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2024 EXHIBITS & EVENTS

AGING BODIES, MYTHS and HEROINES

AGING BODIES - OPENING RECEPTION

***Opening Reception***
*Thursday November 9th 2023*
*7:00 - 9:00 pm*
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AGING BODIES - MITCHELL SQUIRE

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*
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AGING BODIES - BEAUTIFUL BY NIGHT

**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
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AGING BODIES - ERIC NORD

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.
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AGING BODIES - DANIELLE SEEWALKER

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.

AGING BODIES - MARISSA NICOLE STEWART

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.

AGING BODIES - ANNE WALKER

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.

Photography Niko Laurita
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AGING BODIES - Q & A

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*

Photography by Dona Laurita
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KALI SPITZER AT CREATIVE NATIONS

***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.

MARCH - APRIL : ARE YOU OK

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
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NOUF ALJOWAYSIR

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*

**Opening Reception**
March 21st 2024
7-9:00pm
Nouf Aljowaysir in person

This program is funded in part by grants from Boulder Arts Week and ThoughtWorks Arts
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SHINE - FEBRUARY 15TH

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.

APRIL - USAMA ALSHAIBI FILMS

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*

This program is funded in part by a grant from Boulder Arts Week

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FRAME - MARCH 29th

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.
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APRIL 14th ORPHANS OF WAR

**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**

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.

Visit the ORPHANS OF WAR webpage for all the details