Upcoming Exhibits
April 1-May 27, 2021
Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a provocative contemporary artist who challenges Western perceptions of Indigenous people, touching on issues of race, history, cultural erasure and stereotypes. Through his work—paintings, murals work, performance art, filmmaking and spoken word—Deal critically examines issues and tells stories of decolonization and appropriation that affect Indian Country. Deal’s activism exists in his art, as well as his participation in political movements.
Deal was included in the National Geographic Society Magazine article “Native Americans are Recasting Views of Indigenous Life.” Deal was Native Arts Artist-in-Residence at Denver Art Museum and Artist-In-Residence at UC Berkeley. His art has been exhibited nationally since 2002. Deal has lectured widely at prominent educational institutions and museums, including Denver Art Museum, Dartmouth College Columbia University, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. His television appearances include PBS’s The Art District, The Daily Show and Totally Biased with Kamau Bell.
east window is honored to host his work. A series of six original paintings will be on view.
Above image from "The Others". Deal states “... a new series that re-appropriates old comic book images from the 40's and 50's of Indigenous characters. The dialog is replaced with lyrics from old Punk songs of the 70's, 80's and 90's that resonate with the scene or the greater Indigenous struggle. Each image has been redrawn, recolored and repurposed to embody aspects of stereotype, identity, historical consideration and the intersection of an aspect of American culture (Punk Rock) that has affected my life and has affected innumerable Indigenous youth through the years. These intersections are meant to illustrate the complexity of Indigenous existence, growing up in America amidst things we love and things we hate. While easily viewable as a series of works and speaks to people regardless of connection it has to specific music and bands, it stands on its own illustrating these Indigenous complexities.”
April 17, 2021
Participate in textile artist Heather D. Schulte's, Stitching the Situation: A Collaborative Memorial Of COVID-19 In The U.S. at east window.
Stitching the Situation is an ongoing and collaborative project, recording diverse individual and community experiences in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic through community cross-stitching gatherings. This project is an extension of Heather’s textile work, Situation Report a daily cross-stitch documentation of the coronavirus case and death counts in the U.S. The Situation Report panels began as the artist’s way to record cases in the US, and translate them visually with stitch. As cases grew, she could not stitch each individual case or death herself, and began hosting in-person stitching sessions with her neighbors. These panels are now traveling to other areas, as it is safe to do so, inviting more people to contribute their hands and time, marking the impact of the virus on our lives, and sharing their own stories of these times with each other. In a time when gathering in person is difficult, the size and scope of the work offers a socially distanced opportunity to come together creatively, while still respecting public health and safety measures.
All materials provided and no experience in cross-stitching is required.
To register for this event : stitchingthesituation@gmail.com
11:00am - 2:00pm
east window
4949 Broadway, Unit 102B,
Boulder, Colorado 880304
For more information about this project visit: www.stitchingthesituation.com
This is an outdoor event
Please wear a mask, Thank you
To register for this event : stitchingthesituation@gmail.com
May 28, 2021
Screening: The Last American Indian on Earth
Running Time: 22 minutes
7pm
A film by Gregg Deal, documenting what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of a stereotype, one that for most is the only authentic expression of what it means to be an Indigenous person of the American continent. This piece is a window into the funny, sarcastic, truthful, and even emotional journey of an artist using himself as an instrument of awareness, exploring questions of Indigenous identity and America’s problematic and often inept relationship with her nation’s First Peoples.
June 1-29, 2021
Hexus is a semi-anonymous, artist-led, performance and curatorial collective seeking, finding and promoting mysticism through visual, performance and sound art. Their work is rooted in alterity theory and concerned especially with intersectional activism encompassing disability, queer folks, cyberfeminism, alliances with BIPOC communities, and anticapitalist analysis. Hexus emphasizes collectivity as a strategy to reveal the importance of care and mutual dependency in resistance to socially dominant ideas about the productive bodymind within patriarchal capitalism.
July 1-August 29, 2021
Decolonizing Sexuality
Photographs by Matika Wilbur
The term ‘Two Spirit’ is a kind of pan-Native term used to describe gender fluidity, a variance from traditional masculine or feminine physicality and performance. It’s also been described as “American Indians who define themselves as embodying both male and female spirits”, a deeper spiritual understanding of the four genders our ancestors recognized before colonization.
