2023 EXHIBITS & EVENTS
2023
JOYSOME + MITCHELL SQUIRE - ARTIST TALK + OCCUPIED + FRAME (DECEMBER) + FRAME (NOVEMBER) + ELEPHANT CIRCLE + ZIG JACKSON + JADE LASCELLES + DONA LAURITA / NEWCOMERS + HEATHER SCHULTE + FRAME (OCTOBER) + MARCH FORTH + MICAH BAZANT + J. BENJAMIN BURNEY + FRAME (SEPTEMBER) + BATMANJESUS + KEVIN HOTH + LIVID + UNFETTERED RECOGNITION + FRAME (AUGUST) + DARIA + NO LAND & GUESTS + KALI SPITZER + SUE COE + JOYSOME + YVENS ALEX SAINTIL + LEGENDS OF DRAG + FRAME (JANUARY) + FRAME (MARCH) + FRAME (APRIL) + FRAME (MAY) + FRAME (JUNE) + ART OF JOY + AFTER LOSS + UNRAVELING TENSION + SPOKEN EVOCATION + AGING BODIES, MYTHS & HEROINES + KALI SPITZER - CREATIVE NATIONS
KALI SPITZER EXHIBIT
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.
Rocky Mountain PBS Video Interview by Lindsey Ford
Out Front Magazine Article by Charlotte Piper
Lenscratch Article by Kellye Eisworth
KALI SPITZER ARTIST TALK
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
JOYSOME
We are overjoyed that this exhibit has found a new home at Children’s Hospital Colorado!
Opening Reception:
March 9th from 5-8pm
Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut Street
Boulder Colorado 80302
Exhibit Dates: March 1 - 31, 2023
East Window has partnered with The Dairy Arts Center during Month of Photography to bring you JOYSOME.
JOYSOME consists of fifty images selected from over three hundred responses from around the world to a call for work on the theme of joy. Submitted by artists and non-artists alike, the works in this exhibit span a range of disciplines and affective registers associated with joy— Ecstasy, Transcendence, Sadness, The Fear of Joy, Anger, Mania, Euphoria, Toxic Positivity, The American Dream, The Pursuit of Happiness, Masochism, Selflessness, Success, Sacrifice, Divination, Cuteness, The Sublime, Altruism, and Peace. The selected images are printed on flags and exhibited throughout Boulder Colorado as part of the Month of Photography Festival - March 2023.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PARTNERING LOCATIONS & PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
SUE COE
March 3 - June 28, 2023
Sue Coe painter and printmaker, has worked at the juncture of art and social activism to expose injustices and abuses of power, since the 1970s. Thinking of herself as an activist first and artist second, Sue has trained her gaze on a wide variety of ills, translating such diverse topics as the perils of apartheid, the life of Malcolm X, and the horror that is the American meat industry into searing social-political artworks, exhibitions and books.
Coe has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The Progressive, Art News, The Nation, among countless others. Her works are part of numerous museum collections and exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1. Coe was awarded the prestigious Dickinson College Arts Award in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and most recently the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award by The Southern Graphics Council in Atlanta, Georgia.
We’re honored to once again host Sue Coe’s work in our exhibit window this month.
"We Will Never Go Back" - © Sue Coe - Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne
FRAME (APRIL)
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.
FRANCES JOY BRADBURY - BOOK RELEASE
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.
Photos by Niko Laurita
AFTER LOSS
After Loss : An Evening of Poetry and Reflections on Grief
April 21, 2023
7-9pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
Free no RSVP required
As a community we have navigated the pandemic over the last few years, experiencing social isolation along with illness and in some cases loss of loved ones and not least of all existential threats to the survival of our planet. Interwoven in all of this is the experience of individual and collective grief. Sharing our grief can be a way of healing ourselves and our community.
East Window is honored to host poets Lisa Berley, Diane Alters, Ashley Bunn, Alexander Shalom Joseph and André O. Hoilette. Each will be reading their works about loss and grief.
Above Image courtesy Lisa Berley
Lisa Berley visual artist and poet, began her career as art director at KQED TV in San Francisco after receiving a BFA in painting and photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. At the intersection of art and media Berley began her pioneering work as an artist for Aurora Systems, developing one of the first computer graphics and animation systems for television. After returning to New York she raised a family, wrote a blog, and exhibited mixed media/collage works in galleries across Long Island culminating in a one-woman show in Geneseo, New York. In 2016 Berley moved to Boulder, Colorado and after her sons accidental death from a fall, began using methods similar to her collage paintings to create hybrid erasure poetry/collage. Her nonlinear approach to poetry/collage, redacting found words to create new reductive fragments, mirrors her journey of profound grief. Unlost Journal Issue 17: “The Thing”, “Sweet Sorrow”, “Home Again”, and “Their Earth” Inverted Syntax Issue 3: “The selves looking”, “The Dream The Dream”, and “How It Changed”Inverted Syntax Issue 4: “truths”, “HE AT ONCE LET GO”
Diane Alters is a former journalist and lecturer at Colorado College who turned to poetry after her son, Armando Alters Montaño, died in Mexico City in 2012. She studied poetry at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver with Andrea Rexilius, among others. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, The New York Quarterly, Pilgrimage Magazine, and the anthology An Uncertain Age. Her chapbook, Breath, Suspended (Finishing Line Press), was published this spring. www.finishinglinepress.com
Ashley Howell Bunn completed her MFA in poetry through Regis University and holds a MA in Literature from Northwestern University. She is on the editorial staff for the literary journal, Inverted Syntax, and writes a monthly Yoga, Tarot, and Astrology column for Writual. Her work has previously appeared in The Colorado Sun, South Broadway Ghost Society, Global Poemic, Twenty Bellows, patchwork litmag, Mulberry Literary and others. She is a certified and experienced yoga guide trained in a variety of styles including Yoga Nidra and restorative yoga. Her first chapbook, in coming light, was published in 2022 by Middle Creek Publishing. She lives in Denver, CO with her child where she practices yoga and runs in the sunshine. www.howellandheal.com
Alexander Shalom Joseph It's said in the Talmud that there are three ways to live a just life: study, prayer and acts of loving kindness-Alexander Shalom Joseph thinks of his writing and work as a teacher as a mix of all three. His latest novella, The last of the light, is forthcoming from Orison Books in spring of 2023. His debut book of poetry Our Mother, The Mountain was published by middle creek press in spring of 2022. His debut book of short stories, American Wasteland, was published by Owl Canyon Press in August of 2021. His stories and poems have been widely published online and in print. He has an MFA in Creative writing and an MA in English Education. Alexander works as a carpenter and lives in a cabin in Gilpin, Colorado. www.alexandershalomjoseph.com
André O. Hoilette is a Jamaican-born poet. He is a Cave Canem alumnus and the former editor of ambulant: A Journal of Poetry & Art and former assistant editor of Nexus Magazine. He earned an MFA in Poetry and Fiction from Regis University’s Mile-High MFA program. 2021 Finalist Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize, 2021 Semi-finalist Cave Canem Book Prize. Previous publication in Stand Our Ground, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Black Powerful, Infinite Constellations and Cave Canem 10-Year Reader anthologies and journals: Inverted Syntax, Cultural Weekly, Rigorous, milk magazine, Nexus magazine, South Broadway Press and Burrow Press
Photos by Niko Laurita
UNRAVELING TENSION
April 27th 2023
7:00pm - 9:00pm
UNRAVELING TENSION
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
Free no RSVP required
East Window is delighted to host UNRAVELING TENSION, the culminating class project by undergraduate students participating in Ginger Knowlton's Writing In the Visual Arts class at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
UNRAVELING TENSION aims to bring collective healing to audiences through the form of textile arts, shared reverence and remembrance. These student artists have been touched by how knitting in class, in the face of multiple threats of gun violence in our community this semester, has allowed them to open up to and become vulnerable with one another. Viewers will be invited to write and attach anonymous notes to a length of knitting completed by the CU Boulder students in response to the issues brought forth by each student’s work. Students will also show an assemblage of images of the healing (and protest) potential of knitting in community.
