EXHIBITS / EVENTS 2025
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J A N U A R Y
Anna Tsouhlarakis (main)
YOUR REFUSAL TO SEE : A Native Guide Project
Artist Talk • January 23rd 2025 • 7-9:00pm
Anna Tsouhlarakis in person
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.
Exhibit runs November 1st 2024 - February 21st 2025
This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder Arts Commission
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.
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).
This program is funded in part by Boulder Arts Week, Visit Boulder and Create Boulder
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.
F E B R U A R Y
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+. 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.
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.
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
This exhibit is funded in part by the Boulder Arts Commission
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.
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
M A R C H
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.
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
7-9:00pm
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!
Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder
Soloman Chiniquay & Jazmin 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.
Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder
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 photographic documentation of regional outhouses across Virginia.
“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
Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder
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
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, Dana Kavelina, 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.
Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder
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
Max Davies - Guitar and Percussion
March 28th • 7-9:00pm
$5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
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.
Funded in part by Visit Boulder and Create Boulder
A P R I L
Launch Party!
April 4th 2025
7-9pm
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.
Contact: info@eastwindow.org with any questions.
Cover art by James Hosking
Aspects of Touching
April 14-15 2025
7-9pm reception TBD
This pop-up 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
FRAME : Literary Salon
Curated by the Literary Ladies
Toni Oswald & Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
April 25th 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
Amitis Motevalli (main)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel & Jokes on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke
Opening Reception March 1st
7-9:00pm
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
Exhibit runs March 1st- June 20 2025
Soloman Chiniquay & Jazmin 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.
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 photographic documentation of regional outhouses across Virginia.
“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
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
M A Y
Frankie Rollins and Ellen Orleans - Readings
May 2nd 2025 • 7-9:00pm
$5.00 Suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
Author and assemblage artist, Ellen Orleans is also a devotee of carousels and kayaking, waterfalls and waterfowl. She has written seven books, most recently, Inside, The World Is Orange and Mother Blue and the Deep Down Under. Ellen’s work has appeared on NPR’s Hanukkah Lights, has been performed theatrically, and published widely. An outsider (and insider) art enthusiast, Ellen creates assemblages and collages featuring lost, found, and fractured objects. Also, small plastic animals. Her art has been exhibited in Boulder and Denver. Ellen has taught writing and nature journaling in schools, libraries, and along hiking trails. A resident of Wild Sage cohousing, she manages sustainability programs for the City of Boulder and leads seasonal story hikes for toddlers. Ellen believes in multitudes and confluence, internally and in community.
Frankie Rollins a writer. She’s many other things and always a writer. She’s a reader, too. She cares about books. All the books. All the books that need to get written. She cares about writers. All the writers. She cares about art and music. All the artists and musicians. For over twenty years she has been reaching out to her communities to find creative people and empower them. After earning an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, she embarked on a study of writers, the magic of their brains and the obstacles getting in their way. She knows that creative people must access their personalities, knowledge banks, memories, lostness-and-foundness. They must know the dreads, druthers, and dreams within them to make their art and she has developed ways to help them move authentically, confidently, and joyously into their own work. Frankie speaks about creativity through the vessel of writing, because that is her expertise.
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.
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
Amitis Motevalli (main)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel & Jokes on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke
Opening Reception March 1st
7-9:00pm
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
Exhibit runs March 1st- June 20 2025
Soloman Chiniquay & Jazmin 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.
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 photographic documentation of regional outhouses across Virginia.
“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
Apah Benson (patio)
Photographs
May 1st - August 30th 2025
Apah Benson is a photographer, 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.
J U N E
SMUT-Verse: Open Mic
Curated by Aimee Herman
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.
Sonny Lee: Mass Incarceration, 2023, acrylic on wood panel, 12” x 16”
A World Away: Three Artists at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility. (main)
Paintings by Sonny Lee, Mario Rios, Hector Castillo.
