March 3 - June 28, 2023
As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents:
Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories
Photographs by Kali Spitzer
Opening Reception
March 3rd 2023
7:00 - 9:00pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder Colorado 80304
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.
Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper
Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth
March 22nd 2023
As part of the Month of Photography Festival 2023, East Window presents:
Artist talk - Kali Spitzer in person
March 22nd 2023
7:00pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder Colorado 80304
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.
Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper
Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth
Twanna LaTrice Hill is a writer, actor, director, teaching artist and life-long learner. She is an inner city born and raised, Princeton/Harvard/Regis educated, agnostic, Unitarian-Universalist, Buddhist (lite), tarot reading, disabled, single, straight, 58-year-old, Russian speaking, liberal female survivor who has seen too much & lived much more. Twanna earned a BA from Princeton University in Russian; A MA from Harvard University in Soviet Studies; and a second MA from Regis University in Nonprofit Management Twanna has most recently performed with the PHAMALY Theater Company, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Department of Education, and the Denver Theater of the Oppressed. She published the short story "A Life of Little Consequence" in the critically acclaimed collection Denver Noir and wrote the play Love Multiplied which was produced and performed by the PHAMALY Theater Company in 2022. She is a also a member of Lighthouse Writers Workshop and is currently completing her first memoir What's Done in the Dark. Twanna is a passionate woman who is dedicated to ending violence in all its forms.
Grace Hunt grew up in Houston, TX and currently resides in Longmont, CO where she’s a second-year candidate in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. While her current project centers around the surreality of coming of age in a feminine body and then selling that body in the dizzyingly digital climate of current sex work, other interests and obsessions include the panopticon existence of modern living, multi-media poetics, sex work culture and representation, social media scapes as modern texts, and the blurring of privacy and performance in our day-to-day lives.
Sherri Marilena Pauli lives in Longmont, Colorado, is a librarian and gets to touch books all the time. She writes to listen, to translate, or receive the tongue of the past that is housed in us and this world, as hewed to light and channeled through an entanglement of ancestors whispering the present. Their text is messaging us, as the future pulls the body through the forest, clattering leaves and pages advise her spells in how to make space for something new by learning what needs to be let go.
Steven Dunn, aka Pot Hole (cuz he’s deep in these streets), is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press: Potted Meat (2016) and water & power (2018). Potted Meat was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, shortlisted for Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists, and adapted into a short film, The Usual Route, by Foothills Productions. The Usual Route has played at the LA International Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, and others. He was born and raised in West Virginia and teaches in the MFA programs at Regis University, Cornell College, and Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
Music by 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.
Visual Art by Georgianna Van Gunten
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.
April 20th, 2023
Book Release Party
The Art of Frances Joy Bradbury
Frances Joy Bradbury In Person
7:00-9:00 pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder Colorado 80304
East Window honors visual artist Frances Joy Bradbury with a new publication featuring excerpts of her recent collage works.
Frances Joy Bradbury
As an artist who lived the 1960's in California's Bay Area, Frances Joy Bradbury's art reflects both her and the 60's exuberant expressiveness. A love of ambiguity, experimentation, gestural line and texture can be seen in Joy's shapeshifting images. Dancing with visual and psychological paradox is the backbone of Joy's work. Joy is a self taught artist. She began learning about art by going regularly to art exhibits and discovering that the art she did not like was a powerful teacher in understanding and expressing her own perceptions.
In 1956 Joy celebrated her eleventh birthday watching a gecko fall from a high ceiling into a cocktail glass while she was sitting in a bar at Saigon's Majestic Hotel. A life lived in diverse settings combined with traversing a wide range of experiences, can be seen in Joy's exploration of many disciplines and her eclectic image making.
Joy first exhibited in New Mexico at the Taos Library. In Colorado she's exhibited at Denver Outsider Art, Fort Collins Center for Fine Art Photography, Longmont Firehouse Gallery, Westminster Rodeo Market Community Art Center and Denver Art Students League. Boulder County exhibits include Front Range Community College, Dairy Center for the Arts, Art Parts, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder City Open Spaces & Mountain Parks, Boulder Public Library Maker Made Shows, The Bus Stop Gallery and the Museum of Boulder. Joy has also produced two solo shows at Enriching Elements in 2014 and Rule4 in 2016.
July 7th - August 18th 2023
Unfettered Recognition
Opening Reception
July 7th 2023
7:00-9:00pm
Performance by MG Bernard
July 28th 2023
7:00-9:00pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder Colorado 80304
For disability pride month (July 2023), East Window is honored to collaborate with Alex Stark, artist and guest curator, on Unfettered Recognition, a visual art exhibit featuring disabled artists in Boulder Colorado and throughout the Front Range.
