Current
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
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
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.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PARTNERING LOCATIONS & PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
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