Photographed by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip) as a part of her ongoing documentary, Project 562, the portraits in Decolonizing Sexuality make up a small portion of Wilbur’s monumental effort in pursuit of one goal: to change the way we see Native America. Since the founding of Project 562, Matika has visited over 500 sovereign nations across all 50 states, Turtle Island and New Zealand. In journeying the vastness of Indian Country she became increasingly aware of the violence and lack of representation facing Two Spirit peoples. Two Spirit people have always played an important role in Native American communities, and although that role may have been confused or lost through the course of assimilation, we are now seeing a tremendous resurrection and celebration of Two Spirit Culture. We invite you to bear witness to these narratives of resilience, struggle and identity.
September 1-October 29, 2021
The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX)
Photographs by Will Wilson
Wilson (Diné) observes that American culture remains enamored of one particular moment in a photographic exchange between Euro-American and Aboriginal American societies: the decades from 1907 to 1930 when photographer Edward S. Curtis produced “The North American Indian” photographic series. For many people even today, Native people remain frozen in time in Curtis’s romanticised and stereotypical portraits. Wilson’s CIPX project intends to challenge the documentary mission of Curtis from the standpoint of a 21st century indigenous, trans-customary, cultural practitioner, supplanting Curtis’s Settler gaze and the old paradigm of assimilation with a re-imagined vision of the complex identities of contemporary Native people.
Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, and was awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin College, and the University of Arizona. He managed the National Vision Project, a Ford Foundation funded initiative at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and helped to coordinate the New Mexico Arts Temporary Installations Made for the Environment (TIME) program on the Navajo Nation. Wilson is part of the Science and Arts Research Collaborative (SARC) which brings together artists interested in using science and technology in their practice with collaborators from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia Labs as part of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, 2012 (ISEA). Recently, Wilson completed an exhibition and artist residency at the Denver Art Museum and is currently the King Fellow artist in residence at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM.
December 1, 2021 - January 5, 2022
THE SILHOUETTE PROJECT
Stories of Cancer Through the Lens of Love
Photographer Dona Laurita’s third incarnation of The Silhouette Project tells the stories of young people’s experiences fighting, surviving, and living with cancer, drawing attention to the underrepresented AYA (adolescent and young adult) cancer community. Through silhouetted images colored by text taken from spoken interviews, The Silhouette Project tells the stories that make these journeys unique and illuminate the aspects that unite the AYA community.
Date TBA, 2021
SOLDADERA and Other Films by Nao Bustamante
Nao Bustamante's bullet-proof gown, "Tierra y Libertad - Kevlar® 2945," offers us a metaphorical shield for surviving a world that feels like it is perpetually at war. When she first began to entertain the idea of making a dress that would protect its wearer from harm, she came across a photographic portrait of a battalion of women who fought in the Mexican Revolution. This apparently incongruous image of armed women dressed in Edwardian gowns inspired the artist to center her exploration of the art of "personal protection" on the figure of the soldadera, the Mexican revolutionary woman fighter.
Date TBA, 2021
Art of Trans Liberation
Micah Bazant is a visual artist who works with social justice movements to reimagine the world. They create art inspired by struggles to decolonize ourselves from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and the gender binary. They make art as a practice of love and solidarity with trans liberation and racial justice movements to build power. The ongoing process of developing ethical models for collaboration with grassroots community organizations is a large part of Micah’s work.
Micah’s projects include their 1999 zine Timtum, the Trans Day of Resilience art project, the Trans Life + Liberation Art Series and Miklat Miklat. Micah has served as Artist in Residence at Forward Together, an Advisory Board member of Sins Invalid, and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Artist Council.
Micah is a white trans, anti-zionist jewish timtum (one of six ancient jewish gender categories). They live in Ohlone territory and also loves growing food, learning the secret histories of plants, and admiring caterpillars.
Date TBA, 2021
Aurora’s poem V’AHAVTA is a joyous and radical imagining of a liturgy that is rooted in global diasporic Jewish cultures, fully integrating Jews of Color, Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews into the center of Jewish practice, not the margins. The author richly blends the depth of meaning we find in words repeated for thousands of years with the spiritual, moral and political needs of this moment.
Date TBA, 2021
LEFT BEHIND / FAR AWAY exhibits selections from two series of photographs by multimedia artist Tara Trudell, dealing with conflicts at the border between Mexico and the USA. Tara wrote poems to address these troubling issues, rolled the poems into paper beads, and planted the beads along the Mexico / US border. Each bead becomes a prayer honoring the countless persons who, in attempting to journey northward, have been dispossessed, incarcerated, and separated from their families.