inspiring and empowering others to enjoy the most of the human experience. She is a mother to a budding artist and musician and currently resides in the state of Colorado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/e1ccb1a8-e79d-43b0-a0fd-ab1c7f78cc46/X-DEI-TARA.jpg who - Make it stand out Tara Evonne Trudell (Santee Sioux / Rarámuri / Mexican / Spanish) Tara is a visual artist, poet and mother. She is also a human rights activist, with a particular passion for immigration issues. Tara has received many awards for her work, and has read her poetry and exhibited her films and photographs both nationally and internationally. Tara's poetry was selected for inclusion in the anthology, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, published through the University of Arizona Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/8943053a-26dc-43f8-aa70-05772fa4f719/X-DEI-MARIO.jpg who - Make it stand out Mario Jose Olvera Mario is a visual artist, musician, educator, youth mentor, Aztec dancer, and father. He is also co-directs Mi Chantli a thriving educational dance center for the Hip-Hop community in Boulder Colorado. Using art as a vessel to foster self acceptance and respect among marginalized populations, Mario has become an influential teacher in the Longmont and Boulder community. He is currently working on the greatest creation of his life, his kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7da27187-4709-4cf9-8207-8ee0f436ad4a/X-DEI-PAM.jpg who - Make it stand out Pam Tau Lee Pam's Activism began in 1969 with her work with the Third World Liberation Front, a coalition formed between the Black Student Union, Mexican-American Student Confederation, Native American Student Alliance, and the Asian American Political Alliance, who worked in response to the Eurocentric education and lack of diversity at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley. She has dedicated over 40 years of her life to the fight for social justice, and as an elder, she has continued this work, while mentoring and supporting the leadership of a new generation of young people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ddb2cd35-b852-4bf2-aa64-137951516efb/X-%5CDEI-LIZ.jpg who - Make it stand out Liz Quan Liz Quan is a ceramicist and designer based in Boulder, Colorado. After an accomplished career as an art director in New York, Liz began to explore ceramics as a way to return to working with her hands. In 2005, she began post-baccalaureate study in ceramics at the University of Colorado, and has since exhibited at Walker Fine Art, the Arvada Center, McNichols Civic Center Building, and more. Liz works in porcelain for its pure aesthetic, exploring its fragile qualities and innate characteristics; by appreciating its boundaries, she explores deeply within them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/fd0a4690-d847-4f35-8dff-fed6490f2e04/X-DEI-LEROY.jpg who - Make it stand out Leroy F. Moore Jr. Leroy is an African American writer, poet and community activist. He is one of the founders of the Emmy Award winning Krip Hop Nation, whose primary goals are to increase awareness in music and media outlets of the talents, history and rights of people with disabilities, while also focusing on advocacy, activism and education on relevant social, artistic, and political issues. Since the 1990s, Moore has written the column "Illin-N-Chillin" for POOR magazine. Moore is also a co-founder of the disability performance art collective Sins Invalid. Additionally, he currently serves as the Chair of the Black Disability Studies Committee for the National Black Disability Coalition. Leroy is the author of Black Disabled Ancesters by POOR Press, Krip Hop Graphic Novel, Black Kripple Delivers by Poetic Matrix Press, and has co-authored a children's book called Black Disabled Art History 101. https://www.eastwindow.net/2020-22 daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/0e4695d8-2916-4e69-a519-501379ab8564/SARAHWORKSHOP-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out November 19th 2022 The Dairy Arts Center in collaboration with East Window will be hosting Cherophobia | A Creative Writing Workshop for Artists Regarding the Fear of Joy, Saturday November 19th, 5:00pm at The Dairy Arts Center, facilitated by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz. Cherophobia is classified as an anxiety disorder related to participation in activities that could make a person happy as well as the actual experience of joy. Through a series of writing prompts, participants will explore joy as a cycle of anticipation, event, and aftermath. Participants do not need to identify with the condition of cherophobia or even be familiar with the term; the only prerequisites needed are being human and curiosity. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1633041904583-TQOV3VDU8P48L4NXLUB7/TONI-WORKSHOP-WWW-BB.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1643324976708-ES9W7YBRH8ISZJJFIAPZ/DONA+MOON+SML.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1606504937193-WYP1LLPX6IOGO50NNWOY/A-WFM-02.jpg 2020-2022 November 1 - 29, 2020 I STILL EXIST : Graphics by Renée Millard-Chacon and Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez I STILL EXIST, raises awareness around issues of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls who have long been victimized as a direct result of environmental exploitation and degradation. Renee and Micaela’s graphics strive to link the personhood liability of corporations to redistribute wealth to communities affected by their negligent and criminal behavior. Renée Millard-Chacon is a writer, educator, Xicana activist, and most importantly the mother of two sons. She is an indigenous womxn of Dine/Azteca descent, fighting for future generations and committed to relating climate justice to social justice. She is the founder of several organizations, including Womxn From The Mountain. Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez is a Sicangu Lakota and Chicana, born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She is the Director of Operations and Secretary for the International Indigenous Youth Council and co-founder of Womxn From The Mountain. Micaela’s continued pursuit is to help spread awareness and stop the violence that our womxn and our two-spirit people have endured for centuries. I STILL EXIST consists of six inkjet prints mounted on aluminum. This exhibit is a collaboration between Womxn From The Mountain Collective and Spirit of the Sun. Please support Spirit of the Sun for victim advocacy training, self defense classes, and supplies. For more information please visit: www.womxnfromthemountain.com and www.spiritofthesun.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1630354894074-ZRNPE1UTTA6OQWX315ML/AAA-GALANIN-WWW-02.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out July 2-August 29, 2021 Never Forget Nicholas Galanin east window is honored to present Nicholas Galanin's Never Forget, a revisioning of the iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles California, one of the world's most evocative symbols for ambition, assimilation, misrepresentation and the impacts of settler colonialism. The sign, initially spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND, was erected to promote a whites-only real estate development in 1923. The burgeoning film industry of that time, advancing a white settler mythology of America as the land of the free & home of the brave, attempted to cinematize the surrounding landscape — the ancestral lands of the Tongva and the Cahuilla people, through the same lens. Never Forget directs us towards the possibility of transferring land titles and management back to local Indigenous communities, while reminding us that land acknowledgments become only performative when they do not explicitly support the land back movement. Never Forget refuses to legitimize settler occupation, and reframes a word of generic reduction to a call for collective action. Nicholas Galanin's original sculpture is made of Iron, Paint, and Steel, measuring over 59’ x 360’, and was constructed as part of the Desert X Biennial in Palm Springs, California earlier this year. Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit / Unangax̂) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in his perspective as an Indigenous man, connected to the land and culture he belongs to. With incisive and critical observation, Galanin's work advocates for social and environmental justice, centering Indigeneity through concept, form, image, and sound. Galanin celebrates the beauty, knowledge and resilience of Indigenous people. His work counters assimilation; insisting on differences as strengths; working to envision, build and support Indigenous sovereignty. The artist's work has ranged across media, materials and processes over the past twenty years, including sculpture, installation, photography, video and music. Galanin holds a BFA from London Guildhall University in Jewellery Design and an MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts from Massey University in New Zealand, prior to which he apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers in his community; he is represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York, his music is released by Sub Pop Records in Seattle. Archival pigment print - Mounted on aluminum - 79" x 48" - © Nicholas Galanin and Lance Gerber - 2021 Photo: courtesy Nicholas Galanin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1658926530454-VKQEG3YL6OGYAMQJ8J7V/MAGDELENA-WWW+01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out April 5 - July 28, 2022 Two Spirit Lakota Photographs by Magdalena Wosinska east window 4949 Broadway Unit 102-B Boulder Colorado 80304 Hours: 10am - 10pm Magdalena Wosinska was invited to spend several weeks in Pine Ridge Indian reservation, photographing her series "Two Spirit Lakota". Twelve images excerpted from this series will be on view at east window from April 5 - July 28, 2022. Wosinska's series shows an essential humanity, beauty and complexity of the Two-Spirit community in Pine Ridge, which is often subject to harsh or sensationalized headlines. The photographer states, “I wanted to show the pride, the freedom to be who you are, their confidence and empowerment". Wosinska’s early personal work, documenting the lives of her friends emerging from the skate and metal music scenes, reveals her willingness to challenge accepted norms for a female photographer. In her efforts to explore complex topics, she documents diverse groups of people in diverse settings. From transgender skate crews, to cowboys in South Central, Wosinska brings a both compassionate and critical eye to settings that are thought-provoking, beautiful, and at times even controversial, always inspiring the viewer to abandon passivity and question what they are seeing. Magdalena Wosinska was born in Katowice, near Krakow in Poland, in 1983. She arrived in the USA in 1991 and lived in Arizona before settling in Los Angeles in 2004. Images: Courtesy Magdalena Wosinska https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1638130255099-PELAKF6I0JLKASQ9VLPN/will-01-www-SML.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out September 1 - November 28, 2021 The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) Photographs by Will Wilson Wilson (Diné) observes that American culture remains enamored of one particular moment in a photographic exchange between Euro-American and Aboriginal American societies: the decades from 1907 to 1930 when photographer Edward S. Curtis produced “The North American Indian” photographic series. For many people even today, Native people remain frozen in time in Curtis’s romanticised and stereotypical portraits. Wilson’s CIPX project intends to challenge the documentary mission of Curtis from the standpoint of a 21st century indigenous, trans-customary, cultural practitioner, supplanting Curtis’s Settler gaze and the old paradigm of assimilation with a re-imagined vision of the complex identities of contemporary Native people. Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, and was awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, and the University of Arizona. He managed the National Vision Project, a Ford Foundation funded initiative at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and helped to coordinate the New Mexico Arts Temporary Installations Made for the Environment (TIME) program on the Navajo Nation. Wilson is part of the Science and Arts Research Collaborative (SARC) which brings together artists interested in using science and technology in their practice with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia Labs as part of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, 2012 (ISEA). Recently, Wilson completed an exhibition and artist residency at the Denver Art Museum and is currently the King Fellow artist in residence at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1638130735762-AB3S4C8MR06DD9NDH43J/KACY-WWW-00.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out June 1 - November 1, 2021 This exhibit was held at 1647 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO 80302 Kacy Jung’s series Gordian Knot addresses the ways in which culture and identity are shaped by capitalism. Jung states, "...with this work, I am trying to respond to questions that are always haunting me. What blinds us from the world and ourselves? What makes us and humanity distorted? How does capital influence our current social-political system? What is this system becoming and what is the American dream that we now believe in?" east window thought the Pearl Street location was perfect for Kacy's work as it's a street with heavy commerce in Boulder Colorado. It's a complex area of development as well as many recently abandoned businesses, and of multi-generational as well as houseless residents. Kacy Jung is a Taiwanese visual artist working with photography, photo-sculpture, and site-specific installation based in San Francisco. Kacy's works have been shown/awarded internationally. She is the acceptant of the Harlan Jackson Diversity Scholarship and Headlands Affiliate Artist Program. Her works have been shown at The Untitled Space Gallery in New York, Hastings College in Nebraska, Berkeley Art Museum in California, and multiple galleries in the USA and Taiwan. Thank you to Andrew Ghadimi for making this space available to east window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5740a2a1-d1fd-4da4-8a2c-e382ab35eebe/PLENTYWOLF-WWW-01A.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Thanks to everyone who helped to make such a wonderful gathering at East Window! Chief Lee PlentyWolf, Charlie PlentyWolf, Eryn Lula PlentyWolf, Red Feather Woman, The PlentyWolf Singers, Xae Rios, Felix Evans, Amanda Coslor all of the amazing craftspersons and of course all of you who showed up to support the PlentyWolf Youth Medicine Program and Indigenous Peoples Month. DAILY CAMERA ARTICLE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1658270073296-TUYWEN81JW04MR3Y7R73/DISGUST-01-WWW.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out April 7th - June 28th 2022 DISGUST: unhealthy practices Curated by Todd Edward Herman east window SOUTH 4949 Broadway Unit 102-C Boulder, Colorado 80304 PURCHASE BOOK HERE DISGUST: unhealthy practices", a group exhibit curated by Todd Edward Herman, filmmaker, photographer and founding director of east window, is the culmination of an open call for work by nearly one hundred writers and visual artists around the world. DISGUST is often seen as the bridge between our moral imperatives and the wilds of survival; the cusp of emotion and instinct. Activated in response to what we perceive or imagine as revolting, sick, infectious, diseased, contaminated and thereby threatening, disgust signals our awareness of fissures between feelings of safety and peril, stability and insecurity; of disjunctions that threaten facets of our personal identity and society at large. Our collective actions relative to our experiences of disgust often bear witness to damaging prejudices and rhetorics, which attempt to conflate those who we perceive as different from ourselves, socially, culturally, politically, sexually, religiously, in age or ability, with vectors of physical or moral contamination. To be clear, this project aims to confront, subvert and transform these prejudices, not reinforce them. The images and texts which comprise this international group exhibit freely explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. We see works grappling with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups. What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions? The often volatile emotions expressed through the works in this project make it easy to assume that the only story they tell is one of adversarial engagement and oppression. However, is it possible that through these many evocations of violated personal and collective borders, a peculiar sense of solidarity is being revealed? For when an out-group, seen from any side, becomes so close as to be indiscernible from ourselves isn't that when it becomes most threatening? -- Todd Edward Herman 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1604201172396-2BB0SPZ53SG5JREWK8XX/AMIR-FINAL-past-01-RS.jpg 2020-2022 October 29, 2020 SHORT FILMS BY AMIR GEORGE Running Time 11 minutes Screens repeatedly between 7 - 9pm Amir George is a filmmaker and curator, based in Chicago. He is the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination, a touring program of short experimental films and video, focusing on new stories within the diaspora and the boundaries and limitations historically given to people of color in film. As an artist, George creates spiritual stories and fragmented vignettes populated by characters who tend to dwell outside of social norms. October 29th's program: Black Gold: A treasure hunt. Vicissitude: A change of fortune occurs for a winged being. Based on an experience with Erin Christovale. Music and Vocals by Titus Wonsey. The Encompassed Wisdom of the Inevitable Manifestation: A spell casting of images guided by a voice in the night; recollections of Black Jesus. Black Chains: Found footage music video for the rap artist formerly known as Supertoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a7697b7f-387d-4a8d-bde7-982377312d80/CRISOSTO+READ-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out November 11, 2022 Poetry Reading by Crisosto Apache and Others 7-9pm The New East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico (US), on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, currently lives in the Denver metro area in Colorado, with their spouse. They are Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the 'Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the Kinyaa'áanii (Towering House Clan) and are Assistant Professor of English at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They hold an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Crisosto’s debut collection is GENESIS (Lost Alphabet). Crisosto’s second forthcoming collection is Ghostword out by Gnashing Teeth Publication mid-2022. Some of the poems in this collection have appeared in The Rumpus, Loch Raven Review, the Poetry Foundation’s POETRY Magazine, ANMLY Magazine, Digging Through The Fat, McGraw Hill Publishing, and most recently When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (WW Norton), edited by Joy Harjo, et. al. They continue advocacy work for the Native American LGBTQ / ‘two-spirit’ identity. Joining Crisosto for this evening of poetry are Mariana Bastias, Benjamin Burney, and T.M. Spring, all of whom were carefully selected by our curator for the evening, Emily Berkes. Mariana Bastias is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Creative Writing and Psychology, and intends on becoming a full-time writer. She intertwines her passion for storytelling into her poetry. Born in Tulsa, OK, J. Benjamin Burney is receiving his master’s in Fine Art and Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Benjamin is a poet who specializes in creating immersive installations using performance and mixed media art. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Zoid Art Haus, a design house based in Denver, Colorado that uses storytelling to create experiences, products, and services geared toward making a more inclusive, equitable, and empathetic society. Having experienced a near-death experience in 2013, T.M. Spring returned to this life committed to the path of art and storytelling. Photography is her daily meditation, a consciousness of presence and attention. Ms. Spring is a survivor of cancer, sexual assault, and domestic violence. She lives with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), along with chronic pain and physical limitations from the traumas and her words illustrate her experiences and visions of love and interconnectedness among all living things of this Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1614555892505-E80Y3XCUOKYSCOY6QJ9V/COE-WWW-02.jpg 2020-2022 February 1-27, 2021 Sue Coe painter and printmaker, has worked at the juncture of art and social activism to expose injustices and abuses of power, since the 1970s. Thinking of herself as an activist first and artist second, Sue has trained her gaze on a wide variety of ills, translating such diverse topics as the perils of apartheid, the life of Malcolm X, and the horror that is the American meat industry into searing social-political artworks, exhibitions and books. Coe has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, Art News, The Nation, among countless others. Her works are part of numerous museum collections and exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1. Coe was awarded the prestigious Dickinson College Arts Award in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and most recently the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award by The Southern Graphics Council in Atlanta, Georgia. east window is honored to host her work this month. On view: "We are Many. They are Few" - Copyright © 2020 Sue Coe - Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne Inkjet print mounted on aluminum - 72" x 48" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/aeccbc4e-9431-4e37-8028-2280730820c2/SHAME-+WWW.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out SHAME RADIANT March 1st - April 24th 2021 Facilitating a survey-exhibit about our experiences with shame began by asking the questions: What can we learn about how we regulate, uphold or challenge social norms, hierarchies or transgressions when shame is activated? How can this powerful moral emotion turn inward, to ourselves, to our bodies, often catalyzing self-harm, self-negation, self-reflection, self-evaluation as well as healing? A forum for such queries seems particularly relevant at a time when our respective relationships to a climate of amplified national and global conservatism, xenophobia, racism, transphobia, homophobia, and ableism have been significantly challenged. I invited photographers, writers, visual artists, and non-artists from around the world to make work that collectively addressed their experiences with shame. The nearly 300 photographs, collages, drawings, and texts that were submitted in response look at deeply intimate, broadly political, emotional, physical, social, sexual, interpersonal, intergenerational, and institutional aspects of shame. “Shame Radiant” hopes to offer an opportunity for participants as well as viewers to explore more of the personhood and less of the pathology of our collective as well as our outlying experiences of shame. Shame Radiant books have officially arrived! 250 copies have been printed and they are ready to be released into the wild. You can purchase copies below. Thanks again and please stay tuned for future calls from east window. Purchase Book Statement Download RedLine Images Denver Post Review Femme Salée Salon Trident Booksellers and Café https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1596564605270-YEWCBLQS7SS2FLKMQTP3/FEARS-+PAST-02.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1601572093751-ZXB1JXL3Q9SJ1SZHZ6AR/EASTWINDOW-SKY-www.jpg 2020-2022 September 30, 2020 THREE SHORT FILMS BY SKY HOPINKA 7 - 9pm Sky Hopinka is from the Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. He is a videomaker, photographer, writer, musician and activist. Sky's poetic and visually complex moving image works explore personal positions of homeland, landscape, and the precarity and preservation of indigenous languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1618717005373-HUCQ0HFM51AUSKVUXB01/stitch-www-06.jpg 2020-2022 April 17, 2021 east window presents textile artist Heather D. Schulte's Stitching the Situation: A Collaborative Memorial Of COVID-19 In The U.S. Stitching the Situation is an ongoing and collaborative project, recording diverse individual and community experiences in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic through community cross-stitching gatherings. This project is an extension of Heather’s textile work, Situation Report a daily cross-stitch documentation of the coronavirus case and death counts in the U.S. The Situation Report panels began as the artist’s way to record cases in the US, and translate them visually with stitch. As cases grew, she could not stitch each individual case or death herself, and began hosting in-person stitching sessions with her neighbors. These panels are now traveling to other areas, as it is safe to do so, inviting more people to contribute their hands and time, marking the impact of the virus on our lives, and sharing their own stories of these times with each other. In a time when gathering in person is difficult, the size and scope of the work offers a socially distanced opportunity to come together creatively, while still respecting public health and safety measures. For more information about this project visit: www.stitchingthesituation.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/740b4ae0-03ce-4395-a566-8ed671c8cb81/PLENTYWOLF-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out November 27th 2022 Indigenous People’s Month, Celebration and Community Gathering with The PlentyWolf Medicine Youth Program 1-5pm The New East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 DAILY CAMERA ARTICLE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1604201304033-ICUZF8AMFEVGM90QZPCD/AMIR-FINAL-past-02-RS.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1614555976232-FRTRXKEFSJKCDSVP1UZU/COE-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648619836487-FVYN8Y6GQ79ZXC7AU74L/DREAD+SML+03.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out February 4 - March 31, 2022 Honey don't be afraid. White people aren’t real. Dread Scott is a visual artist whose work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989, his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dread became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others defied the a federal law outlawing his art by burning flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. He has presented at TED talk on this. His work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Jack Shainman Gallery, and Gallery MOMO in Cape Town, South Africa, and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He is a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has also received fellowships form Open Society Foundations and United States Artists as well as a Creative Capital grant. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community engaged project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. The project was featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Christiane Amanpour on CNN and highlighted by artnet.com as one of the most important artworks of the decade. east window 4949 Broadway Unit 102-B Boulder, Colorado 80304 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c9476a28-2a2f-4784-87e4-a9ed4dfeb192/www-disgust.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out DISGUST: unhealthy practices April 7th - June 28th 2022 A group exhibit curated by Todd Edward Herman, filmmaker, photographer and founding director of east window, is the culmination of an open call for work by nearly one hundred writers and visual artists around the world. DISGUST is often seen as the bridge between our moral imperatives and the wilds of survival; the cusp of emotion and instinct. Activated in response to what we perceive or imagine as revolting, sick, infectious, diseased, contaminated and thereby threatening, disgust signals our awareness of fissures between feelings of safety and peril, stability and insecurity; of disjunctions that threaten facets of our personal identity and society at large. Our collective actions relative to our experiences of disgust often bear witness to damaging prejudices and rhetorics, which attempt to conflate those who we perceive as different from ourselves, socially, culturally, politically, sexually, religiously, in age or ability, with vectors of physical or moral contamination. To be clear, this project aims to confront, subvert and transform these prejudices, not reinforce them. The images and texts which comprise this international group exhibit freely explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. We see works grappling with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups. What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions? The often volatile emotions expressed through the works in this project make it easy to assume that the only story they tell is one of adversarial engagement and oppression. However, is it possible that through these many evocations of violated personal and collective borders, a peculiar sense of solidarity is being revealed? For when an out-group, seen from any side, becomes so close as to be indiscernible from ourselves isn't that when it becomes most threatening? -- Todd Edward Herman 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1667324221162-MTMT3POT3F8WNZ8CZTAO/MARINA-WWW+PAST+01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out August 25 - October 28, 2022 GEOMETRIC FRUSTRATIONS Marina Kassianidou is a visual artist whose work focuses on relationships between mark and surface. Her current practice combines painting, drawing, collage, installation, and site-responsive work. She lives and works between Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Limassol, Cyprus. She graduated from Stanford University, where she was a CASP/Fulbright scholar, with degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science (both with Distinction). Upon graduation, she was awarded the Arthur Giese Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting by the Stanford University Department of Art and Art History. She obtained an M.A. in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK. In 2015, she completed a Ph.D. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK. She has exhibited her work in Australia, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the USA. Group exhibitions include Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial: Errors Allowed (Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy), Tradition Today: Exploring Conditions to Recreate It (House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece), Limassol: The Aftermath of Development (First Municipal Housing Buildings, Limassol, Cyprus), Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of Photography and Archaeology (NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus), WADS (Ars Electronica 2020), and The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020 (New York, USA). She has had solo exhibitions at Gloria Gallery and Thkio Ppalies in Nicosia, Cyprus, The Center for Drawing, Tenderpixel Gallery, and Chelsea College of Arts in London, UK, North Branch Projects in Chicago, Illinois, Yes Ma’am Projects in Denver, Colorado, and the Moreau Center for the Arts in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her work is found in several private and public collections, including the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. Selected awards include grants from the A. G. Leventis Foundation and fellowships at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Ragdale Foundation, and Residencia Internacional de Arte Can Serrat. She is a recipient of the 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her writings have appeared in the journals RevistArquis, The International Journal of the Image, and Journal of Contemporary Painting, among others. She has published the books How to Know: A Space (Nicosia: Thkio Ppalies, 2016), Μπαίνοντας στην εικόνα οι λέξεις (Nicosia: EI.KA, 2017), and Exercise Book (Nicosia: P. S. Artist Led Projects, 2018). This exhibit received funding and support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and NEST studio for the arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1595794471611-EYA5U3OFTJGGCP9C69S4/FEARS-+PAST.jpg 2020-2022 June 1 - July 28, 2020 Michael Bernard Loggins FEARS OF YOUR LIFE features excerpts from Michael’s unique handwritten book of the same name. The author battles his fears by listing more than 138 of them. In a recent edition of the cult classic made famous by NPR's This American Life 60 new pages of illustrated portraits are included from the previously unpublished HOW FEARFUL CAN YOU BE? With a new preface by Harrell Fletcher. Michael’s books are available through Manic D Press. Michael is a writer and visual artist who worked with Creativity Explored an art studio for adults with disabilities in San Francisco, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1601347201640-EGNKGJ13BHMOT2NF4VM0/MBL_EASTWINDOW+copyeastwindow_kellye.jpg 2020-2022 September 1 - 27, 2020 Kellye Eisworth east window presents excerpts from Kellye Eisworth’s TOPOGRAPHIES OF PAIN, a series of photographs exploring the ethical implications of the act of bearing witness to the pain of others. Eisworth states, "This relationship relies on the willingness of both participants to see and be seen by the other. Their shared vulnerability collapses distinctions between self and other, where the pain of revealing and the pain of looking at that which is revealed, converge". Kellye Eisworth is a Los Angeles-based photographer. While much of her work is autobiographical, her photographs often enter into dialogues about larger social norms, exploring themes of memory, pain, vulnerability, and the concepts of innate and constructed identity. The exhibit consists of five pigment prints on aluminum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1609888348921-N3UAV9AWEOKUQFV5WN2R/susanne-www-02.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1618717551365-CLPAZ11RKF4EUDGBYKSA/stitch-www-07.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1643324889024-64J7OCL9LQ0HMOIQZ3OE/DONA-WWW-00.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out December 1, 2021 - January 28, 2022 THE SILHOUETTE PROJECT Stories of Cancer Through the Lens of Love Photographer Dona Laurita’s third incarnation of The Silhouette Project tells the stories of young people’s experiences fighting, surviving, and living with cancer, drawing attention to the underrepresented AYA (adolescent and young adult) cancer community. Through silhouetted images colored by text taken from spoken interviews, The Silhouette Project tells the stories that make these journeys unique and illuminate the aspects that unite the AYA community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1643324940025-Q9M253QUGCD2SH07NP5Q/DONA+LINDSAY+SML.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1611869464158-899TY7FT8417JXY9YJ10/sandie+www+image.jpg 2020-2022 January 3 - 29, 2021 Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi Our ideas of body image are constantly bombarded by the constructs of racism, sexism, ageism, consumerism and ableism. Disabled women are often seen as asexual. Traditionally they are taught to conform to non-disabled beauty standards by passing or hiding their impairments, thereby denying their self-value. Sandie Yi creates a counter-narrative to myths and stereotypes about disability, which she calls Crip Couture, a form of wearable art that centers on the histories and narratives generated within and performed by the disabled body through everyday social, cultural and political interaction. Her work aims to facilitate dialogue between the wearers and the viewers of these objects. Yi has merged the idea of prosthetics — which aim to create more-or-less standardized body form and function — and jewelry to make a range of garments, accessories and footwear. Rather than rejecting the notion of physical alteration, Yi has created intimate and empathetic bodily adornments, not as correctional physical aids, but as tools for engaging with newly embodied, deeply personal standards of physical comfort and self-defined ideals of beauty. As a collection of wearable works, Yi’s Crip Couture has explored the impact of ethical and medical decisions made about the body; the boundary between ethics and aesthetics; the idea of the body in flux; and body ownership (reclaiming the body). Yi’s wearable objects and their wearers call for a recognition of collective Crip experiences and suggest the possibility for a new genre of wearable art; Disability Fashion. Yi consistently reinvents the meanings of disabled bodies. Four inkjet prints mounted on aluminum will be on view. Read the article by Caitlin Rockett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648619884349-VF090EH8IWTKDG1EX5N2/DREAD+SML+01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1617303506954-GYGSASJJ1XU4K57UXE0Q/eastwindow-sonia2-RS.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1627171424401-8MVRBQWWJSTCRDAHGLK9/POETRY-MUSIC-MOON-SML.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out July 24, 2021 Readings, Music and a Full Moon 6:30pm east window invites you to join us for an evening of live musical performance and readings of poetry and fiction by: Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Junior Burke, Hillary Leftwich, Jade Lascelles, Max Davies, and surprise guests. NoBo Art Center 4929 Broadway Boulder, Colorado 80304 USA Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado in a Victorian-era farmhouse with her family where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. In addition to being faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, she runs her own creative writing workshop series, (W)rites of Passage. She is currently working on a novel titled Roadside Altars, a novella tentatively titled Just Like Heaven, and maybe a short story collection she'll call Tales of Dead Children. When she isn't reading, writing, or teaching, you can find her daydreaming, making collages, taking moonlit walks around the ponds and prairies that surround her rental, or soaking in a bath with so much salt it might as well be the sea. Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/TheAccomplices 2019). Her hybrid memoir, Aura, is forthcoming from Future Tense Books in 2022. She is the founder and owner of AlchemyAuthor Services & Workshop and teaches creative writing at LighthouseWriters. She focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma,mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. She is an intuitive Tarologist and has been reading Tarot for over 25 years coupled with her clair abilities. She is a registered member of the Tarosophy Tarot Association and The Monroe Institute, and is a student at The College of Psychic Studies. She teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities, as well as writing. She lives in Denver with her partner, son, and cat, Larry. Toni Oswald is a writer & musician who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego, The Diary of Ic Explura, & her most recent publications include The Oyez Review, Heroes Are Gang Leader’s Gianthology, & The Tattered Press. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, and a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her first book, Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her partner Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Musician, producer and songwriter Max Davies' music has been described as "searing, soaring, and resonant". Guitarist magazine described his solo album "In The Realms Of The Mercury Halo" as "vivid", and "yearns with a sorrowful gravitas." His diverse musical work on guitar, and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist, has been featured at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the Everest Awakening benefit album, and has also been featured in live performance, on many albums, interdisciplinary collaborations, and films. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Steven Taylor, Junior Burke, Julie Patton, Gregory Alan Isakov, Gasoline Lollipops, and many others. His song Written in Water was recently featured on Australian label Cosmic Coffin's compilation Volume 1. His newest single, Meanwhile, was released earlier this year. Junior Burke’s songs have been performed and recorded by a wide array of artists, including Bob Dylan and Richie Havens, earning him a Gold Record and a Cable Ace Award. Burke is also a novelist, whose most recent book, The Cold Last Swim, was published by Gibson House Press. He lives outside of Boulder. Jade Lascelles is a writer, editor, drummer, and letterpress printer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her written and visual work has been included in several literary journals and anthologies, the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill, and gallery spaces across the western US. Keep an eye out for her book The Inevitable (forthcoming from Gesture Press in August 2021) and a soon-to-be-released covers album with the band Pantherette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1604200583034-NPF3K7JXE4NAIJJUKLGI/PAULA-FINAL-past-RS.jpg 2020-2022 Paula Gillen : CELEBRITY MASK October 1 - 28, 2020 east window presents excerpts from Paula Gillen’s CELEBRITY MASK. Gillen's collage series, which unpacks the notion that being a woman in society is very much like being one’s own doppelgänger, watching oneself being watched. Her collages overtly re-stage the techniques and content of mainstream media practices, subverting the original intention and revealing new social and political interpretations. Paula's current work continues to examine women’s roles, gender performativity and patriarchal hierarchies. Six archival pigment prints are currently on view at east window. For information on purchasing these works contact Paula directly: www.paulagillen.net Please have a look at Paula's concurrent exhibit at Ten-Nineteen Gallery in New Orleans through October 17, 2020. And her interview with art critic Wendy Vogel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1625031532524-8A42VU3FUX3UZTIX8Q4Y/HEXUS+-+LAURA-FINAL-WWW.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out June 1-29, 2021 Hexus Collective Chronic mental and physical illnesses are those various body and mind experiences rarely seen in public but which are always present. Individuals with these conditions undergo painful sensations that regularly call for constant care and dependency on self, partners, and technology. Hexus Collective’s installation Zones of Invisibility (Holy Body Bag) ruminates on the “invisibility of chronic illness” offering viewers a crucial understanding of the physicality, spirituality, and dimensionality of crip conditions. Hexus is a semi-anonymous, artist-led, performance and curatorial collective seeking, finding and promoting mysticism through visual, performance and sound art. Their work is rooted in alterity theory and concerned especially with intersectional activism encompassing disability, queer folks, cyberfeminism, alliances with BIPOC communities, and anticapitalist analysis. Full Statement Boulder Weekly Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1638131332165-CF5OA7M743M4QGGCM1TR/KACY-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648620823588-HTGXFDF9JZNVU8QGC2E4/ANDRE+SML+01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1627448520756-SYE6OI01VFEH07CSZM7G/TONI-WWW-09-SML.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1629389791934-5J4CHGDQE7590VJKGG5T/jen+workshop+02SML-WWW.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1633041934595-67YJKZYOLPO7DPMBIQN6/TONI-WORKSHOP-WWW-AA.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out September 29, 2021 CUT-UP AND COLLAGE WORKSHOP WITH TONI OSWALD Bus Stop Gallery 6:30pm 4895 Broadway Boulder Colorado 80304 USA Many thanks to all of you for showing up for Toni Oswald’s CUT-UP and COLLAGE workshop. Immeasurable thanks to Toni for facilitating such an amazing evening! And thank you NoBo Arts District for making The Bus Stop Gallery available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1647655539788-J7XD4MILCPIE39VEIDMC/cu-www-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2022 Ecological World Views in Southeast Asian Video A big Thank you to everyone who made the "Ecological World Views in Southeast Asian Video" screenings possible. An amazing series guest-curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Department of Art & Art History; thank you so much Brianne! Thank you to the Museum of Boulder and Kayla Simmering for housing the screenings and for their hospitality. Thanks to all of the CU Boulder students as well as members of the general public who showed up to make the discussions following each screening so engaging. And of course immeasurable thanks to Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Khvay Samnang, Nguyễn Trinh Thi and UuDam Tran Nguyễn for their vision and impeccable videos. This series is guest curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Colorado Boulder. Cohen researches and teaches courses on art concerned with public sphere formation, decolonization, political violence, and ecology and environmentalism. She co-edited the volume, The Photofilmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Cornell University Press, 2016), and her book Preventive Publics: Contemporary Art and Nonviolence in 21st-Century Europe (forthcoming with Duke University Press in spring 2023) examines contemporary art that grapples with cross-cultural affiliation and the active imagining of nonviolence in 21st-century Europe. Her new research addresses questions of ecological devastation and the formation of critical publics in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Singapore. UuDam Tran Nguyen, Serpents’ Tails (2015), 15 minutes A short documentary of the acclaimed performance Rồng Rắn Lên (Serpents' Tails), an immersive installation of motorbikes whose exhaust systems seem to inflate, feed, and give flight to tubular “serpents”. In Nguyen’s metaphor, humanity wrestles with the by-products of its industry, which continue to wreak environmental imbalance and destruction. Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires (2107), 19 minutes In this film Vietnamese-American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn studies the relationship between humankind and animals, endangered and extinct species, and their symbolic and historic meanings. These investigations are specific to Vietnam’s current state of development, but the broad relationships mirror the global crisis of animal extinction. Khvay Samnang, Popil (2018), 22 minutes Khvay’s work critically interrogates the multidimensional character of rituals and politics; exposing the humanitarian and ecological impacts of globalization and its concomitant links to the waves of colonialism and migration which continually demarcate and define the spaces and temporalities of Southeast Asia. Popil develops a complex choreography based around the symbolism of the dragon; which both plays towards Euro-America’s tendency to employ the motif as a blanket symbol for much of East/Southeast Asia, as well as allows for an examination of the manner in which such iconography speaks towards a specifically Chinese or Cambodian mode of identity formation. Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Letters from Panduranga (2015), 35 minutes An essay film in the form of a letter exchange, Nguyễn’s personal and poetic film explores the complex legacy of cultural and historical occupation and its ongoing presence in the indigenous Cham community. Stay tuned for more programs by east window in partnership with CU Boulder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1598549739726-EE8D2DA7J9KJ49VFHR3V/DANIEL-GREEN+WWW+04.jpg 2020-2022 Black August "August is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us...The spirit of Black August moves through centuries of Black, Indian and multi-cultural resistance. It is an emblem of the spirit of freedom.” Mumia Abu Jamal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1658271150879-QRRAMYZ9BFENE0C72VSK/DISGUST-collage-WWW.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1598549703921-7UVDONWNNE2WBGBTQJV8/DANIEL-GREEN+WWW+03.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4c371c9a-1d8b-42a4-9353-88bb7ba711b5/CAROLYN-COVID-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out December 9th 2022 Reading by Carolyn Kerchof Boulder COVID Stories East Window is happy to host a reading from Carolyn Kerchof's COVID Stories. Kerchof will read excerpts from “Boulder Covid Stories: Notes from the Pandemic”. This event is to celebrate the author’s official launch of the book this month. The publication is a printed collection of creative nonfiction stories that are based on interviews with people who openly shared how the pandemic has impacted them. This carefully cultivated collection of nonfiction is a meditation on community and our anxieties about the spaces around us, both public and private. Q&A to follow Carolyn's reading Kerchof is a communication designer who has worked in academic settings, care contexts, and on sustainability initiatives. Currently based in Boulder, Colo., the writer and graphic designer focuses her work on building community through print media. Over the course of her career, Kerchof has created over twenty magazines and zines. Tune into KGNU’s Morning Magazine where Carolyn Kerchof will talk about the making of her book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1627448560544-4ULTV3H3RRK179M4KI6K/TONI-WWW-10-SML.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/30e5be3a-7320-4e55-9dd0-e2a48b864e8b/TONI+WORKSHOP-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out November 12th 2022 Transmissions in the Field of the Ecstatic a workshop facilitated by Toni Oswald Presented byThe Dairy Arts Center and East Window as part of the 2023 Month of Photography Festival A writing and visual art workshop on the theme of Joy. What makes you belly laugh? How do you feel when you dance with abandon? How do you experience sitting in the middle of a grove of trees? Participants explored the senses, wrote, collaged, and painted their way towards the joy of the creative act in an attempt to return to that sense of wonder that we all knew as children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1606505020276-8FC8J5GQSK0B9TVLWTCL/A-WFM-03.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1625103418150-VSTA7HB78F2421FYINPC/sins-www-grid.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out June 30, 2021 8:30 pm Running Time: 32 min SINS INVALID : AN UNSHAMED CLAIM TO BEAUTY IN THE FACE OF INVISIBILITY This documentary witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, Sins Invalid’s performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1609887954765-NTXY7OAPID9UR754U1PQ/susanne-www-01.jpg 2020-2022 December 1, 2020 - January 5, 2021 Susanne Mitchell Susanne Mitchell combines a variety of images and materials in her work tracking the legacy of colonialism from Africa to America. Mitchell’s unsettling juxtapositions generate complex metaphors for the painful history of colonialism in Malawi, where her extended family lives, as well as a means to contemplate current issues and future developments in Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1625152352412-UCBKPCBF0B5F6EYBLOD4/sins-screen.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648620667992-N270OH1F120EOWBXJS7E/ANDRE+SML+03.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out January 11 - March 31, 2022 AFRICAN-AMERICA: Contempt of Greasy Pigs André Ramos-Woodard Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Andre Ramos-Woodard is a contemporary artist whose works evoke feelings of dreams and surrealistic narrative. Primarily working with photography and collage, he conveys ideas of communal and personal identity through internal conflicts. Ramos-Woodard is influenced by personal experiences he went through while discovering his own identity – he is queer and African-American, both of which are well-known targets for discrimination. He uses his art to accent the ideas of separation between him and the viewer, specifically those that may not resonate with the ideas of the “Other” or problems within minority groups in contemporary culture. Ramos-Woodard received his BFA from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and has recently completed his MFA at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Andre’s exhibit will opened east window’s new gallery east window SOUTH. east window SOUTH 4949 Broadway Unit 102-C Boulder, Colorado 80304 Opening reception on Thursday January 13th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm COLORADO DAILY Article DARIA ART MAGAZINE Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1598548606150-THRSU6YWORD811J1C89C/DANIEL-GREEN+WWW+02.jpg 2020-2022 August 1 - 27, 2020 Daniel Green Daniel Green’s artwork conveys an intense and playful fascination with American entertainment and popular culture. Working on wood, cardboard, and paper, Green uses ink to draw figures from television, politics, sports, or history, and then carefully lists dates, titles of shows and songs, cities, and names. Within the dense repetition of his lists we find brief, but direct, personal statements, which comment on his immediate environment and concerns. Daniel’s work has been exhibited internationally. Green began working at Creativity Explored, an art studio for adults with developmental disabilities in San Francisco, California in 2008. Creativity Explored was was launched by Florence and Elias Katz in 1983, sparked by a worldwide movement toward the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities, and a growing advocacy for their dignity and self-determination. For over 36 years Creativity Explored has facilitated the careers of hundreds of artists with disabilities by offering space, support and representation. Daniel Green’s artwork is reproduced with permission from www.creativityexplored.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1601572178041-DT3EHM9MGGPTV8SE6VAT/eastwindow_skyscreening.jpg 2020-2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1629389533901-O78HWUZ4N57LF4NN3H8U/jen+workshop+01SML-WWW.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out August 18, 6:30pm MDT FRAGMENTATION / AMALGAMATION / TRANSFORMATION NoBo's Thistle Community Gallery 4871 Broadway Boulder Colorado 80304 USA Many thanks to all of you for showing up for installment #2 of FRAGMENTATION / AMALGAMATION / TRANSFORMATION, a cut-up + collage + mixed media workshop on the theme of DISGUST. Immeasurable thanks to Jenny Lorenne for facilitating another amazing evening! Thank you Harris Armstrong for this evening's documentation and NoBo Arts District for making Thistle Community Gallery available for tonight's workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1630355226152-C6OSJGIVO6BLDS0Z3BAA/AAA-GALANIN-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1622388500230-I637HGASS8DE4P0LWVI8/image-asset.jpeg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out April 1-May 27, 2021 Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a provocative contemporary artist who challenges Western perceptions of Indigenous people, touching on issues of race, history, cultural erasure and stereotypes. Through his work—paintings, murals work, performance art, filmmaking and spoken word—Deal critically examines issues and tells stories of decolonization and appropriation that affect Indian Country. Deal’s activism exists in his art, as well as his participation in political movements. Deal was included in the National Geographic Society Magazine article “Native Americans are Recasting Views of Indigenous Life.” Deal was Native Arts Artist-in-Residence at Denver Art Museum and Artist-In-Residence at UC Berkeley. His art has been exhibited nationally since 2002. Deal has lectured widely at prominent educational institutions and museums, including Denver Art Museum, Dartmouth College Columbia University, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. His television appearances include PBS’s The Art District, The Daily Show and Totally Biased with Kamau Bell. east window is honored to host his work. Above image from "The Others". Deal states “... a new series that re-appropriates old comic book images from the 40's and 50's of Indigenous characters. The dialog is replaced with lyrics from old Punk songs of the 70's, 80's and 90's that resonate with the scene or the greater Indigenous struggle. Each image has been redrawn, recolored and repurposed to embody aspects of stereotype, identity, historical consideration and the intersection of an aspect of American culture (Punk Rock) that has affected my life and has affected innumerable Indigenous youth through the years. These intersections are meant to illustrate the complexity of Indigenous existence, growing up in America amidst things we love and things we hate. While easily viewable as a series of works and speaks to people regardless of connection it has to specific music and bands, it stands on its own illustrating these Indigenous complexities.” Read article in DARIA by Renée Marino May 28, 2021 Screening: The Last American Indian on Earth Running Time: 22 minutes 7pm Free A film by Gregg Deal documenting what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of a stereotype, one that for most is the only authentic expression of what it means to be an Indigenous person of the American continent. This piece is a window into the funny, sarcastic, truthful, and even emotional journey of an artist using himself as an instrument of awareness, exploring questions of Indigenous identity and America’s problematic and often inept relationship with her nation’s First Peoples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1647656012061-42LS05RV9GGSG2WX0U1A/cu-www-04.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out These screenings were funded through a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1667324471664-7FGV47T1N0MW7TTATY33/LEROY-WWW+PAST.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out August 8 - October 31, 2022 Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Ace Robles — KRIP HOP: Volume 1 east window presents excerpts from Leroy F. Moore Jr’s graphic novel, “KRIP HOP: Volume 1” illustrated by Ace Robles. African American, disabled, poet and disability justice activist, Leroy F. Moore Jr. is co-founder of the Emmy award winning and internationally acclaimed Krip Hop Nation, whose mission is to shine a light on the talents, history and rights of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Krip Hop politics, theory and art strive to bring disabilities from the margins to the center of Black cultural, economic, social and political life. Leroy's Krip Hop is a worldwide community of artists where people with disabilities can speak out, about, and back to the social structures that exclude people based on disability, race, sexuality, and many other marginalized identities. Ace Robles is a Filipino American artist. He, his partner and daughter live in the Bay Area where he works hard in the service industry while making revolutionary art for the people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1617303493004-KG4646VQXTSU85COMHIM/eastwindow-sonia-RS.jpg 2020-2022 March 1 - 29, 2021 east window celebrates Month of Photography with Sonia Soberats Sonia Soberats’ relationship with photography didn’t begin until she lost her eyesight to glaucoma in the early 1990’s. Soberats uses the technique of Light Painting -- a photographic process utilizing lengthy exposures in total darkness, and hand-held light sources with which Sonia is able to feel, shape, and embellish her subjects. Sonia is a founding member of the New York based collective for blind photographers, Seeing With Photography. Sonia’s work poses fundamental questions about the relationships between perception, imagination, and creation. Her work has been exhibited in galleries around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1667324317100-U3DM0RNEJFUNSYG284VJ/MARINA-WWW+PAST+02.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out DARIA Art Magazine Review Boulder Weekly Review HYPERALLERGIC Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5e43c803-5c7f-4fa4-ae09-c654e0e4b5c9/JADE+WORKSHOP-WWW-01.jpg 2020-2022 - Make it stand out November 5th 2022 Guerilla Joy a workshop facilitated by Jade Lascelles Presented byThe Dairy Arts Center and East Window as part of the 2023 Month of Photography Festival Jade spoke about pleasure activism (adrienne maree brown) and guerilla art. Participants did some writing and indulged in the sheer joy and curiosity of creating pieces of joyful art to bring out into the world as an act of resistance. https://www.eastwindow.net/current daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1500ae76-1ae8-467e-8523-6bee86694f7f/KALI-WWW-03.jpg current - Make it stand out March 3 - June 28, 2023 As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents: Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories Photographs by Kali Spitzer ARTIST TALK - Kali Spitzer in person March 22nd 2023 7:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth Image: Courtesy Kali Spitzer @2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c75113c8-f786-4c38-b0a5-816b8ef8171a/KALI+TALK+WWW+01.jpg current - Make it stand out Amazing turn out for Kali Spitzer's artist talk . Thank you all so much for showing up for her. And thank you Kali for your insight, vulnerability and brilliance. xo Kali's work will be on view at East Window by appointment through June. Photos by Dona Laurita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/44b22ad9-cd2c-493f-b995-6c24fac418eb/SUE+COE-WWW-000.jpg current - Make it stand out March 3 - June 28, 2023 Sue Coe painter and printmaker, has worked at the juncture of art and social activism to expose injustices and abuses of power, since the 1970s. Thinking of herself as an activist first and artist second, Sue has trained her gaze on a wide variety of ills, translating such diverse topics as the perils of apartheid, the life of Malcolm X, and the horror that is the American meat industry into searing social-political artworks, exhibitions and books. Coe has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, Art News, The Nation, among countless others. Her works are part of numerous museum collections and exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1. Coe was awarded the prestigious Dickinson College Arts Award in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and most recently the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award by The Southern Graphics Council in Atlanta, Georgia. We’re honored to once again host Sue Coe’s work in our exhibit window this month. "We Will Never Go Back" - © Sue Coe - Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c53c710b-d75f-4de1-b776-f35d59418a82/JOYSOME-WWW-02.jpg current - Make it stand out Opening Reception: March 9th from 5-8pm Dairy Arts Centert 2590 Walnut Street Boulder Colorado 80302 Exhibit Dates: March 1 - 31, 2023 East Window has partnered with The Dairy Arts Center during Month of Photography to bring you JOYSOME. JOYSOME consists of fifty images selected from over three hundred responses from around the world to a call for work on the theme of joy. Submitted by artists and non-artists alike, the works in this exhibit span a range of disciplines and affective registers associated with joy— Ecstasy, Transcendence, Sadness, The Fear of Joy, Anger, Mania, Euphoria, Toxic Positivity, The American Dream, The Pursuit of Happiness, Masochism, Selflessness, Success, Sacrifice, Divination, Cuteness, The Sublime, Altruism, and Peace. The selected images are printed on flags and exhibited throughout Boulder Colorado as part of the Month of Photography Festival - March 2023. OUT FRONT MAGAZINE ARTICLE CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PARTNERING LOCATIONS & PARTICIPATING ARTISTS https://www.eastwindow.net/2023 daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5cfac14b-64ab-4931-a1c7-289b969a2796/UNRAVELING+TENSION+WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3cc45f39-c59d-47a1-b719-15a3414d55a7/WWW-FRAME-MAY-2023-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/13363148-016f-457e-885d-ecdcb1e39d7a/BATMANJESUS+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out August 31st - September 2nd BATMANJESUS : Shadows & Salvation by Jonas Leuenberger Sept 1st Opening reception 7pm - 9pm "Intertwined in a captivating fusion, two legendary figures merge. Both epitomizing pop stardom, heroism, and the indomitable spirit of humanity. As the Dark Knight and God's Son unite, a peculiar and surreal persona takes form. Meet the enigmatic and thought-provoking BatmanJesus—a figure that oscillates between humor and absurdity. Through this amalgamation, conversations on representation, identity, and the profound influence of popular culture and imagery on our perception of heroism and faith are sparked. In this extraordinary series of over-paintings, BatmanJesus serves as a commentary on the paradoxical nature of the fair-haired Jesus, concealing the dissonance between historical reality and artistic interpretation beneath a mysterious black mask. The juxtaposition of these iconic symbols invites introspection and prompts us to ponder the complexities of both history and imagination." —Jonas Leuenberger Jonas Leuenberger, a native of Bern, Switzerland, is a versatile artist who combines his talents as a musician and visual artist. With a career spanning from the early 2000s, Jonas has delved into various musical genres, collaborating with esteemed artists such as John Trudell, Hawkfather, Lapcat, Baze, and many others. He has also released music under his own moniker, Kwest. His work has been featured in notable independent films like "Off Beat" (2011) and "Les Paradis Des Diane" (2024), as well as critically acclaimed documentaries such as "Style Wars 2" (2013) and "Europe, She Loves" (2016). Since 2013, Jonas has made Colorado his home, where he resides with his wife and is actively involved in running their business, Royal Stag Hats, all while raising their children. This marks a significant milestone for Jonas, as it represents his first art exhibition since 1998, showcasing his enduring passion for artistic expression. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ab14d63d-a173-4443-a3c7-7ec40d95db6b/NEWCOMERS+CLOSING-2023-WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/49fd75a7-c42a-424d-b549-f8e0261a70b0/NO+LAND+WWW+02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Sunday July 2nd 2023 7-9pm East Window presents an evening of poetry, film & song with visual art by No Land and Alexis Myre No Land Natalia Gaia Josephine Foster Alexis Myre Shreeya Shrestha with special guests Anne Waldman and Ann Cantelow This event is free No RSVP required. East Window 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1e76b7f9-43ee-4463-bb75-a5bb90ef4548/JONAS+NIGHT-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2eea26f3-280e-4dc9-97ba-e60b58b1c608/SAINTIL-WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5ea03899-5e52-43fc-923f-5d71d0923aae/UNFETTERED-01-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out July 7th - August 18th 2023 Unfettered Recognition Opening Reception July 7th 2023 7:00-9:00pm Performance by MG Bernard July 28th 2023 7:00-9:00pm Important note: MG Bernard's SACRED BODYMIND does integrate full nudity as part of the performance, so please be mindful and use discretion if you are planning on bringing your family or any children under 18. Closing Reception / Artist Talk & Discussion August 18th 2023 7:00-9:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 For disability pride month (July 2023), East Window is honored to collaborate with Alex Stark, artist and guest curator, on Unfettered Recognition, a visual art exhibit featuring disabled artists in Boulder Colorado and throughout the Front Range. People with disabilities make up the largest, most expansive minoritized group; crossing lines of age, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. Through intimate explorations of disability, identity, and embodiment, Unfettered Recognition celebrates how disabled folks are integral to all communities. This exhibit is curated and juried by Alex Stark, a disabled, queer artist, curator and founder of Rare Visions Gallery Project, located in Boulder, CO. He is based out of Boulder and Chicago. Alex received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. In Chicago, Stark works as an advisor in the Disability and Learning Resource Center at SAIC and began the Voices Embodied series in which selected works focus on a relationship between disability, the body and identity. Stark has exhibited in Chicago at Roots and Culture Gallery and Carrie Secrist Gallery and in New York City at Chashama Gallery. His work appears in the 2019 School of the Art Institute Biannual Magazine and the 24th issue of Posit, a journal of art and literature. Stark has spoken at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Arts of Life, and Artist Communities Alliance. Image: © MG Bernard Read the article in OUT FRONT MAGAZINE - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/306abbfc-fc6b-4329-8422-fc851a98cedd/KALI-WWW-03.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out March 3 - June 28, 2023 As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents: Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories Photographs by Kali Spitzer Opening Reception March 3rd 2023 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. Rocky Mountain PBS Video Interview by Lindsey Ford Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/24a30cee-f9d5-49da-a829-82bdb6ea4d3f/OCCUPIED+01+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Learn more about Brian Fouhy’s Occupied HERE How do you broach the question of asking to take photos of urinals without getting either laughed at or thrown out? Photographer Brian Fouhy’s request was more often than not greeted with intrigue and enthusiasm, leading to surprising conversations about all the great bathrooms people have used; a place we all take a mental note of but never choose to talk about; that unspeakable, sometimes neglected room we all unavoidably need. These wonderful conversations led to Fouhy photographing over 100 bathrooms across the United States, 70 of which made their way onto the pages of OCCUPIED (Published 2021 by New Heroes & Pioneers), with 7 photographs of those urinals hanging in the East Window Bathroom Gallery. By including information surrounding the use of each urinal, such as the meal eaten in a restaurant, the weather conditions at the time, or the distance from relevant points of interest, Fouhy adds another layer to the experience beyond just a standard visit to the loo. These photographs will be showing in the East Window Bathroom Gallery beginning December 8th, 2023-January 27, 2024 with an opening reception planned from 7-9 pm on December 8th at our location at 4550 Broadway, Ste c-3b2, in Boulder. While you're visiting the bathroom gallery, be sure to have a look at the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1ca97f79-b3f4-498a-8504-a56904b3a75d/LIKE+A+DOG+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out (Dates TBA) like a dog Book Launch by Lauren Samblanet Taking its cues from the New Narrative writing movement, like a dog considers how sexual identity is morphed, hidden, and denied by cultural forces like film, pornography, rape culture, and sexual semiotics. The speaker of like a dog, writes about her sexuality, sexual trauma, and relationships in the epistolary form to explore how the personal becomes collective and how overt sexuality is necessary for questioning dominant ideologies. The intimacy (or perhaps voyeurism) that is opened through the epistolary form is balanced with film analysis, focusing on the films of Lars von Trier, as a way to move away from the speaker’s experiences and into the social forces that seek to define us. Amidst these letters are images from a handwritten journal where blood, hair, vaginal fluids, and bodily residues are used to direct the shape and content of the writing surrounding them. The tactility of the journal delivers the reader to the body, not as an intellectualized object, but rather as the physical, messy, oozing force that it is. Not nonfiction or fiction, in between gossip and scholarly film analysis, like a dog exists in a liminal place. This liminal zone offers the speaker a site to rip away the layers of cultural conditioning surrounding sexuality and relationships, and to peek at what lies beneath. This interrogation of identity may not lead to answers but the speaker of like a dog is able to finally hear her own voice and to begin the work of rebuilding an identity that is bloomed from within. Lauren Samblanet is a hybrid writer who cross-pollinates with other forms of making & other makers of forms. some of her writing has been published in a shadow map: an anthology by survivors of sexual assault, fence, dreginald, entropy, dream pop press, passages north, bedfellows, and the tiny. like a dog is her first book. she offers workshops through reinventing the creative process, which helps makers build more embodied, pleasurable, and emotionally safe creative practices. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f14afd40-9228-4ba5-af1c-c1a5d32b6950/000000-FOUHY+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photo by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3dfa7248-90b0-42e1-b44b-41b46a284643/FRAME+JUNE+23+WWW+01+copy.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photography Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/136c3ee6-162e-4cdf-9227-d4127e0773ac/DARIA+LAUNCH+23+WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/52934d68-b6a0-446e-9e9a-e6a66b5d79ce/KALI+CN+WWW+NOV+2023+-+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out November 17th 2023 - January 26, 2024 East Window, Creative Nations Arts Collective and The Dairy Arts Center presents: Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories Photographs by Kali Spitzer Curated by Todd Edward Herman Opening Reception November 17th 5:00pm - 8:00pm Creative Nations Arts Collective / The Dairy Arts Center 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/decf18a6-c813-4cf6-b073-eb874ae4835f/FRAME-APRIL-04.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1fcdfd28-4c1e-4edb-bdf6-f09f867241b7/SUE+COE-WWW-000.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out March 3 - June 28, 2023 Sue Coe painter and printmaker, has worked at the juncture of art and social activism to expose injustices and abuses of power, since the 1970s. Thinking of herself as an activist first and artist second, Sue has trained her gaze on a wide variety of ills, translating such diverse topics as the perils of apartheid, the life of Malcolm X, and the horror that is the American meat industry into searing social-political artworks, exhibitions and books. Coe has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, Art News, The Nation, among countless others. Her works are part of numerous museum collections and exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1. Coe was awarded the prestigious Dickinson College Arts Award in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and most recently the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award by The Southern Graphics Council in Atlanta, Georgia. We’re honored to once again host Sue Coe’s work in our exhibit window this month. "We Will Never Go Back" - © Sue Coe - Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/063c888e-59b8-4211-bdca-903a0462b90d/JOYSOME-WWW-04.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out We are overjoyed that this exhibit has found a new home at Children’s Hospital Colorado! Opening Reception: March 9th from 5-8pm Dairy Arts Center 2590 Walnut Street Boulder Colorado 80302 Exhibit Dates: March 1 - 31, 2023 East Window has partnered with The Dairy Arts Center during Month of Photography to bring you JOYSOME. JOYSOME consists of fifty images selected from over three hundred responses from around the world to a call for work on the theme of joy. Submitted by artists and non-artists alike, the works in this exhibit span a range of disciplines and affective registers associated with joy— Ecstasy, Transcendence, Sadness, The Fear of Joy, Anger, Mania, Euphoria, Toxic Positivity, The American Dream, The Pursuit of Happiness, Masochism, Selflessness, Success, Sacrifice, Divination, Cuteness, The Sublime, Altruism, and Peace. The selected images are printed on flags and exhibited throughout Boulder Colorado as part of the Month of Photography Festival - March 2023. OUT FRONT MAGAZINE ARTICLE CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PARTNERING LOCATIONS & PARTICIPATING ARTISTS FULL EXHIBIT DOCUMENTATION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/72e48112-f551-4406-8df8-307bcf754e80/AGING+01+2023-WWW-HOSKING.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Image: Courtesy of James Hosking © 2023 November 9th 2023 - February 28th 2024 (Gallery & Window) Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines André Ramos-Woodard, Danielle SeeWalker, Carlotta Cardana, Donigan Cumming, James Hosking, Magdalena Wosinska, Marissa Nicole Stewart, Mitchell Squire, Roddy MacIness, Sherry Wiggins & Luís Filipe Branco, Will Wilson and others Curated by Todd Edward Herman Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines looks at the social and ethical implications of the observational image and challenges some of the myths and misunderstandings often imposed upon elder members of contemporary western societies. Aging Bodies… speaks to how photography has influenced our perceptions of the human organism relative to the passage of time, to the many ways the medium has become instrumental to the construction, preservation and revision of personal and collective memory, as well as to photography's ability to obscure and elucidate notions of falsehood and truth. This exhibit operates somewhere in-between two representational tropes; those who adopt an heroic attitude towards the aging process, seeming to remain ‘forever youthful' and those who experience significant bodily decline and illness to the extent that the outer body is seen as misrepresenting or imprisoning the inner self. Both modalities serve to objectify and therefore skew our capacity to empathize with those depicted. Such pervasive imagery of the elderly as either sub or super-human beings form part of a repertoire of the 'pornography of old age' within consumer culture. To be clear, these are not the points of view this exhibit is hoping to advance. Aging Bodies… does not claim to be an exhaustive study in either gerontology or the mechanisms of representational bias. It does, however, deliver a small selection of playful, critical and tender images made by and about elder artists; redirecting viewers back to the lived body and divergent self-images of the middle aged and old. — Todd Edward Herman 2023 Daily camera by Ella Cobb Daily Camera (Instagram) by Ella Cobb Denver Post by Ray Mark Rinaldi Rocky Mountain PBS by Lindsey Ford Lenscratch by Rupert Jenkins Opening Reception Thursday November 9th 2023 7:00 - 9:00 pm Artist Talk with Danielle SeeWalker Wednesday, January 31st 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm Artist Talk with Mitchell Squire Friday, December 15th 2023 7:00 - 9:00 pm Beautiful by Night Screening Director James Hosking in person Saturday January 13th 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm Lecture/discussion with Eric Nord Thursday, January 25th 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm Artist Talk with Marissa Nicole Stewart Friday, February 9th 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm Artist Talk with Anne Walker Wednesday, February 21st 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm Panel discussion with Rupert Jenkins, Roddy MacIness, Sherry Wiggins, Amy DelPo and Anne Walker Friday, February 23rd 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f9fd0966-c92c-4047-bc5d-a9ff4f49bec8/MARCH+FORTH+-+2023-WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/79376dd0-d9b0-403e-a8a5-87d192d214d7/LIVID+WWW-03.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/0dff317f-ad12-43a7-9304-713d76f2f857/SEEWALKER+01+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out RESCHEDULED due to unforeseen circumstances. Please stay tuned for updates. Thanks for your understanding. East Window is honored to present Danielle SeeWalker for an artist talk as part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit currently in our main gallery. Learn more about Danielle SeeWalker HERE Danielle SeeWalker is Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. She is an artist, writer, activist, and boymom of two, based in Denver, Colorado. Her visual artwork often incorporates the use of mixed media and experimentation while incorporating traditional Native American materials, scenes, and messaging. Her artwork pays homage to her identity as a Lakȟóta wíŋyaŋ (woman) and her passion to redirect the narrative to an accurate and insightful representation of contemporary Native America while still acknowledging historical events. Alongside her passion for creating visual art, Danielle is a freelance writer and published her first book in 2020 titled, “Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People & Culture.” She is also very dedicated to staying connected and involved in her Native community and currently serves as City Commissioner for the Denver American Indian Commission. Danielle has also been working on a personal, passion project since 2013 with her long-time friend called The Red Road Project. The focus of the work is to document, through words and photographs, what it means to be Native American in the 21st century by capturing inspiring and positive stories of people and communities within Indian Country. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2d67d425-db18-4fbd-9a84-89b7b1b0c981/JOY+BRADBURY+02-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out April 20th, 2023 Book Release Party The Art of Frances Joy Bradbury Frances Joy Bradbury In Person 7:00-9:00 pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 East Window honors visual artist Frances Joy Bradbury with a new publication featuring excerpts of her recent collage works. Frances Joy Bradbury As an artist who lived the 1960's in California's Bay Area, Frances Joy Bradbury's art reflects both her and the 60's exuberant expressiveness. A love of ambiguity, experimentation, gestural line and texture can be seen in Joy's shapeshifting images. Dancing with visual and psychological paradox is the backbone of Joy's work. Joy is a self taught artist. She began learning about art by going regularly to art exhibits and discovering that the art she did not like was a powerful teacher in understanding and expressing her own perceptions. In 1956 Joy celebrated her eleventh birthday watching a gecko fall from a high ceiling into a cocktail glass while she was sitting in a bar at Saigon's Majestic Hotel. A life lived in diverse settings combined with traversing a wide range of experiences, can be seen in Joy's exploration of many disciplines and her eclectic image making. Joy first exhibited in New Mexico at the Taos Library. In Colorado she's exhibited at Denver Outsider Art, Fort Collins Center for Fine Art Photography, Longmont Firehouse Gallery, Westminster Rodeo Market Community Art Center and Denver Art Students League. Boulder County exhibits include Front Range Community College, Dairy Center for the Arts, Art Parts, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder City Open Spaces & Mountain Parks, Boulder Public Library Maker Made Shows, The Bus Stop Gallery and the Museum of Boulder. Joy has also produced two solo shows at Enriching Elements in 2014 and Rule4 in 2016. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/02f93267-384c-416c-aa4d-3de1e8e3c38a/A-FRAME+SEPT+2023-AI-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out SEPTEMBER 15 2023 F R A M E 7-9pm FREE The Literary Ladies Present: FRIDAY'S RAGE ANIMATES MANIA & MERMAIDS INSIDE the ERROR of EGO Kika Dorsey has been published in numerous journals and books, including The Comstock Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Denver Quarterly, The Columbia Review, Narrative Northeast, MacQueen’s Quinterly, among many others. She has published a chapbook of poetry, Beside Herself (Flutter Press, 2010) and three full-length collections, Rust, Coming Up for Air. (Word Tech Editions, 2016, 2018), and Occupied: Vienna is a Broken Man and Daughter of Hunger (Pinyon Publishing, 2020), winner of the Colorado Authors’ League Award. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle and currently teaches as a lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Jade Lascelles is a writer, musician, and artist based in Colorado. She is the author of The Invevitable (Gesture Press), Violence Beside (winner of the 2021 Essay Press Book Prize), and the forthcoming All Things Born / Proximate Seams, a collaboration with visual artist Todd Edward Herman. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, various literary journals, and the anthologies Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Dwell: Poems About Home, and Precipice: Writing at the Edge. She has been featured in the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill, the Bologna In Lettere festival’s International Poetry Review, the visual art exhibits Shame Radiant and Disgust: Unhealthy Practices, and the Natalia Gaia short film A Spark Catches, which won second prize at the 2022 Maldito Festival de Videopoesia. Jade holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and plays drums in a few different musical projects. Jocelyn Wallen is a queer speculative fiction and poetry writer from Denver. She completed undergrad at CU Boulder before earning an MFA in Popular Fiction and Publishing from Emerson College. She spends her human hours running Lindsay’s Deli on Pearl Street Mall, and her vampire hours at home with her wife AJ and their two pet gremlins. A lifelong reader of fantasy romance and horror, she is working on her own queer novel, tentatively titled Below the Bloody Sea. She loves late nights, the color burgundy, and you, for no particular reason at all. Swanee Astrid is a poet-scribe from Sacramento, CA with degrees in Literature and Writing from the University of Iowa (BA) and Naropa University (MFA). She has been an editor for Earthwords, Vestal Review, and Bombay Gin Literary Journal, as well as creates her own literary artifacts under the press name "Contemporary Norn".She has served on the boards for the Sacramento Poetry Center and collective aporia of which she is a founding member. Swanee has also been an executive assistant to the Jaipur Literary Festival at Boulder (2015-2018) and is the Program Coordinator for the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (2018-now). Swanee has written and performed her own shows such as the Praeludium Ex-Machina (Naropa MFA Festival, 2016), The Beat Drags On (Boulder Arts Week 2016 & 2017), Mythopoetic Pedagogy (Naropa Spark Talks, 2017), and for such venues as Jose Montoya's Poetry Unplugged, Avotcja's Palabra, Mutiny Information Café, Fox Theatre, and the Clyfford Still Museum. Swanee's areas of research include astro-anthropology, Norse-Germanic cosmology. energy systems, language permutation, world building, ecological sustainability. indigenous practices, and contemporary mythopoetic narrative frameworks. In July 2021, Swanee gave a talk on Valkyrie Poetics for the Heathen Women United Conference, as an artistic response to environmental leadership through the metaphor of the Valkyrie as embodiment of feminine warriorhood necessary for the battle against climate change. This talk was revised and published by the Wisdom Body Collective in their WIP series. https://caswanee.wordpress.com Madeline Murphy is a 26-year-old artist born, raised, and based in Colorado. She finds inspiration in the companionship of her two dogs and leopard gecko. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/42c22ad3-3080-4ace-b906-62a8dc99dde8/ALEX+PAST-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out November 4th 2022 - January 29th 2023 Yvens Alex Saintil - Photographs Yvens Alex Saintil is known for his diverse works that are meant to spark meaningful conversations centered around police reform and accountability, veteran mental healthcare, gun violence, and activism. Saintil’s career extends far beyond his ten years in the United States Army, where he served as an Infantryman performing in various roles within the continental United States, South Korea, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service and now resides in Denver, Colorado. Through his discipline, Saintil actively brings awareness to police reform and accountability, veteran mental health care, gun violence, and activism.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/d88305c9-952e-49ff-a3e7-c6423a998940/SQUIRE+TALK+23+WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photo: Niko Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f57189cc-3c11-4236-9bac-5dc11f858dd9/FRAME+WWW+OCT+2023+-+05+SHARP.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out October 6th 2023 The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E A Literary Salon 7-9pm FRIDAY'S FEVERISH REALIZATIONS in the ARCANE MEANDER through the EMBROIDERED ECTOPLASM East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway STE C-3B2 Boulder CO USA Free Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Poetry Andrea Rexilius, Valerie Hsiung, Eric Baus, Molly LeClair Music by Max Davies Visual Art Dustin Holland Andrea Rexilius is the author of: Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks, Séance (Coconut Books, 2014), To Be Human (Horseless Press, 2010), and Afterworld(above/ground press, 2020). She earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). Andrea is the Program Director for Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. She also teaches in the Poetry Collective at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado. Valerie Hsiung is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and the author of multiple poetry and hybrid writing collections, including The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming 2024), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), To love an artist (Essay Press, 2022), selected by Renee Gladman for the 2021 Essay Press Book Prize, outside voices, please (CSU), selected for the 2019 CSU Open Book Prize, YOU & ME FOREVER (Action Books), and e f g (Action Books). Her writing has appeared in print (Annulet, BathHouse Journal, The Believer, Chicago Review, digital vestiges, The Nation, New Delta Review), in flesh (Treefort Music Festival, Common Area Maintenance, The Poetry Project), in sound waves (Montez Press Radio, Hyle Greece), and other forms of particulate matter. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado where she teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & Poetics at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Eric Baus is the author of five books of poetry: How I Became a Hum (Octopus Books, 2020) The Tranquilized Tongue, (City Lights 2014), Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), and The To Sound, winner of the Verse Prize (Wave Books, 2004). He teaches literature and creative writing at Regis University’s Mile High MFA program in Denver, which he co-directs with poet Andrea Rexilius. Molly LeClair is a writer, instructor of writing, and resolute defender of writing clearly. "We all have a wide range of occasions to write," she says, "to clarify, critique, compare, describe, speculate, analyze, argue, review, reflect, reckon, remember, imagine. Whatever form writing takes, it is thinking through an idea. If you get near a point, make it, right. She is the author of two composition textbooks. Thinking and Writing in the Humanities and What's Your Point, written with her colleague and friend Suzanne Hudson She has taught writing and rhetoric, creative writing, humanities, literature, and women's studies at Front Range, Regis, Metro State, and CU-Boulder in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR). At CU, she designed and taught upper division writing courses in the visual arts and in film noir. She has conducted writing, publishing, and classroom delivery workshops, and created video presentations for Technology in Education (TIE) and Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT). She received an annual PWR Teaching Award for Excellence and Innovation in Classroom Teaching. Molly also has guided and worked wat writers at Colorado Chautauqua, Casey Middle School, and Whittier International School. She likes to read, write, tutor, play music, shoot pictures, fill up sketchbooks, make short films, go on walks, take road trips, travel in the off-season, and spend time with good friends (totally includes family). She dedicates tonight's poetry readings to her talented writing students over the years particularly those whose stories and essays are published as abiding models in Thinking and Writing in the Humanities and What's Your Point? Dustin Holland is a writer and cartoonist living in Longmont. His work has appeared in Bubbles Fanzine, Meow Wolf's Convergence Station News Stand, Heavy Feather Review, and tons of self-published comics and zines. Dustin's latest book, Eat the Baby, Sell the Cow collects ten years of surreal poems, collages, and comic strips. He's currently hard at work on the third issue of Doghead Sunset, a Giallo-inspired comic book whodunnit. More of Dustin's work can be found at www.gorchverse.com or on Instagram at @dustin.holland.artstuff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/85a7ad9a-3da0-4003-9bee-65c03c41f655/LIVID+WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out August 19th 2023 L I V I D : Concerned Relatives & Bridge Builders - An East Window Spoken Word Feature 7pm - 9pm Curated by Charlotte Piper We are uncles, aunties, siblings, and parents all aligned with the same vision: building bridges between humans for the purpose of killing off toxic patterns, belief systems, and breaking generational curses. Bridge builders who also understand the importance of not carrying forward the toxicity and outdated belief systems that are causing division, but transmuting this toxicity into personal revelation and opportunities for expansion. A chosen family of diverse generations, all genders, demographics, races, and various spiritual/religious beliefs are all coming forward to speak out against the injustices humanity is facing. The common thread amongst us all is a sincere dedication to advancing the human race, protecting the sacredness of the individual, and creating more self-awareness, harmony, and acceptance overall. Using our anger and indignation as fuel for the fire of transmutation, we share our thoughts, stories, words, and intentions on this night as we are all LIVID. This is an evening of intent, to provide an outlet for concerned relatives and siblings to find creative ways to express their indignance at the current state of affairs in our country, especially when it comes to issues of gun violence in the schools, the insidious anti-LGBTQIA sentiment, hate crimes against minority communities, and the overstepping of religious doctrine when it comes to passing laws based on puritanical principles. Listen to Veronica Straight-Lingo and curator of LIVID Charlotte Piper on KGNU Radio Read LIVID A Spoken Word Feature For The Enraged in Out Front Magazine Performers: Deneishia LeArtiste (she/her) is a performance artist embracing the storytelling traditions of her ancestry. Answering the call of the Western European bard, the West African Griot, and the Ogallala traditions of teaching through tales, LeArtiste unites our communities by telling our stories. She processes and explores her ancestral experiences through poetry, visual arts, music, and movement. Lucky Garcia (she/her) is an Indigenous/Chicana Two Spirit writer, performing artist, community organizer, anti-oppression educator and Indigenous Justice advocate. Her storytelling communicates ideas that focus on her experience as an Iraq War veteran, Native American culture, nature, love, politics, and her appreciation for comic books and science fiction. Lucky’s work has been featured at the University of Missouri Latinx Graduate Program, Rhode Island School of Design, UMKC Women of Color Leadership Conference, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Flatland KC, Literary Gay Romance Festival, Prescott College, and on the streets all across America. Claygo (he/him) Socially conscious with smooth and powerful hip hop artist from Aurora CO, who isn't just another person trying to rap. Claygo has performed on a number of stages throughout Colorado and currently sits on the board for Bodies of Culture, a program sponsored by the Levitt Pavilion Denver. He recently released his LP “Dreamz Turnt Cold” and is a regular fixture at the popular BOC BIPOC Open Mic Nights hosted at the Mercury Cafe Denver. Cal Duran (he/him): is a queer, Two Spirit, Indigenous, Native, Latinx, Manito, Mestizo, Chicanx, Indian artist, facilitator, and arts educator from Colorado. His origin story is uniquely his own but is reminiscent of the challenges that many Indigenous artists experience when finding their way. With roots that bring together Indian, Mexican, and Indigenous cultures, he channels those who came before him when he creates. Having works displayed in virtually every museum in Colorado, Cal seeks to build bridges between communities through art, storytelling, and community outreach. Charlotte Piper (she/her): is the owner of Level 11 Content based out of Longmont, CO. A curator and facilitator of LIVID, Charlotte has been working with East Window for the past year as a PR and marketing consultant. Previously a freelance writer for OUT FRONT Magazine, as a content creator, and marketing mastermind, Charlotte seeks to use her voice and platform to bring visibility to marginalized creators and communities across the globe. With an eclectic skillset and openness to collaboration, Charlotte has found herself at the helm of some truly inspiring projects to include working with the Denver Art Museum on Untitled: Artist Takeover in January 2023. Currently, Charlotte is working on a picture book of quotes titled Quotes & Prompts for Adults Who Are Sick of the BS, with the intended release in the fall/winter of 2023. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/9f24adc7-1325-4d39-b33e-bfe16e3ce923/UNRAVELING-WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out April 27th 2023 7:00pm - 9:00pm UNRAVELING TENSION East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 Free no RSVP required East Window is delighted to host UNRAVELING TENSION, the culminating class project by undergraduate students participating in Ginger Knowlton's Writing In the Visual Arts class at the University of Colorado, Boulder. UNRAVELING TENSION aims to bring collective healing to audiences through the form of textile arts, shared reverence and remembrance. These student artists have been touched by how knitting in class, in the face of multiple threats of gun violence in our community this semester, has allowed them to open up to and become vulnerable with one another. Viewers will be invited to write and attach anonymous notes to a length of knitting completed by the CU Boulder students in response to the issues brought forth by each student’s work. Students will also show an assemblage of images of the healing (and protest) potential of knitting in community. Participating students include Alexis Dover, Allie Eng, Zohreh Haycock, Colleen Lilley, Elena Maganini, Ian Rodriguez, Dora-Jane Ryan, Brooke Schlundt, Rasai Trammell, Humberto Espiridion Valdivia, Jawad Yassin Photography: Niko Laurita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b5ec2ef0-f6e7-48cf-bde6-c86a984e3723/MICAH-01+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out July 7th - September 29th 2023 Art of Trans Liberation Micah Bazant is a visual artist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world. They create art inspired by struggles to decolonize ourselves from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and the gender binary. They make art as a practice of love and solidarity with trans liberation and racial justice movements to build power. The ongoing process of developing ethical models for collaboration with grassroots community organizations is a large part of Micah’s work. Micah’s projects include their 1999 zine Timtum, the Trans Day of Resilience art project, the Trans Life + Liberation Art Series and Miklat Miklat. Micah has served as Artist in Residence at Forward Together, an Advisory Board member of Sins Invalid, and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Artist Council. Micah is a white trans, anti-zionist jewish timtum (one of six ancient jewish gender categories). They live in Ohlone territory and also loves growing food, learning the secret histories of plants, and admiring caterpillars. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4d5d7e97-45b3-4323-9727-60b07757043f/FRAME-MARCH-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out March 10th 2023 Roots & Redemption to Activate the Metamorphosis of Etymology Readings by Mairead Case, Richard Froude, H.P. Armstrong & Jona Fine Music by Max Davies Visual Art by Jennifer Lord 7:00 - 9:00pm FREE East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 More information at: info@eastwindow.org This event is part of a series of literary salons curated by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz and Toni Oswald running from January - December 2023. Readings by: Mairead Case is a writer, teacher, and editor. The author of the books Tiny and See You In the Morning (featherproof), Mairead is recently published in POETRY, JSTOR Daily, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and at Public Media Institute, Public Collectors, and Maggot Brain, where she is the Associate Editor. She teaches at Naropa University, the Colorado School of Mines, CU Boulder, the University of Denver, and Cañon City Correctional Facility, and has been a Legal Observer with the NLG for over a decade. Richard Froude has written four books. The first of these was FABRIC (Horse Less Press, 2011), and the most recent was Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Subito Press, 2018). He facilitates workshops in experimental/hybrid forms at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. He works as a physician at both Denver Health and in private practice. Jona Fine is a non-binary queer they/them poet and artist. They are obsessed with circles and sardines. In what feels like another lifetime they received their MFA from Naropa University. Outside of being an artist, they are passionate about the LGBTQ community and access to mental health care. They work at an LGBTQ youth suicide hotline and are finishing their Masters in social work. H.P. Armstrong (he/they) is a queer writer and playwright from the Chicagoland area. He has a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University. His work appears in KYSO Flash’s A Trembling of Finches, Punch Drunk Press, apo-press, and worldwide in Nota Bene. Eleven After Theater is producing his screenplay “Off-Book”, film forthcoming. He writes in horror, the poetics of transness, and divinity—he is working on his first novel about a girl with a compulsion to eat her hair.. He currently lives on the Colorado Front Range with his partner and mother-in-law and works in equity and inclusion for a Front Range Community College. Visual art by: Jennifer Lord is a fiber artist, painter and taijiquan teacher in the Yang lineage. They received their BA from Naropa University and are currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through harmony, mutuality and simultaneity, their patchwork paintings explore: the climate crisis via ecological agency and the rights of nature, queer and feminist hand-making traditions, and improvisational collage. Lord recently completed a residency at Mountain Water, a land restoration project that combines contemplative practice with creative expression. Born in Salt Lake City, they live, work, and teach in Boulder, Colorado. Their work is held in several private collections. Visit them online at juniperlord.com or on Instagram @juniperlord Music by: Max Davies. With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer; musician Max Davies has a wealth of real-world practical knowledge that underlines the core of his musical background. From performance to production, songwriting to instruction, his empirical knowledge translates into every project he is involved with. His versatility has been showcased by his work with many musicians including: Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov and many others. His solo releases have been described by Guitarist Magazine as: "Vivid", and: "Quite something" by Guitar World. His most recent album of prepared guitar instrumentals, entitled: Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was lauded by guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collection of "really good ideas". Other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising and for Jovovich-Hawk's fashion line and he has been a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program E-Town. Other musicians and performers he's worked with include: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Knackeboul, Janice Lowe, Steven Taylor, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clark Coolidge, LAPCAT, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Ic Explura, Greyhounds, poets Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos and many others. The Curators: Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, & the shows Shame Radiant and Disgust, and most recently HOAX. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/21396a5c-8c43-42d7-9bbd-8b1a09f5baf7/JOY+BRADBURY+WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photos by Niko Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/d89e6639-23bd-4a57-a213-3fc953a3b086/DONA+MF+WWW-04+sharp.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out September 29th 2023 MARCH FORTH - Musical Event A wild variety of alternative and indie music featuring young musicians from around the Front Range. Featuring music by Kyle Donavan and Pamela Machala 7:00 - 9:00pm FREE March Forth was created in memory of Julietta "Jules" Laurita who died on March 4, 2019, at age 19. A young woman of incredible spirit and talent, Julietta was a gifted singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, and actress. She was a passionate artist who leaves behind a legacy of compassion and creativity. Jules had a fierce sense of justice, and an insatiable desire to connect across differences. One of her many quotes that she created and lived by is: "Learn from each other, decide for ourselves..." For all of us who love her and her illuminating spirit, the loss is immeasurable. March Forth's ongoing mission is to keep Jules's memory alive through projects that cultivate and affirm the independent thinking, resilience, compassion, and creative expression of young adults and teens through the arts. KGNU RADIO Interview with Dona Laurita Flyer design: Allyson McDuffie - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b5af9643-0a44-4ede-b1e5-1a82ea47a565/JADE+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out October 27th 2023 Book Launch - Violence Beside - Jade Lascelles 7:00 - 9:00pm Violence Beside responds to the overwhelming presence of violence Jade Lascelles felt creeping closer into her life. After a series of threats, assaults, and murders against multiple women in various proximity to her, these poems were first begun as a coping mechanism, a way to look for some sense of grounding around how to exist within a world of violence without being consumed by it or absorbed by the fear of it. How to persist despite violence without ignoring it. Violence Beside was written in an attempt to find a soft place to process the hardness of the brutality we live among. This event will be an extension of that exploration, as well as a celebration for the book coming into being. The evening will include installations inspired by images and themes from the book and a short reading by the author. JADE LASCELLES is a writer, musician, and artist based in Colorado. She is the author of the full-length collection The Invevitable (Gesture Press) and Violence Beside (Essay Press). Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, various literary journals, and the anthologies Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Dwell: Poems About Home, and Precipice: Writing at the Edge. She has been featured in the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill, the Bologna In Lettere festival’s International Poetry Review, the visual art exhibits and accompanying books Shame Radiant and Disgust: Unhealthy Practices, and the Natalia Gaia short film A Spark Catches, which won second prize at the 2022 Maldito Festival de Videopoesia. Jade holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and plays drums in a few different musical projects. Read Boulder Weekly’s feature on Jade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/29db2a2e-98e1-44ce-8c68-0af77fc9202e/AGING+OPENING+WWW+NOV+2023.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out All events are free and held at: East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/d0d5f514-6adc-4474-9b1e-ff58296836b5/SPOKE-EVOC-WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/17d83e46-f379-4d21-bc1e-2e3489abf9e7/HEATHER+S+WWW-01+sharp.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out October 7th 2023 Heather Schulte "Story Network: Sharing stories from COVID" 7:00-9:00pm Part of the larger Stitching the Situation project, the Story Network connects local residents with artists and designers to tell stories of their pandemic experiences visually. StS is an ongoing, collaborative embroidery project that considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. As needlework requires vast amounts of time, nimble hands, and keen eyesight, project founder Heather Schulte developed the Network to ensure accessibility to those most disproportionately impacted by the virus, who have little free time, experience disability, or for a multitude of reasons are unable to stitch their stories themselves. This one-night event will exhibit images that resulted from this local collaboration, as well as a conversation about the Network with program participants. The Story Network is part of the Boulder Arts Commission's Experiments in Public Art program, with funding support from the Boulder Arts Commission." This event is free and open to the public. Heather Schulte’s work utilizes common and domestic materials (like thread, fabric, newspapers, rugs, paper, or acrylic glass) to emphasize language as a fundamental human tool, whether spoken, written, thought, gestured, or typed; communication is an essential part of both intimate and public life. It can connect and divide, wound and heal, build up or tear down, hide and reveal. It shapes us, and we wield it to shape our world. Schulte isolates and recontextualizes news articles, tweets, and colloquial concepts or phrases to highlight the social categorization that undergirds everyday speech and information exchanges, drawing attention to things often said, but rarely considered. She frequently use patterns of code as a translation tool, drawing attention to language forms, patterns, and systems, and how these change over time and are carried forward into new technologies. Flyer design: Allyson McDuffie - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2c09705a-a8a5-4b98-9979-7a1eaa6891e1/KALI+OPENING+WWW+02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/e7954d55-6a15-4f38-a1a3-8ddd589f1427/+++++++FRAME+DEC+23+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photo by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/064bca6d-72f6-4b8c-945d-c190eafa68f0/ZIG+03+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out October 9th, 2023 - November 5th 2023 (Window) Commodities (Food of My People) Zig Jackson aka Rising Buffalo, is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) and the first Native American photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Jackson’s most recent work in the Native American homeland focuses on his culture and the changing way of life of both urban and reservation Indians, along with the attendant socio-political issues of the “Indian Condition.” Jackson uses photography as a teaching and story-telling device to de-mythologize his own history and to break down the romanticized and racially charged stereotypes of Indians perpetuated in history and the media. “Commodities (Food Of My People)” © Zig Jackson - Image Courtesy the artist - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b378906b-0eee-47f6-bde5-236d1b9e5c71/MG+PERF+WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Unfettered Recognition - SACRED BODYMIND Photography by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7ef1c287-22f9-46f5-95e1-baf7e1e1e450/NEWCOMER+OPENING+2023+WWW+02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/14edd0d1-1713-4464-a274-832c503281d1/www-FRAME-JUNE-03.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out June 23rd 2023 7 - 9pm Free The Literary Ladies & East Window Present F R A M E Friday’s Ritual Arouses Mushrooms & Mysticism in the Eco Poetics Readings by Zavi Engles + Nicolas Wesely + Natalie Earnhart + CAConrad Visual Art by Caitlin Alesandra Pope + Music by Max Davies Curated by Toni Oswald + Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Zavi Engles is a Korean American poet, writer, and researcher. Her writing has been published in The Rumpus, Chicago Reader, Salon, and elsewhere. Zavi also serves as an editor of Apogee Journal. She grew up in college towns in Georgia, Illinois, and Southern California, and is grateful to call Boulder her current home. Zavi enjoys baking elaborate desserts, cloud gazing and the way prairie dogs wag their tiny tails. Nicolas Wesely holds an MFA from Colorado State University. he writes poems that pretend to be pigs that roll around in the sty of the absurd and the surreal. he also calls himself a playwright and also a friend and also a fool and also a silly goose. when he is not writing he is gardening in whatever patch of soil he can dig his muddy little grubby little fingers into. he is lucky to have people who love him. Natalie Earnhart is a queer writer from Southern California currently residing in Denver, CO. She is a co-founder of Tart Parlor, an activist reading and performance series by and for sex workers and dedicated allies. She holds an MFA from Naropa University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Natalie’s work orbits around divination, magic, queerness, and the political body. CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of 9 books, including AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021), which won the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award. They received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales. UK Penguin published two books in 2023, and a new collection of poetry is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2024 titled Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Visit them online at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88 Caitlin Alesandra Pope is an artist living in rural western Colorado with her beloved animals, wolf dog (Nail Bear), and cat (Mr. Boyfriend). Her work spans many mediums, for example: spooky folk songs and choral compositions, tiny movies starring light beams, and drawings of ladies with no heads. She has contributed to projects as an illustrator (Sirens by Toni Oswald, Down in the Water by Sarah Elizabeth Shantz) and self-portrait photographer (The Inevitable by Jade Lascelles), as well as vocal composition and performance for film sync under the moniker Dream Harlowe. Her vocal compositions can be heard in trailers such as The Rook, The Luminaries, The Witcher, The Handmaids Tale, and Love Island (Germany). Her most recent collaborative endeavor was helping to score and perform in a live music performance accompaniment to the first animated film, Prince Achmed, in which she played instruments such as her voice, fairy chimes, percussion, and a bundt pan. She is now turning her attention to developing A Concert for Introverts, building flower altars for a show called Imaginary Altars, and recording her fairy funeral folk album along with a compilation of choral arrangements of Daniel Johnston songs and sea shanteys. She is inspired by big skies, Selkies, the wind (her friend), Transylvanian folk everything, gap teeth, choirs in old churches, stars and silhouettes. Collage © Toni Oswald 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2a55a66b-2cad-456e-bfcd-02a2bc9c2500/AFTER+LOSS+WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photos by Niko Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/80e3e4ab-7589-486a-ae24-1c9ca9a30ff5/DARIA+WWW+03.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out July 8th 2023 2pm - 4pm D A R I A summer magazine launch! Join East Window in celebrating the new Summer 2023 DARIA art magazine! Pick up a free copy of the new issue, meet the editor and writers, enjoy free drinks, snacks, music, and see East Window’s current exhibitions! Free East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 D A R I A: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, is the only publication devoted to art writing and criticism focused on the Denver and Front Range visual art scene. DARIA seeks to promote diverse voices and artists while fostering critical dialogue around art. Printed three times per year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/812f4cb0-5636-4652-b228-2b6a28ef16b5/FRAME+WWW+DEC+2023+-+06.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out December 1st 2023 7 - 9pm The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E A Literary Salon Friday’s Feasts Remembers the Antagonist the Magician and the Elegist Poetry: Chris Grebe, Curtis Romero, Erika Krouse, Toni Oswald Visual Art: Jonas Leuenberger Music: Max Davies Curation: Toni Oswald, Sara Elizabeth Schantz East Window 4550 Broadway STE C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 FREE Chris Grebe writes about the dark, supernatural, and the speculative future/past. His fiction work has appeared recently in Abergavenny Literary Journal, 365 Tomorrows, and Every Day Fiction. A Boulder, Colorado native, he currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is researching a non-fiction book rediscovering the life of a child mine worker in an early 1900s coal town. Erika Krouse is the author of three books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, which is a New York Times Editors’ Choice, winner of the Edgar Award and the Colorado Book Award, and is currently optioned for TV adaptation by Playground Entertainment and 20th Century Fox. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire.com, and other places. Her new collection of short stories, Save Me, Stranger, is forthcoming in 2024 from Flatiron Books/Macmillan. Max Davies. With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer; musician Max Davies has a wealth of real-world practical knowledge that underlines the core of his musical background. From performance to production, songwriting to instruction, his empirical knowledge translates into every project he is involved with. His versatility has been showcased by his work with many musicians including: Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov and many others. His solo releases have been described by Guitarist Magazine as: "Vivid", and: "Quite something" by Guitar World. His most recent album of prepared guitar instrumentals, entitled: Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was lauded by guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collection of "really good ideas". Other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising and for Jovovich-Hawk's fashion line and he has been a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program E-Town. Other musicians and performers he's worked with include: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Knackeboul, Janice Lowe, Steven Taylor, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clark Coolidge, LAPCAT, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Ic Explura, Greyhounds, poets Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos and many others. Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, & the shows Shame Radiant and Disgust, and most recently HOAX. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. Jonas Leuenberger, a native of Bern, Switzerland, is a versatile artist who combines his talents as a musician and visual artist. Across his journey, spanning the early 2000s till now, Jonas has ventured through diverse musical landscapes, collaborating with luminaries like John Trudell, Hawkfather, Lapcat, Baze, and an array of other revered artists. He has also released music under his own moniker, Kwest. His work has been featured in notable independent films like "Off Beat" (2011) and "Les Paradis De Diane" (2024), as well as critically acclaimed documentaries such as "Style Wars 2" (2013) and "Europe, She Loves" (2016). Since 2013, Jonas has made Colorado his home, where he resides with his wife and two children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/70459176-968b-4688-9952-9f1485fed490/FRAME+WWW+NOV+2023+-+06.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out November 17th 2023 The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E A Literary Salon 7-9pm Friday’s Field Rots the Answers and Merges the Entry with the Exit East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway STE C-3B2 Boulder CO USA Free Poetry by Akusua A. Akoto a disabled Dallas native has lived in Colorado for 7 years. A 'redeemed' academic, she is currently working on several manuscripts of poetry including one that focuses on three generations of the black women in her family as well as mental health, homelessness, and survival. Also working on short essays that look at disability and pop culture. In addition to other features, she along with former homeless individuals was interviewed with the New York Times earlier this year. Sam Albala is a magnet to the mountains and is carried by the image of an anatomical heart pumping blood, suggestions of connections lost and found. They've studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Brunnenburg Castle, (W)rites of Passage, and the John Ashbery Homeschool. Sam has been featured as a Colorado Creative Careers speaker, with writing published in Mental Floss, BUST Magazine, Out Front Magazine, Sonic Boom, Boulder Weekly, and more. Currently, Sam is writing a novel with the working title, Forever Here & Everywhere, which is inspired by their experience living on the boarders of both Wichita, Kansas and New York City over a period of three years. Josh Lefkowitz was born and raised in metro Detro, and received an Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Washington Square Review, Rattle, The Rumpus, and many other places. After seventeen years in New York City, he recently moved to Boulder, Colorado. Sara Slingerland Sheiner grew up inside of a saltbox beside a marsh.She is emergent, monstrous, and somewhere lost in a field. She is currently working on a book-length poem, a 'contraepic,' titled The Field, & looking for a home for her first manuscript—an exploration of loss & absence through the conceit of a collection of 'obituaries' & other forms that play with genre, voice, & time/space—titled Of Lack, which was a runner-up for Tupelo’s 2021 Berkshire Prize, judged by Victoria Chang, a finalist in the 2020 Essay Press Book Contest, judged by Renee Gladman, and a semi-finalist in the 2020 + 2022 Wisconsin Poetry Series' prizes. She has a doctorate in the literary arts from the University of Denver, a master’s degree in creative writing from Virginia Tech, & was the poet-in-residence at Randolph College in 2017. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Poetry Society of Virginia Prize, judged by Rachel Zucker, and of the Emily Morrison Prize in Poetry, selected by Dorothea Lasky. Rozie Vajda Visual Art “Through art I acknowledge monumental moments in loved one’s lives to express my gratitude. In my art, I intermingle my illustrations with objects - mostly found, some discarded, some given, others forgotten - now joined as part of a new story.” Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Max Davies Music - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/19510456-c091-4213-8864-1023196de3e9/ALEX+STARK+WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Unfettered Recognition Opening Reception Photography by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/3b9255c5-1eb0-4705-bf8f-f040d81b04e6/JADE+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b3eb5b0f-4597-4faa-bdd7-6b7321b50484/KEVIN+HOTH+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out August 26th 2023 Kevin Hoth 2:00pm - 7:00pm East Window will be hosting Kevin Hoth for a one-day exhibit and studio sale. Kevin will be selling framed work, studio prints, and one-of-a-kind small polaroid collages. Kevin Hoth is an artist, father, and educator based in Boulder, Colorado. He has taught university courses in photography, digital media and graphic design at numerous universities for over twenty years and has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2011. Hoth’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Houston Center for Photography, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia in Barcelona, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Photographic Center Northwest, The Center for Creative Photography, and The Rhode Island Center for Photography. Recent awards include Top 200 Critical Mass 2019, Center For Fine Art Photography Portfolio Showcase 12 and top ten finalist for the 2018 Clarence John Laughlin Award. Hoth received his Masters of Fine Art in Photography at the University of Washington, Seattle with a focus in Digital Video Installation. He lives on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado and regularly gets woken up by coyote howls, owl hoots and horse whinnies. Kevin is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver, Colorado. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a51ff8c2-1df7-4b04-8705-9fd7f541b3f5/FRAME-EVENING-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out January 27th 2023 East Window presents the F R A M E poetry series curated each month by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz & Toni Oswald through December 2023. The January 27th reading is titled Mothers and Monsters featuring works by Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Jaclyn Eccesso, Sara Veglahn and Max Davies. 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b4a63664-442b-40a2-9799-ba76003362e7/FRAME+SEPT+2023-WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/0e03a66b-49d8-40e5-a2ab-bbc5b45b2fc0/AFTER+LOSS+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out After Loss : An Evening of Poetry and Reflections on Grief April 21, 2023 7-9pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 Free no RSVP required As a community we have navigated the pandemic over the last few years, experiencing social isolation along with illness and in some cases loss of loved ones and not least of all existential threats to the survival of our planet. Interwoven in all of this is the experience of individual and collective grief. Sharing our grief can be a way of healing ourselves and our community. East Window is honored to host poets Lisa Berley, Diane Alters, Ashley Bunn, Alexander Shalom Joseph and André O. Hoilette. Each will be reading their works about loss and grief. Above Image courtesy Lisa Berley Lisa Berley visual artist and poet, began her career as art director at KQED TV in San Francisco after receiving a BFA in painting and photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. At the intersection of art and media Berley began her pioneering work as an artist for Aurora Systems, developing one of the first computer graphics and animation systems for television. After returning to New York she raised a family, wrote a blog, and exhibited mixed media/collage works in galleries across Long Island culminating in a one-woman show in Geneseo, New York. In 2016 Berley moved to Boulder, Colorado and after her sons accidental death from a fall, began using methods similar to her collage paintings to create hybrid erasure poetry/collage. Her nonlinear approach to poetry/collage, redacting found words to create new reductive fragments, mirrors her journey of profound grief. Unlost Journal Issue 17: “The Thing”, “Sweet Sorrow”, “Home Again”, and “Their Earth” Inverted Syntax Issue 3: “The selves looking”, “The Dream The Dream”, and “How It Changed”Inverted Syntax Issue 4: “truths”, “HE AT ONCE LET GO” Diane Alters is a former journalist and lecturer at Colorado College who turned to poetry after her son, Armando Alters Montaño, died in Mexico City in 2012. She studied poetry at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver with Andrea Rexilius, among others. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, The New York Quarterly, Pilgrimage Magazine, and the anthology An Uncertain Age. Her chapbook, Breath, Suspended (Finishing Line Press), was published this spring. www.finishinglinepress.com Ashley Howell Bunn completed her MFA in poetry through Regis University and holds a MA in Literature from Northwestern University. She is on the editorial staff for the literary journal, Inverted Syntax, and writes a monthly Yoga, Tarot, and Astrology column for Writual. Her work has previously appeared in The Colorado Sun, South Broadway Ghost Society, Global Poemic, Twenty Bellows, patchwork litmag, Mulberry Literary and others. She is a certified and experienced yoga guide trained in a variety of styles including Yoga Nidra and restorative yoga. Her first chapbook, in coming light, was published in 2022 by Middle Creek Publishing. She lives in Denver, CO with her child where she practices yoga and runs in the sunshine. www.howellandheal.com Alexander Shalom Joseph It's said in the Talmud that there are three ways to live a just life: study, prayer and acts of loving kindness-Alexander Shalom Joseph thinks of his writing and work as a teacher as a mix of all three. His latest novella, The last of the light, is forthcoming from Orison Books in spring of 2023. His debut book of poetry Our Mother, The Mountain was published by middle creek press in spring of 2022. His debut book of short stories, American Wasteland, was published by Owl Canyon Press in August of 2021. His stories and poems have been widely published online and in print. He has an MFA in Creative writing and an MA in English Education. Alexander works as a carpenter and lives in a cabin in Gilpin, Colorado. www.alexandershalomjoseph.com André O. Hoilette is a Jamaican-born poet. He is a Cave Canem alumnus and the former editor of ambulant: A Journal of Poetry & Art and former assistant editor of Nexus Magazine. He earned an MFA in Poetry and Fiction from Regis University’s Mile-High MFA program. 2021 Finalist Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize, 2021 Semi-finalist Cave Canem Book Prize. Previous publication in Stand Our Ground, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Black Powerful, Infinite Constellations and Cave Canem 10-Year Reader anthologies and journals: Inverted Syntax, Cultural Weekly, Rigorous, milk magazine, Nexus magazine, South Broadway Press and Burrow Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4dac255e-fd26-47ce-a418-6594d264efe8/www+elephant+circle+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/cca8a88e-05c4-41c1-9a72-82527efe787e/FRAME+AUGUST+23+WWW+02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out August 4th 2023 East Window and The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E Friday’s Rumination Astonishes The Menagerie In The Effervescent Echolalia 7pm - 9pm Free Poems by Jason Masino, Ellen Orleans, Madeline Seltzer, Carla Campbell Visual Art by Noah Phillips Music by Max Davies Curated by Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Jason Masino Originally from California, Jason Masino received his BA in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Davis, and his MFA in Poetry from Regis University. His work has been published in Cultural Daily, Inverted Syntax, Rigorous, South Florida Poetry Journal, fifth wheel press, and many others. His debut book of poetry -- Sinner's Prayer -- was released in December 2022 by Passengers Press. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Ellen Orleans Author, assemblage artist, and waterfall enthusiast, Ellen Orleans has written seven books, most recently, Inside, The World Is Orange and Mother Blue & the Deep Down Under. Ellen’s work has appeared on NPR’s Hanukkah Lights, has been performed theatrically, and published widely. Her 1995 novel, The Butches of Madison County, won a Lambda Literary Award and her play, “God, Guilt, and Gefilte Fish,” was produced by Goddess Theatre in CU/Boulder’s Old Main Theater. Her video “O-8: My Visit with a Nuclear Missile” is viewable on youtube. Ellen has taught writing and natural journaling in schools, libraries, and along hiking trails. A resident of Wild Sage co-housing in north Boulder, she manages sustainability programs for the City of Boulder and leads occasional story-time hikes for toddlers. Ellen believes in multitudes and intersections, both personally and in community. Carla Campbell Carla started working at CCA in the fall of 2014 as an adjunct instructor, teaching courses in English, ESL, and Advanced Academic Achievement. She also worked as a Writing Studio tutor in the Academic Learning Center and is now SLO NAACP for CCA. Carla also taught at the Community College of Denver and at Johnson and Wales University for two years. She transitioned to full-time in the English Department in the fall of 2020, and teaches English composition, and literature courses. She earned her master’s degree in Creative Writing and Poetics from Naropa University and her bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in African American Studies from Arizona State University. She was a freelance writer for small press magazines such as the AZ Black Pages in Arizona and public relations intern for the City of Phoenix. Host on blog talk radio SHOUT (Sisterhood Holding On Ultimately To truth) Recently received the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Spirit award. Madeleine Seltzer Madeleine writes fiction, casts spells, and makes art. She recently received her MFA from the Mile High Program at Regis University. She spent most of her life in Los Angeles and now lives in Lyons, Colorado. Noah Travis Phillips Noah is an artist, educator, and scholar (BA, Naropa University, Fine Art and Environmental Studies; MFA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices). They create adaptable and multicentered artworks about a mythic anthropocene and posthuman world by activating appropriation and digital/analog remix and collage strategies, and working with both a personal media archive and open algorithmic systems. Their work incorporates 2D / 3D digital fabrication, videos, installation, performance, and the internet. Phillips is Assistant Professor & FabLab Coordinator at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They have exhibited extensively locally, nationally, internationally, and virtually. They live and work in Boulder, Colorado and can be found online at noahtravisphillips.com. Max Davies With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer, his versatility has been showcased by his work with many artists and musicians including: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov, and many others. His music can be found on Spoitfy and Bandcamp, and other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising. Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the Unites States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/42f2e538-27de-439a-b694-28eb92057b3b/KALI-WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out March 22nd 2023 As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents: Artist talk - Kali Spitzer in person March 22nd 2023 7:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/8cda08c1-3def-41ad-bf08-38b1afa45233/ALEX+STARK+WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Unfettered Recognition - Closing Reception and Panel Discussion Photography by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/66c4e0ed-00c6-4ea1-b3b9-d263dcd9173e/SQUIRE+01+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out December 15th 2023 7-9pm Free Join Mitchell Squire for an artist talk as part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit currently in our main gallery. Learn more about Mitchell Squire HERE Mitchell Squire's photographic work confronts viewers with profound images of what it means to be a Black “elder” in ways that radically depart from the oversaturated media stereotypes designed to objectify older Black men by evoking the extremes of sympathy, pity, sorrow or adulation. Squire explores how a sixty + year old Black man might live increasingly unmeasured, uncensored, and ungoverned. His work takes viewers to the grassy fields of wildflowers, the muddy creek beds, the forests, the darkness of dilapidated sheds, and the snow covered plains to make self portraits, which reveal to the world more clearly how the artist inhabits himself. His images amplify a personal anarchy, an unwavering interiority, a one-person revolution to feel, to continually establish a presence drawn deeply into this earth. Squire states, "We play, we dream, we show out, we resist, we love, we smoke, we preen, we glow, we test our limits. And we are not done yet!" Mitchell Squire was born in Natchez, Mississippi. He primarily focuses on exploring culture through acquired artifacts and the inability to express pain. Squire is currently a professor at Iowa State University and lives in Ames, Iowa. Squire's work is held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ea583bfa-1270-4d92-9ad4-3b298eadeb42/HANSON+PAST-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Nov 18, 2022 - Jan 29th 2023 Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus - Photographs Excerpts from Harry James Hanson's “Legends of Drag” and other images will be on display at East Window. Hanson and Antheus’s work celebrates queer elders who have long been cultural and spiritual leaders within their communities. For more information on “Legends of Drag” click HERE © Harry James Hanson - Image Courtesy the artist - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/099c3f41-3470-4c09-b3e1-f4d21a2e4f12/WWW.EASTWINDOW-MAY-26-sml.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out SPOKEN EVOCATION : An East Window Poetry Event May 26th 2023 7-9 pm Read the article on J.Benjamin Burney in Out Front Magazine HERE A night of spoken word poetry from four talented Boulder/ Denver Community poets, Ashia Ajani, Kika Dorsey, Riley Bartlett and J. Benjamin Burney. Each poet comes from diverse backgrounds, conveying memory and feeling through their art. Featured poet is J. Benjamin Burney, who recently released a book of his poems and short stories Poems Can Fly. Ashia Ajani is an award winning environmental storyteller and educator hailing from Denver. CO, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapahoe peoples. Ajani is a UC Berkeley lecturer, a climate justice educator with Mycelium Youth Network and co-poetry editor of The Hopper Literary Magazine. They are a Pushcart Prize nominated post and writer with words in Annos Magazine, Sierra Magazine, Frontier Poetry and World Literature Today, among others. Ajani is a 2022 Just Buffalo Literary Center Poetry Fellow and has received support from Tin House, The Watering Hole and The Chrysalis Institute. Their debut poetry collection, Heirloom is forthcoming April 2023 with Write Bloody Publishing. J. Benjamin Burney was born in Tulsa, OK. He is currently receiving his master's in Fine Art and Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Benjamin is a poet who specializes in creating immersive installations using performance and mixed media art. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Zoid Art Haus, a design house based in Denver, Colorado that uses storytelling to create experiences, products, and services geared toward making a more inclusive, equitable, and empathetic society. His new book Poems Can Fly will be available at this reading. Kika Dorsey has been published in numerous journals and books, including The Comstock Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Denver Quarterly, The Columbia Review, Narrative Northeast, MacQueen’s Quinterly, among many others. She has published a chapbook of poetry, Beside Herself (Flutter Press, 2010) and three full-length collections, Rust, Coming Up for Air. (Word Tech Editions, 2016, 2018), and Occupied: Vienna is a Broken Man and Daughter of Hunger (Pinyon Publishing, 2020), winner of the Colorado Authors’ League Award. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle and currently teaches as a lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Riley Bartlett is a nonbinary dancer and writer living in Colorado. They received their MFA in Creative Writing in 2019 from The University of Colorado Boulder and is now a professor at the University. Their writing has been featured in Stoneboat Literary Journal and in several dance performances in the Denver Metro area. Curated by Emily Berkes East Window's gallery assistant. She is currently a master's student in Art history at CU Boulder focusing on critical museology in Indigenous visual culture of the Americas. She is most passionate about the repatriation of objects as well as designing more ethical and sustainable museum spaces. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f6842627-349c-4f92-9416-e9f313edb963/ALEX+TALK+NEW+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out January 6th 2023 Artist Talk with Yvens Alex Saintil 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery Yvens Alex Saintil, multidisciplinary artist, army veteran, and local activist, returns to East Window Gallery. Those who missed the opportunity to meet Alex at the opening reception in November 2022 now have another chance. Saintil will join East Window for First Friday in January for an intimate artist talk. He will discuss his current exhibit at East Window, his new work and more. Saintil’s career extends far beyond his ten years in the United States Army, where he served as an Infantryman performing in various roles within the continental United States, South Korea, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service and now resides in Denver, Colorado. Through his discipline, Saintil actively brings awareness to police reform and accountability, veteran mental health care, gun violence, and activism. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/e92626c6-ba7c-4685-9c19-e32d6daa2f50/FRAME-MAY-WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out The Literary Ladies In Collaboration With East Window Present: F R A M E Friday’s Revolutionary Address to the Moon in Ephemeral Editions May 5th 2023 7-9 pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 Free no RSVP required Jay Halsey’s poems and prose have been published in several online and print journals and nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. His photography has been used as cover art for poetry collections and novels, featured in fundraising campaigns for the Rocky Mountain Land Library in Fairplay, Colorado, and was part of a touring exhibit featured at libraries and bookstores throughout France to represent Editions Gallmeister's American authors. His photography and multi-form collection Barely Half in an Awkward Line was published by Really Serious Literature in the fall of 2022. A second expanded edition is forthcoming from Agape Editions’ Haunted Doll House imprint in the fall of 2023. He was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio and has lived on the Colorado Front Range for the past sixteen years. He’s worked as a champion for those worse off than he, explored and recorded desolate places absent of people, written of anger and love, and sought a peace that may or may not exist. Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press, 2019 and Agape Editions, 2023 new edition), and Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), one of Buzz Feed News’s “17 Recent and Upcoming Books from Indie Publishers You Need to Read," also considered for the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. She has published or has work forthcoming in The Sun, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Rumpus, Big Other, and other publications and has written reviews for High Country News, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She received an MFA in creative writing from Regis University’s Mile High MFA. She teaches creative writing at The University of Denver, Colorado College, Unity College, Lighthouse Writers, and Lighthouse Youth and teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities and writing. Claire Corina Stevens was born and raised in Texas, and though they haven’t lived in the state in nearly a decade, it’s a place their writing continues to return to. For now, they live in an apartment in a Denver suburb with their partner and four cats and dream about visiting every Colorado ghost town someday. Heather Goodrich is a prose writer in Colorado. She is the publisher and editor of Gesture Press, a feminist press that publishes work that doesn’t bind itself with labels. Her prose appears in The Filaments of Heather (Sad Spell Press, 2015), Shame Radiant (book & art exhibit, 2021), A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park (Wolverine Farm, 2012), among others. She lives on the Front Range with her partner, Craig, and their husky, Fiona. Heather is currently working on a novel about a girl growing up in a new religious moment who seeks nirvana and love. Music by Max Davies With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer; musician Max Davies has a wealth of real-world practical knowledge that underlines the core of his musical background. From performance to production, songwriting to instruction, his empirical knowledge translates into every project he is involved with. His versatility has been showcased by his work with many musicians including: Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov and many others. His solo releases have been described by Guitarist Magazine as: "Vivid", and: "Quite something" by Guitar World. His most recent album of prepared guitar instrumentals, entitled: Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was lauded by guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collection of "really good ideas". Other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising and for Jovovich-Hawk's fashion line and he has been a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program E-Town. Other musicians and performers he's worked with include: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Knackeboul, Janice Lowe, Steven Taylor, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clark Coolidge, LAPCAT, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Ic Explura, Greyhounds, poets Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos and many others. Visual Art by Story Fisher The Curators Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the Unites States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c1711f05-3f7c-4634-a50e-793abca7f534/BENJAMIN+WORKSHOP+WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out September 22nd 2023 J. Benjamin Burney Workshop: The Intersection of Art and Business: Navigating Success as a Professional in the Art World 7:00-9:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway STE C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 FREE NO RSVP REQUIRED East Window presents: Multimedia artist Benjamin Burney and his invaluable workshop The Intersection of Art and Business: Navigating Success as a Professional in the Art World. Drawing from his unique experiences as practicing multimedia artist, poet, business owner and creative director of Zoid Art Haus, Benjamin has designed an essential workshop for artists seeking to learn how to survive and thrive as a professional in the world of art. During this workshop participants at all points in their artistic careers receive a wealth of the most up to date and relevant information in areas such as: •Understanding the art market •Mastering business skills / tools for creative impact •Opportunities analysis •Marketing •Budgeting: personal & studio finances •LLC building •Breaking the algorithm / creating your own •Networking •Selling and pricing your work •Keeping your practice alive •Resource list for artist / entrepreneurs And that's just scratching the surface of what's offered to you in this workshop. We're so lucky to host Benjamin for this event. Don't miss it! J Benjamin Burney was born in Tulsa, OK. He is currently receiving his master's in Fine Art and Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Benjamin is a poet who specializes in creating immersive installations using performance and mixed media art. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Zoid Art Haus, a design house based in Denver, Colorado that uses storytelling to create experiences, products, and services geared toward making a more inclusive, equitable, and empathetic society. His new book Poems Can Fly will be available at this reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/98131f01-3460-4c69-af0c-97abb7a47a35/FRAME-OCT-23-www-03.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Flyer design: Allyson McDuffie Artwork: Dustin Holland - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/61e0c3ac-1230-4bb1-a6c0-9dfd9ff9e527/KALI+TALK+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/898de131-77ec-421e-842f-3fd28a65e992/NOLAND+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photography Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7062afa4-ef5f-49de-ad25-6f56a7aa466a/KALI+-+WWW+-+CN+-+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c36b54db-faf7-4a66-9fc1-b893830d4edf/DONA-NEWCOMERS-ALL-WWW.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out September 8th - October 21st, 2023 The Silhouette Project: Newcomers Photographs by Dona Laurita Opening Reception September 8th, 2023 7:00 - 9:00 pm Closing Reception / Artist & Newcomers Talk October 21st 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Newcomers centers around the stories of high school age refugees who have come to Denver and adjacent front range cities from countries such as Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Bhutan, Somalia, Russia, Iraq, Venezuela, Mexico and Ukraine. For many of these students, sharing their stories in this project is the first time they have spoken about their plight and the trauma of bearing witness to the atrocities committed against their respective homelands. “Adolescents and young adults who, by force or choice, fled to the U.S. because their parents, their war-torn country, or extreme poverty drove them to. The innocent who have lost time and place: months or years of education, books, the arts, sports, playground antics, friendships, knowledgeable and kind teachers, freedom, safety and security. Despite their scars, these children yearn to return to their homeland, in order to reclaim and strengthen it; to their people, in order to save the ones left behind.” — Dona Laurita Dona Laurita has exhibited her work in galleries throughout Colorado and beyond for the past 30 years. She was a founding member of the Sliding Door Gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District of Denver, and opened her own Photography Gallery in Louisville, Colorado. Dona has facilitated dozens of Artist-In-Residence programs and workshops over the past twenty years in Colorado schools, children’s hospitals, summer camps and after school programs, working with Think 360 Arts, Young Audiences, the Denver District Attorney’s Office Restitution Project, and the Mizel Museum of Denver. In 2013, she was the co-recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for her project, Stories Matter. KGNU RADIO Interview with Dona Laurita DAILY CAMERA Interview with Dona Laurita COLORADO DAILY Article (East Window, Andre Ramos-Woodard, Dona Laurita) - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/be646e5d-9559-4010-8284-2ff6d52c3abb/JOYSOME-WWW-03.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5b781c49-5399-440e-9133-2c1124d6a4ad/ELEPHANT.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out ELEPHANTCIRCLE.ORG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/aeeb4064-656d-46fe-9701-8a1243141234/FRAME+AUGUST+23+WWW+01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photography by Niko Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/738adb84-de6b-47b5-89e0-ad0e554130c9/BENJAMIN-+2023-WWW-01.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Photos: © 2023 Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/98036575-4a4d-426b-b699-9238dd18e045/FRAME-APRIL-WWW-02.jpg 2023 - Make it stand out Twanna LaTrice Hill is a writer, actor, director, teaching artist and life-long learner. She is an inner city born and raised, Princeton/Harvard/Regis educated, agnostic, Unitarian-Universalist, Buddhist (lite), tarot reading, disabled, single, straight, 58-year-old, Russian speaking, liberal female survivor who has seen too much & lived much more. Twanna earned a BA from Princeton University in Russian; A MA from Harvard University in Soviet Studies; and a second MA from Regis University in Nonprofit Management Twanna has most recently performed with the PHAMALY Theater Company, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Department of Education, and the Denver Theater of the Oppressed. She published the short story "A Life of Little Consequence" in the critically acclaimed collection Denver Noir and wrote the play Love Multiplied which was produced and performed by the PHAMALY Theater Company in 2022. She is a also a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop and is currently completing her first memoir What's Done in the Dark. Twanna is a passionate woman who is dedicated to ending violence in all its forms. Grace Hunt grew up in Houston, TX and currently resides in Longmont, CO where she’s a second-year candidate in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. While her current project centers around the surreality of coming of age in a feminine body and then selling that body in the dizzyingly digital climate of current sex work, other interests and obsessions include the panopticon existence of modern living, multi-media poetics, sex work culture and representation, social media scapes as modern texts, and the blurring of privacy and performance in our day-to-day lives. Sherri Marilena Pauli lives in Longmont, Colorado, is a librarian and gets to touch books all the time. She writes to listen, to translate, or receive the tongue of the past that is housed in us and this world, as hewed to light and channeled through an entanglement of ancestors whispering the present. Their text is messaging us, as the future pulls the body through the forest, clattering leaves and pages advise her spells in how to make space for something new by learning what needs to be let go. Steven Dunn, aka Pot Hole (cuz he’s deep in these streets), is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press: Potted Meat (2016) and water & power (2018). Potted Meat was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, shortlisted for Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists, and adapted into a short film, The Usual Route, by Foothills Productions. The Usual Route has played at the LA International Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, and others. He was born and raised in West Virginia and teaches in the MFA programs at Regis University, Cornell College, and Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Music by Max Davies With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer; musician Max Davies has a wealth of real-world practical knowledge that underlines the core of his musical background. From performance to production, songwriting to instruction, his empirical knowledge translates into every project he is involved with. His versatility has been showcased by his work with many musicians including: Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov and many others. His solo releases have been described by Guitarist Magazine as: "Vivid", and: "Quite something" by Guitar World. His most recent album of prepared guitar instrumentals, entitled: Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was lauded by guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collection of "really good ideas". Other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising and for Jovovich-Hawk's fashion line and he has been a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program E-Town. Other musicians and performers he's worked with include: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Knackeboul, Janice Lowe, Steven Taylor, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clark Coolidge, LAPCAT, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Ic Explura, Greyhounds, poets Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos and many others. Visual Art by Georgianna Van Gunten The Curators Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the Unites States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. - BACK TO TOP - https://www.eastwindow.net/shame daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1614125627445-YCYMLVKU5T0RXDZG13OM/SHAME+02.jpg shame Shame Radiant books have officially arrived! 250 copies have been printed and they are ready to be released into the wild. You can purchase copies below. Thanks again and please stay tuned for future calls from east window. 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Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do. https://www.eastwindow.net/statement daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/upcoming-1 daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1611871986292-NT1Y4TXNNELDYEDAOJJR/will+wilson+www+01.jpg upcoming (Copy) September 1-October 29, 2021 The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) Photographs by Will Wilson Wilson (Diné) observes that American culture remains enamored of one particular moment in a photographic exchange between Euro-American and Aboriginal American societies: the decades from 1907 to 1930 when photographer Edward S. Curtis produced “The North American Indian” photographic series. For many people even today, Native people remain frozen in time in Curtis’s romanticised and stereotypical portraits. Wilson’s CIPX project intends to challenge the documentary mission of Curtis from the standpoint of a 21st century indigenous, trans-customary, cultural practitioner, supplanting Curtis’s Settler gaze and the old paradigm of assimilation with a re-imagined vision of the complex identities of contemporary Native people. Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, and was awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, and the University of Arizona. He managed the National Vision Project, a Ford Foundation funded initiative at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and helped to coordinate the New Mexico Arts Temporary Installations Made for the Environment (TIME) program on the Navajo Nation. Wilson is part of the Science and Arts Research Collaborative (SARC) which brings together artists interested in using science and technology in their practice with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia Labs as part of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, 2012 (ISEA). Recently, Wilson completed an exhibition and artist residency at the Denver Art Museum and is currently the King Fellow artist in residence at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1610232600505-8FSIAOSJDNG8NRR4O0C7/DONA-WWW-03.jpg upcoming (Copy) December 1, 2021 - January 5, 2022 THE SILHOUETTE PROJECT Stories of Cancer Through the Lens of Love Photographer Dona Laurita’s third incarnation of The Silhouette Project tells the stories of young people’s experiences fighting, surviving, and living with cancer, drawing attention to the underrepresented AYA (adolescent and young adult) cancer community. Through silhouetted images colored by text taken from spoken interviews, The Silhouette Project tells the stories that make these journeys unique and illuminate the aspects that unite the AYA community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1604820478545-HUJS4RQDT7KGG8489EKR/NAO-RS-01A.jpg upcoming (Copy) Date TBA, 2021 SOLDADERA and Other Films by Nao Bustamante Nao Bustamante's bullet-proof gown, "Tierra y Libertad - Kevlar® 2945," offers us a metaphorical shield for surviving a world that feels like it is perpetually at war. When she first began to entertain the idea of making a dress that would protect its wearer from harm, she came across a photographic portrait of a battalion of women who fought in the Mexican Revolution. This apparently incongruous image of armed women dressed in Edwardian gowns inspired the artist to center her exploration of the art of "personal protection" on the figure of the soldadera, the Mexican revolutionary woman fighter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1610647620818-RH8SVHRIY7E6QT47SAMO/DEAL-WWW-01.jpg upcoming (Copy) April 1-May 27, 2021 Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a provocative contemporary artist who challenges Western perceptions of Indigenous people, touching on issues of race, history, cultural erasure and stereotypes. Through his work—paintings, murals work, performance art, filmmaking and spoken word—Deal critically examines issues and tells stories of decolonization and appropriation that affect Indian Country. Deal’s activism exists in his art, as well as his participation in political movements. Deal was included in the National Geographic Society Magazine article “Native Americans are Recasting Views of Indigenous Life.” Deal was Native Arts Artist-in-Residence at Denver Art Museum and Artist-In-Residence at UC Berkeley. His art has been exhibited nationally since 2002. Deal has lectured widely at prominent educational institutions and museums, including Denver Art Museum, Dartmouth College Columbia University, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. His television appearances include PBS’s The Art District, The Daily Show and Totally Biased with Kamau Bell. east window is honored to host his work. A series of six original paintings will be on view. Above image from "The Others". Deal states “... a new series that re-appropriates old comic book images from the 40's and 50's of Indigenous characters. The dialog is replaced with lyrics from old Punk songs of the 70's, 80's and 90's that resonate with the scene or the greater Indigenous struggle. Each image has been redrawn, recolored and repurposed to embody aspects of stereotype, identity, historical consideration and the intersection of an aspect of American culture (Punk Rock) that has affected my life and has affected innumerable Indigenous youth through the years. These intersections are meant to illustrate the complexity of Indigenous existence, growing up in America amidst things we love and things we hate. While easily viewable as a series of works and speaks to people regardless of connection it has to specific music and bands, it stands on its own illustrating these Indigenous complexities.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1590499016567-YCFAHWMFNCDQ1FRGI8RP/Tara_ICE.jpg upcoming (Copy) Date TBA, 2021 Tara Evonne Trudell LEFT BEHIND / FAR AWAY exhibits selections from two series of photographs by multimedia artist Tara Trudell, dealing with conflicts at the border between Mexico and the USA. Tara wrote poems to address these troubling issues, rolled the poems into paper beads, and planted the beads along the Mexico / US border. Each bead becomes a prayer honoring the countless persons who, in attempting to journey northward, have been dispossessed, incarcerated, and separated from their families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1616680906541-YG9T6WR13N11GOAAFDYK/HEATHER-WWW-02.jpg upcoming (Copy) April 17, 2021 Heather D. Schulte Participate in textile artist Heather D. Schulte's, Stitching the Situation: A Collaborative Memorial Of COVID-19 In The U.S. at east window. Stitching the Situation is an ongoing and collaborative project, recording diverse individual and community experiences in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic through community cross-stitching gatherings. This project is an extension of Heather’s textile work, Situation Report a daily cross-stitch documentation of the coronavirus case and death counts in the U.S. The Situation Report panels began as the artist’s way to record cases in the US, and translate them visually with stitch. As cases grew, she could not stitch each individual case or death herself, and began hosting in-person stitching sessions with her neighbors. These panels are now traveling to other areas, as it is safe to do so, inviting more people to contribute their hands and time, marking the impact of the virus on our lives, and sharing their own stories of these times with each other. In a time when gathering in person is difficult, the size and scope of the work offers a socially distanced opportunity to come together creatively, while still respecting public health and safety measures. All materials provided and no experience in cross-stitching is required. To register for this event : stitchingthesituation@gmail.com 11:00am - 2:00pm east window 4949 Broadway, Unit 102B, Boulder, Colorado 880304 For more information about this project visit: www.stitchingthesituation.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1616681009878-B3C8XTRWI2BE6S7FQ8HG/HEATHER-WWW-03.jpg upcoming (Copy) This is an outdoor event Please wear a mask, Thank you To register for this event : stitchingthesituation@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1612979144524-YQG17PZRQOO19V1KMFRF/MICAH-WWW-02.jpg upcoming (Copy) Date TBA, 2021 Art of Trans Liberation Micah Bazant is a visual artist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world. They create art inspired by struggles to decolonize ourselves from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and the gender binary. They make art as a practice of love and solidarity with trans liberation and racial justice movements to build power. The ongoing process of developing ethical models for collaboration with grassroots community organizations is a large part of Micah’s work. Micah’s projects include their 1999 zine Timtum, the Trans Day of Resilience art project, the Trans Life + Liberation Art Series and Miklat Miklat. Micah has served as Artist in Residence at Forward Together, an Advisory Board member of Sins Invalid, and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Artist Council. Micah is a white trans, anti-zionist jewish timtum (one of six ancient jewish gender categories). They live in Ohlone territory and also loves growing food, learning the secret histories of plants, and admiring caterpillars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1612984924197-86FK0I9JFA0B8MCQ22AY/HEXUS-WWW-01.jpg upcoming (Copy) June 1-29, 2021 Hexus Collective Hexus is a semi-anonymous, artist-led, performance and curatorial collective seeking, finding and promoting mysticism through visual, performance and sound art. Their work is rooted in alterity theory and concerned especially with intersectional activism encompassing disability, queer folks, cyberfeminism, alliances with BIPOC communities, and anticapitalist analysis. Hexus emphasizes collectivity as a strategy to reveal the importance of care and mutual dependency in resistance to socially dominant ideas about the productive bodymind within patriarchal capitalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1612974487429-Z8Y6JZ8U7PIZG6UUVUUN/DEAL-WWW-02.jpg upcoming (Copy) May 28, 2021 Screening: The Last American Indian on Earth Running Time: 22 minutes 7pm A film by Gregg Deal, documenting what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of a stereotype, one that for most is the only authentic expression of what it means to be an Indigenous person of the American continent. This piece is a window into the funny, sarcastic, truthful, and even emotional journey of an artist using himself as an instrument of awareness, exploring questions of Indigenous identity and America’s problematic and often inept relationship with her nation’s First Peoples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1610232878832-VI31NJ2AZY8UMJZZUYHO/AURORA-WWW-01.jpg upcoming (Copy) Date TBA, 2021 Aurora Levins Morales Aurora’s poem V’AHAVTA is a joyous and radical imagining of a liturgy that is rooted in global diasporic Jewish cultures, fully integrating Jews of Color, Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews into the center of Jewish practice, not the margins. 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Photographed by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip) as a part of her ongoing documentary, Project 562, the portraits in Decolonizing Sexuality make up a small portion of Wilbur’s monumental effort in pursuit of one goal: to change the way we see Native America. Since the founding of Project 562, Matika has visited over 500 sovereign nations across all 50 states, Turtle Island and New Zealand. In journeying the vastness of Indian Country she became increasingly aware of the violence and lack of representation facing Two Spirit peoples. Two Spirit people have always played an important role in Native American communities, and although that role may have been confused or lost through the course of assimilation, we are now seeing a tremendous resurrection and celebration of Two Spirit Culture. 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She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, & Shame Radiant, among others. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Max Davies grew up fascinated by sound and music. In addition to his solo work, his music has been featured in films, at NYC Fashion week, spoken-word collaborations and dance productions. He has been fortunate to work with sonic luminaries and linguistic magicians such as Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, CA Conrad, John Trudell, LAPCAT, Clark Coolidge, Steven Taylor, Junior Burke, Ic Explura, Gregory Alan Isakov and many more. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living with her family on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado in a Victorian-era farmhouse where they are surrounded by open sky, coyote, and century-old cottonwoods. Her novel Fig debuted from Simon and Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as a Best Read of the Year before winning a Colorado Book Award in 2016. Sarah teaches creative writing and literature at Naropa University, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and through her own workshop series (W)rites of Passage. She is currently working on two novels and a short story collection. Jade Lascelles is a writer, editor, musician, and letterpress printer based in Boulder, Colorado. Selections of her work have appeared in journals, anthologies, films, and visual arts exhibits. She was included in the 2022 Bologna in Lettere festival this spring. Eric Shoemaker is an interdisciplinary poet, artist, and scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Louisville and an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He is the author of three poetry books: Ca'Venezia (2021, Partial Press), We Knew No Mortality (2018, Acta Publications), and 30 Days Dry (2015, Thought Collection Publishing). Emji Saint Spero is a writer, performer, and pervert living in Los Angeles. They are curious about the potential of creative intimacies. Through movement and collaborative performance they seek to find embodied modes of connection, to queer the familiar, mapping the boundaries of collective engagement. Saint Spero is the author of disgust and almost any shit will do. They co-founded the Oakland-based small press and queer poetry cult Timeless, Infinite Light with Joel Gregory. With Lauren Levin, were co-developmental editor for We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, which was awarded the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. Learn more at saintspero.com. PURCHASE BOOK HERE DOWNLOAD IMAGES HERE DISGUST: unhealthy practices" April 7th - June 28th 2022 , a group exhibit curated by Todd Edward Herman, filmmaker, photographer and founding director of east window, is the culmination of an open call for work by nearly one hundred writers and visual artists around the world. DISGUST is often seen as the bridge between our moral imperatives and the wilds of survival; the cusp of emotion and instinct. Activated in response to what we perceive or imagine as revolting, sick, infectious, diseased, contaminated and thereby threatening, disgust signals our awareness of fissures between feelings of safety and peril, stability and insecurity; of disjunctions that threaten facets of our personal identity and society at large. Our collective actions relative to our experiences of disgust often bear witness to damaging prejudices and rhetorics, which attempt to conflate those who we perceive as different from ourselves, socially, culturally, politically, sexually, religiously, in age or ability, with vectors of physical or moral contamination. To be clear, this project aims to confront, subvert and transform these prejudices, not reinforce them. The images and texts which comprise this international group exhibit freely explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. We see works grappling with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups. What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions? The often volatile emotions expressed through the works in this project make it easy to assume that the only story they tell is one of adversarial engagement and oppression. However, is it possible that through these many evocations of violated personal and collective borders, a peculiar sense of solidarity is being revealed? For when an out-group, seen from any side, becomes so close as to be indiscernible from ourselves isn't that when it becomes most threatening? -- Todd Edward Herman 2021 https://www.eastwindow.net/fullmoon daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1625104001924-NTCWW0MPYKF7ICCC2TCR/POETRY-MUSIC-MOON-SML.jpg fullmoon - Make it stand out July 24, 2021 Readings, Music and a Full Moon 6:30pm - 10:30pm east window invites you to join us for an evening of live musical performance and readings of poetry and fiction by: Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Junior Burke, Hillary Leftwich, Jade Lascelles, Max Davies, and surprise guests. Please note this event will be held at east window’s off-site location: 4929 Broadway Boulder, Colorado 80304 USA (at the NoBo Art Center, behind WAPOS restaurant) Donations to support the performers are welcome, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado in a Victorian-era farmhouse with her family where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. In addition to being faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, she runs her own creative writing workshop series, (W)rites of Passage. She is currently working on a novel titled Roadside Altars, a novella tentatively titled Just Like Heaven, and maybe a short story collection she'll call Tales of Dead Children. When she isn't reading, writing, or teaching, you can find her daydreaming, making collages, taking moonlit walks around the ponds and prairies that surround her rental, or soaking in a bath with so much salt it might as well be the sea. Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/TheAccomplices 2019). Her hybrid memoir, Aura, is forthcoming from Future Tense Books in 2022. She is the founder and owner of AlchemyAuthor Services & Workshop and teaches creative writing at LighthouseWriters. She focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma,mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. She is an intuitive Tarologist and has been reading Tarot for over 25 years coupled with her clair abilities. She is a registered member of the Tarosophy Tarot Association and The Monroe Institute, and is a student at The College of Psychic Studies. She teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities, as well as writing. She lives in Denver with her partner, son, and cat, Larry. Toni Oswald is a writer & musician who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego, The Diary of Ic Explura, & her most recent publications include The Oyez Review, Heroes Are Gang Leader’s Gianthology, & The Tattered Press. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, and a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her first book, Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her partner Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Musician, producer and songwriter Max Davies' music has been described as "searing, soaring, and resonant". Guitarist magazine described his solo album "In The Realms Of The Mercury Halo" as "vivid", and "yearns with a sorrowful gravitas." His diverse musical work on guitar, and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist, has been featured at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the Everest Awakening benefit album, and has also been featured in live performance, on many albums, interdisciplinary collaborations, and films. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Steven Taylor, Junior Burke, Julie Patton, Gregory Alan Isakov, Gasoline Lollipops, and many others. His song Written in Water was recently featured on Australian label Cosmic Coffin's compilation Volume 1. His newest single, Meanwhile, was released earlier this year. Junior Burke’s songs have been performed and recorded by a wide array of artists, including Bob Dylan and Richie Havens, earning him a Gold Record and a Cable Ace Award. Burke is also a novelist, whose most recent book, The Cold Last Swim, was published by Gibson House Press. He lives outside of Boulder. Jade Lascelles is a writer, editor, drummer, and letterpress printer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her written and visual work has been included in several literary journals and anthologies, the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill, and gallery spaces across the western US. Keep an eye out for her book The Inevitable (forthcoming from Gesture Press in August 2021) and a soon-to-be-released covers album with the band Pantherette. https://www.eastwindow.net/new-page daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1637712008724-X2BIYC0QPU0IBVQYTFVE/SOUTH-WWW-01.jpg south - Make it stand out east window is excited to introduce our new indoor, in-person exhibit space, SOUTH. SOUTH is located just around the corner from east window. We will continue to curate and program the original east window as well as offer exhibits and workshops at various off-site locations, we're just adding SOUTH to the mix. Opened in January 2022. east window SOUTH is open by appointment until further notice Schedule your visit to east window SOUTH HERE east window hours are 10am - 10pm every day https://www.eastwindow.net/membership daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/visit-south daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/advisory daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/emailwindowinfo daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1659203376801-EXKWFRBFOZ5OTK9K42ET/LEROY-WWW+03.jpg email-window-info - Make it stand out August 8 - October 31, 2022 Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Ace Robles — KRIP HOP: Volume 1 east window presents excerpts from Leroy F. Moore Jr’s graphic novel, “KRIP HOP: Volume 1” illustrated by Ace Robles. African American, disabled, poet and disability justice activist, Leroy F. Moore Jr. is co-founder of the Emmy award winning and internationally acclaimed Krip Hop Nation, whose mission is to shine a light on the talents, history and rights of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Krip Hop politics, theory and art strive to bring disabilities from the margins to the center of Black cultural, economic, social and political life. Leroy's Krip Hop is a worldwide community of artists where people with disabilities can speak out, about, and back to the social structures that exclude people based on disability, race, sexuality, and many other marginalized identities. Ace Robles is a Filipino American artist. He, his partner and daughter live in the Bay Area where he works hard in the service industry while making revolutionary art for the people. East Window is an outdoor viewing space. The lights are on until 11pm everyday. Come visit us soon! https://www.eastwindow.net/emailsouthinfo daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1660076261176-QLZ7F0IEV8HE3ST402ZS/MARINA-WWW+02.jpg email-south-info - Make it stand out August 25 - October 28, 2022 GEOMETRIC FRUSTRATIONS Marina Kassianidou is a visual artist whose work focuses on relationships between mark and surface. Her current practice combines painting, drawing, collage, installation, and site-responsive work. She lives and works between Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Limassol, Cyprus. She graduated from Stanford University, where she was a CASP/Fulbright scholar, with degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science (both with Distinction). Upon graduation, she was awarded the Arthur Giese Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting by the Stanford University Department of Art and Art History. She obtained an M.A. in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK. In 2015, she completed a Ph.D. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK. She has exhibited her work in Australia, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the USA. Group exhibitions include Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial: Errors Allowed (Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy), Tradition Today: Exploring Conditions to Recreate It (House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece), Limassol: The Aftermath of Development (First Municipal Housing Buildings, Limassol, Cyprus), Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of Photography and Archaeology (NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus), WADS (Ars Electronica 2020), and The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020 (New York, USA). She has had solo exhibitions at Gloria Gallery and Thkio Ppalies in Nicosia, Cyprus, The Center for Drawing, Tenderpixel Gallery, and Chelsea College of Arts in London, UK, North Branch Projects in Chicago, Illinois, Yes Ma’am Projects in Denver, Colorado, and the Moreau Center for the Arts in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her work is found in several private and public collections, including the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. Selected awards include grants from the A. G. Leventis Foundation and fellowships at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Ragdale Foundation, and Residencia Internacional de Arte Can Serrat. She is a recipient of the 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her writings have appeared in the journals RevistArquis, The International Journal of the Image, and Journal of Contemporary Painting, among others. She has published the books How to Know: A Space (Nicosia: Thkio Ppalies, 2016), Μπαίνοντας στην εικόνα οι λέξεις (Nicosia: EI.KA, 2017), and Exercise Book (Nicosia: P. S. Artist Led Projects, 2018). This exhibit received funding and support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and NEST studio for the arts. east window SOUTH 4949 Broadway Unit 102-C Boulder, Colorado 80304 Hours: by appointment. Schedule your visit HERE https://www.eastwindow.net/writerscall daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://www.eastwindow.net/joysome daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/81552072-cecc-4481-a642-e058f387aa23/JOYSOME-WWW-04.jpg joysome - Make it stand out March 1 - 31, 2023 East Window has partnered with The Dairy Arts Center during Month of Photography to bring you JOYSOME. Joy is frequently understood as the fulfillment of desires which are considered essential to one’s own flourishing. Joy involves an existential and personally salient experience that is significant enough to produce a powerful emotional response. Joy serves critical evolutionary functions such as its role in forming bonds between infants and parents, and in intimate romantic relationships. The experience of joy is a fundamental response to human possibility. Why then, do we so readily dismiss joy as the “emotion of luxury”? And why do our respective experiences of joy often feel inappropriate in a world that both suffers without it and needs it so significantly? Perhaps joy's credibility has been eroded in Western cultures, particularly in America, because we've been inundated by myths that joy is an ultimate destination arrived at by following a few simple programs (cooking, signing, working, not working, motherhood, or sex -- referencing just some of the popular book titles of the past few decades). "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" continue to be the most important value-directed goals by which many guide their lives. Not achieving these goals or failing to appear even inauthentically happy much of the time can give cause for concern. With pressures to maximize happiness and minimize sadness we fear that our attainment of happiness and potentially joy is continually out of reach. This creates a culture addicted to happiness and its pursuit, wherein only the privileged have unlimited access to it. JOYSOME looks beyond superficial prescriptions for the perfect life and welcomes all of our divergent experiences and interpretations of what joy is to us. JOYSOME reflects upon the subjective worlds of this emotion, upon its unique timings and subsets, and upon joy's crucial functions in human existence. JOYSOME consists of fifty images selected from hundreds of responses to a call for work on the theme of joy. Submitted by artists and non-artists alike, the works in this exhibit span a range of disciplines and affective registers associated with joy— Ecstasy, Transcendence, Sadness, The Fear of Joy, Anger, Mania, Euphoria, Toxic Positivity, The American Dream, The Pursuit of Happiness, Masochism, Selflessness, Success, Sacrifice, Divination, Cuteness, The Sublime, Altruism, and Peace. The selected images are printed on flags and exhibited throughout the Front Range as part of the Month of Photography Festival - March 2023. Todd Edward Herman 2022 OUT FRONT MAGAZINE ARTICLE MORE INFORMATION Curators: Todd Edward Herman and Drew Austin Exhibition dates: March 1st - 31st, 2023 Guest Jurors: Charlo Charlo is a multimedia artist and designer who strives for one thing: joy. Using symbols, letters and lines, his monochromatic two-dimensional works are a space for exploration and discovery. Hidden themes and messages reside in the densely packed compositions, allowing viewers to impart their own sense of meaning from the works, or be delighted by the meanings provided by the artist. The interwoven shapes, words and symbols foster a sense of community interaction, collaboration, and hopeful optimism. Having emigrated from Monterrey, Mexico in 2013, the Denver-based artist describes himself as filled to the brim with gratitude. In his native language of Spanish, the equivalent for “experiencing joy” is “alegría” and it is this experience of joy he wishes to share with the world through his works. The deceptively simple yet dense paintings and drawings are reminiscent of influential artists such as MC Escher, Keith Haring and Remedios Varo. His communal collaborations between spectator and artist began in Denver with his Make Alleys Great Again project, in which the artist appropriated the slogan of a politically divisive U.S. politician to instead bring unity and joy to communities. Using the NextDoor app, the artist connected with fellow residents of the greater Denver community who invited him to paint murals onto their garage doors. All told, the artist brought local art to more than five dozen alleyways. Since his Make Alleys Great Again project, the artist has continued to make a name for himself. In 2021, he produced a live mural entitled The Joy of Being Together in partnership with NextDoor and the New York Stock Exchange. The artist's joyful, optimistic, and community-oriented work continues to gain interest on a national level. art.charlo.design Harry James Hanson Harry James Hanson is an artist and creative director based in Brooklyn. Harry’s new photography book, Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age (Abrams, 2022) is an archive of living drag history, in collaboration with Devin Antheus. Legends of Drag was the focus of a 2022 exhibition at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (Milwaukee, WI), and a second show at the Tenderloin Museum (San Francisco, CA) is planned for 2023. Harry‘s work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Vice, New York magazine, and The Guardian, among others. As a drag artist, Harry has performed internationally with the Bushwig festival and queer venues throughout New York City. Harry holds a dual degree with honors in Film Studies and Photography from Wesleyan University (2012). harryjameshanson.com https://www.eastwindow.net/upcoming-2 daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b6b6bcbb-cc7b-4a7e-8d25-6ce90b89bb30/DONA-NEWCOMERS-01-WWW.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out September 8th - October 6th, 2023 The Silhouette Project: Newcomers Photographs by Dona Laurita Opening Reception September 8th, 2023 7:00 - 9:00 pm Artist Talk September 29th, 2023 7:00 - 9:00 pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Newcomers centers around the stories of high school age refugees. For many of these students, sharing their stories in this project is the first time they have spoken about fleeing their homeland and the trauma of bearing witness to the atrocities committed by the Taliban. Dona Laurita has exhibited her work in galleries throughout Colorado and beyond for the past 30 years. She was a founding member of the Sliding Door Gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District of Denver, and opened her own Photography Gallery in Louisville, Colorado. Dona has facilitated dozens of Artist-In-Residence programs and workshops over the past twenty years in Colorado schools, children’s hospitals, summer camps and after school programs, working with Think 360 Arts, Young Audiences, the Denver District Attorney’s Office Restitution Project, and the Mizel Museum of Denver. In 2013, she was the co-recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for her project, Stories Matter. COLORADO DAILY Article (East Window, Andre Ramos-Woodard, Dona Laurita) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1612979144524-YQG17PZRQOO19V1KMFRF/MICAH-WWW-02.jpg gallery & window (Dates TBA) Art of Trans Liberation Micah Bazant is a visual artist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world. They create art inspired by struggles to decolonize ourselves from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and the gender binary. They make art as a practice of love and solidarity with trans liberation and racial justice movements to build power. The ongoing process of developing ethical models for collaboration with grassroots community organizations is a large part of Micah’s work. Micah’s projects include their 1999 zine Timtum, the Trans Day of Resilience art project, the Trans Life + Liberation Art Series and Miklat Miklat. Micah has served as Artist in Residence at Forward Together, an Advisory Board member of Sins Invalid, and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Artist Council. Micah is a white trans, anti-zionist jewish timtum (one of six ancient jewish gender categories). They live in Ohlone territory and also loves growing food, learning the secret histories of plants, and admiring caterpillars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1656283571066-6KMMR5T2ILSJ4P0Q5HVA/ZIG+2023.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out (Dates TBA) Zig Jackson also named Rising Buffalo, is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) and the first Native American photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Jackson’s most recent work in the Native American homeland focuses on his culture and the changing way of life of both urban and reservation Indians, along with the attendant socio-political issues of the “Indian Condition.” Jackson uses photography as a teaching and story-telling device to de-mythologize his own history and to break down the romanticized and racially charged stereotypes of Indians perpetuated in history and the media. “Commodities (Food Of My People)” © Zig Jackson - Image Courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/42f2e538-27de-439a-b694-28eb92057b3b/KALI-WWW-02.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out March 22nd 2023 As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents: Artist talk - Kali Spitzer in person March 22nd 2023 7:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1656282774129-7B1CVI8LXEVPAFQY47T5/Tisinga-www-01.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out (Dates TBA) An Elegance Unknown To Scoundrels Joseph Tisiga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal and a member of the Kaska Dena First Nation. He maintains a multidisciplinary practice that is rooted in painting and drawing, but also draws from performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. His work reflects upon notions of identity and what contributes to this construct–community, nationality, family, history, location, real and imagined memories. Tisiga’s works look at cultural and social inheritance, the mundane, the metaphysical and the mythological, often all at once and on the same surface. This conflation of interests and perspectives plays itself out in the artist’s narratives, which are distinctly non-linear, cross cultural and supernatural. Tisiga recently held solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art de Joliette (Joliette) and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (East Landing). Other notable exhibitions include those held at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg), MASS MoCA (North Adams), the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, (Santa Fe), and at the West Vancouver Museum (Vancouver). Tisiga’s work is found in institutional collections as well as in numerous private and corporate collections. Tisiga is the recipient of The Yukon Art Prize (2021), the Sobey Art Award (2020), and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (2017). Joseph Tisiga - An Elegance Unknown To Scoundrels : 2014 - Watercolor on paper - Courtesy of the artist and Bradley Ertaskiran https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2d67d425-db18-4fbd-9a84-89b7b1b0c981/JOY+BRADBURY+02-WWW.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out April 20th, 2023 Book Release Party The Art of Frances Joy Bradbury Frances Joy Bradbury In Person 7:00-9:00 pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 East Window honors visual artist Frances Joy Bradbury with a new publication featuring excerpts of her recent collage works. Frances Joy Bradbury As an artist who lived the 1960's in California's Bay Area, Frances Joy Bradbury's art reflects both her and the 60's exuberant expressiveness. A love of ambiguity, experimentation, gestural line and texture can be seen in Joy's shapeshifting images. Dancing with visual and psychological paradox is the backbone of Joy's work. Joy is a self taught artist. She began learning about art by going regularly to art exhibits and discovering that the art she did not like was a powerful teacher in understanding and expressing her own perceptions. In 1956 Joy celebrated her eleventh birthday watching a gecko fall from a high ceiling into a cocktail glass while she was sitting in a bar at Saigon's Majestic Hotel. A life lived in diverse settings combined with traversing a wide range of experiences, can be seen in Joy's exploration of many disciplines and her eclectic image making. Joy first exhibited in New Mexico at the Taos Library. In Colorado she's exhibited at Denver Outsider Art, Fort Collins Center for Fine Art Photography, Longmont Firehouse Gallery, Westminster Rodeo Market Community Art Center and Denver Art Students League. Boulder County exhibits include Front Range Community College, Dairy Center for the Arts, Art Parts, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder City Open Spaces & Mountain Parks, Boulder Public Library Maker Made Shows, The Bus Stop Gallery and the Museum of Boulder. Joy has also produced two solo shows at Enriching Elements in 2014 and Rule4 in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a15b9cba-c4ee-4922-901d-0b28fba47ab5/FRAME-APRIL-WWW-01.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out Twanna LaTrice Hill is a writer, actor, director, teaching artist and life-long learner. She is an inner city born and raised, Princeton/Harvard/Regis educated, agnostic, Unitarian-Universalist, Buddhist (lite), tarot reading, disabled, single, straight, 58-year-old, Russian speaking, liberal female survivor who has seen too much & lived much more. Twanna earned a BA from Princeton University in Russian; A MA from Harvard University in Soviet Studies; and a second MA from Regis University in Nonprofit Management Twanna has most recently performed with the PHAMALY Theater Company, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Department of Education, and the Denver Theater of the Oppressed. She published the short story "A Life of Little Consequence" in the critically acclaimed collection Denver Noir and wrote the play Love Multiplied which was produced and performed by the PHAMALY Theater Company in 2022. She is a also a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop and is currently completing her first memoir What's Done in the Dark. Twanna is a passionate woman who is dedicated to ending violence in all its forms. Grace Hunt grew up in Houston, TX and currently resides in Longmont, CO where she’s a second-year candidate in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. While her current project centers around the surreality of coming of age in a feminine body and then selling that body in the dizzyingly digital climate of current sex work, other interests and obsessions include the panopticon existence of modern living, multi-media poetics, sex work culture and representation, social media scapes as modern texts, and the blurring of privacy and performance in our day-to-day lives. Sherri Marilena Pauli lives in Longmont, Colorado, is a librarian and gets to touch books all the time. She writes to listen, to translate, or receive the tongue of the past that is housed in us and this world, as hewed to light and channeled through an entanglement of ancestors whispering the present. Their text is messaging us, as the future pulls the body through the forest, clattering leaves and pages advise her spells in how to make space for something new by learning what needs to be let go. Steven Dunn, aka Pot Hole (cuz he’s deep in these streets), is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press: Potted Meat (2016) and water & power (2018). Potted Meat was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, shortlisted for Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists, and adapted into a short film, The Usual Route, by Foothills Productions. The Usual Route has played at the LA International Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, and others. He was born and raised in West Virginia and teaches in the MFA programs at Regis University, Cornell College, and Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Music by Max Davies With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer; musician Max Davies has a wealth of real-world practical knowledge that underlines the core of his musical background. From performance to production, songwriting to instruction, his empirical knowledge translates into every project he is involved with. His versatility has been showcased by his work with many musicians including: Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov and many others. His solo releases have been described by Guitarist Magazine as: "Vivid", and: "Quite something" by Guitar World. His most recent album of prepared guitar instrumentals, entitled: Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was lauded by guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collection of "really good ideas". Other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising and for Jovovich-Hawk's fashion line and he has been a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program E-Town. Other musicians and performers he's worked with include: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Knackeboul, Janice Lowe, Steven Taylor, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clark Coolidge, LAPCAT, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Ic Explura, Greyhounds, poets Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos and many others. Visual Art by Georgianna Van Gunten The Curators Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the Unites States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1631558077109-T9N4OXCRXOAV619YVUYW/SHELLEY-NIRO-WWW-01.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out (Dates TBA) For Fearless And Other Indians Shelley Niro is a photographer, painter, sculptor, bead worker, multimedia artist and independent filmmaker. She is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario. Niro consistently challenges myths, stereotypes and clichés of Native Americans by presenting work that counters outmoded representations of Indigenous people generated by centuries of colonization. Her work has been shown across Canada, the USA and internationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1632886310521-DES4UVLBXKZEUFN4K8RQ/KALI-WWW-01.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out March 3 - June 28, 2023 As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents: Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories Photographs by Kali Spitzer Opening Reception March 3rd 2023 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5ea03899-5e52-43fc-923f-5d71d0923aae/UNFETTERED-01-WWW.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out July 7th - August 18th 2023 Unfettered Recognition Opening Reception July 7th 2023 7:00-9:00pm Performance by MG Bernard July 28th 2023 7:00-9:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 For disability pride month (July 2023), East Window is honored to collaborate with Alex Stark, artist and guest curator, on Unfettered Recognition, a visual art exhibit featuring disabled artists in Boulder Colorado and throughout the Front Range. People with disabilities make up the largest, most expansive minoritized group; crossing lines of age, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. Through intimate explorations of disability, identity, and embodiment, Unfettered Recognition celebrates how disabled folks are integral to all communities. This exhibit is curated and juried by Alex Stark, a disabled, queer artist, curator and founder of Rare Visions Gallery Project, located in Boulder, CO. He is based out of Boulder and Chicago. Alex received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. In Chicago, Stark works as an advisor in the Disability and Learning Resource Center at SAIC and began the Voices Embodied series in which selected works focus on a relationship between disability, the body and identity. Stark has exhibited in Chicago at Roots and Culture Gallery and Carrie Secrist Gallery and in New York City at Chashama Gallery. His work appears in the 2019 School of the Art Institute Biannual Magazine and the 24th issue of Posit, a journal of art and literature. Stark has spoken at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Arts of Life, and Artist Communities Alliance. Image: © MG Bernard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1639414986349-AITLFW1L0GM0MJS3QQTN/JEREMY-WWW-00.jpg gallery & window - Make it stand out (Dates TBA) Nothing Happened Here Photography by Jeremy Dennis Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock Indian Nation, Southampton, NY.) His series Nothing Happened Here, explores the violence/non-violence of post-colonial Native American psychology. Reflecting upon his own experience and observations in his community, the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton, New York, specifically the burden of the loss of culture through assimilation, omission of his history in school curriculum, and loss of land and economic disadvantage. This series illustrates the shared damaged enthusiasm of living on indigenous lands without rectification. The artist states, “The arrows in each image act as a symbol of everlasting indigenous presence in each scene. The images may be as compelling if the subjects were of indigenous descent, but the decision to use non-native subjects reveals a shared burden. The question remains of how to overcome this troubled past.” Dennis was one of 10 recipients of a 2016 Dreamstarter Grant from the national non-profit organization Running Strong for American Indian Youth. He has received the Creative Bursar Award from Getty Images in 2018 to continue his series Stories—Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams and Myths. His artist residencies include: Yaddo (2019), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (2017), North Mountain Residency, Shanghai, WV (2018), MDOC Storytellers’ Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY (2018). Eyes on Main Street Residency & Festival, Wilson, NC (2018), Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (2017) and the Vermont Studio Center hosted by the Harpo Foundation (2016). He has been part of numerous group and solo exhibitions. Jeremy currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. https://www.eastwindow.net/past-1 daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1630355226152-C6OSJGIVO6BLDS0Z3BAA/AAA-GALANIN-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1667324317100-U3DM0RNEJFUNSYG284VJ/MARINA-WWW+PAST+02.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out DARIA Art Magazine Review Boulder Weekly Review HYPERALLERGIC Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648620823588-HTGXFDF9JZNVU8QGC2E4/ANDRE+SML+01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c38730dd-183a-4966-88d2-b875b68fad2a/FRAME-MARCH-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out March 10th 2023 Roots & Redemption to Activate the Metamorphosis of Etymology Readings by Mairead Case, Richard Froude, H.P. Armstrong & Jona Fine Music by Max Davies Visual Art by Jennifer Lord 7:00 - 9:00pm FREE East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 More information at: info@eastwindow.org This event is part of a series of literary salons curated by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz and Toni Oswald running from January - December 2023. Readings by: Mairead Case is a writer, teacher, and editor. The author of the books Tiny and See You In the Morning (featherproof), Mairead is recently published in POETRY, JSTOR Daily, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and at Public Media Institute, Public Collectors, and Maggot Brain, where she is the Associate Editor. She teaches at Naropa University, the Colorado School of Mines, CU Boulder, the University of Denver, and Cañon City Correctional Facility, and has been a Legal Observer with the NLG for over a decade. Richard Froude has written four books. The first of these was FABRIC (Horse Less Press, 2011), and the most recent was Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Subito Press, 2018). He facilitates workshops in experimental/hybrid forms at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. He works as a physician at both Denver Health and in private practice. Jona Fine is a non-binary queer they/them poet and artist. They are obsessed with circles and sardines. In what feels like another lifetime they received their MFA from Naropa University. Outside of being an artist, they are passionate about the LGBTQ community and access to mental health care. They work at an LGBTQ youth suicide hotline and are finishing their Masters in social work. H.P. Armstrong (he/they) is a queer writer and playwright from the Chicagoland area. He has a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University. His work appears in KYSO Flash’s A Trembling of Finches, Punch Drunk Press, apo-press, and worldwide in Nota Bene. Eleven After Theater is producing his screenplay “Off-Book”, film forthcoming. He writes in horror, the poetics of transness, and divinity—he is working on his first novel about a girl with a compulsion to eat her hair.. He currently lives on the Colorado Front Range with his partner and mother-in-law and works in equity and inclusion for a Front Range Community College. Visual art by: Jennifer Lord is a fiber artist, painter and taijiquan teacher in the Yang lineage. They received their BA from Naropa University and are currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through harmony, mutuality and simultaneity, their patchwork paintings explore: the climate crisis via ecological agency and the rights of nature, queer and feminist hand-making traditions, and improvisational collage. Lord recently completed a residency at Mountain Water, a land restoration project that combines contemplative practice with creative expression. Born in Salt Lake City, they live, work, and teach in Boulder, Colorado. Their work is held in several private collections. Visit them online at juniperlord.com or on Instagram @juniperlord Music by: Max Davies. With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer; musician Max Davies has a wealth of real-world practical knowledge that underlines the core of his musical background. From performance to production, songwriting to instruction, his empirical knowledge translates into every project he is involved with. His versatility has been showcased by his work with many musicians including: Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov and many others. His solo releases have been described by Guitarist Magazine as: "Vivid", and: "Quite something" by Guitar World. His most recent album of prepared guitar instrumentals, entitled: Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was lauded by guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collection of "really good ideas". Other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising and for Jovovich-Hawk's fashion line and he has been a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program E-Town. Other musicians and performers he's worked with include: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Knackeboul, Janice Lowe, Steven Taylor, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clark Coolidge, LAPCAT, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Ic Explura, Greyhounds, poets Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos and many others. The Curators: Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, & the shows Shame Radiant and Disgust, and most recently HOAX. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1601347201640-EGNKGJ13BHMOT2NF4VM0/MBL_EASTWINDOW+copyeastwindow_kellye.jpg calendar archive September 1 - 27, 2020 Kellye Eisworth east window presents excerpts from Kellye Eisworth’s TOPOGRAPHIES OF PAIN, a series of photographs exploring the ethical implications of the act of bearing witness to the pain of others. Eisworth states, "This relationship relies on the willingness of both participants to see and be seen by the other. Their shared vulnerability collapses distinctions between self and other, where the pain of revealing and the pain of looking at that which is revealed, converge". Kellye Eisworth is a Los Angeles-based photographer. While much of her work is autobiographical, her photographs often enter into dialogues about larger social norms, exploring themes of memory, pain, vulnerability, and the concepts of innate and constructed identity. The exhibit consists of five pigment prints on aluminum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1625103418150-VSTA7HB78F2421FYINPC/sins-www-grid.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out June 30, 2021 8:30 pm Running Time: 32 min SINS INVALID : AN UNSHAMED CLAIM TO BEAUTY IN THE FACE OF INVISIBILITY This documentary witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, Sins Invalid’s performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1617303506954-GYGSASJJ1XU4K57UXE0Q/eastwindow-sonia2-RS.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4c371c9a-1d8b-42a4-9353-88bb7ba711b5/CAROLYN-COVID-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out December 9th 2022 Reading by Carolyn Kerchof Boulder COVID Stories East Window is happy to host a reading from Carolyn Kerchof's COVID Stories. Kerchof will read excerpts from “Boulder Covid Stories: Notes from the Pandemic”. This event is to celebrate the author’s official launch of the book this month. The publication is a printed collection of creative nonfiction stories that are based on interviews with people who openly shared how the pandemic has impacted them. This carefully cultivated collection of nonfiction is a meditation on community and our anxieties about the spaces around us, both public and private. Q&A to follow Carolyn's reading Kerchof is a communication designer who has worked in academic settings, care contexts, and on sustainability initiatives. Currently based in Boulder, Colo., the writer and graphic designer focuses her work on building community through print media. Over the course of her career, Kerchof has created over twenty magazines and zines. Tune into KGNU’s Morning Magazine where Carolyn Kerchof will talk about the making of her book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1604201172396-2BB0SPZ53SG5JREWK8XX/AMIR-FINAL-past-01-RS.jpg calendar archive October 29, 2020 SHORT FILMS BY AMIR GEORGE Running Time 11 minutes Screens repeatedly between 7 - 9pm Amir George is a filmmaker and curator, based in Chicago. He is the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination, a touring program of short experimental films and video, focusing on new stories within the diaspora and the boundaries and limitations historically given to people of color in film. As an artist, George creates spiritual stories and fragmented vignettes populated by characters who tend to dwell outside of social norms. October 29th's program: Black Gold: A treasure hunt. Vicissitude: A change of fortune occurs for a winged being. Based on an experience with Erin Christovale. Music and Vocals by Titus Wonsey. The Encompassed Wisdom of the Inevitable Manifestation: A spell casting of images guided by a voice in the night; recollections of Black Jesus. Black Chains: Found footage music video for the rap artist formerly known as Supertoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648620667992-N270OH1F120EOWBXJS7E/ANDRE+SML+03.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out January 11 - March 31, 2022 AFRICAN-AMERICA: Contempt of Greasy Pigs André Ramos-Woodard Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Andre Ramos-Woodard is a contemporary artist whose works evoke feelings of dreams and surrealistic narrative. Primarily working with photography and collage, he conveys ideas of communal and personal identity through internal conflicts. Ramos-Woodard is influenced by personal experiences he went through while discovering his own identity – he is queer and African-American, both of which are well-known targets for discrimination. He uses his art to accent the ideas of separation between him and the viewer, specifically those that may not resonate with the ideas of the “Other” or problems within minority groups in contemporary culture. Ramos-Woodard received his BFA from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and has recently completed his MFA at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Andre’s exhibit will opened east window’s new gallery east window SOUTH. east window SOUTH 4949 Broadway Unit 102-C Boulder, Colorado 80304 Opening reception on Thursday January 13th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm COLORADO DAILY Article DARIA ART MAGAZINE Article https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1604201304033-ICUZF8AMFEVGM90QZPCD/AMIR-FINAL-past-02-RS.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1627171424401-8MVRBQWWJSTCRDAHGLK9/POETRY-MUSIC-MOON-SML.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out July 24, 2021 Readings, Music and a Full Moon 6:30pm east window invites you to join us for an evening of live musical performance and readings of poetry and fiction by: Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Junior Burke, Hillary Leftwich, Jade Lascelles, Max Davies, and surprise guests. NoBo Art Center 4929 Broadway Boulder, Colorado 80304 USA Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado in a Victorian-era farmhouse with her family where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. In addition to being faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, she runs her own creative writing workshop series, (W)rites of Passage. She is currently working on a novel titled Roadside Altars, a novella tentatively titled Just Like Heaven, and maybe a short story collection she'll call Tales of Dead Children. When she isn't reading, writing, or teaching, you can find her daydreaming, making collages, taking moonlit walks around the ponds and prairies that surround her rental, or soaking in a bath with so much salt it might as well be the sea. Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/TheAccomplices 2019). Her hybrid memoir, Aura, is forthcoming from Future Tense Books in 2022. She is the founder and owner of AlchemyAuthor Services & Workshop and teaches creative writing at LighthouseWriters. She focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma,mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. She is an intuitive Tarologist and has been reading Tarot for over 25 years coupled with her clair abilities. She is a registered member of the Tarosophy Tarot Association and The Monroe Institute, and is a student at The College of Psychic Studies. She teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities, as well as writing. She lives in Denver with her partner, son, and cat, Larry. Toni Oswald is a writer & musician who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego, The Diary of Ic Explura, & her most recent publications include The Oyez Review, Heroes Are Gang Leader’s Gianthology, & The Tattered Press. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, and a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her first book, Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her partner Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Musician, producer and songwriter Max Davies' music has been described as "searing, soaring, and resonant". Guitarist magazine described his solo album "In The Realms Of The Mercury Halo" as "vivid", and "yearns with a sorrowful gravitas." His diverse musical work on guitar, and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist, has been featured at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the Everest Awakening benefit album, and has also been featured in live performance, on many albums, interdisciplinary collaborations, and films. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Steven Taylor, Junior Burke, Julie Patton, Gregory Alan Isakov, Gasoline Lollipops, and many others. His song Written in Water was recently featured on Australian label Cosmic Coffin's compilation Volume 1. His newest single, Meanwhile, was released earlier this year. Junior Burke’s songs have been performed and recorded by a wide array of artists, including Bob Dylan and Richie Havens, earning him a Gold Record and a Cable Ace Award. Burke is also a novelist, whose most recent book, The Cold Last Swim, was published by Gibson House Press. He lives outside of Boulder. Jade Lascelles is a writer, editor, drummer, and letterpress printer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her written and visual work has been included in several literary journals and anthologies, the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill, and gallery spaces across the western US. Keep an eye out for her book The Inevitable (forthcoming from Gesture Press in August 2021) and a soon-to-be-released covers album with the band Pantherette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1617303493004-KG4646VQXTSU85COMHIM/eastwindow-sonia-RS.jpg calendar archive March 1 - 29, 2021 east window celebrates Month of Photography with Sonia Soberats Sonia Soberats’ relationship with photography didn’t begin until she lost her eyesight to glaucoma in the early 1990’s. Soberats uses the technique of Light Painting -- a photographic process utilizing lengthy exposures in total darkness, and hand-held light sources with which Sonia is able to feel, shape, and embellish her subjects. Sonia is a founding member of the New York based collective for blind photographers, Seeing With Photography. Sonia’s work poses fundamental questions about the relationships between perception, imagination, and creation. Her work has been exhibited in galleries around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a7806106-df30-48db-8a94-68c1e8e03e15/FRAME-EVENING-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out January 27th 2023 East Window presents the F R A M E poetry series curated each month by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz & Toni Oswald through December 2023. The January 27th reading is titled Mothers and Monsters featuring works by Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Jaclyn Eccesso, Sara Veglahn and Max Davies. 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/0e4695d8-2916-4e69-a519-501379ab8564/SARAHWORKSHOP-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out November 19th 2022 The Dairy Arts Center in collaboration with East Window will be hosting Cherophobia | A Creative Writing Workshop for Artists Regarding the Fear of Joy, Saturday November 19th, 5:00pm at The Dairy Arts Center, facilitated by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz. Cherophobia is classified as an anxiety disorder related to participation in activities that could make a person happy as well as the actual experience of joy. Through a series of writing prompts, participants will explore joy as a cycle of anticipation, event, and aftermath. Participants do not need to identify with the condition of cherophobia or even be familiar with the term; the only prerequisites needed are being human and curiosity. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1596564605270-YEWCBLQS7SS2FLKMQTP3/FEARS-+PAST-02.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1629389791934-5J4CHGDQE7590VJKGG5T/jen+workshop+02SML-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/8980f0c1-ac73-4dc9-ab24-061845dacbbd/KALI+OPENING+WWW+02.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out March 3 - June 28, 2023 As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents: Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories Photographs by Kali Spitzer Opening Reception March 3rd 2023 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1667324221162-MTMT3POT3F8WNZ8CZTAO/MARINA-WWW+PAST+01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out August 25 - October 28, 2022 GEOMETRIC FRUSTRATIONS Marina Kassianidou is a visual artist whose work focuses on relationships between mark and surface. Her current practice combines painting, drawing, collage, installation, and site-responsive work. She lives and works between Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Limassol, Cyprus. She graduated from Stanford University, where she was a CASP/Fulbright scholar, with degrees in Studio Art and Computer Science (both with Distinction). Upon graduation, she was awarded the Arthur Giese Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting by the Stanford University Department of Art and Art History. She obtained an M.A. in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK. In 2015, she completed a Ph.D. in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK. She has exhibited her work in Australia, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the USA. Group exhibitions include Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial: Errors Allowed (Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy), Tradition Today: Exploring Conditions to Recreate It (House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece), Limassol: The Aftermath of Development (First Municipal Housing Buildings, Limassol, Cyprus), Ar(t)chaeology: Intersections of Photography and Archaeology (NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus), WADS (Ars Electronica 2020), and The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020 (New York, USA). She has had solo exhibitions at Gloria Gallery and Thkio Ppalies in Nicosia, Cyprus, The Center for Drawing, Tenderpixel Gallery, and Chelsea College of Arts in London, UK, North Branch Projects in Chicago, Illinois, Yes Ma’am Projects in Denver, Colorado, and the Moreau Center for the Arts in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her work is found in several private and public collections, including the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. Selected awards include grants from the A. G. Leventis Foundation and fellowships at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Ragdale Foundation, and Residencia Internacional de Arte Can Serrat. She is a recipient of the 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her writings have appeared in the journals RevistArquis, The International Journal of the Image, and Journal of Contemporary Painting, among others. She has published the books How to Know: A Space (Nicosia: Thkio Ppalies, 2016), Μπαίνοντας στην εικόνα οι λέξεις (Nicosia: EI.KA, 2017), and Exercise Book (Nicosia: P. S. Artist Led Projects, 2018). This exhibit received funding and support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and NEST studio for the arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1643324889024-64J7OCL9LQ0HMOIQZ3OE/DONA-WWW-00.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out December 1, 2021 - January 28, 2022 THE SILHOUETTE PROJECT Stories of Cancer Through the Lens of Love Photographer Dona Laurita’s third incarnation of The Silhouette Project tells the stories of young people’s experiences fighting, surviving, and living with cancer, drawing attention to the underrepresented AYA (adolescent and young adult) cancer community. Through silhouetted images colored by text taken from spoken interviews, The Silhouette Project tells the stories that make these journeys unique and illuminate the aspects that unite the AYA community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1601572178041-DT3EHM9MGGPTV8SE6VAT/eastwindow_skyscreening.