Participating students include Alexis Dover, Allie Eng, Zohreh Haycock, Colleen Lilley, Elena Maganini, Ian Rodriguez, Dora-Jane Ryan, Brooke Schlundt, Rasai Trammell, Humberto Espiridion Valdivia, Jawad Yassin
Photography: Niko Laurita
FRAME (MAY)
The Literary Ladies In Collaboration With East Window Present:
F R A M E
Friday’s Revolutionary Address to the Moon in Ephemeral Editions
May 5th 2023
7-9 pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
Free no RSVP required
Jay Halsey’s poems and prose have been published in several online and print journals and nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. His photography has been used as cover art for poetry collections and novels, featured in fundraising campaigns for the Rocky Mountain Land Library in Fairplay, Colorado, and was part of a touring exhibit featured at libraries and bookstores throughout France to represent Editions Gallmeister's American authors. His photography and multi-form collection Barely Half in an Awkward Line was published by Really Serious Literature in the fall of 2022. A second expanded edition is forthcoming from Agape Editions’ Haunted Doll House imprint in the fall of 2023. He was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio and has lived on the Colorado Front Range for the past sixteen years. He’s worked as a champion for those worse off than he, explored and recorded desolate places absent of people, written of anger and love, and sought a peace that may or may not exist.
Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press, 2019 and Agape Editions, 2023 new edition), and Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), one of Buzz Feed News’s “17 Recent and Upcoming Books from Indie Publishers You Need to Read," also considered for the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. She has published or has work forthcoming in The Sun, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Rumpus, Big Other, and other publications and has written reviews for High Country News, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She received an MFA in creative writing from Regis University’s Mile High MFA. She teaches creative writing at The University of Denver, Colorado College, Unity College, Lighthouse Writers, and Lighthouse Youth and teaches Tarot and Tarot writing workshops focusing on strengthening divination abilities and writing.
Claire Corina Stevens was born and raised in Texas, and though they haven’t lived in the state in nearly a decade, it’s a place their writing continues to return to. For now, they live in an apartment in a Denver suburb with their partner and four cats and dream about visiting every Colorado ghost town someday.
Heather Goodrich is a prose writer in Colorado. She is the publisher and editor of Gesture Press, a feminist press that publishes work that doesn’t bind itself with labels. Her prose appears in The Filaments of Heather (Sad Spell Press, 2015), Shame Radiant (book & art exhibit, 2021), A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park (Wolverine Farm, 2012), among others. She lives on the Front Range with her partner, Craig, and their husky, Fiona. Heather is currently working on a novel about a girl growing up in a new religious moment who seeks nirvana and love.
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 Story Fisher
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.
SPOKEN EVOCATION
SPOKEN EVOCATION : An East Window Poetry Event
May 26th 2023
7-9 pm
Read the article on J.Benjamin Burney in Out Front Magazine HERE
A night of spoken word poetry from four talented Boulder/ Denver Community poets, Ashia Ajani, Kika Dorsey, Riley Bartlett and J. Benjamin Burney. Each poet comes from diverse backgrounds, conveying memory and feeling through their art. Featured poet is J. Benjamin Burney, who recently released a book of his poems and short stories Poems Can Fly.
Ashia Ajani is an award winning environmental storyteller and educator hailing from Denver. CO, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapahoe peoples. Ajani is a UC Berkeley lecturer, a climate justice educator with Mycelium Youth Network and co-poetry editor of The Hopper Literary Magazine. They are a Pushcart Prize nominated post and writer with words in Annos Magazine, Sierra Magazine, Frontier Poetry and World Literature Today, among others. Ajani is a 2022 Just Buffalo Literary Center Poetry Fellow and has received support from Tin House, The Watering Hole and The Chrysalis Institute. Their debut poetry collection, Heirloom is forthcoming April 2023 with Write Bloody Publishing.
J. Benjamin Burney was born in Tulsa, OK. He is currently receiving his master's in Fine Art and Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Benjamin is a poet who specializes in creating immersive installations using performance and mixed media art. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Zoid Art Haus, a design house based in Denver, Colorado that uses storytelling to create experiences, products, and services geared toward making a more inclusive, equitable, and empathetic society. His new book Poems Can Fly will be available at this reading.
Kika Dorsey has been published in numerous journals and books, including The Comstock Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Denver Quarterly, The Columbia Review, Narrative Northeast, MacQueen’s Quinterly, among many others. She has published a chapbook of poetry, Beside Herself (Flutter Press, 2010) and three full-length collections, Rust, Coming Up for Air. (Word Tech Editions, 2016, 2018), and Occupied: Vienna is a Broken Man and Daughter of Hunger (Pinyon Publishing, 2020), winner of the Colorado Authors’ League Award. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle and currently teaches as a lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Riley Bartlett is a nonbinary dancer and writer living in Colorado. They received their MFA in Creative Writing in 2019 from The University of Colorado Boulder and is now a professor at the University. Their writing has been featured in Stoneboat Literary Journal and in several dance performances in the Denver Metro area.
Curated by Emily Berkes East Window's gallery assistant. She is currently a master's student in Art history at CU Boulder focusing on critical museology in Indigenous visual culture of the Americas. She is most passionate about the repatriation of objects as well as designing more ethical and sustainable museum spaces.
FRAME (JUNE)
June 23rd 2023
7 - 9pm
Free
The Literary Ladies & East Window Present
F R A M E
Friday’s Ritual Arouses Mushrooms
& Mysticism in the Eco Poetics
Readings by
Zavi Engles + Nicolas Wesely + Natalie Earnhart + CAConrad
Visual Art by Caitlin Alesandra Pope + Music by Max Davies
Curated by Toni Oswald + Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Zavi Engles is a Korean American poet, writer, and researcher. Her writing has been published in The Rumpus, Chicago Reader, Salon, and elsewhere. Zavi also serves as an editor of Apogee Journal. She grew up in college towns in Georgia, Illinois, and Southern California, and is grateful to call Boulder her current home. Zavi enjoys baking elaborate desserts, cloud gazing and the way prairie dogs wag their tiny tails.
Nicolas Wesely holds an MFA from Colorado State University. he writes poems that pretend to be pigs that roll around in the sty of the absurd and the surreal. he also calls himself a playwright and also a friend and also a fool and also a silly goose. when he is not writing he is gardening in whatever patch of soil he can dig his muddy little grubby little fingers into. he is lucky to have people who love him.
Natalie Earnhart is a queer writer from Southern California currently residing in Denver, CO. She is a co-founder of Tart Parlor, an activist reading and performance series by and for sex workers and dedicated allies. She holds an MFA from Naropa University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Natalie’s work orbits around divination, magic, queerness, and the political body.