People with disabilities make up the largest, most expansive minoritized group; crossing lines of age, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. Through intimate explorations of disability, identity, and embodiment, Unfettered Recognition celebrates how disabled folks are integral to all communities.
This exhibit is curated and juried by Alex Stark, a disabled, queer artist, curator and founder of Rare Visions Gallery Project, located in Boulder, CO. He is based out of Boulder and Chicago. Alex received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. In Chicago, Stark works as an advisor in the Disability and Learning Resource Center at SAIC and began the Voices Embodied series in which selected works focus on a relationship between disability, the body and identity. Stark has exhibited in Chicago at Roots and Culture Gallery and Carrie Secrist Gallery and in New York City at Chashama Gallery. His work appears in the 2019 School of the Art Institute Biannual Magazine and the 24th issue of Posit, a journal of art and literature. Stark has spoken at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Arts of Life, and Artist Communities Alliance.
Image: © MG Bernard
September 8th - October 6th, 2023
The Silhouette Project: Newcomers
Photographs by Dona Laurita
Opening Reception
September 8th, 2023
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist Talk
September 29th, 2023
7:00 - 9:00 pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder Colorado 80304
Newcomers centers around the stories of high school age refugees. For many of these students, sharing their stories in this project is the first time they have spoken about fleeing their homeland and the trauma of bearing witness to the atrocities committed by the Taliban.
Dona Laurita has exhibited her work in galleries throughout Colorado and beyond for the past 30 years. She was a founding member of the Sliding Door Gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District of Denver, and opened her own Photography Gallery in Louisville, Colorado. Dona has facilitated dozens of Artist-In-Residence programs and workshops over the past twenty years in Colorado schools, children’s hospitals, summer camps and after school programs, working with Think 360 Arts, Young Audiences, the Denver District Attorney’s Office Restitution Project, and the Mizel Museum of Denver. In 2013, she was the co-recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for her project, Stories Matter.
COLORADO DAILY Article (East Window, Andre Ramos-Woodard, Dona Laurita)
(Dates TBA)
Nothing Happened Here
Photography by Jeremy Dennis
Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock Indian Nation, Southampton, NY.) His series 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.
The artist states, “The arrows in each image act as a symbol of everlasting indigenous presence in each scene. The images may be as compelling if the subjects were of indigenous descent, but the decision to use non-native subjects reveals a shared burden. The question remains of how to overcome this troubled past.”
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. His artist residencies include: Yaddo (2019), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (2017), North Mountain Residency, Shanghai, WV (2018), MDOC Storytellers’ Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY (2018). Eyes on Main Street Residency & Festival, Wilson, NC (2018), Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (2017) and the Vermont Studio Center hosted by the Harpo Foundation (2016). He has been part of numerous group and solo exhibitions. Jeremy currently lives and works in Southampton, New York on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.
(Dates TBA)
An Elegance Unknown To Scoundrels
Joseph Tisiga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal and a member of the Kaska Dena First Nation. He maintains a multidisciplinary practice that is rooted in painting and drawing, but also draws from performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. His work reflects upon notions of identity and what contributes to this construct–community, nationality, family, history, location, real and imagined memories. Tisiga’s works look at cultural and social inheritance, the mundane, the metaphysical and the mythological, often all at once and on the same surface. This conflation of interests and perspectives plays itself out in the artist’s narratives, which are distinctly non-linear, cross cultural and supernatural. Tisiga recently held solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art de Joliette (Joliette) and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (East Landing). Other notable exhibitions include those held at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg), MASS MoCA (North Adams), the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, (Santa Fe), and at the West Vancouver Museum (Vancouver). Tisiga’s work is found in institutional collections as well as in numerous private and corporate collections. Tisiga is the recipient of The Yukon Art Prize (2021), the Sobey Art Award (2020), and the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (2017).
Joseph Tisiga - An Elegance Unknown To Scoundrels : 2014 - Watercolor on paper - Courtesy of the artist and Bradley Ertaskiran
(Dates TBA)
Zig Jackson also named Rising Buffalo, is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) and the first Native American photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Jackson’s most recent work in the Native American homeland focuses on his culture and the changing way of life of both urban and reservation Indians, along with the attendant socio-political issues of the “Indian Condition.” Jackson uses photography as a teaching and story-telling device to de-mythologize his own history and to break down the romanticized and racially charged stereotypes of Indians perpetuated in history and the media.
“Commodities (Food Of My People)” © Zig Jackson - Image Courtesy the artist
(Dates TBA)
For Fearless And Other Indians
Shelley Niro is a photographer, painter, sculptor, bead worker, multimedia artist and independent filmmaker. She is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation at Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario.
Niro consistently challenges myths, stereotypes and clichés of Native Americans by presenting work that counters outmoded representations of Indigenous people generated by centuries of colonization. Her work has been shown across Canada, the USA and internationally.
(Dates TBA)
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.