Todd Edward Herman: Founder / Director
East Window is an annex to the studio of visual artist and founder, Todd Edward Herman. His work has generated collaborations with artists on books, films, performances and exhibitions around the world. Todd is a co-founder and long time collaborator with Sins Invalid a performance project that incubates, celebrates and centralizes artists with disabilities, artists of color, queer and gender-variant artists. Todd currently lives in Colorado with his family. Read the feature about Todd in the Fall 2020 issue of Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis
For more information please visit ToddEdwardHerman.com
Charlotte Piper: Gallery Assistant
Charlotte is an author, entrepreneur, activist and advocate in many LGBTQI and BIPOC communities. She brings her experience in content creation and growth metrics to East Window and designs and implements all of East Window’s email campaigns and other forms of digital marketing media. Her published works cover a broad spectrum, from music and entertainment journalism to educational workshops and curriculum. Her passion is inspiring and empowering others to enjoy the most of the human experience. She is a mother to a budding artist and musician and currently resides in the state of Colorado.
Advisory Committee
Tara Evonne Trudell
(Santee Sioux / Rarámuri / Mexican / Spanish) Tara is a visual artist, poet and mother. She is also a human rights activist, with a particular passion for immigration issues. Tara has received many awards for her work, and has read her poetry and exhibited her films and photographs both nationally and internationally. Tara's poetry was selected for inclusion in the anthology, Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice, published through the University of Arizona Press.
Pam Tau Lee
Pam's Activism began in 1969 with her work with the Third World Liberation Front, a coalition formed between the Black Student Union, Mexican-American Student Confederation, Native American Student Alliance, and the Asian American Political Alliance, who worked in response to the Eurocentric education and lack of diversity at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley. She has dedicated over 40 years of her life to the fight for social justice, and as an elder, she has continued this work, while mentoring and supporting the leadership of a new generation of young people.
Amanda Coslor
Amanda brings her knowledge of midwifery, somatic psychology, developmental theory and holistic reproductive health care to women recovering from a traumatic pregnancy, birth, or postpartum experience. She has also been involved in collaborative activism, policy alignment with grassroots movements and philanthropy. Amanda is also a board member of the Groundswell fund, Elephant Circle and Global Force for Healing, organizations focusing on reproductive justice, care, and rights for underserved communities of color, and transgender people in the U.S.
Liz Quan
Liz Quan is a ceramicist and designer based in Boulder, Colorado. After an accomplished career as an art director in New York, Liz began to explore ceramics as a way to return to working with her hands. In 2005, she began post-baccalaureate study in ceramics at the University of Colorado, and has since exhibited at Walker Fine Art, the Arvada Center, McNichols Civic Center Building, and more. Liz works in porcelain for its pure aesthetic, exploring its fragile qualities and innate characteristics; by appreciating its boundaries, she explores deeply within them.
Mario Jose Olvera
Mario is a visual artist, musician, educator, youth mentor, Aztec dancer, and father. He is also co-directs Mi Chantli a thriving educational dance center for the Hip-Hop community in Boulder Colorado. Using art as a vessel to foster self acceptance and respect among marginalized populations, Mario has become an influential teacher in the Longmont and Boulder community. He is currently working on the greatest creation of his life, his kids.
Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Leroy is an African American writer, poet and community activist. He is one of the founders of the Emmy Award winning Krip Hop Nation, whose primary goals are to increase awareness in music and media outlets of the talents, history and rights of people with disabilities, while also focusing on advocacy, activism and education on relevant social, artistic, and political issues. Since the 1990s, Moore has written the column "Illin-N-Chillin" for POOR magazine. Moore is also a co-founder of the disability performance art collective Sins Invalid. Additionally, he currently serves as the Chair of the Black Disability Studies Committee for the National Black Disability Coalition. Leroy is the author of Black Disabled Ancesters by POOR Press, Krip Hop Graphic Novel, Black Kripple Delivers by Poetic Matrix Press, and has co-authored a children's book called Black Disabled Art History 101.