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of 9 books, including AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021), which won the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award. They received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Spain and Portugal, and their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales. UK Penguin published two books in 2023, and a new collection of poetry is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2024 titled Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Visit them online at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88
Caitlin Alesandra Pope is an artist living in rural western Colorado with her beloved animals, wolf dog (Nail Bear), and cat (Mr. Boyfriend). Her work spans many mediums, for example: spooky folk songs and choral compositions, tiny movies starring light beams, and drawings of ladies with no heads. She has contributed to projects as an illustrator (Sirens by Toni Oswald, Down in the Water by Sarah Elizabeth Shantz) and self-portrait photographer (The Inevitable by Jade Lascelles), as well as vocal composition and performance for film sync under the moniker Dream Harlowe. Her vocal compositions can be heard in trailers such as The Rook, The Luminaries, The Witcher, The Handmaids Tale, and Love Island (Germany). Her most recent collaborative endeavor was helping to score and perform in a live music performance accompaniment to the first animated film, Prince Achmed, in which she played instruments such as her voice, fairy chimes, percussion, and a bundt pan. She is now turning her attention to developing A Concert for Introverts, building flower altars for a show called Imaginary Altars, and recording her fairy funeral folk album along with a compilation of choral arrangements of Daniel Johnston songs and sea shanteys. She is inspired by big skies, Selkies, the wind (her friend), Transylvanian folk everything, gap teeth, choirs in old churches, stars and silhouettes.
Collage © Toni Oswald 2023
Photography Dona Laurita
NO LAND & GUESTS
Sunday July 2nd 2023
7-9pm
East Window presents
an evening of poetry, film & song
with visual art by No Land and Alexis Myre
with special guests Anne Waldman and Ann Cantelow
This event is free
No RSVP required.
East Window
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
Photography Dona Laurita
UNFETTERED RECOGNITION
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
Important note: MG Bernard's SACRED BODYMIND does integrate full nudity as part of the performance, so please be mindful and use discretion if you are planning on bringing your family or any children under 18.
Closing Reception / Artist Talk & Discussion
August 18th 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
Read the article in OUT FRONT MAGAZINE
Unfettered Recognition - Closing Reception and Panel Discussion
Photography by Dona Laurita
MICAH BAZANT
July 7th - September 29th 2023
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.
D A R I A
July 8th 2023
2pm - 4pm
D A R I A summer magazine launch!
Join East Window in celebrating the new Summer 2023 DARIA art magazine! Pick up a free copy of the new issue, meet the editor and writers, enjoy free drinks, snacks, music, and see East Window’s current exhibitions!
Free
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway Suite C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
D A R I A: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, is the only publication devoted to art writing and criticism focused on the Denver and Front Range visual art scene. DARIA seeks to promote diverse voices and artists while fostering critical dialogue around art. Printed three times per year.
F R A M E (AUGUST)
August 4th 2023
East Window and The Literary Ladies Present
F R A M E
Friday’s Rumination Astonishes The Menagerie In The Effervescent Echolalia
7pm - 9pm
Free
Poems by Jason Masino, Ellen Orleans,
Madeline Seltzer, Carla Campbell
Visual Art by Noah Phillips
Music by Max Davies
Curated by Toni Oswald,
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Jason Masino
Originally from California, Jason Masino received his BA in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Davis, and his MFA in Poetry from Regis University. His work has been published in Cultural Daily, Inverted Syntax, Rigorous, South Florida Poetry Journal, fifth wheel press, and many others. His debut book of poetry -- Sinner's Prayer -- was released in December 2022 by Passengers Press. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Ellen Orleans
Author, assemblage artist, and waterfall enthusiast, Ellen Orleans has written seven books, most recently, Inside, The World Is Orange and Mother Blue & the Deep Down Under. Ellen’s work has appeared on NPR’s Hanukkah Lights, has been performed theatrically, and published widely. Her 1995 novel, The Butches of Madison County, won a Lambda Literary Award and her play, “God, Guilt, and Gefilte Fish,” was produced by Goddess Theatre in CU/Boulder’s Old Main Theater. Her video “O-8: My Visit with a Nuclear Missile” is viewable on youtube. Ellen has taught writing and natural journaling in schools, libraries, and along hiking trails. A resident of Wild Sage co-housing in north Boulder, she manages sustainability programs for the City of Boulder and leads occasional story-time hikes for toddlers. Ellen believes in multitudes and intersections, both personally and in community.
Carla Campbell
Carla started working at CCA in the fall of 2014 as an adjunct instructor, teaching courses in English, ESL, and Advanced Academic Achievement. She also worked as a Writing Studio tutor in the Academic Learning Center and is now SLO NAACP for CCA. Carla also taught at the Community College of Denver and at Johnson and Wales University for two years. She transitioned to full-time in the English Department in the fall of 2020, and teaches English composition, and literature courses. She earned her master’s degree in Creative Writing and Poetics from Naropa University and her bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in African American Studies from Arizona State University. She was a freelance writer for small press magazines such as the AZ Black Pages in Arizona and public relations intern for the City of Phoenix. Host on blog talk radio SHOUT (Sisterhood Holding On Ultimately To truth) Recently received the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Spirit award.
Madeleine Seltzer
Madeleine writes fiction, casts spells, and makes art. She recently received her MFA from the Mile High Program at Regis University. She spent most of her life in Los Angeles and now lives in Lyons, Colorado.
Noah Travis Phillips
Noah is an artist, educator, and scholar (BA, Naropa University, Fine Art and Environmental Studies; MFA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices). They create adaptable and multicentered artworks about a mythic anthropocene and posthuman world by activating appropriation and digital/analog remix and collage strategies, and working with both a personal media archive and open algorithmic systems. Their work incorporates 2D / 3D digital fabrication, videos, installation, performance, and the internet. Phillips is Assistant Professor & FabLab Coordinator at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They have exhibited extensively locally, nationally, internationally, and virtually. They live and work in Boulder, Colorado and can be found online at noahtravisphillips.com.
Max Davies
With nearly 30 years of experience within the music, arts, and film industries as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, instructor and producer, his versatility has been showcased by his work with many artists and musicians including: Junior Burke, John Trudell & KWEST, Toni Oswald, Gasoline Lollipops, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Gregory Allen Isakov, and many others. His music can be found on Spoitfy and Bandcamp, and 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.
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.
Photography by Niko Laurita
L I V I D
August 19th 2023
L I V I D : Concerned Relatives & Bridge Builders - An East Window Spoken Word Feature
7pm - 9pm
Curated by Charlotte Piper
We are uncles, aunties, siblings, and parents all aligned with the same vision: building bridges between humans for the purpose of killing off toxic patterns, belief systems, and breaking generational curses. Bridge builders who also understand the importance of not carrying forward the toxicity and outdated belief systems that are causing division, but transmuting this toxicity into personal revelation and opportunities for expansion.
A chosen family of diverse generations, all genders, demographics, races, and various spiritual/religious beliefs are all coming forward to speak out against the injustices humanity is facing. The common thread amongst us all is a sincere dedication to advancing the human race, protecting the sacredness of the individual, and creating more self-awareness, harmony, and acceptance overall. Using our anger and indignation as fuel for the fire of transmutation, we share our thoughts, stories, words, and intentions on this night as we are all LIVID.
This is an evening of intent, to provide an outlet for concerned relatives and siblings to find creative ways to express their indignance at the current state of affairs in our country, especially when it comes to issues of gun violence in the schools, the insidious anti-LGBTQIA sentiment, hate crimes against minority communities, and the overstepping of religious doctrine when it comes to passing laws based on puritanical principles.
