East Window is located on ancestral lands of the Hinono'eino (Arapahoe), Tsis tsis'tas (Cheyenne), Nuuchu (Ute) and the many other tribes who have traveled through this territory.

We donate $25 each month from our membership fees to The Native American Rights Fund as an admittedly small but necessary step toward reparations for the historic and ongoing injustices committed against these and other Native peoples.

We challenge the popular use of “recognition” and “representation” as methods of organizing difference and identity. We question the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment—for the land, its people, or otherwise. 

Therefore, our curatorial efforts work to revalue, reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices based on self-recognition, self-representation and self-acknowledgment, rather than seeking appreciation from the very agents of colonialism.

East Window denounces violence, police brutality and systemic racism against all communities.

To be clear, we offer our solidarity through our curatorial choices, through facilitating critical thought and action within our own communities about revised and erased cultural histories, and through our commitment to teach our children to combat racist, sexist, homophobic, and ableist systems and attitudes, on a daily basis, and in every facet of our lives.

With much healing, deeper understanding, and perseverance.