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648619884349-VF090EH8IWTKDG1EX5N2/DREAD+SML+01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1606505020276-8FC8J5GQSK0B9TVLWTCL/A-WFM-03.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1611869464158-899TY7FT8417JXY9YJ10/sandie+www+image.jpg calendar archive January 3 - 29, 2021 Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi Our ideas of body image are constantly bombarded by the constructs of racism, sexism, ageism, consumerism and ableism. Disabled women are often seen as asexual. Traditionally they are taught to conform to non-disabled beauty standards by passing or hiding their impairments, thereby denying their self-value. Sandie Yi creates a counter-narrative to myths and stereotypes about disability, which she calls Crip Couture, a form of wearable art that centers on the histories and narratives generated within and performed by the disabled body through everyday social, cultural and political interaction. Her work aims to facilitate dialogue between the wearers and the viewers of these objects. Yi has merged the idea of prosthetics — which aim to create more-or-less standardized body form and function — and jewelry to make a range of garments, accessories and footwear. Rather than rejecting the notion of physical alteration, Yi has created intimate and empathetic bodily adornments, not as correctional physical aids, but as tools for engaging with newly embodied, deeply personal standards of physical comfort and self-defined ideals of beauty. As a collection of wearable works, Yi’s Crip Couture has explored the impact of ethical and medical decisions made about the body; the boundary between ethics and aesthetics; the idea of the body in flux; and body ownership (reclaiming the body). Yi’s wearable objects and their wearers call for a recognition of collective Crip experiences and suggest the possibility for a new genre of wearable art; Disability Fashion. Yi consistently reinvents the meanings of disabled bodies. Four inkjet prints mounted on aluminum will be on view. Read the article by Caitlin Rockett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1614555976232-FRTRXKEFSJKCDSVP1UZU/COE-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1627448560544-4ULTV3H3RRK179M4KI6K/TONI-WWW-10-SML.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1595794471611-EYA5U3OFTJGGCP9C69S4/FEARS-+PAST.jpg calendar archive June 1 - July 28, 2020 Michael Bernard Loggins FEARS OF YOUR LIFE features excerpts from Michael’s unique handwritten book of the same name. The author battles his fears by listing more than 138 of them. In a recent edition of the cult classic made famous by NPR's This American Life 60 new pages of illustrated portraits are included from the previously unpublished HOW FEARFUL CAN YOU BE? With a new preface by Harrell Fletcher. Michael’s books are available through Manic D Press. Michael is a writer and visual artist who worked with Creativity Explored an art studio for adults with disabilities in San Francisco, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1658926530454-VKQEG3YL6OGYAMQJ8J7V/MAGDELENA-WWW+01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out April 5 - July 28, 2022 Two Spirit Lakota Photographs by Magdalena Wosinska east window 4949 Broadway Unit 102-B Boulder Colorado 80304 Hours: 10am - 10pm Magdalena Wosinska was invited to spend several weeks in Pine Ridge Indian reservation, photographing her series "Two Spirit Lakota". Twelve images excerpted from this series will be on view at east window from April 5 - July 28, 2022. Wosinska's series shows an essential humanity, beauty and complexity of the Two-Spirit community in Pine Ridge, which is often subject to harsh or sensationalized headlines. The photographer states, “I wanted to show the pride, the freedom to be who you are, their confidence and empowerment". Wosinska’s early personal work, documenting the lives of her friends emerging from the skate and metal music scenes, reveals her willingness to challenge accepted norms for a female photographer. In her efforts to explore complex topics, she documents diverse groups of people in diverse settings. From transgender skate crews, to cowboys in South Central, Wosinska brings a both compassionate and critical eye to settings that are thought-provoking, beautiful, and at times even controversial, always inspiring the viewer to abandon passivity and question what they are seeing. Magdalena Wosinska was born in Katowice, near Krakow in Poland, in 1983. She arrived in the USA in 1991 and lived in Arizona before settling in Los Angeles in 2004. Images: Courtesy Magdalena Wosinska https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1629389533901-O78HWUZ4N57LF4NN3H8U/jen+workshop+01SML-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out August 18, 6:30pm MDT FRAGMENTATION / AMALGAMATION / TRANSFORMATION NoBo's Thistle Community Gallery 4871 Broadway Boulder Colorado 80304 USA Many thanks to all of you for showing up for installment #2 of FRAGMENTATION / AMALGAMATION / TRANSFORMATION, a cut-up + collage + mixed media workshop on the theme of DISGUST. Immeasurable thanks to Jenny Lorenne for facilitating another amazing evening! Thank you Harris Armstrong for this evening's documentation and NoBo Arts District for making Thistle Community Gallery available for tonight's workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1667324471664-7FGV47T1N0MW7TTATY33/LEROY-WWW+PAST.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out August 8 - October 31, 2022 Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Ace Robles — KRIP HOP: Volume 1 east window presents excerpts from Leroy F. Moore Jr’s graphic novel, “KRIP HOP: Volume 1” illustrated by Ace Robles. African American, disabled, poet and disability justice activist, Leroy F. Moore Jr. is co-founder of the Emmy award winning and internationally acclaimed Krip Hop Nation, whose mission is to shine a light on the talents, history and rights of Hip-Hop artists and other musicians with disabilities. Krip Hop politics, theory and art strive to bring disabilities from the margins to the center of Black cultural, economic, social and political life. Leroy's Krip Hop is a worldwide community of artists where people with disabilities can speak out, about, and back to the social structures that exclude people based on disability, race, sexuality, and many other marginalized identities. Ace Robles is a Filipino American artist. He, his partner and daughter live in the Bay Area where he works hard in the service industry while making revolutionary art for the people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/740b4ae0-03ce-4395-a566-8ed671c8cb81/PLENTYWOLF-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out November 27th 2022 Indigenous People’s Month, Celebration and Community Gathering with The PlentyWolf Medicine Youth Program 1-5pm The New East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 DAILY CAMERA ARTICLE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1598548606150-THRSU6YWORD811J1C89C/DANIEL-GREEN+WWW+02.jpg calendar archive August 1 - 27, 2020 Daniel Green Daniel Green’s artwork conveys an intense and playful fascination with American entertainment and popular culture. Working on wood, cardboard, and paper, Green uses ink to draw figures from television, politics, sports, or history, and then carefully lists dates, titles of shows and songs, cities, and names. Within the dense repetition of his lists we find brief, but direct, personal statements, which comment on his immediate environment and concerns. Daniel’s work has been exhibited internationally. Green began working at Creativity Explored, an art studio for adults with developmental disabilities in San Francisco, California in 2008. Creativity Explored was was launched by Florence and Elias Katz in 1983, sparked by a worldwide movement toward the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities, and a growing advocacy for their dignity and self-determination. For over 36 years Creativity Explored has facilitated the careers of hundreds of artists with disabilities by offering space, support and representation. Daniel Green’s artwork is reproduced with permission from www.creativityexplored.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1609887954765-NTXY7OAPID9UR754U1PQ/susanne-www-01.jpg calendar archive December 1, 2020 - January 5, 2021 Susanne Mitchell Susanne Mitchell combines a variety of images and materials in her work tracking the legacy of colonialism from Africa to America. Mitchell’s unsettling juxtapositions generate complex metaphors for the painful history of colonialism in Malawi, where her extended family lives, as well as a means to contemplate current issues and future developments in Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1633041934595-67YJKZYOLPO7DPMBIQN6/TONI-WORKSHOP-WWW-AA.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out September 29, 2021 CUT-UP AND COLLAGE WORKSHOP WITH TONI OSWALD Bus Stop Gallery 6:30pm 4895 Broadway Boulder Colorado 80304 USA Many thanks to all of you for showing up for Toni Oswald’s CUT-UP and COLLAGE workshop. Immeasurable thanks to Toni for facilitating such an amazing evening! And thank you NoBo Arts District for making The Bus Stop Gallery available. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5740a2a1-d1fd-4da4-8a2c-e382ab35eebe/PLENTYWOLF-WWW-01A.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Thanks to everyone who helped to make such a wonderful gathering at East Window! Chief Lee PlentyWolf, Charlie PlentyWolf, Eryn Lula PlentyWolf, Red Feather Woman, The PlentyWolf Singers, Xae Rios, Felix Evans, Amanda Coslor all of the amazing craftspersons and of course all of you who showed up to support the PlentyWolf Youth Medicine Program and Indigenous Peoples Month. DAILY CAMERA ARTICLE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1647655539788-J7XD4MILCPIE39VEIDMC/cu-www-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 2022 Ecological World Views in Southeast Asian Video A big Thank you to everyone who made the "Ecological World Views in Southeast Asian Video" screenings possible. An amazing series guest-curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Department of Art & Art History; thank you so much Brianne! Thank you to the Museum of Boulder and Kayla Simmering for housing the screenings and for their hospitality. Thanks to all of the CU Boulder students as well as members of the general public who showed up to make the discussions following each screening so engaging. And of course immeasurable thanks to Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Khvay Samnang, Nguyễn Trinh Thi and UuDam Tran Nguyễn for their vision and impeccable videos. This series is guest curated by Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Colorado Boulder. Cohen researches and teaches courses on art concerned with public sphere formation, decolonization, political violence, and ecology and environmentalism. She co-edited the volume, The Photofilmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Cornell University Press, 2016), and her book Preventive Publics: Contemporary Art and Nonviolence in 21st-Century Europe (forthcoming with Duke University Press in spring 2023) examines contemporary art that grapples with cross-cultural affiliation and the active imagining of nonviolence in 21st-century Europe. Her new research addresses questions of ecological devastation and the formation of critical publics in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Singapore. UuDam Tran Nguyen, Serpents’ Tails (2015), 15 minutes A short documentary of the acclaimed performance Rồng Rắn Lên (Serpents' Tails), an immersive installation of motorbikes whose exhaust systems seem to inflate, feed, and give flight to tubular “serpents”. In Nguyen’s metaphor, humanity wrestles with the by-products of its industry, which continue to wreak environmental imbalance and destruction. Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires (2107), 19 minutes In this film Vietnamese-American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn studies the relationship between humankind and animals, endangered and extinct species, and their symbolic and historic meanings. These investigations are specific to Vietnam’s current state of development, but the broad relationships mirror the global crisis of animal extinction. Khvay Samnang, Popil (2018), 22 minutes Khvay’s work critically interrogates the multidimensional character of rituals and politics; exposing the humanitarian and ecological impacts of globalization and its concomitant links to the waves of colonialism and migration which continually demarcate and define the spaces and temporalities of Southeast Asia. Popil develops a complex choreography based around the symbolism of the dragon; which both plays towards Euro-America’s tendency to employ the motif as a blanket symbol for much of East/Southeast Asia, as well as allows for an examination of the manner in which such iconography speaks towards a specifically Chinese or Cambodian mode of identity formation. Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Letters from Panduranga (2015), 35 minutes An essay film in the form of a letter exchange, Nguyễn’s personal and poetic film explores the complex legacy of cultural and historical occupation and its ongoing presence in the indigenous Cham community. Stay tuned for more programs by east window in partnership with CU Boulder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1625152352412-UCBKPCBF0B5F6EYBLOD4/sins-screen.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1643324940025-Q9M253QUGCD2SH07NP5Q/DONA+LINDSAY+SML.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1622388500230-I637HGASS8DE4P0LWVI8/image-asset.jpeg calendar archive - Make it stand out April 1-May 27, 2021 Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a provocative contemporary artist who challenges Western perceptions of Indigenous people, touching on issues of race, history, cultural erasure and stereotypes. Through his work—paintings, murals work, performance art, filmmaking and spoken word—Deal critically examines issues and tells stories of decolonization and appropriation that affect Indian Country. Deal’s activism exists in his art, as well as his participation in political movements. Deal was included in the National Geographic Society Magazine article “Native Americans are Recasting Views of Indigenous Life.” Deal was Native Arts Artist-in-Residence at Denver Art Museum and Artist-In-Residence at UC Berkeley. His art has been exhibited nationally since 2002. Deal has lectured widely at prominent educational institutions and museums, including Denver Art Museum, Dartmouth College Columbia University, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. His television appearances include PBS’s The Art District, The Daily Show and Totally Biased with Kamau Bell. east window is honored to host his work. Above image from "The Others". Deal states “... a new series that re-appropriates old comic book images from the 40's and 50's of Indigenous characters. The dialog is replaced with lyrics from old Punk songs of the 70's, 80's and 90's that resonate with the scene or the greater Indigenous struggle. Each image has been redrawn, recolored and repurposed to embody aspects of stereotype, identity, historical consideration and the intersection of an aspect of American culture (Punk Rock) that has affected my life and has affected innumerable Indigenous youth through the years. These intersections are meant to illustrate the complexity of Indigenous existence, growing up in America amidst things we love and things we hate. While easily viewable as a series of works and speaks to people regardless of connection it has to specific music and bands, it stands on its own illustrating these Indigenous complexities.” May 28, 2021 Screening: The Last American Indian on Earth Running Time: 22 minutes 7pm Free A film by Gregg Deal documenting what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of a stereotype, one that for most is the only authentic expression of what it means to be an Indigenous person of the American continent. This piece is a window into the funny, sarcastic, truthful, and even emotional journey of an artist using himself as an instrument of awareness, exploring questions of Indigenous identity and America’s problematic and often inept relationship with her nation’s First Peoples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1598549703921-7UVDONWNNE2WBGBTQJV8/DANIEL-GREEN+WWW+03.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1601572093751-ZXB1JXL3Q9SJ1SZHZ6AR/EASTWINDOW-SKY-www.jpg calendar archive September 30, 2020 THREE SHORT FILMS BY SKY HOPINKA 7 - 9pm Sky Hopinka is from the Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. He is a videomaker, photographer, writer, musician and activist. Sky's poetic and visually complex moving image works explore personal positions of homeland, landscape, and the precarity and preservation of indigenous languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/50b79f7c-7a2d-4f3a-9493-888a545ac055/ALEX+PAST-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out November 4th 2022 - January 29th 2023 Yvens Alex Saintil - Photographs Yvens Alex Saintil is known for his diverse works that are meant to spark meaningful conversations centered around police reform and accountability, veteran mental healthcare, gun violence, and activism. Saintil’s career extends far beyond his ten years in the United States Army, where he served as an Infantryman performing in various roles within the continental United States, South Korea, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service and now resides in Denver, Colorado. Through his discipline, Saintil actively brings awareness to police reform and accountability, veteran mental health care, gun violence, and activism.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1647656012061-42LS05RV9GGSG2WX0U1A/cu-www-04.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out These screenings were funded through a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1618717005373-HUCQ0HFM51AUSKVUXB01/stitch-www-06.jpg calendar archive April 17, 2021 east window presents textile artist Heather D. Schulte's Stitching the Situation: A Collaborative Memorial Of COVID-19 In The U.S. Stitching the Situation is an ongoing and collaborative project, recording diverse individual and community experiences in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic through community cross-stitching gatherings. This project is an extension of Heather’s textile work, Situation Report a daily cross-stitch documentation of the coronavirus case and death counts in the U.S. The Situation Report panels began as the artist’s way to record cases in the US, and translate them visually with stitch. As cases grew, she could not stitch each individual case or death herself, and began hosting in-person stitching sessions with her neighbors. These panels are now traveling to other areas, as it is safe to do so, inviting more people to contribute their hands and time, marking the impact of the virus on our lives, and sharing their own stories of these times with each other. In a time when gathering in person is difficult, the size and scope of the work offers a socially distanced opportunity to come together creatively, while still respecting public health and safety measures. For more information about this project visit: www.stitchingthesituation.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a7697b7f-387d-4a8d-bde7-982377312d80/CRISOSTO+READ-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out November 11, 2022 Poetry Reading by Crisosto Apache and Others 7-9pm The New East Window Gallery 4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 Crisosto Apache is originally from Mescalero, New Mexico (US), on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, currently lives in the Denver metro area in Colorado, with their spouse. They are Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the 'Áshįįhí (Salt Clan) born for the Kinyaa'áanii (Towering House Clan) and are Assistant Professor of English at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They hold an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Crisosto’s debut collection is GENESIS (Lost Alphabet). Crisosto’s second forthcoming collection is Ghostword out by Gnashing Teeth Publication mid-2022. Some of the poems in this collection have appeared in The Rumpus, Loch Raven Review, the Poetry Foundation’s POETRY Magazine, ANMLY Magazine, Digging Through The Fat, McGraw Hill Publishing, and most recently When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through (WW Norton), edited by Joy Harjo, et. al. They continue advocacy work for the Native American LGBTQ / ‘two-spirit’ identity. Joining Crisosto for this evening of poetry are Mariana Bastias, Benjamin Burney, and T.M. Spring, all of whom were carefully selected by our curator for the evening, Emily Berkes. Mariana Bastias is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Creative Writing and Psychology, and intends on becoming a full-time writer. She intertwines her passion for storytelling into her poetry. Born in Tulsa, OK, J. Benjamin Burney is receiving his master’s in Fine Art and Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Benjamin is a poet who specializes in creating immersive installations using performance and mixed media art. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Zoid Art Haus, a design house based in Denver, Colorado that uses storytelling to create experiences, products, and services geared toward making a more inclusive, equitable, and empathetic society. Having experienced a near-death experience in 2013, T.M. Spring returned to this life committed to the path of art and storytelling. Photography is her daily meditation, a consciousness of presence and attention. Ms. Spring is a survivor of cancer, sexual assault, and domestic violence. She lives with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), along with chronic pain and physical limitations from the traumas and her words illustrate her experiences and visions of love and interconnectedness among all living things of this Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1648619836487-FVYN8Y6GQ79ZXC7AU74L/DREAD+SML+03.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out February 4 - March 31, 2022 Honey don't be afraid. White people aren’t real. Dread Scott is a visual artist whose work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989, his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dread became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others defied the a federal law outlawing his art by burning flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. He has presented at TED talk on this. His work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Jack Shainman Gallery, and Gallery MOMO in Cape Town, South Africa, and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He is a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has also received fellowships form Open Society Foundations and United States Artists as well as a Creative Capital grant. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community engaged project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. The project was featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Christiane Amanpour on CNN and highlighted by artnet.com as one of the most important artworks of the decade. east window 4949 Broadway Unit 102-B Boulder, Colorado 80304 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1614555892505-E80Y3XCUOKYSCOY6QJ9V/COE-WWW-02.jpg calendar archive February 1-27, 2021 Sue Coe painter and printmaker, has worked at the juncture of art and social activism to expose injustices and abuses of power, since the 1970s. Thinking of herself as an activist first and artist second, Sue has trained her gaze on a wide variety of ills, translating such diverse topics as the perils of apartheid, the life of Malcolm X, and the horror that is the American meat industry into searing social-political artworks, exhibitions and books. Coe has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, Art News, The Nation, among countless others. Her works are part of numerous museum collections and exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1. Coe was awarded the prestigious Dickinson College Arts Award in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and most recently the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award by The Southern Graphics Council in Atlanta, Georgia. east window is honored to host her work this month. On view: "We are Many. They are Few" - Copyright © 2020 Sue Coe - Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne Inkjet print mounted on aluminum - 72" x 48" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5492a545-d868-4dd3-967e-feb13606fbe2/SAINTIL+OPENING-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out November 4th 2022 - January 29th 2023 Yvens Alex Saintil - Photographs Yvens Alex Saintil is a multidisciplinary artist born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and raised in Queens, New York. He is known for his diverse works that are meant to spark meaningful conversations centered around police reform and accountability, veteran mental healthcare, gun violence, and activism. He is a Purple Heart recipient for his service in Iraq while serving in the United States Army. Saintil currently resides in Denver, Colorado. Curated by Todd Edward Herman Thank you to all who showed up for Yvens Alex Saintil's opening at the new East Window on November 4th 2022. A great turnout. Thanks to Yvens and his family who came up from Denver to Boulder for the opening. And many thanks to Yvens for trusting me to curate an exhibit of his powerful photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1638130735762-AB3S4C8MR06DD9NDH43J/KACY-WWW-00.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out June 1 - November 1, 2021 This exhibit was held at 1647 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO 80302 Kacy Jung’s series Gordian Knot addresses the ways in which culture and identity are shaped by capitalism. Jung states, "...with this work, I am trying to respond to questions that are always haunting me. What blinds us from the world and ourselves? What makes us and humanity distorted? How does capital influence our current social-political system? What is this system becoming and what is the American dream that we now believe in?" east window thought the Pearl Street location was perfect for Kacy's work as it's a street with heavy commerce in Boulder Colorado. It's a complex area of development as well as many recently abandoned businesses, and of multi-generational as well as houseless residents. Kacy Jung is a Taiwanese visual artist working with photography, photo-sculpture, and site-specific installation based in San Francisco. Kacy's works have been shown/awarded internationally. She is the acceptant of the Harlan Jackson Diversity Scholarship and Headlands Affiliate Artist Program. Her works have been shown at The Untitled Space Gallery in New York, Hastings College in Nebraska, Berkeley Art Museum in California, and multiple galleries in the USA and Taiwan. Thank you to Andrew Ghadimi for making this space available to east window. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1598549739726-EE8D2DA7J9KJ49VFHR3V/DANIEL-GREEN+WWW+04.jpg calendar archive Black August "August is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us...The spirit of Black August moves through centuries of Black, Indian and multi-cultural resistance. It is an emblem of the spirit of freedom.” Mumia Abu Jamal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1609888348921-N3UAV9AWEOKUQFV5WN2R/susanne-www-02.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1638130255099-PELAKF6I0JLKASQ9VLPN/will-01-www-SML.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out September 1 - November 28, 2021 The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) Photographs by Will Wilson Wilson (Diné) observes that American culture remains enamored of one particular moment in a photographic exchange between Euro-American and Aboriginal American societies: the decades from 1907 to 1930 when photographer Edward S. Curtis produced “The North American Indian” photographic series. For many people even today, Native people remain frozen in time in Curtis’s romanticised and stereotypical portraits. Wilson’s CIPX project intends to challenge the documentary mission of Curtis from the standpoint of a 21st century indigenous, trans-customary, cultural practitioner, supplanting Curtis’s Settler gaze and the old paradigm of assimilation with a re-imagined vision of the complex identities of contemporary Native people. Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, and was awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, and the University of Arizona. He managed the National Vision Project, a Ford Foundation funded initiative at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and helped to coordinate the New Mexico Arts Temporary Installations Made for the Environment (TIME) program on the Navajo Nation. Wilson is part of the Science and Arts Research Collaborative (SARC) which brings together artists interested in using science and technology in their practice with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia Labs as part of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, 2012 (ISEA). Recently, Wilson completed an exhibition and artist residency at the Denver Art Museum and is currently the King Fellow artist in residence at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1606504937193-WYP1LLPX6IOGO50NNWOY/A-WFM-02.jpg calendar archive November 1 - 29, 2020 I STILL EXIST : Graphics by Renée Millard-Chacon and Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez I STILL EXIST, raises awareness around issues of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls who have long been victimized as a direct result of environmental exploitation and degradation. Renee and Micaela’s graphics strive to link the personhood liability of corporations to redistribute wealth to communities affected by their negligent and criminal behavior. Renée Millard-Chacon is a writer, educator, Xicana activist, and most importantly the mother of two sons. She is an indigenous womxn of Dine/Azteca descent, fighting for future generations and committed to relating climate justice to social justice. She is the founder of several organizations, including Womxn From The Mountain. Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez is a Sicangu Lakota and Chicana, born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She is the Director of Operations and Secretary for the International Indigenous Youth Council and co-founder of Womxn From The Mountain. Micaela’s continued pursuit is to help spread awareness and stop the violence that our womxn and our two-spirit people have endured for centuries. I STILL EXIST consists of six inkjet prints mounted on aluminum. This exhibit is a collaboration between Womxn From The Mountain Collective and Spirit of the Sun. Please support Spirit of the Sun for victim advocacy training, self defense classes, and supplies. For more information please visit: www.womxnfromthemountain.com and www.spiritofthesun.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1638131332165-CF5OA7M743M4QGGCM1TR/KACY-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1627448520756-SYE6OI01VFEH07CSZM7G/TONI-WWW-09-SML.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1633041904583-TQOV3VDU8P48L4NXLUB7/TONI-WORKSHOP-WWW-BB.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/5e43c803-5c7f-4fa4-ae09-c654e0e4b5c9/JADE+WORKSHOP-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out November 5th 2022 Guerilla Joy a workshop facilitated by Jade Lascelles Presented byThe Dairy Arts Center and East Window as part of the 2023 Month of Photography Festival Jade spoke about pleasure activism (adrienne maree brown) and guerilla art. Participants did some writing and indulged in the sheer joy and curiosity of creating pieces of joyful art to bring out into the world as an act of resistance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1604200583034-NPF3K7JXE4NAIJJUKLGI/PAULA-FINAL-past-RS.jpg calendar archive Paula Gillen : CELEBRITY MASK October 1 - 28, 2020 east window presents excerpts from Paula Gillen’s CELEBRITY MASK. Gillen's collage series, which unpacks the notion that being a woman in society is very much like being one’s own doppelgänger, watching oneself being watched. Her collages overtly re-stage the techniques and content of mainstream media practices, subverting the original intention and revealing new social and political interpretations. Paula's current work continues to examine women’s roles, gender performativity and patriarchal hierarchies. Six archival pigment prints are currently on view at east window. For information on purchasing these works contact Paula directly: www.paulagillen.net Please have a look at Paula's concurrent exhibit at Ten-Nineteen Gallery in New Orleans through October 17, 2020. And her interview with art critic Wendy Vogel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1658271150879-QRRAMYZ9BFENE0C72VSK/DISGUST-collage-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1643324976708-ES9W7YBRH8ISZJJFIAPZ/DONA+MOON+SML.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1630354894074-ZRNPE1UTTA6OQWX315ML/AAA-GALANIN-WWW-02.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out July 2-August 29, 2021 Never Forget Nicholas Galanin east window is honored to present Nicholas Galanin's Never Forget, a revisioning of the iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles California, one of the world's most evocative symbols for ambition, assimilation, misrepresentation and the impacts of settler colonialism. The sign, initially spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND, was erected to promote a whites-only real estate development in 1923. The burgeoning film industry of that time, advancing a white settler mythology of America as the land of the free & home of the brave, attempted to cinematize the surrounding landscape — the ancestral lands of the Tongva and the Cahuilla people, through the same lens. Never Forget directs us towards the possibility of transferring land titles and management back to local Indigenous communities, while reminding us that land acknowledgments become only performative when they do not explicitly support the land back movement. Never Forget refuses to legitimize settler occupation, and reframes a word of generic reduction to a call for collective action. Nicholas Galanin's original sculpture is made of Iron, Paint, and Steel, measuring over 59’ x 360’, and was constructed as part of the Desert X Biennial in Palm Springs, California earlier this year. Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit / Unangax̂) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in his perspective as an Indigenous man, connected to the land and culture he belongs to. With incisive and critical observation, Galanin's work advocates for social and environmental justice, centering Indigeneity through concept, form, image, and sound. Galanin celebrates the beauty, knowledge and resilience of Indigenous people. His work counters assimilation; insisting on differences as strengths; working to envision, build and support Indigenous sovereignty. The artist's work has ranged across media, materials and processes over the past twenty years, including sculpture, installation, photography, video and music. Galanin holds a BFA from London Guildhall University in Jewellery Design and an MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts from Massey University in New Zealand, prior to which he apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers in his community; he is represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York, his music is released by Sub Pop Records in Seattle. Archival pigment print - Mounted on aluminum - 79" x 48" - © Nicholas Galanin and Lance Gerber - 2021 Photo: courtesy Nicholas Galanin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1658270073296-TUYWEN81JW04MR3Y7R73/DISGUST-01-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out April 7th - June 28th 2022 DISGUST: unhealthy practices Curated by Todd Edward Herman east window SOUTH 4949 Broadway Unit 102-C Boulder, Colorado 80304 PURCHASE BOOK HERE DISGUST: unhealthy practices", a group exhibit curated by Todd Edward Herman, filmmaker, photographer and founding director of east window, is the culmination of an open call for work by nearly one hundred writers and visual artists around the world. DISGUST is often seen as the bridge between our moral imperatives and the wilds of survival; the cusp of emotion and instinct. Activated in response to what we perceive or imagine as revolting, sick, infectious, diseased, contaminated and thereby threatening, disgust signals our awareness of fissures between feelings of safety and peril, stability and insecurity; of disjunctions that threaten facets of our personal identity and society at large. Our collective actions relative to our experiences of disgust often bear witness to damaging prejudices and rhetorics, which attempt to conflate those who we perceive as different from ourselves, socially, culturally, politically, sexually, religiously, in age or ability, with vectors of physical or moral contamination. To be clear, this project aims to confront, subvert and transform these prejudices, not reinforce them. The images and texts which comprise this international group exhibit freely explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. We see works grappling with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups. What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions? The often volatile emotions expressed through the works in this project make it easy to assume that the only story they tell is one of adversarial engagement and oppression. However, is it possible that through these many evocations of violated personal and collective borders, a peculiar sense of solidarity is being revealed? For when an out-group, seen from any side, becomes so close as to be indiscernible from ourselves isn't that when it becomes most threatening? -- Todd Edward Herman 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/16d26c75-f361-4547-b2c5-5573580af577/SAINTIL-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out January 6th 2023 Artist Talk with Yvens Alex Saintil 7:00 - 9:00pm East Window Gallery Yvens Alex Saintil, multidisciplinary artist, army veteran, and local activist, returns to East Window Gallery. Those who missed the opportunity to meet Alex at the opening reception in November 2022 now have another chance. Saintil will join East Window for First Friday in January for an intimate artist talk. He will discuss his current exhibit at East Window, his new work and more. Saintil’s career extends far beyond his ten years in the United States Army, where he served as an Infantryman performing in various roles within the continental United States, South Korea, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service and now resides in Denver, Colorado. Through his discipline, Saintil actively brings awareness to police reform and accountability, veteran mental health care, gun violence, and activism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/30e5be3a-7320-4e55-9dd0-e2a48b864e8b/TONI+WORKSHOP-WWW-01.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out November 12th 2022 Transmissions in the Field of the Ecstatic a workshop facilitated by Toni Oswald Presented byThe Dairy Arts Center and East Window as part of the 2023 Month of Photography Festival A writing and visual art workshop on the theme of Joy. What makes you belly laugh? How do you feel when you dance with abandon? How do you experience sitting in the middle of a grove of trees? Participants explored the senses, wrote, collaged, and painted their way towards the joy of the creative act in an attempt to return to that sense of wonder that we all knew as children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1618717551365-CLPAZ11RKF4EUDGBYKSA/stitch-www-07.jpg calendar archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/830f771d-6c92-4e3b-b05f-cad8da3c1c30/HANSON+PAST-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out Nov 18, 2022 - Jan 29th 2023 Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus - Photographs Excerpts from Harry James Hanson's “Legends of Drag” and other images will be on display at East Window. Hanson and Antheus’s work celebrates queer elders who have long been cultural and spiritual leaders within their communities. For more information on “Legends of Drag” click HERE © Harry James Hanson - Image Courtesy the artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1625031532524-8A42VU3FUX3UZTIX8Q4Y/HEXUS+-+LAURA-FINAL-WWW.jpg calendar archive - Make it stand out June 1-29, 2021 Hexus Collective Chronic mental and physical illnesses are those various body and mind experiences rarely seen in public but which are always present. Individuals with these conditions undergo painful sensations that regularly call for constant care and dependency on self, partners, and technology. Hexus Collective’s installation Zones of Invisibility (Holy Body Bag) ruminates on the “invisibility of chronic illness” offering viewers a crucial understanding of the physicality, spirituality, and dimensionality of crip conditions. Hexus is a semi-anonymous, artist-led, performance and curatorial collective seeking, finding and promoting mysticism through visual, performance and sound art. Their work is rooted in alterity theory and concerned especially with intersectional activism encompassing disability, queer folks, cyberfeminism, alliances with BIPOC communities, and anticapitalist analysis. Full Statement Boulder Weekly Review https://www.eastwindow.net/2024 daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c7aca32a-be26-4cf6-b5c3-138a15e32ac8/SQUIRE+TALK+23+WWW-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photo: Niko Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/fe89662d-7671-4721-b8dd-9abee49a5b4d/TISIGA+EXT+WWW+copy.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b42222de-0e5f-4299-a223-bdd0b482ac0b/AGE+PANEL+WWW+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photography by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/73f3d7a7-ff78-4115-8545-4338a6ac1fd5/SEEWALKER+01+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out As part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery East Window is honored to present Artist Talk with Danielle SeeWalker Wednesday, January 17th 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm Danielle SeeWalker is Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. She is an artist, writer, activist, and boymom of two, based in Denver, Colorado. Her visual artwork often incorporates the use of mixed media and experimentation while incorporating traditional Native American materials, scenes, and messaging. Her artwork pays homage to her identity as a Lakȟóta wíŋyaŋ (woman) and her passion to redirect the narrative to an accurate and insightful representation of contemporary Native America while still acknowledging historical events. Alongside her passion for creating visual art, Danielle is a freelance writer and published her first book in 2020 titled, “Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People & Culture.” She is also very dedicated to staying connected and involved in her Native community and currently serves as City Commissioner for the Denver American Indian Commission. Danielle has also been working on a personal, passion project since 2013 with her long-time friend called The Red Road Project. The focus of the work is to document, through words and photographs, what it means to be Native American in the 21st century by capturing inspiring and positive stories of people and communities within Indian Country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c7dfd088-8ec4-40e6-a10b-4ae3c4ef498f/SHINE-COMP-07-www.