Listen to Veronica Straight-Lingo and curator of LIVID Charlotte Piper on KGNU Radio
Read LIVID A Spoken Word Feature For The Enraged in Out Front Magazine
Performers:
Deneishia LeArtiste (she/her) is a performance artist embracing the storytelling traditions of her ancestry. Answering the call of the Western European bard, the West African Griot, and the Ogallala traditions of teaching through tales, LeArtiste unites our communities by telling our stories. She processes and explores her ancestral experiences through poetry, visual arts, music, and movement.
Lucky Garcia (she/her) is an Indigenous/Chicana Two Spirit writer, performing artist, community organizer, anti-oppression educator and Indigenous Justice advocate. Her storytelling communicates ideas that focus on her experience as an Iraq War veteran, Native American culture, nature, love, politics, and her appreciation for comic books and science fiction. Lucky’s work has been featured at the University of Missouri Latinx Graduate Program, Rhode Island School of Design, UMKC Women of Color Leadership Conference, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Flatland KC, Literary Gay Romance Festival, Prescott College, and on the streets all across America.
Claygo (he/him) Socially conscious with smooth and powerful hip hop artist from Aurora CO, who isn't just another person trying to rap. Claygo has performed on a number of stages throughout Colorado and currently sits on the board for Bodies of Culture, a program sponsored by the Levitt Pavilion Denver. He recently released his LP “Dreamz Turnt Cold” and is a regular fixture at the popular BOC BIPOC Open Mic Nights hosted at the Mercury Cafe Denver.
Cal Duran (he/him): is a queer, Two Spirit, Indigenous, Native, Latinx, Manito, Mestizo, Chicanx, Indian artist, facilitator, and arts educator from Colorado. His origin story is uniquely his own but is reminiscent of the challenges that many Indigenous artists experience when finding their way. With roots that bring together Indian, Mexican, and Indigenous cultures, he channels those who came before him when he creates. Having works displayed in virtually every museum in Colorado, Cal seeks to build bridges between communities through art, storytelling, and community outreach.
Charlotte Piper (she/her): is the owner of Level 11 Content based out of Longmont, CO. A curator and facilitator of LIVID, Charlotte has been working with East Window for the past year as a PR and marketing consultant. Previously a freelance writer for OUT FRONT Magazine, as a content creator, and marketing mastermind, Charlotte seeks to use her voice and platform to bring visibility to marginalized creators and communities across the globe. With an eclectic skillset and openness to collaboration, Charlotte has found herself at the helm of some truly inspiring projects to include working with the Denver Art Museum on Untitled: Artist Takeover in January 2023. Currently, Charlotte is working on a picture book of quotes titled Quotes & Prompts for Adults Who Are Sick of the BS, with the intended release in the fall/winter of 2023.
KEVIN HOTH
August 26th 2023
2:00pm - 7:00pm
East Window will be hosting Kevin Hoth for a one-day exhibit and studio sale. Kevin will be selling framed work, studio prints, and one-of-a-kind small polaroid collages.
Kevin Hoth is an artist, father, and educator based in Boulder, Colorado. He has taught university courses in photography, digital media and graphic design at numerous universities for over twenty years and has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2011. Hoth’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Houston Center for Photography, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia in Barcelona, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Photographic Center Northwest, The Center for Creative Photography, and The Rhode Island Center for Photography. Recent awards include Top 200 Critical Mass 2019, Center For Fine Art Photography Portfolio Showcase 12 and top ten finalist for the 2018 Clarence John Laughlin Award. Hoth received his Masters of Fine Art in Photography at the University of Washington, Seattle with a focus in Digital Video Installation. He lives on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado and regularly gets woken up by coyote howls, owl hoots and horse whinnies.
Kevin is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver, Colorado.
BATMANJESUS
August 31st - September 2nd
BATMANJESUS : Shadows & Salvation
by Jonas Leuenberger
Sept 1st Opening reception
7pm - 9pm
"Intertwined in a captivating fusion, two legendary figures merge. Both epitomizing pop stardom, heroism, and the indomitable spirit of humanity. As the Dark Knight and God's Son unite, a peculiar and surreal persona takes form. Meet the enigmatic and thought-provoking BatmanJesus—a figure that oscillates between humor and absurdity. Through this amalgamation, conversations on representation, identity, and the profound influence of popular culture and imagery on our perception of heroism and faith are sparked. In this extraordinary series of over-paintings, BatmanJesus serves as a commentary on the paradoxical nature of the fair-haired Jesus, concealing the dissonance between historical reality and artistic interpretation beneath a mysterious black mask. The juxtaposition of these iconic symbols invites introspection and prompts us to ponder the complexities of both history and imagination."
—Jonas Leuenberger
Jonas Leuenberger, a native of Bern, Switzerland, is a versatile artist who combines his talents as a musician and visual artist. With a career spanning from the early 2000s, Jonas has delved into various musical genres, collaborating with esteemed artists such as John Trudell, Hawkfather, Lapcat, Baze, and many others. He has also released music under his own moniker, Kwest. His work has been featured in notable independent films like "Off Beat" (2011) and "Les Paradis Des Diane" (2024), as well as critically acclaimed documentaries such as "Style Wars 2" (2013) and "Europe, She Loves" (2016). Since 2013, Jonas has made Colorado his home, where he resides with his wife and is actively involved in running their business, Royal Stag Hats, all while raising their children. This marks a significant milestone for Jonas, as it represents his first art exhibition since 1998, showcasing his enduring passion for artistic expression.
NEWCOMERS
September 8th - October 21st, 2023
The Silhouette Project: Newcomers
Photographs by Dona Laurita
Opening Reception
September 8th, 2023
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Closing Reception /
Artist & Newcomers Talk
October 21st
7:00 - 9:00pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder Colorado 80304
Newcomers centers around the stories of high school age refugees who have come to Denver and adjacent front range cities from countries such as Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Bhutan, Somalia, Russia, Iraq, Venezuela, Mexico and Ukraine.
For many of these students, sharing their stories in this project is the first time they have spoken about their plight and the trauma of bearing witness to the atrocities committed against their respective homelands.
“Adolescents and young adults who, by force or choice, fled to the U.S. because their parents, their war-torn country, or extreme poverty drove them to. The innocent who have lost time and place: months or years of education, books, the arts, sports, playground antics, friendships, knowledgeable and kind teachers, freedom, safety and security. Despite their scars, these children yearn to return to their homeland, in order to reclaim and strengthen it; to their people, in order to save the ones left behind.”
— Dona Laurita
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.
KGNU RADIO Interview with Dona Laurita
DAILY CAMERA Interview with Dona Laurita
COLORADO DAILY Article (East Window, Andre Ramos-Woodard, Dona Laurita)
FRAME - SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER 15 2023
F R A M E
7-9pm
FREE
The Literary Ladies Present:
FRIDAY'S RAGE ANIMATES MANIA & MERMAIDS INSIDE the ERROR of EGO
Kika Dorsey has been published in numerous journals and books, including The Comstock Review, Cleaver Magazine, The Denver Quarterly, The Columbia Review, Narrative Northeast, MacQueen’s Quinterly, among many others. She has published a chapbook of poetry, Beside Herself (Flutter Press, 2010) and three full-length collections, Rust, Coming Up for Air. (Word Tech Editions, 2016, 2018), and Occupied: Vienna is a Broken Man and Daughter of Hunger (Pinyon Publishing, 2020), winner of the Colorado Authors’ League Award. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle and currently teaches as a lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Jade Lascelles is a writer, musician, and artist based in Colorado. She is the author of The Invevitable (Gesture Press), Violence Beside (winner of the 2021 Essay Press Book Prize), and the forthcoming All Things Born / Proximate Seams, a collaboration with visual artist Todd Edward Herman. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, various literary journals, and the anthologies Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Dwell: Poems About Home, and Precipice: Writing at the Edge. She has been featured in the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill, the Bologna In Lettere festival’s International Poetry Review, the visual art exhibits Shame Radiant and Disgust: Unhealthy Practices, and the Natalia Gaia short film A Spark Catches, which won second prize at the 2022 Maldito Festival de Videopoesia. Jade holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and plays drums in a few different musical projects.
