It would be irresponsible to open a window/art gallery at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and at a critical point in Black Lives, or any other liberation movement, without offering a statement of solidarity and clarifying our commitment to action .

East Window indeed denounces the violence, police brutality and systemic racism against all communities of color, including Black, Indigenous, Asian, people who are Bi, Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, Gender Non-binary, and People with Disabilities and Chronic Illness in the United States and around the world.

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

In acknowledgment of all the individual and collective work that has already been done, is continually being done, and that everyone still needs to do in the struggle against the injustices of systemic White-body supremacy, classism and settler colonialism, this is the solidarity in which we stand.

With much healing, deeper understandings, and perseverance. . .