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2b0880ef-5205-4a65-8ef0-b8e1a1cfbf7a/SHINE+FIX+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out February 15th 2024 7 - 9:00pm FREE East Window in collaboration with Out Boulder Presents: SHINE: A Love Letter to the Trans Community Curated by Charlotte Piper Featuring Alex & Styler with Briggs from Queer Denver and youth from OUT Boulder Including a special performance planned by Melissa Ivey What is Trans Joy? It is a celebration of living life to the fullest despite how society tries to dim our SHINE. Embracing our authenticity and individuality. Trans Joy means existing in light of the efforts of outside organizations and individuals to discard and discriminate against transgender humans. With this event, we bring together established transgender elders to lift up and shine their light on young trans artists, poets, and creators to celebrate how we all SHINE together. This is a celebration of transgender artists and their significant contributions to the LGBTQIA community. SHINE is a multimedia, spoken word event coming to Boulder in February 2024. With SHINE, we are here to demonstrate the beauty, creativity, and validity of the transgender experience. We hope to shine a light on these stunning humans, who are the future of our world, and provide them with an outlet to have their voices heard. With SHINE, we are opening the stage to this influential and diverse group of humans in order to provide them a platform to share their thoughts, words, and hearts with us as future change agents. This is our love letter to the trans community and an event that we are very proud to present to the Boulder community. Melissa Ivey (she/they) is a local two spirit, Indigenous artivist, performer, and music educator. She is well known in Denver as the "Musical Doula", using her voice and platform to bring art, music, and activism together to build connections within the queer/trans and Indigenous communities. Melissa has performed everywhere from BIPOC Open Mic NIght at the Mercury Cafe to the stage of Red Rocks and at the Denver Art Museum. Melissa has a special performance planned for SHINE. Crisosto Apache (they/them) is from Mescalero, New Mexico, on the Mescalero Apache reservation. They are Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) of the Salt Clan, born for the Towering House Clan. They hold an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and are a professor of English. They are also an editor-at-large for The Offing Magazine. Apache’s books are GENESIS (Lost Alphabet) & Ghostword (Gnashing Teeth Publishing) winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2023 Betty Berzon Emerging Writers Award and a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Author’s League Award in poetry. They also have been a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize. Before Alex Vaughan (they/them) could be Alex, Trey acted as their front man for 25 years until at age 40, Alex came to the awareness of sharing their true self as transgender and nonbinary. Personal trainer, performer, podcaster for "How To Be Queer" and "I Swear I'm Real", Trey and Alex dance together in grit, joy, euphoria and alignment. Styler Rising (they/them) has been a part of the queer community for the past 35 years, and they own and operate Denver’s first queer focused gym, Metamorphosis Fitness. They also own Styler Rising Consultants, a company dedicated to education and advocacy for the queer community through public speaking, business training, and queer based programming. For the last seven years, Styler has created a sober safe space for the queer community, and has focused on helping folks reconnect with their bodies while processing their trauma through movement and exercise. Styler will be performing a very special piece for SHINE. Briggs (they/them) is a young queer activist who grew up like most, in an unsupportive home. They realized first that they were queer and then later on trans, both realizations that drastically changed the course of their life. Briggs remembers vividly the way they were treated and the lack of resources for young queer folks as a child and has started to dedicate their life to highlighting Queer Youth. Currently, they are the founder of a grassroots organization titled Queer Denver, which they hope can be the organization they wished they had as a kid. Raymond (He/Him) is a sophomore in high school who uses poetry as a way to move through the complex existence of being a teenager. He finds trans joy with his friends, who have been with him every step of the way. Bennett (They/Them) is a Non-Binary sophomore at New Vista High School, and a fully fledged theater kid. They would highly consider themselves a nerd, having a blast creating DnD campaigns they are often the dungeon master for in the time they aren't writing characters. Bennett strives for change in the world around them, knowing that a safe space for Queer people is one where they are comfortable being themselves, and aspires to send messages of Queer joy out through writing, in all of its forms including poetry, lyric, and storytelling. They are thankful to have grown up in an environment of Queer safety from their family, who supported them through their transition, leading them into their path of an avid Queer rights advocate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/97a2c3f0-c9e8-4311-9373-a06a734f5ff3/USAMA-WWW-4X.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out APRIL 5th 2024 7-9pm Free Short Films and Artist Talk with Usama Alshaibi in person Join us for an evening of short films, an artist talk and the world premier of Testimony by Usama Alshaibi. Usama Alshaibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq and spent his formative years living between the United States and the Middle East. He’s an active filmmaker and artist, who works in documentary and fiction, often blurring the line between the two. His films have screened widely at underground and international film festivals, media exhibitions and museums. He’s received grants from organizations such as the MacArthur Foundation, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Playboy Foundation, and the Creative Capital Foundation for the Arts. His first feature documentary, Nice Bombs, which was shot in Baghdad right after the start of the United States invasion of Iraq, had a theatrical release in Chicago and New York, and a broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel. His experimental narrative film Profane won several awards, including best feature film at the Boston Underground Film Festival. His second documentary feature, American Arab, had its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and was nationally broadcast on television through PBS World Channel. He’s been producing and directing short films and music videos since 1998. Usama lived in Chicago for over 17 years and worked as a digital archivist at the Chicago History Museum, and as a radio host and producer for Chicago Public Media. Currently, Usama is a Teaching Associate Professor at Colorado State University Images courtesy Usama Alshaibi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/f0d7a31c-4ada-45ae-9d64-82137c0f7492/RADHA-COMP-WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photography: Niko Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1dc1671d-3d28-48d0-b1c2-618dae31204c/Screenshot+2024-09-04+at+11.38.32%E2%80%AFAM.png 2024 - Make it stand out October 23rd, 2024 7:00pm BANNED BOOK CLUB BOULDER #4 Please join us at East Window for the next meeting of our Banned Book Club Boulder (BBCB) We will continue our discussion of The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan. East Window 4550 Broadway Ste. C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 For more information on how to join East Window’s Banned Book Club Boulder contact us at: info@eastwindow.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ee49630a-ac1a-43e9-ae0b-3e6269e30c6c/KALI+-+WWW+-+CN+-+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/133464b0-1eab-483d-b64e-552e40470901/OS-2024-WWW-02.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out October 5th - 6th / October 19th - 20th Open Studio - Todd Edward Herman Noon - 5pm 4550 Broadway Ste. C-3B2 Boulder Colorado 80304 More info at: info@eastwindow.org East Window founder and director Todd Edward Herman will be participating in Open Studios this year. Please join Todd at East Window for an exhibit of his book, All Things Born | Proximate Seams, a collaboration with Jade Lascelles and Liz Quan, and other new work. Todd Edward Herman’s work has generated collaborations with artists on books, films, performances and exhibitions around the world. Todd is a co-founder and long time collaborator with Sins Invalid a performance project that incubates, celebrates and centralizes artists with disabilities, artists of color, queer and gender-variant artists and is also the founding director of East Window. Todd currently lives in Colorado with his family. Read the feature about Todd in the Fall 2020 issue of Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis For more information please visit ToddEdwardHerman.com - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1631558077109-T9N4OXCRXOAV619YVUYW/SHELLEY-NIRO-WWW-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out (Dates TBA) For Fearless And Other Indians Shelley Niro is a photographer, painter, sculptor, bead worker, multimedia artist and independent filmmaker. She is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario. Niro consistently challenges myths, stereotypes and clichés of Native Americans by presenting work that counters outmoded representations of Indigenous people generated by centuries of colonization. Her work has been shown across Canada, the USA and internationally. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b7fcdd11-7737-4f77-9911-1c9bef0e0a3c/+MARISSA-www.01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/811552ba-3636-4702-a470-a8067d187e87/PEOPLES-MARKET+-+www.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE East Window Presents: PEOPLE’S MARKET October 13, 2024 4571 Broadway Street, Boulder CO 80304 2 PM-7 PM Featuring performances by Lee Plentywolf and The Plentywolf Singers, the People’s Market celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Day by opening up NiCHE Event Space up to BIPOC vendors to share their art, food, and creations. Come support the People’s Market, find unique gifts and goods. Enter for a chance to win special gifts and prizes. Chief Plentywolf is an influential leader of the movement to protect the water at Standing Rock. He is a direct descendant of those medicine men and women that paved the way before him. Along with the Plentywolf singers, Chief Plentywolf brings his wisdom, chants, prayers, and experiences living as a medicine man to this year’s People’s Market. Many thanks to our new community partner Niche Event Space for generously donating their space for this event. (More details coming soon) - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/0dfc6f7d-9f78-4600-8fb8-0f70adfe976c/SQUIRE-WWW+0111.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out As part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery East Window is honored to present Artist Talk with Mitchell Squire Friday, December 15th 2023 7:00 - 9:00 pm - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c583a374-7bf2-46ed-b244-532b74328c13/MADELIFE-WWW-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Madelife Mentor / Student Exhibit East Window will be hosting an exhibit of visual art, music and writing created by Made Life students and their mentors. This event will be held at East Window. Details Forthcoming Madelife is the ultimate launchpad for emerging artists and entrepreneurs, fostering collaboration, mentorship, and continuous growth. Madelife empowers and elevates artists and creative entrepreneurs through an expansive visual art workspace, design and sound studio in Boulder, Colorado. Participants are immersed in a vibrant creative ecosystem, featuring a unique mentorship-based Creative Accelerator program. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4c4f6968-8522-427f-9ca0-de4493b24424/WHITE+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out East Window Gallery is honored to host a day of film screenings, poetry, story telling, visual art, music, food, reflection and discussion on the lasting impacts and multifaceted experiences of the Vietnam war. James Holdsworth, an adoptee from Vietnam, will bring folks together to share and reflect on this time in history. A multi-generational gathering and an open forum for discussion on the divergent effects of the Vietnam war. We will hear stories from adoptees out of Vietnam pre and post Operation Babylift. We will also hear from Vietnam Veterans, parents of adoptees and their children about how their unique as well as shared experiences continue to shape their lives today. Sister Mary Nelle Gage and Ruth Routten, two of the organizers of Operation Babylift, will be present to share their stories on this complex time in history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/bc1c6fd0-12af-42d7-94cd-b66487c19e7e/AGING+01+2023-WWW-HOSKING.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Image: Courtesy James Hosking November 9th 2023 - February 28th 2024 (Gallery & Window) Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines André Ramos-Woodard, Danielle SeeWalker, Carlotta Cardana, Donigan Cumming, James Hosking, Magdalena Wosinska, Marissa Nicole Stewart, Mitchell Squire, Roddy MacIness, Sherry Wiggins & Luís Filipe Branco, Will Wilson and others Curated by Todd Edward Herman Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines looks at the social and ethical implications of the observational image and challenges some of the myths and misunderstandings often imposed upon elder members of contemporary western societies. Aging Bodies… speaks to how photography has influenced our perceptions of the human organism relative to the passage of time, to the many ways the medium has become instrumental to the construction, preservation and revision of personal and collective memory, as well as to photography's ability to obscure and elucidate notions of falsehood and truth. This exhibit operates somewhere in-between two representational tropes; those who adopt an heroic attitude towards the aging process, seeming to remain ‘forever youthful' and those who experience significant bodily decline and illness to the extent that the outer body is seen as misrepresenting or imprisoning the inner self. Both modalities serve to objectify and therefore skew our capacity to empathize with those depicted. Such pervasive imagery of the elderly as either sub or super-human beings form part of a repertoire of the 'pornography of old age' within consumer culture. To be clear, these are not the points of view this exhibit is hoping to advance. Aging Bodies… does not claim to be an exhaustive study in either gerontology or the mechanisms of representational bias. It does, however, deliver a small selection of playful, critical and tender images made by and about elder artists; redirecting viewers back to the lived body and divergent self-images of the middle aged and old. — Todd Edward Herman 2023 Daily camera by Ella Cobb Daily Camera (Instagram) by Ella Cobb Denver Post by Ray Mark Rinaldi Rocky Mountain PBS by Lindsey Ford Lenscratch by Rupert Jenkins DARIA by Madeleine Boyson Boulder Magazine by Kalene McCort https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ea41904a-0503-49d8-8ba6-7d016035456f/DANIELL-WWW-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b3ccf3dd-49a9-4085-ac82-43ef627a9d28/LISA+WWW+01SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photography by Dona Laurita & Todd Edward Herman - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ff5f4b83-2813-4007-ae29-324313bc5705/WWW-ANNA-2.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out November 1st 2024 - February 21st 2025 YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE : A Native Guide Project Anna Tsouhlarakis Opening Reception • November 1st • 7-9:00pm Artist Talk • January 23rd 2025 • 7-9:00pm Anna in person for both Anna Tsouhlarakis Inspired by the Ralph Ellison novel Invisible Man, YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE : A Native Guide Project deals with the artist’s venture of becoming a resident of this city. As a dark brown woman, her journey has been one of utter disbelief at the racial interactions—both subtle and direct. In cities such as Portland, OR; Scottsdale, AZ; St. Louis, MO; and Columbus, OH, the artist has created various iterations of THE NATIVE GUIDE PROJECT. For her installation at East Window, Tsouhlarakis uses the framework of THE NATIVE GUIDE PROJECT to reflect and illustrate these moments of absolute hilarity and horror. Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. Her work has been part of national and international exhibitions at venues such as Rush Arts in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Portrait Gallery. Tsouhlarakis has participated in various art residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and was the Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at Colorado College for the 2019-2020 academic year. She was awarded a Creative Capital Grant in 2021 and recently received a 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. Tsouhlarakis lives in Colorado and Maine. This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder Arts Commission DARIA Review by Paloma Jimenez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/9b8b5e9b-6fa4-48b7-b64c-fdc7e939c17e/SAMBLANET-WWW-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/77f6e862-0a45-4b9b-ba86-941cfdac7d05/FRAME+MARCH+2024-01SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out March 29th 2024 The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E A Literary Salon Back for a new season! 7-9pm 4550 Broadway Ste C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz “Friday Reignites the Ancestral Matchstick in the Eternal East” Listen to KGNU’s Veronica Straight-Lingo talk with The Literary Ladies Toni Oswald and Sara Elizabeth Schantz and East Window founder / director Todd Edward Herman. Dino Enrique Piacentini grew up in Los Angeles, lived in San Francisco for twenty years, and has also, at various times, set down stakes in Houston, Oaxaca, Champaign, and Prague. His writing has been published in Gulf Coast, Confrontation, Pembroke, The Globe & Mail, The Atticus Review, and The Massachusetts Review, among other places, and his debut novel, Invasion of the Daffodils, about a Mexican-American family living on an island off the coast of California during the Korean War, will be published by Astrophil Press in Fall 2024. He was a collaborating writer for the Aura Contemporary Ensemble’s Words and Music concert and served as Fiction Editor at Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. He has taught creative writing at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the University of Houston; the Boldface Emerging Writers Conference; and Inprint Houston. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an arts administrator at The Mexican Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Asian Art Museum, and Galería de la Raza. Currently, he lives in Denver, where he teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver. Ali Meyung holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, where she currently serves as adjunct faculty and associate director of the Writing Center. She is a martial artist, educator, artist, cat & glitter lover from Denver, Colorado. Taylor Bratches is a writer, intuitive trance channel, energy healer, DJ and psychedelic facilitator living in the Boulder area. As a writer, she works in various forms and received her MFA in Poetry from the University of California, Irvine in 2019. Her poetry has been longlisted for several prizes including the Montreal International Poetry Prize and most recently, Frontier Poetry's "Nature & Place" Prize. She is also a music journalist and critic for the digital electronic music platform Resident Advisor, where she contributes album reviews and runs a feature series. She is in the process of writing a memoir. She is also a mystic and trance medium who channels both verbally and physically, and has studied a range of spiritual practices in various traditions over the course of her adult life. She channels an esoteric form of energy work -- a healing practice that shares similarities to classical Tantra, medical Qigong, and more. She makes a living primarily as an energy healer, working at several integrative healing centers in both Boulder and Denver. She is also a psychedelic facilitator, and received her training and certification through SoundMind Institute. She was also a speaker at the MAPS convention "Psychedelic Science" this past June. A first-generation college graduate from rural Iowa, Julia Madsen earned an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Her first book, The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland (Trembling Pillow Press), was listed on Entropy’s Best Poetry Books of 2018. Her chapbook, “Home Movie, Nowhere,” was published with DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press in 2021. Max Davies With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer; musician Max Davies has a wealth of real-world practical knowledge that underlines the core of his musical background. From performance to production, songwriting to instruction, his empirical knowledge translates into every project he is involved with. His versatility has been showcased by his work with many musicians including: Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov and many others. His solo releases have been described by Guitarist Magazine as: "Vivid", and: "Quite something" by Guitar World. His most recent album of prepared guitar instrumentals, entitled: Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was lauded by guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as a collection of "really good ideas". Other work includes compositions for Centre Pompidou in Paris, the University of Colorado, the American College Dance Festival, Naropa University, Everest Awakening and The Poetry Project in NYC. His music has been featured in numerous films including Valley Uprising and for Jovovich-Hawk's fashion line and he has been a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program E-Town. Other musicians and performers he's worked with include: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Knackeboul, Janice Lowe, Steven Taylor, Christopher Paul Stelling, Clark Coolidge, LAPCAT, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Ic Explura, Greyhounds, poets Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos and many others. Maggie Snyder is an internationally exhibited fine artist, musician, educator, and multimedia producer. Maggie received her MFA in Conceptual Video and Experimental Film from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2015, and she is the recipient of several awards for her work in art and design, including the 2022 Gener8tor Arts Accelerator grant, the 2020 Best In Show Award at the 40th Annual Secura Fine Arts Exhibition, a 2019 Honored Instructor Award for Photography, and the 2018 M-List Award for Innovation in the Arts. Maggie is a co-founder and former member of the feminist art collective SPOOKY BOOBS and currently plays in the Denver-based noise rock band Wingwalker and the Denver-based all-female metal band Blood of Lilith. She likes heavy music, dark beer, and cats. The Curators Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the Unites States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b2196ad1-7da6-45af-b220-d027ceca9c45/NOUF-WWW-04.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photos by Dona Laurita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/028ca6c6-0a31-464e-bbcc-e0d42ac35208/BBCB-01-COMP-SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1656282774129-7B1CVI8LXEVPAFQY47T5/Tisinga-www-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out July 5th 2024- October 19th 2024 (Window) An Elegance Unknown To Scoundrels Joseph Tisiga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal and a member of the Kaska Dena First Nation. He maintains a multidisciplinary practice that is rooted in painting and drawing, but also draws from performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. His work reflects upon notions of identity and what contributes to this construct–community, nationality, family, history, location, real and imagined memories. Tisiga’s works look at cultural and social inheritance, the mundane, the metaphysical and the mythological, often all at once and on the same surface. This conflation of interests and perspectives plays itself out in the artist’s narratives, which are distinctly non-linear, cross cultural and supernatural. Tisiga recently held solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art de Joliette (Joliette) and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (East Landing). Other notable exhibitions include those held at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg), MASS MoCA (North Adams), the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, (Santa Fe), and at the West Vancouver Museum (Vancouver). Tisiga’s work is found in institutional collections as well as in numerous private and corporate collections. Tisiga is the recipient of The Yukon Art Prize (2021), the Sobey Art Award (2020), and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (2017). Joseph Tisiga - An Elegance Unknown To Scoundrels : 2014 - Watercolor on paper - Courtesy of the artist and Bradley Ertaskiran https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/fa4af719-3415-418b-82ca-865368f6c7b1/FRAME+MARCH+24+WWW+SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photography by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/816f17f2-d7c4-4e6e-b3bb-620df79dd36e/SAMBLANET-9-24-SML.png 2024 - Make it stand out POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE September 14th 2024 Readings by Christy Prahl, Lauren Samblanet, Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) and Cass Eddington 7-9pm FREE lauren samblanet is a hybrid writer who cross-pollinates with other forms of making & other makers of forms. she is chronically ill, neurodivergent, and queer. they received their mfa from temple university, and currently reside in colorado. punctum books published her first book, like a dog, in 2024. some of their publications include: a shadow map: an anthology by survivors of sexual assault, FENCE, just femme and dandy, dreginald, entropy, bedfellows, and the tiny. lauren is a teacher and facilitator. she offers creative process workshops and support for individuals and collaborators through their passion project, reinventing creative process (www.reinventingcreativeprocess.com). Christy Prahl is an Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and the author of the poetry collections We Are Reckless (Cornerstone Press, 2023) and Catalog of Labors (Unsolicited Press, forthcoming 2026). A Best of the Net and three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been featured in Poetry Daily as well as many national and international journals, including CALYX, the Penn Review, Salt Hill Journal, and others. She has held residencies at both Ragdale and the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow and is the founder of the PenRF reading series. She splits her time between Chicago and rural Michigan. More of her work can be found at https://christyprahl.wixsite.com/christy-prahl. Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a queer singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, massage therapist, and point and shoot art dabbler in Denver Colorado. Their writing and photography are featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, newspapers, and other venues and publications. Their first book an identity polyptych debuted from The Elephants in 2021, and considers familial estrangement, being in-between things as a mixed-race Black person, and moving towards reconciliation. Meca’Ayo Cole is a published author of poetry, creative nonfiction, journalism, fiction, and hybrid works and was a two-time poet laureate finalist in Adams County and for Colorado State in 2023. They create many community-centered projects, gatherings and collaborations, and practice as a massage therapist in Denver, Colorado. Cass Eddington is a poet, educator, and community arts organizer from Utah. A former Denver Quarterly poetry editor, they are the author of Vernal Hurt (Magnificent Field) and TRANSIT (Spiral Editions) with recent work found in Trilobite journal, luigi ten co, and Annulet. Cass is the founder of Vocational Poetics a currently virtual teaching and learning platform with offerings from teaching artists and radical educators. They hold a PhD in English and Literary Arts from University of Denver and an MFA in Poetry from Colorado State University. As a regenerative landscaper, they help create place-based relationships between the land and its inhabitants. Cass lives in so-called "Denver" with their dog Jupiter. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/206e1059-b450-4612-9f5e-d96a809e668f/A-XOXO-WWW-SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photography by Dona Laurita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2c944a46-714d-472b-950d-d7f6f0426530/YUKI-TALK-WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/92325922-2e01-49b9-ba25-412fc41bc253/SMUT-SEPT24-WWW-SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4423555a-0e2a-4940-802b-71c7f4ee29b4/YUKI-WWW-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out May 20th 2024 7-9:00pm SEE: LOSS. SEE ALSO: LOVE Yukiko Tominaga Published by Simon & Schuster Book Launch and Reading with the author in person (More details coming soon) A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law as she wrestles with grief, loss, and—strangest of all—joy. Shortly after her husband Levi’s untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon frugality but her own mother wants Kyoko to celebrate her now husbandless life. Always beside her is Alex, who lives confidently, no matter the circumstance. Four sections of vignettes reflect Kyoko’s fluctuating emotional states—sometimes ugly, other times funny, but always uniquely hers. While freshly mourning Levi, Kyoko and Alex confront another death—that of Alex’s pet betta fish. Kyoko and Bubbe take a road trip to a psychic and discover that Kyoko carries bad karma. On visits back to Japan, Kyoko and her mother clash over how best to connect Alex with his Japanese heritage, and as Alex enters his teenage years and brings his first girlfriend home, Kyoko lets her imagination run wild as she worries about teen pregnancy. In this openhearted and surprising novel about the choices and relationships that sustain us, there are times where Kyoko is lonely but never alone and others in which she is alone but never lonely. Through these moments, she learns how much more there is to herself in the wake of total and unexpected upheaval. See: Loss. See Also: Love. is a testament to how grief isn’t a linear process but is a spiraling awareness of the vast range of human emotion we experience every day. Yukiko Tominaga Yukiko Tominaga was born and raised in Japan. She was a finalist for the 2020 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, selected by Roxane Gay. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Bellingham Review, among other publications. She also works at Counterpoint Press where she helps to introduce never-before-translated books from Japan to English language readers. See: Loss. See Also: Love. is her first book. Author Photograph by Mayumi Yamada Additional Photography by Dona Laurita https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/704e9db3-66ee-449a-a134-df342a674c22/BBCB+04--COMP-WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ef1ebd1b-d980-4bf1-8fdf-ae1d08854d9c/ANNE+WALKER+WWW+0111.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out As part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery East Window is honored to present Artist Talk with Anne Walker Wednesday, February 21st 2024 11:30am - 1:00pm Dr. Anne Walker’s professional and research interests include the overlap of art, communication, and storytelling across differences. Her dissertation study at the University of Denver’s department of Communication Studies focused on the grief experiences of older women during the pandemic through an arts-based method of narrative and photography. As a graduate teaching instructor at DU, she taught various communication courses focused on communication skills such as listening, reflecting on other people’s experiences and collaborating across difference through dialogue. She also designed and taught an intergenerational communication course which connected college students with older adults in the community through photography and storytelling. Her presentation at East Window will center on the photos and stories drawn from her dissertation examining older women, grief, and storytelling; exploring common themes in the narratives of these older women’s experiences of grief during the COVID-19 pandemic. 18 women aged 65 and older agreed to participate in Walker's study by taking 5-6 photos that illustrated their story of losing someone meaningful during the pandemic. These photos served as catalysts in a one-on-one storytelling interview where participants shared how these photos represented their experiences of grief and loss. Walker will explain key moments of the research process as well as share specific photos and stories from participants. A short workshop will follow the presentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a5d82158-89e4-4d38-b2bc-1d40b4dc413d/ORPHANS-comp-0001sml.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/515f804f-c840-4dc8-8822-587de3c7b266/FRAME+DEC+2024+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out December 13th 2024 The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E A Literary Salon 7-9pm Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. Max Davies is known for his diverse musical work on guitar and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist. His music has been featured in Artforum, Guitar World and Guitarist magazines, at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the Everest Awakening benefit album. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians, and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and many others. Oak Chezar Author. Scholar. Activist. Luddite. Earth-worshiping feral Performance Artist retired psychotherapist and Women’s Studies teacher, and a semi-retired barbarian. Her work can be labeled as fiction, non-fiction, memoir, sociology, anthropology, biography, LesbianFeminist literature, political literature, and that confusion makes her feel fine. She’s been arrested for peace 9 times. Amy Bobeda is a multidisciplinary poet, artist, and author of Red Memory (Flowersong Press), What Bird Are You? (Finishing Line Press) and forthcoming A Blood to Purify the World (Spuyten Duyvil). Amy runs the Naropa Writing Center and teaches pedagogy, and process-based arts in colleges and the community. A member of The New Local Nonprofit in Boulder, the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Radical Anthropology Group, and the founder of Wisdom Body Collective, Amy had to write this bio before the election and hopes you voted. Sydney Fowler Rumor has it, Sydney Fowler is multiple fairies in a human suit. They are a white, queer, nonbinary speculative fiction writer and writing instructor living in Denver, CO. They founded their sensitivity and developmental editing company, Inqueery, LLC., in 2015 to help create more authentic and respectful portrayals of marginalized identities, communities, and experiences in literature and media. They are a 2024 Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar with publications in Poems for the Ride, The Snarktastic Guide to College Success, New Directions in Folklore, and Handbook of Sexuality Leadership. Courtney E. Morgan is the author of the collection of short stories, The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she also taught. She is a recipient of the Thompson Award for Western American Writing, and was a finalist for FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award, Diana Woods Memorial Award at Lunch Ticket, and Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Fiction. She is co-founder and co-executive director of Sidewalk Poets, a nonprofit focused on bringing empowerment-based creative writing and storytelling workshops to underserved communities. She lives in Louisville with her son and dog, and is working on a novel of speculative fiction. Belgin Yücelen While enhancing our imaginations and consciousness, Belgin Yücelen’s art remains true to the desire to create meaning and beauty in subtle simplicity. With her paintings, sculptures, prints, films, poetry and theater, she creates a fictional world beyond the existing to conjure unrealized possibilities to challenge imaginations. Traces of her previous years in Turkey appear in her artwork placing it at the fascinating edge where East and West meet and ancient and modern coincide. She has been recognized by organizations such as the Colorado Creative Industries, Boulder Country Arts Alliance, Moon and Stars Grant, Clark Hulings Fund, Hemera Foundation, and National Sculpture Society and has shown her work nationally and internationally. Her work has been widely publicized. She founded House of Serein in 2019 as a creative space for community use and studios for artists in Boulder, CO. Artist Residency at La Macina di San Cresci, Italy in 2021 and in the Arctic Circle in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway in October 2024. I am a Turkish-American multimedia artist. I create video, installation, sculpture, photography, theater, painting and print drawing on a range of present-day issues and cultural and historical references. I create to peruse myself and evoke a form of consciousness. With each story I tell, I aim to start a communication through which I meet with my viewer, and other viewers meet within the space art creates, dissolving the separation between us, and across time, distance and culture. I create imaginary worlds that help conjure unrealized possibilities. In my art, I use a soft voice, almost an understatement with silences, and pauses which create spaces of ambiguity where the viewer can escape from the limitations and complexities of a well-defined subject. By presenting a mere hint of the story, I evaluate the possibility of art to provoke seeking for emotions. Through the act of revealing or concealing, similar to a fenced garden which partly obstructs the view, the viewer stays longer to find out what is hidden behind. This also empowers them to imagine and make their own aesthetic choices and personal interpretations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4e6bc52d-b38a-4465-a7a0-76d1366339ec/BOULDER-ARTS-WEEK-LOGO-SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out This program is funded in part by a grant from Boulder Arts Week - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/bedfc6cd-4948-48a5-bc26-1ae2b4102399/OCCUPIED+01+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out EXTENDED THROUGH DECEMBER 30th 2024 Learn more about Brian Fouhy’s Occupied HERE How do you broach the question of asking to take photos of urinals without getting either laughed at or thrown out? Photographer Brian Fouhy’s request was more often than not greeted with intrigue and enthusiasm, leading to surprising conversations about all the great bathrooms people have used; a place we all take a mental note of but never choose to talk about; that unspeakable, sometimes neglected room we all unavoidably need. These wonderful conversations led to Fouhy photographing over 100 bathrooms across the United States, 70 of which made their way onto the pages of OCCUPIED (Published 2021 by New Heroes & Pioneers), with 7 photographs of those urinals hanging in the East Window Bathroom Gallery. By including information surrounding the use of each urinal, such as the meal eaten in a restaurant, the weather conditions at the time, or the distance from relevant points of interest, Fouhy adds another layer to the experience beyond just a standard visit to the loo. These photographs will be showing in the East Window Bathroom Gallery beginning December 8th, 2023-January 27, 2024 with an opening reception planned from 7-9 pm on December 8th at our location at 4550 Broadway, Ste c-3b2, in Boulder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/efbf5909-3cbd-4f63-9594-8dd972e1d590/KALI+WWW+0111.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out EXTENDED THROUGH FEBRUARY 4th November 17th 2023 - January 26, 2024 East Window, Creative Nations Arts Collective and The Dairy Arts Center presents: Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories Photographs by Kali Spitzer Curated by Todd Edward Herman Opening Reception November 17th 5:00pm - 8:00pm Creative Nations Arts Collective / The Dairy Arts Center 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302 Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance. Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c7caea60-5a9d-482a-8540-90a7a4c4c7ed/www-XOXO-FROST-03.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/ac7ac82d-1deb-41ee-9638-735147ecbe3e/FRAME+MAY+2024+WWW+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out May 3rd 2024 The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E A Literary Salon 7-9pm Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Jessica Lawson (she/her/hers) is Denver-based writer, teacher, and queer single parent. Her debut book of poetry, Gash Atlas, is a nightmarish cartography of violence from Columbus to Trump, a work that Joyelle McSweeney says “turns the log-book of patriarchy inside out.” Gash Atlas was selected by judge Erica Hunt for the Kore Press Institute Poetry Prize. Lawson’s chapbook, Rot Contracts, explores the heated aftermath of family rupture through the cold lens of the law, asking what we have left when our most primal bonds are broken. Twice nominated for the Pushcart, Lawson’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, Entropy, Paperbag, Dreginald, and elsewhere. Cyrus Smith-Gathers is a Florida Atlantic University alum and recent graduate of the Regis University Mile High MFA program. His short story Chasing Summer can be found in the latest edition of the North American Review. Cyrus not only writes short stories but also screenplays, having placed in several screenwriting competitions. When he's not writing, he's roller skating, or watching sports, usually college football. Amber Ridenour Walker is the author of Surfacing (Free Lines Press) and i thought this would be cooler (Bottlecap Press). Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in 20 Minutes in Portland: A Special Edition of The Portland Review, Bombay Gin, Local Smoke, 580 Split, Tiny Spoon, Wisdom Body Collective, LEON Literary Review, and various limited edition chapbooks over the years. Amber holds an MFA from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. She moonlights as a librarian and she almost never visits her hometown of Manson, Washington. Jennifer Wortman is the author of the story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell, she lives with her family in Colorado, where she teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and serves as associate fiction editor for Colorado Review. Toni Oswald is a writer, singer, and visual artist who has performed and shown her work across the United States and Europe. She has released four albums under the altar ego The Diary of Ic Explura & writing publications include The Oyez Review, Bombay Gin, Heroes are Gang Leaders Giantology, The Tattered Press, Zani UK, HOAX & Shame Radiant. She is currently working on a novel about a girl clown set in the 1950s entitled The Gorgeous Funeral, as well as a collection of short stories set in Los Angeles called Dying on the Vine. Her book Sirens, was released by Gesture Press in 2020. She likes gold teeth, cats, and trees, and lives with her husband Max, and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin in Boulder, Colorado Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is primarily a fiction writer living on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado with her family in a Victorian-era farmhouse they rent from the city where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, and coyote. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. She is currently working on a collection of short stories titled Tales of Dead Children and two novels, Roadside Altars and Just Like Heaven. She teaches creative writing as an adjunct at Naropa University, faculty for Lighthouse, and through her own workshop series and author services, (W)rites of Passage. Max Davies is known for his diverse musical work on guitar and as a producer and multi-instrumentalist. His music has been featured in Artforum, Guitar World and Guitarist magazines, at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the American College Dance Festival, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the Everest Awakening benefit album. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians, and writers including: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, Lydia Lunch, Toni Oswald, Clark Coolidge, Cecilia Vicuna, Eleni Sikelianos Gregory Alan Isakov, and many others. Leo Reis-Larson hails from the picturesque Hudson Valley in New York, where the natural beauty and local culture served as early inspiration. While pursuing studies in art practices at the University of Colorado, Leo found his artistic voice through the lens of photography. Although his primary focus lies in this medium, Leo is no stranger to experimenting with alternative photography practices and exploring diverse visual mediums. Influenced deeply by renowned photographers and teachers Albert Chong and Jeff Bark, Leo's work reflects a blend of historical reverence and innovation. Drawing inspiration from his mentors, he has crafted a distinctive style that navigates the rich narrative of photography's past while engaging with its evolving role in the contemporary art landscape. Leo Reis-Larson's art is a testament to the enduring power of photography, inviting viewers into a dialogue that spans generations and challenges conventions. With each image, he invites us to ponder the limitless possibilities of visual storytelling and the unfolding narrative of art history. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/e9e75577-25e8-4eaa-9302-ba0cfa6f4c39/JOURNAL+COVER+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out IT’S HERE! East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts: Volume 1/1 East Window is excited to announce the release of the East Window Journal of Written and Visual Arts: Volume 1/1. With this journal we continue our mission to support and amplify the art and culture of underrepresented communities and provide a platform for artists and writers from around the world to share their hearts and minds. Volume 1/1 features works by: Eli Clare, Harry James Hanson, Eric Raanan Fischman, Amy Kohut, Aimee Herman, André Ramos-Woodard, Rajiv Mohabir, Lucky Garcia, Alec Dai, Cal Duran, Charlotte Piper, William E. Jones, Crisosto Apache, James Hosking, Jason Masino, Kanthy Peng, Aurora Levins Morales, Narcissister, R. H. R. (Riley) Surgener, Deneishia LeArtiste, Shadows Gather, Zoid Hæm. These 22 brilliant contributors were selected from an open call for work as well as by invitation. Their words and images confront the realities of racial injustice, inequity within queer communities, the widening chasm of class divides in a political landscape riddled with toxic rhetoric and systemic oppression, and other important topics that tend to get swept under the rug. We invite you to join our growing readership and immerse yourselves within this platform in efforts to forge new connections, to provoke, disrupt, inspire, and heal. Thanks in advance for your support and engagement. Read Online - Volume 1/1 Order print version - Volume 1/1 Contact: info@eastwindow.org with any questions. Cover art by James Hosking - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/13f55d02-b585-4b14-aac2-8a2e83fa78c4/OPENING+WWW-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Opening Reception Thursday November 9th 2023 7:00 - 9:00 pm - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/55ca1a95-d59e-4458-9a96-8f4bf8fa6bb5/FRAME+SEPT+2024-+WWW+SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/88efabc3-055e-428a-92b7-541ef5bc70ca/BABYLIFT+SAVE+DATE+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Visit the ORPHANS OF WAR webpage for all the details April 14th 2024 1:00pm - 7:00pm Free Please note this event will be held at NICHE EVENT SPACE 4571 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304 A day of reflection and discussion on the impacts of the Vietnam war Organized by James Holdsworth and Amanda Coslor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/68ddb5ab-afa6-46b4-b2c7-acc22610e85b/USAMA+GRID+SML+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/cb5b99c6-73f9-48b9-8af2-0c738003a701/WWW+FRAME+POSTER+FINAL+BW+SEPT+2024.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out September 6th 2024 The Literary Ladies Present F R A M E A Literary Salon 7-9pm Curated by Toni Oswald + Sarah Elizabeth Schantz Readings by Jenny Shank + Rowena Alegria + Emily Pérez + Lauren Dennis Visual Art by Meesh Rheault Miller Music by Max Davies Jenny Shank's story collection Mixed Company won the George Garrett Fiction prize and the Colorado Book Award in General Fiction, and her novel The Ringer won the High Plains Book Award. Her stories, essays, satire, and book reviews have appeared in The Atlantic. The Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals and Dear McSweeney's. Her work has been honorably mentioned by The Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and her mother. She teaches in the Mile High MFA program at Regis University and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Rowena Alegría is Chief Storyteller for the City & County of Denver, founder and director of the Denver Office of Storytelling, a citywide storytelling and cultural preservation project. Naropa University’s 2024 Cobb Peace Lecturer, the 2021 Ricardo Salinas Scholar in Fiction at Aspen Words, a 2019 Jack Jones Literary Arts and Vermont Studio Center Fellow, and a 2018 Writing by Writers Fellow, Alegría earned an MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a member of Sandra Cisneros' Macondo Writers. A filmmaker, career journalist, communications executive and speech writer, she is writing a novel that plays with form and the history of the Southwest. Learn more at www.RowenaAlegria.com Instagram @RoAlegria. Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want, winner of the Iowa Prize and a finalist for a Colorado Book Award; House of Sugar, House of Stone, and two chapbooks. She co-edited the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, also a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Copper Nickel, The Guardian, and Poetry. She teaches high school in Denver, where she lives with her family. Instagram -- @theemperez / Facebook -- @budlemon Lauren Dennis is a mother of two, violently fighting against the confinement that may or may not come with that title. She has been published in Scarlet Leaf Review, The Flash Fiction Press, daCuhna, and Microfiction Monday Magazine. She was the featured experimental writer for OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters’ Theme “Tranche de Vie.” She has received formal critique and feedback from the Lighthouse Writer's Workshop, just graduated from the Mile High MFA program and is seeking publication for her hybrid memoir, Breakthrough Bleeding, an exploration in poetry, plays, and short story of what it means to love and struggle with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). Instagram: @breakthrough_bleeding_book Meesh Rheault Miller works in a variety of mediums: collage, wire, twigs, paint, photography, experimental assemblages, mono printing, woven paper, embellished and transformed objects, kinetic sculpture, hand-painted signage, body prints, art lights, graphic design, decoupage, scan-art, direct animation on 16 mm film, and digitally altered imagery. She creates art chairs using paint, collage, milagros, nails, etc., to transmute their meaning and purpose. Meesh creates art stamps, menus, photo montages, and assembles and juxtaposes found objects in ways to unsettle the viewer and provoke reflection. Meesh is also a writer and a poet and often works in tandem with her partner and muse, Jim Hill, in a variety of creative schemes and community art projects. https://glowingheads.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tinderbox5/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c25e6909-4ab9-41b9-8927-d1a1f6fd40ca/JAVIER+WWW+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Javier Flores and Students Exhibit East Window will be hosting an exhibit of visual art by students of artist, educator and activist Javier Flores. Details forthcoming. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/55a9b18e-3891-4956-817c-9858a2fb3293/HOSKING+WWW+0222.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Sorry for any inconveniences Beautiful by Night Screening Director James Hosking I am a Chicago-based photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. My work has screened internationally and appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and many other publications. I developed a multimedia project examining identity, aging, and labor among veteran drag performers in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood entitled Beautiful By Night. It included a documentary that I directed, produced, and edited. I had a multi-year collaboration with the Tenderloin Museum in San Francisco that included screenings, public programming, and a solo photo exhibit of this work. The project was included in the 2020 group show Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It was the focus of a solo exhibition at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities gallery during January and February of 2022. I was a 2022-2023 HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition. HATCH is a juried program that offers the opportunity to develop new work and produce collaborative exhibitions. My two-person show with fiber artist María Villaseñor-Marchal, Raveling, was on view from April to June 2023. It was partially supported by an Individual Artist Support grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. I presented a new series of collages made from LGBTQ+ archival material and inspired by the text of found personals. In the Chicago Reader, critic Annette LePique wrote: “Hosking’s work is an act of mediumship; it is a way for the past and present to meet and for the desires and lived experiences of those often denied the light to feel the glow of day once more.” I was also recently a 2022-2023 CPS Lives artist. CPS Lives is a nonprofit that pairs Chicago based artists with a public school during the academic year to collaborate on a project. I photographed LGBTQ+ members of a local high school’s Pride Club. The work was on display at Chicago’s Jude Gallery in July and August 2023 and will be on view at Chicago’s Heaven Gallery in November 2023. I’m the recipient of a 2023 Individual Artists Program grant from Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE). The grant will support the ongoing development of my archival LGBTQ+ collage series. Pieces from the series were selected for Once: 2023 Emerging Artists Exhibit at the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Glen Ellyn, closing January 7, 2024. New selections from the series will also be on view in Art from the Archives at Gerber/Hart Library & Archives in Chicago, closing March 31, 2024. —James Hosking - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/02437d10-c9ac-4bac-b611-b013f1484356/NOUF-VIDEO-WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Artist Talk and Screening of Ana Min Wein? (Where Am I From?) May 10th 2024 7-9:00pm Nouf Aljowaysir in person Ana Min Wein (Where Am I From?) is a short film and visual diary that constructs my genealogical journey using two different voices, my own and an AI ‘narrator'. It combines generational storytelling and AI to meditate on identity, migration, and memory. After immigrating to the US from Saudi Arabia at a young age, my identity and belonging have continually shifted with time. I begin Ana Min Wein by trying to answer "Where am I from?" by recollecting my childhood and tracing my family's memories and migration through Saudi Arabia and Iraq, hoping to find an answer. As the AI character attempts to support my journey, it reveals stereotypes and biases derived from its training and algorithmic composition. By juxtaposing oral storytelling against AI, Ana Min Wein exposes the eradication of my ancestors' collective memory. Compared to our social practices of building cultural meaning and identity through ancestral stories, AI technologies are trained to generalize for consumerist speed and gain. I highlight traditions of passing down stories through generations to expose the superficiality of AI, the reduction of cultural identity, and the prominence of the Western gaze in our technologies today. Nouf Aljowaysir is a Saudi new media artist based in Brooklyn. Her work examines the underlying logic of Al systems from a personal and intimate lens. She has exhibited projects in galleries and festivals globally, including the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Tribeca Film Festival, Centre Pompidou and others. Aljowaysir has been awarded residencies at ThoughtWorks Arts in NYC and Somerset House in London. At Somerset House, she created her latest work, Ana Min Wein? (Where am I From?), which recently won the Lumen Prize in the Moving Image category. 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She owns Alchemy Author Services and Writing Workshop and teaches writing at several universities and colleges along with Lighthouse Writers, a local nonprofit for adults and youth. She focuses her writing on class struggle, single motherhood, trauma, mental illness, the supernatural, ritual, and the impact of neurological disease. On the outskirts of the writing world, she is also a professional Tarot and Bones reader and teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities and writing. Ashley Howell Bunn (she/they) completed her MFA in poetry through Regis University and holds a MA in Literature from Northwestern University. She is an experienced yoga guide trained in many different styles. Her poetry has been published in a variety of online and print publications, and their first chapbook, in coming light, was published in 2022 by Middle Creek Publishing. She is a founding member of The Tejon Collective, an inclusive creative space. They offer somatic writing workshops through their personal business, Howell and Heal, and work as an adjunct instructor of English at Community College of Denver. She lives in South Denver with her child and partner. Violet Mitchell is a poet and artist residing in Colorado. They earned an MFA in Poetry from the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University. Violet teaches workshops with the Tejon Collective and has had their paintings featured in art galleries and their painting called ‘Earth-like’ was selected as the book cover for Issue 2 of Inverted Syntax literary journal. Their poems have been published with Heavy Feather Review, Word for Word, South Broadway Ghost Society, along with several other journals. They received the Robert A. O'Sullivan, S.J. Memorial Award for Excellence in Writing in 2019. They are currently working on a poetry manuscript about parallel universes intersecting with grief, entitled ‘Dear Universe, Everything In Me You Eat,” in addition to a graphic novel exploring gender dysphoria, euphoria, and the power of queerness. This graphic novel project will be accompanied by a custom made tarot deck based on characters and events in the story. To make this event accessible to disabled folks, the author is requiring masks for the reading. Masks will be provided for those who forget. Also please be aware that “Like A dog” explores sexual abuse/violence, explorations of biphobia and religious trauma so please note a trigger warning for those subjects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/b0e3439d-42a5-4019-b741-e90bcb27e61f/+NORD-COMP-WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photo: Niko Laurita As part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery East Window is honored to present Lecture/discussion with Eric Nord Thursday, January 25th 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm Eric Nord’s discussion will examine our varied perceptions of the passage of time relative to the process of aging; the palpable changes in the way time is experienced by elders; the collectivity of time and the collapsing of memory, where yesterday and 20 years ago feel nearly the same distance away from now. Eric Nord is a musician, visual artist and the co-owner of Leon Gallery in Denver Colorado. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and The University of Denver. Eric has worked in the financial, administrative, and production departments of some of the world’s most prestigious institutions including, The New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The New York Society for Ethical Culture, Sperone Westwater Gallery, and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He also served as Executive Director of the E. E. Cummings Centennial Celebration, producing poetry readings, manuscript exhibitions, panel discussions, and walking tours, throughout New York City, in partnership with The New York Public Library’s 42nd St. Branch and Jefferson Market Branch, The 92nd Street Y, The Poetry Society of America, and The Metropolitan Transit Authority. His own art has been exhibited in recent years at Redline, Understudy, The McNichols Building – ArtHyve’s Archives as Muse, and The Vicki Myhren Gallery. His music compositions have been performed Off-Broadway, at The Public Theater, and at the N.Y. Public Library. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/cc4af75c-1dd9-4ab9-981c-72f75c05dd5e/WWW+FRAME+MAY+24+800+PIXEL.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photography by Dona Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/630677bf-15ad-4a77-a37b-2589a326426e/Deneishia_New_SML.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out East Window Presents Deneishia LeArtiste "Origin Story" Screening and Artist Talk June 27th 2024 7:00 - 9:00pm FREE Bringing her personal biography to life with "Origin Story", Deneishia LeArtiste (she/her) joins East Window this June to share the pathways she has walked in this life. In collaboration with Melissa Ivey (the Musical Doula), LeArtiste's "Origin Story" became a ballad; a soundtrack. Both a reflection and a statement, "Origin Story" brings together powerful imagery, with poignant spoken word, and music directed, composed, and produced by Melissa Ivey. To celebrate the birth of "Origin Story" into the world, LeArtiste simultaneously released "Fu*k The Fairy Tale: The Art of Living Happily Ever After". She will share a short reading from this book during her time at East Window this June. Deneishia LeArtiste is a performance artist embracing the storytelling traditions of her ancestry. Answering the call of the Western European bard, the West African Griot, and the Ogallala traditions of teaching through tales, LeArtiste unites our communities by telling our stories. She processes and explores her ancestral experiences through poetry, visual arts, music, and movement. To date, LeArtiste has authored two books: "Everything Hurts" and "Fu*k The Fairy Tale: The Art of Living Happily Ever After". She currently resides in Hawaii, where she is celebrating her own version of happily ever after. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/9acee9fb-a7aa-4a8d-9868-56eb67d3d8c1/radha-www.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out December 5th 2024 Readings by Will Barnes, Tina Carlson & Radha Marcum 7-9:00pm Free RADHA MARCUM author of PINE SOOT TENDON BONE Pine Soot Tendon Bone is Radha Marcum’s second book of poems and the winner of the Washington Prize. This book is an elegy for our times, an attempt to find sanity in a world that seems to have lost its senses, lamenting our unfolding crises—wildfires, climate change, gun violence, a pandemic—alongside personal loss and uprootedness. The title refers to traditional ingredients of Japanese sumi-e ink stone and, like that art, each poem is born of the elements of nature and the hand of an artist who is exacting yet compassionate. Aware of the perils we face in a fractured world while still able to see the beauty in it, these poems locate hope in the simple but precise act of observing nature. Radha Marcum is the recipient of the 2023 Washington Prize for Pine Soot Tendon Bone (The Word Works, 2024). Her first poetry collection, Bloodline (3: A Taos Press, 2017), which delves into her grandfather's involvement in building the first atomic bombs in New Mexico during World War II, won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in 2018. Marcum’s work has been commissioned by the Clyfford Still museum and appears in journals such as North American Review, FIELD, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, and The Bennington Review. A graduate of Bennington College and the University of Washington, Seattle, where she held the Klepser Fellowship in Poetry, she lives in Colorado where she teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and privately. TINA CARLSON author of A GUIDE TO TONGUE-TIE SURGERY A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery gives voice to abused children, murdered women, research animals, war veterans, and even metronomes and lampshades. In poems inspired by Ovid, Tina Carlson explores the roots of voicelessness and journeys into metamorphosis, granting speech to those ignored or victimized and thereby allowing them to provide witness to their own lives. Poet Tina Carlson was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, and now lives in New Mexico. She is the author of three previously published collections of poetry: Ground, Wind, This Body (UNM Press, 2017) and, We Are Meant to Carry Water (3: A Taos Press), a collaboration with 2 other NM poets. A Guide to Tongue Tie Surgery was published in August, 2023. Her chapbook, Obsidian is due out in 2024 by Dancing Girl Press. WILL BARNES author of THE ARTEMISIA Will Barnes, botanist and poet, transports us into a green field of mythic love, bending the story of Artemis and Actaeon to write, in exquisite poems, a correspondence risked, joined and lost. Within this liminal space of impossible love, the poet emerges to take his place in the world. Will Barnes was raised in Colorado and has lived in New Mexico for 25 years. He is an attorney, botanist, and teacher and currently works for the New Mexico State Land Office in Santa Fe. He spent ten years as a field botanist for the Valles Caldera National Preserve, has taught middle school science and language arts, and now supervises the wildlife biologist, forester, and archaeologist for the Land Office. In 1998 and 1999, while studying for his Masters degree in Biology, Will was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize for poetry at the University of New Mexico. He was selected to perform in the Taos Poetry Festival, the Santa Fe Reading Series, and Artists for Ekphrasis: Sacred Stories of the Southwest in 2014. He received his MFA in poetry from New York University in May, 2015. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Julia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7e615603-a34a-475a-83c1-9f1d7342c192/+++++FRAME+2024+DEC+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c212f090-d6fd-47c5-ad85-39b6ee4d0c90/NOUF-WWW-02.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Opening Reception March 21st 2024 7-9:00pm Nouf Aljowaysir in person https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/27c19ea5-792c-4ede-84d6-bb5c693f8214/MARISSA+WWW-02.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out As part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery East Window is honored to present Artist Talk with Marissa Nicole Stewart Friday, February 9th 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm The history that comes from being an African American in the United States follows each generation as a collective whole. You cannot separate the individual from the history, nor the history from the individual.Uniquely, African Americans are forced to wear their history on their skin, because of this it follows them in everything they do, including how they are perceived in society. They are always analyzed and measured to standards that are not their own; they are always required to have resilience in the face of systematic oppression. In photographs I aim to question: Must a black body always stand in the place of a civil movement or a political statement? Will a black body ever be a human body? Will a photograph of a black body be just a photograph of an individual apart from their race? My subjects have their history embedded in their appearance and their stories written in the wrinkles of their skin. I photograph my subjects and use archival photographs of my subjects in a way that invites the viewer in and makes them want to get to know the individuals within the photographs. Within further exploration I have focused on the female members of my family to narrow in on lineage, motherhood and worth gained from creating a home . This research bloomed ideas around oral history, family albums, voids within family trees, storytelling, and the black woman historical experience. Navigating through identity and understanding the process to keep a family history intact when the systems it exists within are designed to keep it apart. Marissa Stewart was born and raised in Toledo, OH and is currently 29 years old. She is based in Columbus, OH and her practice is surrounded on the ideas of black families, matriarchal lineage, race and oral history. Her work is born from a want to engage her audience in questioning their way of thinking by creating work that forces quiet contemplation and active reflection into one's self. To explore the voids that take root in these ideas and to experiment with storytelling. She uses traditional photographic techniques -black and white film, darkroom processes, and gelatin silver paper as well as, archival photographs, and color film. Stewart completed her BFA in Photography from Bowling Green State University in May 2018. She received her MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Ohio University in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/9bd74167-d57d-42b6-9800-e823094bc5ed/DENEISHIA-SML-www.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/93ab8e16-5321-44f8-b1f5-73abfdacf156/NOUF+TALK+WWW-RS.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1ca97f79-b3f4-498a-8504-a56904b3a75d/LIKE+A+DOG+WWW+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out MAY 17th 2024 LIKE A DOG Lauren Samblanet Book Launch With readings by Lauren Samblanet, Hillary Leftwich, Ashley Howell Bunn, Violet Mitchell 7-9:00 PM FREE Taking its cues from the New Narrative writing movement, like a dog considers how sexual identity is morphed, hidden, and denied by cultural forces like film, pornography, rape culture, and sexual semiotics. The speaker of like a dog, writes about her sexuality, sexual trauma, and relationships in the epistolary form to explore how the personal becomes collective and how overt sexuality is necessary for questioning dominant ideologies. The intimacy (or perhaps voyeurism) that is opened through the epistolary form is balanced with film analysis, focusing on the films of Lars von Trier, as a way to move away from the speaker’s experiences and into the social forces that seek to define us. Amidst these letters are images from a handwritten journal where blood, hair, vaginal fluids, and bodily residues are used to direct the shape and content of the writing surrounding them. The tactility of the journal delivers the reader to the body, not as an intellectualized object, but rather as the physical, messy, oozing force that it is. Not nonfiction or fiction, in between gossip and scholarly film analysis, like a dog exists in a liminal place. This liminal zone offers the speaker a site to rip away the layers of cultural conditioning surrounding sexuality and relationships, and to peek at what lies beneath. This interrogation of identity may not lead to answers but the speaker of like a dog is able to finally hear her own voice and to begin the work of rebuilding an identity that is bloomed from within. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/1639414986349-AITLFW1L0GM0MJS3QQTN/JEREMY-WWW-00.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out November 1st 2024 - February 28 2025 (Window) Nothing Happened Here Photography by Jeremy Dennis Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock Indian Nation, Southampton, NY.) His series Nothing Happened Here, explores the violence/non-violence of post-colonial Native American psychology. Reflecting upon his own experience and observations in his community, the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton, New York, specifically the burden of the loss of culture through assimilation, omission of his history in school curriculum, and loss of land and economic disadvantage. This series illustrates the shared damaged enthusiasm of living on indigenous lands without rectification. The artist states, “The arrows in each image act as a symbol of everlasting indigenous presence in each scene. The images may be as compelling if the subjects were of indigenous descent, but the decision to use non-native subjects reveals a shared burden. The question remains of how to overcome this troubled past.” Dennis was one of 10 recipients of a 2016 Dreamstarter Grant from the national non-profit organization Running Strong for American Indian Youth. He has received the Creative Bursar Award from Getty Images in 2018 to continue his series Stories—Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams and Myths. His artist residencies include: Yaddo (2019), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (2017), North Mountain Residency, Shanghai, WV (2018), MDOC Storytellers’ Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY (2018). Eyes on Main Street Residency & Festival, Wilson, NC (2018), Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (2017) and the Vermont Studio Center hosted by the Harpo Foundation (2016). He has been part of numerous group and solo exhibitions. Jeremy currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/977311f3-0441-43ca-a17b-b4e38f20da4e/WWW-MG%26G.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out August 9th 2024 - September 20th 2024 Opening Reception / Performance August 9th 6-9pm XOXO: PERFORMANCE, LOVE & AFFECTION Curated by MG Bernard and Genevieve Waller Performance work by Su Kaiden Cho, Venus Cruz, Steven Frost, Kalyn Heffernan, David Mramor, Natalie Sharp, MG Bernard, Genevieve Waller As the Trinidadian-German singer Haddaway asks in his hit dance single, “What Is Love?,” artist-curators Genevieve Waller and MG Bernard complicate what is “right” and what is “wrong” about love via an exhibition of eight artists titled XOXO: Performance, Love, and Affection. They posit that love is a journey of radical self-actualization and argue that the medium of performance art is uniquely suited to speak love to power. Through the intentional artifice of performance, the artists in this exhibition reveal their greatest truths. They turn the tables on constructs of ableism, gender, organized religion, and sexuality while expressing what it means to be yourself and radically love yourself as an individual within the context of the United States. XOXO is a love letter to the artists, viewers, and all humans who want to be embraced as their most revolutionary and celebratory selves, and are embraced for who they are outside of normative hierarchies. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/8cf3c506-6f91-43b7-b23b-83e66cf72436/smut+verse-+WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out September 27th 2024 SMUT-Verse: Open Mic 7-9pm East Window 4550 Broadway Ste. C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 Curated by Aimee Herman Co-sponsored by Rocky Mountain Equality (formerly Out Boulder) SMUT Verse is a night celebrating sexy words and stories. Come to be turned on, or step to the mic and share some of your words at the open mic! This evening will feature three Colorado poets: Cortney Collins, Eli Whittington, and Mahogany Imani. Join us for an evening meant to leave your workday and to-do list behind, let go and celebrate some smut. This event is FREE. 18+. Aimee Herman is a gay, nonbinary writer and educator. They currently host several monthly series throughout Boulder including And Now: Featuring...Variety Show and Queer Art Organics Open Mic. Their erotica has been published in "Nice Girls, Naughty Sex", "Me and My Boi: Queer Erotic Stories", "Best Mammoth Book of Erotica 11", among many other anthologies. Aimee is the author of two books of poems and the novel, "Everything Grows". They are turned on by public libraries, garage sales and postal workers. Cortney Collins lives on the Front Range on Colorado with her two beloved feline companions. She is the founder of the pandemic-era-virtual open mic, Zoem, which produced an anthology of its poets' work, Magpies: a Zoem Anthology, of which she is co-editor. Her work has been published by South Broadway Press, 24hr Neon Mag, Amethyst Magazine, Shelia-na-Gig, Back Patio Press, and others. Cortney considers herself a poet secondarily; her first calling is encouraging others' beautiful words in community. Eli Whittington is a Colorado poet, parent and singer-songwriter "who isn't afraid to get some teeth dirty". Their debut poetry book, Treat Me Like You Treat the Earth was published in 2019 by Suspect Press. They have had essays and poems published in Stain'd Magazine, South Broadway Ghost Society, Spit Poet Zine and Punch Drunk Press. They are a frequent collaborator with Black Market Translation and with anyone else who wants to put music to spoken word. They recently self-published a chapbook, Confessions from the Brink of Ecocid. Mahogany Imani, your friendly neighborhood slutty slam poet is so excited to have y'all here! Imani's work can be described as a "celebratory self-expose," as one will never get anything other than authentic originality from their poetic works. Imani encourages active participation in their readings, so sit back, relax, and let's have fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a6a2af51-e264-4596-80fb-aed6091eacfb/PANEL+WWW+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out As part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery East Window is honored to present Panel discussion with Rupert Jenkins, Roddy MacIness, Sherry Wiggins, Amy DelPo and Anne Walker Friday, February 23rd 2024 7:00 - 9:00 pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/28948a71-ed29-488a-a78d-da15858e3f58/WWW-BBCB.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out August 27th, 2024 7:00-9:00pm BANNED BOOK CLUB BOULDER #1 / OPEN HOUSE Please join us at East Window for the launch of our Banned Book Club Boulder (BBCB) / Open House East Window 4550 Broadway Ste. C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 If you haven't already enrolled for the BBCB inaugural meeting, not to worry. There is an Open House planned for the same evening, which is open to everyone. So join us for this event and bring a friend! Our Open House event offers one last chance for you to get in on the newest, most exciting book club in Boulder. Enrollment in the BBCB is FREE! For August’s meeting BBCB community members voted to discuss: The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan. Banned Book Club Boulder/ Open House August 27th, 2024 from 7:00-9:00pm at East Window 4550 Broadway Ste. C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304 For more information: info@eastwindow.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/069a2d9e-9733-4904-b71b-b1b9c4bd2c13/PATIO-WWW.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out June 7th - September 27th 2024 Patio Gallery Grand Opening Featuring Works by Lisa Berley Opening Reception: June 7th 7 - 9:00pm FREE East Window is delighted to announce the opening of our new outdoor patio gallery on June 7th 2024! In addition to our indoor main gallery, window gallery and bathroom gallery, visitors can now view even more compelling artworks 24 hours a day /7 days per week. For this inaugural exhibit we are honored to present works by Lisa Berley. Excerpts from her poems finding Nefesh: A Collage of Loss In loving memory of the artist’s son Aaron. Lisa Berley visual artist and poet, works at the intersection of art and media. Berley began her pioneering work as an artist for Aurora Systems, developing one of the first computer graphics and animation systems for television. Lisa raised a family, wrote a blog, and exhibited mixed media/collage works in galleries across Long Island culminating in a one-woman show in Geneseo, New York. In 2016 Berley moved to Boulder, Colorado and after her son's accidental death from a fall, began using methods similar to her collage paintings to create hybrid erasure poetry/collage. Her nonlinear approach to poetry/collage, redacting found words to create new reductive fragments, mirrors her journey of profound grief. Unlost Journal Issue 17: “The Thing”, “Sweet Sorrow”, “Home Again”, and “Their Earth”. Inverted Syntax Issue 3: “The selves looking”, “The Dream The Dream”, and “How It Changed”. Inverted Syntax Issue 4: “truths”, “HE AT ONCE LET GO”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/00476d33-6d9f-412c-b87f-4943b32f7867/ANNE-WALKER-www-01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out Photography Niko Laurita - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/4af6a3a0-cb5c-4e28-a90e-7754921c3112/FIRE+THRU+DRY+GRASS.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out JULY 25th 2024 Fire Through Dry Grass A film by Andres Jay Molina and Alexis Neophytides Screening 7-9:00 PM FREE Fire Through Dry Grass uncovers in real-time the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Co-Directors Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina take viewers inside Coler, on Roosevelt Island, where Jay lives with his fellow Reality Poets, a group of mostly gun violence survivors. Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, Jay and the other Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. They used to travel around the city sharing their art and hard-earned wisdom with youth. Now, using GoPros clamped to their wheelchairs, they document their harrowing experiences on “lock down.” Covid-positive patients are moved into their bedrooms; nurses fashion PPE out of garbage bags; refrigerated-trailer morgues hum outside residents’ windows. All the while public officials deny the suffering and dying behind Coler’s brick walls. The Reality Poets’ rhymes flow throughout the film, underscoring their feelings that their home is now as dangerous as the streets they once ran and—as summer turns to fall turns to winter—that they’re prisoners without a release date. But instead of history repeating itself on this tiny island with a dark history of institutional neglect and abandonment, Fire Through Dry Grass shows these disabled Black and brown artists refusing to be abused, confined, erased. - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c4b9360d-8b9f-481e-bde6-4dcfc94c0c0b/NOUF-WWW-03.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out March 21st - July 27th 2024 SALAF (Ancestor) Photography / Installation by Nouf Aljowaysir A series of visual portraits symbolizing the limitations and failures of artificial intelligence in reconstructing and interpreting the artist's identity. In the summer of 2020, Nouf Aljowaysir began exploring her genealogical journey through a personal and an Al lens. She interviewed family members and began following the migrational patterns of her ancestors across Arabia and Mesopotamia spanning five generations. While researching and collecting digital archives relevant to her family's stories, Aljowaysir discovered that the only visual records lacked indigenous self-expression, and emanated from a British Empire that purposefully crafted the East (ie, the "Orient" or "Other") to be exploited and controlled. As Aljowaysir tested these images with computer vision Al models, this process revealed "failures" manifested as mislabeling, generalizations, and stereotypes. They failed to recognize the majority of veiled women as women. They haphazardly tagged several bedouin images with modern-day warfare labels such as "soldier, "army," and "military uniform," confidently asserting high confidence values in their evaluations. These "failures" uncovered not only the prejudice systemically-embedded within commercial Al tools, but the broader problematic results that arise from using a historical training dataset that lacks an understanding of "Middle Eastern" imagery. Salaf symbolizes the artist's frustrations with the Western colonial gaze and the lack of native localized self-expression. Aljowaysir deliberately erased the oriental stereotypical figures from her datasets, using an Al segmentation. technique called U-2 Net, and trained an Al on this absent dataset. These deliberate reversals of technology's functions symbolize the erasure of her ancestors' collective memory while confronting Al's reduction of history and identity. – Nouf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/c9fc3392-2aa6-40c2-830e-56b8757f0d5f/JESSE+WWW+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out March 1st - June 22nd 2024 (Window) Are You OK? A Trans Survival Project Photography by Jesse Freidin Boulder Weekly Article by Jezy J. Gray For the past few years I’ve been terrified not just for myself and my queer community, but for the innocent and sweet young people who are the most directly affected by our nation’s incredibly dangerous anti-trans legislation. It has felt like a fire slowly burning underground for decades, and now the fire is here and it wants the destruction of innocent lives. I started ‘Are You OK?’ as a response to the fear and anger these bills awoke in me, as a way to pass the microphone to the kids and families who find empowerment in sharing their stories, and more importantly as a visual remedy to trans stigmatization. People who live through trauma and pain cannot be photographed like everybody else. They must be elevated, they must be allowed to take up space. Through this series I created the kind of trans portrait that I wanted to see - that of a person standing in their power, their support networks flanking them, unconditional love filling the frame and a brief moment where the sitter can breathe without fear of violence and without the burden of stigma. It’s a fictional space, but it is also healing. Not every trans child is fortunate enough to have such deep support, and not every trans child has the financial privilege to access affirming healthcare, or a safe place to live, food to eat and life free of violence or oppression. This series is about those that do, in hopes that the love they receive may spill over to those that need it most. Before each portrait I do a short meditation exercise with each participant where we close our eyes, breathe into our most empowered selves, and show up together for a moment of self-actualization. In the past three years I have archived the first hand accounts of over 150 trans/non-binary youth from over half the states in the country. Are You OK? documents the experiences and stories of trans and non-binary youth living in the United States during this time of horrific anti-trans legislation. Flanked by their supportive families, these outspoken and deeply loved youth present their strength to the world in a revolt against the country’s attempt to erase them. —Jesse Freidin - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/9fd5cf3a-12fe-45a8-8207-0443faa6fa5c/1000007680.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out October 4th - December 31st 2024 PHONES COLIN RADCLIFFE Patio Gallery Colin Radcliffe’s work is confessional and autobiographical; focusing on his experiences of love, sex, connection and intimacy in the context of both queer digital and physical encounters and the pursuit of relationships obstructed by a chronically diseased body. His work invites us to rethink intimacy and embrace vulnerability in a landscape of seemingly infinite detachment as well as potential. As we navigate and stumble through two worlds simultaneously, digital and physical, Radcliffe reminds us that in the core of our being, we yearn for authentic encounters. Radcliffe’s work speaks to the radical power of vulnerability, connection, and love. His paintings and photographs are a record and memorial to intimate queer experiences, turning the intangible or ephemeral into something that will far outlive the fleeting emotions they embody; an opportunity to celebrate all the complexities and nuances of contemporary queer relationships. Through his visual queer storytelling, Radcliffe uncovers the potential to reimagine love, intimacy and queerness, transcending the binaries that confine us and embraces the enigma of our shared human experience. “I Can See That You’re Online” Colin Radcliffe © 2019 Ceramic - 0.5 x 2.75 x 4.5 - BACK TO TOP - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/6d41af97-0d08-4ae2-95cb-606f5ea456e3/000000-FOUHY+WWW+01.jpg 2024 - Make it stand out - BACK TO TOP - https://www.eastwindow.net/members-1 daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/a9262847-65a0-4f50-96ca-9d29806aecfa/BCAA+FOOTER+LOGOS.jpg donate - Make it stand out East Window is Fiscally Sponsored by Boulder County Arts Alliance https://www.eastwindow.net/adoptees daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/41056525-3458-4c72-b19d-3e425a9019cd/MARY+S8.jpg adoptees - Make it stand out SISTER MARY NELLE GAGE A compilation of Sister Mary's Super-8 Films https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/cb5a51dc-5d56-4539-b5ee-ab9791caeeda/BABYLIFT-FNAL+01+800PX.jpg adoptees - Make it stand out April 14th 2024 1 - 7:00pm NiCHE EVENT SPACE 4571 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304 Organized by James Holdsworth & Amanda Coslor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/2c2c3252-9f23-4cdd-88b2-87f7c303374f/SECRET+ABILITY-WWW-01.jpg adoptees - Make it stand out DEVAKI MURCH “Secret Ability To Fly” Devaki Murch will be bringing her project “Secret Ability to Fly” to the Orphans of War community. The Secret Ability to Fly brings together the voices of Operation Babylift through letters and notes of gratitude and resilience. It is a personal life story project that has developed as media and technology has grown and evolved over time. The experiences are personal but the story is ours together. I was a 9 month old infant at the time of the C-5A crash. My origins are relatively unknown. As we approach 50 years since the crash and Operation Babylift I would like to share my gratitude to those who have literally touched my life and given me the “secret ability to fly”. This story is not just mine, but all of ours. Over the years I have collected news media, books and documentaries and I have learned there is so much more to all of these stories. As I reach out and connect with others, I find new things out about my own personal story and how we are all intricately entwined. We can connect to the people who held us as infants and whose lifetime dedication enriches all of our lives. I would also like to reach out to those who have lost family, friends, and children that were involved in the efforts of Operation Babylift and express my gratitude and acknowledge their loss. My heart goes out to them. I hope to gather your stories and letters so we can collectively tell our story. -Devaki Murch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/7af6aa28-128c-429a-9c39-f937be695dc9/Screenshot+2024-03-29+at+7.35.57%E2%80%AFPM+copy.jpg adoptees - Make it stand out TUY BUCKNER Tuy Gentry Buckner’s film Wartime Orphan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb7f9aeb179d02117989082/eef8d160-9fb7-4a82-aaaa-28d92a061d7e/STORYCORPS+WWW.jpg adoptees - Make it stand out As part of this event we will be collecting contact info of those directly impacted by Operation Babylift (pre and post), who would like to share their experiences with StoryCorps. 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