Jocelyn Wallen is a queer speculative fiction and poetry writer from Denver. She completed undergrad at CU Boulder before earning an MFA in Popular Fiction and Publishing from Emerson College. She spends her human hours running Lindsay’s Deli on Pearl Street Mall, and her vampire hours at home with her wife AJ and their two pet gremlins. A lifelong reader of fantasy romance and horror, she is working on her own queer novel, tentatively titled Below the Bloody Sea. She loves late nights, the color burgundy, and you, for no particular reason at all.
Swanee Astrid is a poet-scribe from Sacramento, CA with degrees in Literature and Writing from the University of Iowa (BA) and Naropa University (MFA). She has been an editor for Earthwords, Vestal Review, and Bombay Gin Literary Journal, as well as creates her own literary artifacts under the press name "Contemporary Norn".She has served on the boards for the Sacramento Poetry Center and collective aporia of which she is a founding member. Swanee has also been an executive assistant to the Jaipur Literary Festival at Boulder (2015-2018) and is the Program Coordinator for the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (2018-now). Swanee has written and performed her own shows such as the Praeludium Ex-Machina (Naropa MFA Festival, 2016), The Beat Drags On (Boulder Arts Week 2016 & 2017), Mythopoetic Pedagogy (Naropa Spark Talks, 2017), and for such venues as Jose Montoya's Poetry Unplugged, Avotcja's Palabra, Mutiny Information Café, Fox Theatre, and the Clyfford Still Museum. Swanee's areas of research include astro-anthropology, Norse-Germanic cosmology. energy systems, language permutation, world building, ecological sustainability. indigenous practices, and contemporary mythopoetic narrative frameworks. In July 2021, Swanee gave a talk on Valkyrie Poetics for the Heathen Women United Conference, as an artistic response to environmental leadership through the metaphor of the Valkyrie as embodiment of feminine warriorhood necessary for the battle against climate change. This talk was revised and published by the Wisdom Body Collective in their WIP series. https://caswanee.wordpress.com
Madeline Murphy is a 26-year-old artist born, raised, and based in Colorado. She finds inspiration in the companionship of her two dogs and leopard gecko.
J. BENJAMIN BURNEY
September 22nd 2023
Workshop:
The Intersection of Art and Business: Navigating Success as a Professional in the Art World
7:00-9:00pm
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway STE C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304
FREE
NO RSVP REQUIRED
East Window presents:
Multimedia artist Benjamin Burney and his invaluable workshop The Intersection of Art and Business: Navigating Success as a Professional in the Art World. Drawing from his unique experiences as practicing multimedia artist, poet, business owner and creative director of Zoid Art Haus, Benjamin has designed an essential workshop for artists seeking to learn how to survive and thrive as a professional in the world of art. During this workshop participants at all points in their artistic careers receive a wealth of the most up to date and relevant information in areas such as:
•Understanding the art market
•Mastering business skills / tools for creative impact
•Opportunities analysis
•Marketing
•Budgeting: personal & studio finances
•LLC building
•Breaking the algorithm / creating your own
•Networking
•Selling and pricing your work
•Keeping your practice alive
•Resource list for artist / entrepreneurs
And that's just scratching the surface of what's offered to you in this workshop.
We're so lucky to host Benjamin for this event. Don't miss it!
J Benjamin Burney was born in Tulsa, OK. He is currently receiving his master's in Fine Art and Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Benjamin is a poet who specializes in creating immersive installations using performance and mixed media art. He is the Owner and Creative Director of Zoid Art Haus, a design house based in Denver, Colorado that uses storytelling to create experiences, products, and services geared toward making a more inclusive, equitable, and empathetic society. His new book Poems Can Fly will be available at this reading.
Photos: © 2023 Dona Laurita
MARCH FORTH
September 29th 2023
MARCH FORTH - Musical Event
A wild variety of alternative and indie music featuring young musicians from around the Front Range.
Featuring music by Kyle Donavan and Pamela Machala
7:00 - 9:00pm
FREE
March Forth was created in memory of Julietta "Jules" Laurita who died on March 4, 2019, at age 19. A young woman of incredible spirit and talent, Julietta was a gifted singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, and actress. She was a passionate artist who leaves behind a legacy of compassion and creativity. Jules had a fierce sense of justice, and an insatiable desire to connect across differences. One of her many quotes that she created and lived by is: "Learn from each other, decide for ourselves..." For all of us who love her and her illuminating spirit, the loss is immeasurable. March Forth's ongoing mission is to keep Jules's memory alive through projects that cultivate and affirm the independent thinking, resilience, compassion, and creative expression of young adults and teens through the arts.
KGNU RADIO Interview with Dona Laurita
Flyer design: Allyson McDuffie
FRAME - OCTOBER
October 6th 2023
The Literary Ladies Present
F R A M E
A Literary Salon
7-9pm
FRIDAY'S FEVERISH REALIZATIONS in the ARCANE
MEANDER through the EMBROIDERED ECTOPLASM
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
STE C-3B2
Boulder CO
USA
Free
Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Poetry Andrea Rexilius, Valerie Hsiung, Eric Baus, Molly LeClair
Music by Max Davies
Visual Art Dustin Holland
Andrea Rexilius is the author of: Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks, Séance (Coconut Books, 2014), To Be Human (Horseless Press, 2010), and Afterworld(above/ground press, 2020). She earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005), and a Ph.D. in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Denver (2010). Andrea is the Program Director for Regis University’s Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. She also teaches in the Poetry Collective at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.
Valerie Hsiung is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and the author of multiple poetry and hybrid writing collections, including The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming 2024), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), To love an artist (Essay Press, 2022), selected by Renee Gladman for the 2021 Essay Press Book Prize, outside voices, please (CSU), selected for the 2019 CSU Open Book Prize, YOU & ME FOREVER (Action Books), and e f g (Action Books). Her writing has appeared in print (Annulet, BathHouse Journal, The Believer, Chicago Review, digital vestiges, The Nation, New Delta Review), in flesh (Treefort Music Festival, Common Area Maintenance, The Poetry Project), in sound waves (Montez Press Radio, Hyle Greece), and other forms of particulate matter. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado where she teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & Poetics at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
Eric Baus is the author of five books of poetry: How I Became a Hum (Octopus Books, 2020) The Tranquilized Tongue, (City Lights 2014), Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), and The To Sound, winner of the Verse Prize (Wave Books, 2004). He teaches literature and creative writing at Regis University’s Mile High MFA program in Denver, which he co-directs with poet Andrea Rexilius.