Curated by Sarah McKenzie
Opening Reception June 27th 2025
7-9:00pm
Sarah McKenzie — IN PERSON
Panel discussion / Closing reception
Aug 23rd 2025
Time TBD
To See Inside: Art, Architecture, and Incarceration, traveled to the State University of New York (SUNY) Fredonia in 2022 and Museum of Art Fort Collins in 2024. Artist and curator Sarah McKenzie organized the show in partnership with the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative, with support from the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts.
“I have been making paintings for nearly three decades, and—from the beginning—my work has focused on architecture and the built landscape. I am interested in the way that architecture can serve as a lens for understanding our society and the cultural, economic, and political shifts that have shaped it over time. Past series have explored suburban subdivisions, new construction sites, and abandoned homes and factories. What we build tells us a lot about who we are—as a people, as Americans—and about what (and who) we value and prioritize, versus what (and who) we cast aside.”
– Sarah McKenzie
Exhibit runs June 27th - August 29th 2025
Amitis Motevalli (main)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel & Jokes on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke
Opening Reception March 1st
7-9:00pm
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
Exhibit runs March 1st- June 20 2025
Soloman Chiniquay & Jazmin 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.
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 photographic documentation of regional outhouses across Virginia.
“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
Apah Benson (patio)
Photographs
May 1st - August 30th 2025
Apah Benson is a photographer, 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.
J U L Y
A Fish Tank For My Fish, 2023, acrylic on canvas board, 20” x 24”
A World Away: Three Artists at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility (main)
Paintings by Sonny Lee, Mario Rios, Hector Castillo.
Curated by Sarah McKenzie
Sarah McKenzie — IN PERSON
Panel discussion / Closing reception
Aug 23rd 2025
Time TBD
To See Inside: Art, Architecture, and Incarceration traveled to the State University of New York (SUNY) Fredonia in 2022 and Museum of Art Fort Collins in 2024. Artist and curator Sarah McKenzie organized the show in partnership with the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative, with support from the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts.
“I have been making paintings for nearly three decades, and—from the beginning—my work has focused on architecture and the built landscape. I am interested in the way that architecture can serve as a lens for understanding our society and the cultural, economic, and political shifts that have shaped it over time. Past series have explored suburban subdivisions, new construction sites, and abandoned homes and factories. What we build tells us a lot about who we are—as a people, as Americans—and about what (and who) we value and prioritize, versus what (and who) we cast aside.”
– Sarah McKenzie
Exhibit runs June 27th - August 29th 2025
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.
Apah Benson (patio)
Photographs
May 1st - August 30th 2025
Apah Benson is a photographer, 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.
A U G U S T
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
Hector Castillo, Prison Ruins, 2023, acrylic on canvas board, 18” x 24”
A World Away: Three Artists at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility (main)
Paintings by Sonny Lee, Mario Rios, Hector Castillo.
Curated by Sarah McKenzie
Sarah McKenzie — IN PERSON
Panel discussion / Closing reception
Aug 23rd 2025
Time TBD
To See Inside: Art, Architecture, and Incarceration traveled to the State University of New York (SUNY) Fredonia in 2022 and Museum of Art Fort Collins in 2024. Artist and curator Sarah McKenzie organized the show in partnership with the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative, with support from the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts.
“I have been making paintings for nearly three decades, and—from the beginning—my work has focused on architecture and the built landscape. I am interested in the way that architecture can serve as a lens for understanding our society and the cultural, economic, and political shifts that have shaped it over time. Past series have explored suburban subdivisions, new construction sites, and abandoned homes and factories. What we build tells us a lot about who we are—as a people, as Americans—and about what (and who) we value and prioritize, versus what (and who) we cast aside.”
– Sarah McKenzie
Exhibit runs June 27th - August 29th 2025
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.
Apah Benson (patio)
Photographs
May 1st - August 30th 2025
Apah Benson is a photographer, 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.
S E P T E M B E R
SHADOWS GATHER (main)
September 5th - October 31st 2025
Opening Reception September 5th
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.
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.
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.
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.
O C T O B E R
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.
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.
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.
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.
N O V E M B E R
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
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
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
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.
D E C E M B E R
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
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
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
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.