Molly LeClair is a writer, instructor of writing, and resolute defender of writing clearly. "We all have a wide range of occasions to write," she says, "to clarify, critique, compare, describe, speculate, analyze, argue, review, reflect, reckon, remember, imagine. Whatever form writing takes, it is thinking through an idea. If you get near a point, make it, right. She is the author of two composition textbooks. Thinking and Writing in the Humanities and What's Your Point, written with her colleague and friend Suzanne Hudson She has taught writing and rhetoric, creative writing, humanities, literature, and women's studies at Front Range, Regis, Metro State, and CU-Boulder in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR). At CU, she designed and taught upper division writing courses in the visual arts and in film noir. She has conducted writing, publishing, and classroom delivery workshops, and created video presentations for Technology in Education (TIE) and Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology (COLTT). She received an annual PWR Teaching Award for Excellence and Innovation in Classroom Teaching. Molly also has guided and worked wat writers at Colorado Chautauqua, Casey Middle School, and Whittier International School. She likes to read, write, tutor, play music, shoot pictures, fill up sketchbooks, make short films, go on walks, take road trips, travel in the off-season, and spend time with good friends (totally includes family). She dedicates tonight's poetry readings to her talented writing students over the years particularly those whose stories and essays are published as abiding models in Thinking and Writing in the Humanities and What's Your Point?
Dustin Holland is a writer and cartoonist living in Longmont. His work has appeared in Bubbles Fanzine, Meow Wolf's Convergence Station News Stand, Heavy Feather Review, and tons of self-published comics and zines. Dustin's latest book, Eat the Baby, Sell the Cow collects ten years of surreal poems, collages, and comic strips. He's currently hard at work on the third issue of Doghead Sunset, a Giallo-inspired comic book whodunnit. More of Dustin's work can be found at www.gorchverse.com or on Instagram at @dustin.holland.artstuff
HEATHER SCHULTE / STORY NETWORK
October 7th 2023
Heather Schulte "Story Network: Sharing stories from COVID"
7:00-9:00pm
Part of the larger Stitching the Situation project, the Story Network connects local residents with artists and designers to tell stories of their pandemic experiences visually. StS is an ongoing, collaborative embroidery project that considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. As needlework requires vast amounts of time, nimble hands, and keen eyesight, project founder Heather Schulte developed the Network to ensure accessibility to those most disproportionately impacted by the virus, who have little free time, experience disability, or for a multitude of reasons are unable to stitch their stories themselves. This one-night event will exhibit images that resulted from this local collaboration, as well as a conversation about the Network with program participants. The Story Network is part of the Boulder Arts Commission's Experiments in Public Art program, with funding support from the Boulder Arts Commission."
This event is free and open to the public.
Heather Schulte’s work utilizes common and domestic materials (like thread, fabric, newspapers, rugs, paper, or acrylic glass) to emphasize language as a fundamental human tool, whether spoken, written, thought, gestured, or typed; communication is an essential part of both intimate and public life. It can connect and divide, wound and heal, build up or tear down, hide and reveal. It shapes us, and we wield it to shape our world.
Schulte isolates and recontextualizes news articles, tweets, and colloquial concepts or phrases to highlight the social categorization that undergirds everyday speech and information exchanges, drawing attention to things often said, but rarely considered. She frequently use patterns of code as a translation tool, drawing attention to language forms, patterns, and systems, and how these change over time and are carried forward into new technologies.
Flyer design: Allyson McDuffie
JADE LASCELLES
October 27th 2023
Book Launch - Violence Beside - Jade Lascelles
7:00 - 9:00pm
Violence Beside responds to the overwhelming presence of violence Jade Lascelles felt creeping closer into her life. After a series of threats, assaults, and murders against multiple women in various proximity to her, these poems were first begun as a coping mechanism, a way to look for some sense of grounding around how to exist within a world of violence without being consumed by it or absorbed by the fear of it. How to persist despite violence without ignoring it. Violence Beside was written in an attempt to find a soft place to process the hardness of the brutality we live among.
This event will be an extension of that exploration, as well as a celebration for the book coming into being. The evening will include installations inspired by images and themes from the book and a short reading by the author.
JADE LASCELLES is a writer, musician, and artist based in Colorado. She is the author of the full-length collection The Invevitable (Gesture Press) and Violence Beside (Essay Press). Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, various literary journals, and the anthologies Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, Dwell: Poems About Home, and Precipice: Writing at the Edge. She has been featured in the Ed Bowes film Gold Hill, the Bologna In Lettere festival’s International Poetry Review, the visual art exhibits and accompanying books Shame Radiant and Disgust: Unhealthy Practices, and the Natalia Gaia short film A Spark Catches, which won second prize at the 2022 Maldito Festival de Videopoesia. Jade holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University and plays drums in a few different musical projects.
ZIG JACKSON / RISING BUFFALO
October 9th, 2023 - November 5th 2023
(Window)
Commodities (Food of My People)
Zig Jackson aka 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
ELEPHANT CIRCLE
AGING BODIES, MYTHS and HEROINES
Image: Courtesy of James Hosking © 2023
November 9th 2023 - February 28th 2024
(Gallery & Window)
Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines
André Ramos-Woodard, Danielle SeeWalker, Carlotta Cardana, Donigan Cumming, James Hosking, Magdalena Wosinska, Marissa Nicole Stewart, Mitchell Squire, Roddy MacIness, Sherry Wiggins & Luís Filipe Branco, Will Wilson and others
Curated by Todd Edward Herman
Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines looks at the social and ethical implications of the observational image and challenges some of the myths and misunderstandings often imposed upon elder members of contemporary western societies.
Aging Bodies… speaks to how photography has influenced our perceptions of the human organism relative to the passage of time, to the many ways the medium has become instrumental to the construction, preservation and revision of personal and collective memory, as well as to photography's ability to obscure and elucidate notions of falsehood and truth.
This exhibit operates somewhere in-between two representational tropes; those who adopt an heroic attitude towards the aging process, seeming to remain ‘forever youthful' and those who experience significant bodily decline and illness to the extent that the outer body is seen as misrepresenting or imprisoning the inner self.
Both modalities serve to objectify and therefore skew our capacity to empathize with those depicted. Such pervasive imagery of the elderly as either sub or super-human beings form part of a repertoire of the 'pornography of old age' within consumer culture. To be clear, these are not the points of view this exhibit is hoping to advance.
Aging Bodies… does not claim to be an exhaustive study in either gerontology or the mechanisms of representational bias. It does, however, deliver a small selection of playful, critical and tender images made by and about elder artists; redirecting viewers back to the lived body and divergent self-images of the middle aged and old.
— Todd Edward Herman 2023
Daily camera by Ella Cobb
Daily Camera (Instagram) by Ella Cobb
Denver Post by Ray Mark Rinaldi
Rocky Mountain PBS by Lindsey Ford
Lenscratch by Rupert Jenkins
Opening Reception
Thursday November 9th 2023
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist Talk with Danielle SeeWalker
Wednesday, January 31st 2024
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist Talk with Mitchell Squire
Friday, December 15th 2023
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Beautiful by Night Screening
Director James Hosking in person
Saturday January 13th 2024
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lecture/discussion with Eric Nord
Thursday, January 25th 2024
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist Talk with Marissa Nicole Stewart
Friday, February 9th 2024
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist Talk with Anne Walker
Wednesday, February 21st 2024
11:30am - 1:00pm
Panel discussion with Rupert Jenkins, Roddy MacIness,
Sherry Wiggins, Amy DelPo and Anne Walker
Friday, February 23rd 2024
7:00 - 9:00 pm
All events are free and held at:
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder Colorado 80304
KALI SPITZER AT CREATIVE NATIONS
November 17th 2023 - January 26, 2024
East Window, Creative Nations Arts Collective and The Dairy Arts Center presents:
Explorations of Resilience and Resistance / Our Backs Hold Our Stories
Photographs by Kali Spitzer
Curated by Todd Edward Herman
Opening Reception
November 17th 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Creative Nations Arts Collective / The Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali's work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens.
Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali's Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance.
Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation.
FRAME - NOVEMBER
November 17th 2023
The Literary Ladies Present
F R A M E
A Literary Salon
7-9pm
Friday’s Field
Rots the
Answers and
Merges
the Entry with the Exit
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
STE C-3B2
Boulder CO
USA
Free
Poetry by
Akusua A. Akoto a disabled Dallas native has lived in Colorado for 7 years. A 'redeemed' academic, she is currently working on several manuscripts of poetry including one that focuses on three generations of the black women in her family as well as mental health, homelessness, and survival. Also working on short essays that look at disability and pop culture. In addition to other features, she along with former homeless individuals was interviewed with the New York Times earlier this year.
Sam Albala is a magnet to the mountains and is carried by the image of an anatomical heart pumping blood, suggestions of connections lost and found. They've studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Brunnenburg Castle, (W)rites of Passage, and the John Ashbery Homeschool. Sam has been featured as a Colorado Creative Careers speaker, with writing published in Mental Floss, BUST Magazine, Out Front Magazine, Sonic Boom, Boulder Weekly, and more. Currently, Sam is writing a novel with the working title, Forever Here & Everywhere, which is inspired by their experience living on the boarders of both Wichita, Kansas and New York City over a period of three years.
Josh Lefkowitz was born and raised in metro Detro, and received an Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Washington Square Review, Rattle, The Rumpus, and many other places. After seventeen years in New York City, he recently moved to Boulder, Colorado.
Sara Slingerland Sheiner grew up inside of a saltbox beside a marsh.She is emergent, monstrous, and somewhere lost in a field. She is currently working on a book-length poem, a 'contraepic,' titled The Field, & looking for a home for her first manuscript—an exploration of loss & absence through the conceit of a collection of 'obituaries' & other forms that play with genre, voice, & time/space—titled Of Lack, which was a runner-up for Tupelo’s 2021 Berkshire Prize, judged by Victoria Chang, a finalist in the 2020 Essay Press Book Contest, judged by Renee Gladman, and a semi-finalist in the 2020 + 2022 Wisconsin Poetry Series' prizes. She has a doctorate in the literary arts from the University of Denver, a master’s degree in creative writing from Virginia Tech, & was the poet-in-residence at Randolph College in 2017. In 2014 she was the recipient of the Poetry Society of Virginia Prize, judged by Rachel Zucker, and of the Emily Morrison Prize in Poetry, selected by Dorothea Lasky.
Rozie Vajda Visual Art “Through art I acknowledge monumental moments in loved one’s lives to express my gratitude. In my art, I intermingle my illustrations with objects - mostly found, some discarded, some given, others forgotten - now joined as part of a new story.”
Curated by Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Max Davies Music
DANIELLE SEEWALKER - ARTIST TALK
RESCHEDULED due to unforeseen circumstances. Please stay tuned for updates. Thanks for your understanding.
East Window is honored to present Danielle SeeWalker for an artist talk as part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit currently in our main gallery.
Learn more about Danielle SeeWalker HERE
Danielle SeeWalker is Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. She is an artist, writer, activist, and boymom of two, based in Denver, Colorado. Her visual artwork often incorporates the use of mixed media and experimentation while incorporating traditional Native American materials, scenes, and messaging. Her artwork pays homage to her identity as a Lakȟóta wíŋyaŋ (woman) and her passion to redirect the narrative to an accurate and insightful representation of contemporary Native America while still acknowledging historical events.
Alongside her passion for creating visual art, Danielle is a freelance writer and published her first book in 2020 titled, “Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People & Culture.” She is also very dedicated to staying connected and involved in her Native community and currently serves as City Commissioner for the Denver American Indian Commission. Danielle has also been working on a personal, passion project since 2013 with her long-time friend called The Red Road Project. The focus of the work is to document, through words and photographs, what it means to be Native American in the 21st century by capturing inspiring and positive stories of people and communities within Indian Country.
FRAME (DECEMBER)
December 1st 2023
7 - 9pm
The Literary Ladies Present
F R A M E
A Literary Salon
Friday’s Feasts Remembers the Antagonist the Magician and the Elegist
Poetry: Chris Grebe, Curtis Romero, Erika Krouse, Toni Oswald
Visual Art: Jonas Leuenberger
Music: Max Davies
Curation: Toni Oswald, Sara Elizabeth Schantz
East Window 4550 Broadway STE C-3B2 Boulder CO 80304
FREE
Chris Grebe writes about the dark, supernatural, and the speculative future/past. His fiction work has appeared recently in Abergavenny Literary Journal, 365 Tomorrows, and Every Day Fiction. A Boulder, Colorado native, he currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama, where he is researching a non-fiction book rediscovering the life of a child mine worker in an early 1900s coal town.
Erika Krouse is the author of three books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, which is a New York Times Editors’ Choice, winner of the Edgar Award and the Colorado Book Award, and is currently optioned for TV adaptation by Playground Entertainment and 20th Century Fox. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire.com, and other places. Her new collection of short stories, Save Me, Stranger, is forthcoming in 2024 from Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
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.
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, & the shows Shame Radiant and Disgust, and most recently HOAX. 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.
Jonas Leuenberger, a native of Bern, Switzerland, is a versatile artist who combines his talents as a musician and visual artist. Across his journey, spanning the early 2000s till now, Jonas has ventured through diverse musical landscapes, collaborating with luminaries like John Trudell, Hawkfather, Lapcat, Baze, and an array of other revered artists. He has also released music under his own moniker, Kwest. His work has been featured in notable independent films like "Off Beat" (2011) and "Les Paradis De Diane" (2024), as well as critically acclaimed documentaries such as "Style Wars 2" (2013) and "Europe, She Loves" (2016). Since 2013, Jonas has made Colorado his home, where he resides with his wife and two children.
Photo by Dona Laurita
OCCUPIED - PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIAN FOUHY
Learn more about Brian Fouhy’s Occupied HERE
How do you broach the question of asking to take photos of urinals without getting either laughed at or thrown out?
Photographer Brian Fouhy’s request was more often than not greeted with intrigue and enthusiasm, leading to surprising conversations about all the great bathrooms people have used; a place we all take a mental note of but never choose to talk about; that unspeakable, sometimes neglected room we all unavoidably need.
These wonderful conversations led to Fouhy photographing over 100 bathrooms across the United States, 70 of which made their way onto the pages of OCCUPIED (Published 2021 by New Heroes & Pioneers), with 7 photographs of those urinals hanging in the East Window Bathroom Gallery.
By including information surrounding the use of each urinal, such as the meal eaten in a restaurant, the weather conditions at the time, or the distance from relevant points of interest, Fouhy adds another layer to the experience beyond just a standard visit to the loo.
These photographs will be showing in the East Window Bathroom Gallery beginning December 8th, 2023-January 27, 2024 with an opening reception planned from 7-9 pm on December 8th at our location at 4550 Broadway, Ste c-3b2, in Boulder.
While you're visiting the bathroom gallery, be sure to have a look at the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit in the main gallery.
Photo by Dona Laurita
MITCHELL SQUIRE - ARTIST TALK
December 15th 2023
7-9pm
Free
Join Mitchell Squire for an artist talk as part of the Aging Bodies, Myths and Heroines exhibit currently in our main gallery.
Learn more about Mitchell Squire HERE
Mitchell Squire's photographic work confronts viewers with profound images of what it means to be a Black “elder” in ways that radically depart from the oversaturated media stereotypes designed to objectify older Black men by evoking the extremes of sympathy, pity, sorrow or adulation.
Squire explores how a sixty + year old Black man might live increasingly unmeasured, uncensored, and ungoverned. His work takes viewers to the grassy fields of wildflowers, the muddy creek beds, the forests, the darkness of dilapidated sheds, and the snow covered plains to make self portraits, which reveal to the world more clearly how the artist inhabits himself. His images amplify a personal anarchy, an unwavering interiority, a one-person revolution to feel, to continually establish a presence drawn deeply into this earth.
Squire states, "We play, we dream, we show out, we resist, we love, we smoke, we preen, we glow, we test our limits. And we are not done yet!"
Mitchell Squire was born in Natchez, Mississippi. He primarily focuses on exploring culture through acquired artifacts and the inability to express pain. Squire is currently a professor at Iowa State University and lives in Ames, Iowa. Squire's work is held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Photo: Niko Laurita
YVENS ALEX SAINTIL - ARTIST TALK
January 6th 2023
Artist Talk with Yvens Alex Saintil
7:00 - 9:00pm
East Window Gallery
Yvens Alex Saintil, multidisciplinary artist, army veteran, and local activist, returns to East Window Gallery. Those who missed the opportunity to meet Alex at the opening reception in November 2022 now have another chance. Saintil will join East Window for First Friday in January for an intimate artist talk. He will discuss his current exhibit at East Window, his new work and more.
Saintil’s career extends far beyond his ten years in the United States Army, where he served as an Infantryman performing in various roles within the continental United States, South Korea, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service and now resides in Denver, Colorado. Through his discipline, Saintil actively brings awareness to police reform and accountability, veteran mental health care, gun violence, and activism.
YVENS ALEX SAINTIL EXHIBIT
November 4th 2022 - January 29th 2023
Yvens Alex Saintil - Photographs
Yvens Alex Saintil is known for his diverse works that are meant to spark meaningful conversations centered around police reform and accountability, veteran mental healthcare, gun violence, and activism.
Saintil’s career extends far beyond his ten years in the United States Army, where he served as an Infantryman performing in various roles within the continental United States, South Korea, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was awarded a Purple Heart for his service and now resides in Denver, Colorado. Through his discipline, Saintil actively brings awareness to police reform and accountability, veteran mental health care, gun violence, and activism..
HARRY JAMES HANSON & DEVIN ANTHEUS
Nov 18, 2022 - Jan 29th 2023
Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus - Photographs
Excerpts from Harry James Hanson's “Legends of Drag” and other images will be on display at East Window.
Hanson and Antheus’s work celebrates queer elders who have long been cultural and spiritual leaders within their communities.
For more information on “Legends of Drag” click HERE
© Harry James Hanson - Image Courtesy the artist
FRAME (JANUARY)
January 27th 2023
East Window presents the F R A M E poetry series curated each month by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz & Toni Oswald through December 2023. The January 27th reading is titled Mothers and Monsters featuring works by Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Jaclyn Eccesso, Sara Veglahn and Max Davies.
7:00 - 9:00pm
East Window Gallery
FRAME (MARCH)
March 10th 2023
Roots & Redemption to Activate the Metamorphosis of Etymology
Readings by Mairead Case, Richard Froude, H.P. Armstrong & Jona Fine
Music by Max Davies
Visual Art by Jennifer Lord
7:00 - 9:00pm
FREE
East Window Gallery
4550 Broadway
Suite C-3B2
Boulder CO 80304
More information at:
info@eastwindow.org
This event is part of a series of literary salons curated by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz and Toni Oswald running from January - December 2023.
Readings by:
Mairead Case is a writer, teacher, and editor. The author of the books Tiny and See You In the Morning (featherproof), Mairead is recently published in POETRY, JSTOR Daily, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and at Public Media Institute, Public Collectors, and Maggot Brain, where she is the Associate Editor. She teaches at Naropa University, the Colorado School of Mines, CU Boulder, the University of Denver, and Cañon City Correctional Facility, and has been a Legal Observer with the NLG for over a decade.
Richard Froude has written four books. The first of these was FABRIC (Horse Less Press, 2011), and the most recent was Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Subito Press, 2018). He facilitates workshops in experimental/hybrid forms at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. He works as a physician at both Denver Health and in private practice.
Jona Fine is a non-binary queer they/them poet and artist. They are obsessed with circles and sardines. In what feels like another lifetime they received their MFA from Naropa University. Outside of being an artist, they are passionate about the LGBTQ community and access to mental health care. They work at an LGBTQ youth suicide hotline and are finishing their Masters in social work.
H.P. Armstrong (he/they) is a queer writer and playwright from the Chicagoland area. He has a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University. His work appears in KYSO Flash’s A Trembling of Finches, Punch Drunk Press, apo-press, and worldwide in Nota Bene. Eleven After Theater is producing his screenplay “Off-Book”, film forthcoming. He writes in horror, the poetics of transness, and divinity—he is working on his first novel about a girl with a compulsion to eat her hair.. He currently lives on the Colorado Front Range with his partner and mother-in-law and works in equity and inclusion for a Front Range Community College.
Visual art by:
Jennifer Lord is a fiber artist, painter and taijiquan teacher in the Yang lineage. They received their BA from Naropa University and are currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through harmony, mutuality and simultaneity, their patchwork paintings explore: the climate crisis via ecological agency and the rights of nature, queer and feminist hand-making traditions, and improvisational collage. Lord recently completed a residency at Mountain Water, a land restoration project that combines contemplative practice with creative expression. Born in Salt Lake City, they live, work, and teach in Boulder, Colorado. Their work is held in several private collections. Visit them online at juniperlord.com or on Instagram @juniperlord
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.
The Curators:
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, & the shows Shame Radiant and Disgust, and most recently HOAX. 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.
LAUREN SAMBLANET
(Dates TBA)
Book Launch by Lauren Samblanet
Taking its cues from the New Narrative writing movement, like a dog considers how sexual identity is morphed, hidden, and denied by cultural forces like film, pornography, rape culture, and sexual semiotics. The speaker of like a dog, writes about her sexuality, sexual trauma, and relationships in the epistolary form to explore how the personal becomes collective and how overt sexuality is necessary for questioning dominant ideologies. The intimacy (or perhaps voyeurism) that is opened through the epistolary form is balanced with film analysis, focusing on the films of Lars von Trier, as a way to move away from the speaker’s experiences and into the social forces that seek to define us.
Amidst these letters are images from a handwritten journal where blood, hair, vaginal fluids, and bodily residues are used to direct the shape and content of the writing surrounding them. The tactility of the journal delivers the reader to the body, not as an intellectualized object, but rather as the physical, messy, oozing force that it is.
Not nonfiction or fiction, in between gossip and scholarly film analysis, like a dog exists in a liminal place. This liminal zone offers the speaker a site to rip away the layers of cultural conditioning surrounding sexuality and relationships, and to peek at what lies beneath. This interrogation of identity may not lead to answers but the speaker of like a dog is able to finally hear her own voice and to begin the work of rebuilding an identity that is bloomed from within.
Lauren Samblanet is a hybrid writer who cross-pollinates with other forms of making & other makers of forms. some of her writing has been published in a shadow map: an anthology by survivors of sexual assault, fence, dreginald, entropy, dream pop press, passages north, bedfellows, and the tiny. like a dog is her first book. she offers workshops through reinventing the creative process, which helps makers build more embodied, pleasurable, and emotionally safe creative practices.