east window, a unique, outdoor viewing space for underrepresented artists, located in Boulder Colorado, is opening a new indoor gallery and we need your help!

WHO WE ARE

east window is a unique, outdoor viewing space for art, located in Boulder Colorado. Since opening its doors in May 2020, east window has continued to create exhibition opportunities for underrepresented artists. We strive to provide a safe space for artists to begin conversations about their work and to forge lasting relationships with other artists and communities along the Front Range and beyond. Much of the work exhibited at east window is focused on prevalent social issues relative to the featured artist's intimate experiences of those issues. Our goal at east window is to engage with individual artists and collectives whose work stimulates critical thought and creative action in order to inspire possibilities for a more socially just, equitable, and accessible world.

FUNDRAISER

In order to accommodate more exciting exhibits, screenings, readings, workshops and collaborations, east window will be expanding and we need your help!

We're excited to announce the opening of our new indoor gallery, east window SOUTH, in conjunction with our current outdoor location. Conveniently, the new gallery is just around the corner from the original east window. We're planning to launch east window SOUTH on January 5, 2022 with an exhibit of photographs by André Ramos-Woodard (more about André at the end of this letter).

This new space requires some significant reconstructions and remodeling upgrades such as all new lighting, various build outs, repairs, painting, hardware purchases and the installation of HEPA air filters, clean air intake and exhaust fans. Additionally, east window would like to raise funds in order to hire a part-time gallery assistant and to provide stipends for featured artists.

Here's what your support of the new east window SOUTH gallery will be used for:

•Labor and materials for build outs

$2,400

•Lighting

$1,200

•Wall hanging system for art

$600

•HEPA air purifier

$300

•Clean air intake and exhaust fans

$200

•Gallery assistant / grant writer

$1,500

•Stipends for 17 artists

$3,500

•Total

$9,700

We hope to reach our fundraising goal of $9,700 by December 15, 2021, which will give us just enough time to complete all renovations for our launch on January 5, 2022. So please don't wait, support east window today!

OUR COMMUNITY

Here are a just few of the artists and collaborators who have exhibited or will be exhibiting at east window:

•André Ramos-Woodard - works primarily with photography and collage. His work conveys ideas and struggles of communal and personal identity. As a Queer African American man, Ramos-Woodard's work draws deeply from his personal experiences of being a target for discrimination. His work will be the opening exhibit at east window SOUTH in January 2022.

•Amir George - filmmaker, curator, and co-founder of Black Radical Imagination, a touring program of short experimental films and video, focusing on contemporary stories within the African diaspora.

•Sky Hopinka - Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. He is a videomaker, photographer, writer, musician and activist.

•Renée Millard-Chacon - writer, educator, and Xicana activist of Dine/Azteca descent. She is the founder of Womxn From The Mountain, an inclusive women’s group nurturing the individual, spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs of the Denver community.

•Sins Invalid - a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists.

•Gregg Deal - Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, is a painter, and performance artist who challenges Western perceptions of Indigenous people, touching on issues of race, history, cultural erasure and stereotypes. Deal critically examines issues and tells stories of decolonization and appropriation that affect Indian Country.

•Chun-Shan Sandie Yi - artist and writer creates counter-narratives to myths and stereotypes about disability through her project Crip Couture, a form of wearable art that centers on the histories and narratives generated by the disabled body within everyday social, cultural and political interaction.

•Dread Scott - a visual artist whose work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community engaged project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. Dread's installation will be on view at the original east window in February 2022.

•Sonia Soberats - photographer and founding member of the New York based collective for blind photographers, Seeing With Photography. Sonia’s work poses fundamental questions about the relationships between perception, imagination, and visual culture at large.

COLLABORATIONS

east window's current collaboration is creating, publishing and distributing a zine with young Native visual artists and writers from numerous unceded territories around the world. Using painting, drawing and poetry, these artists explore themes of identity and belonging relative to their lives as contemporary Native Youth. Excerpts from this zine will be shown at east window for the entire month of November 2022. The zine will be available for sale and free download. All proceeds go directly to support the contributing artists.

You can learn more about all of the artists who've exhibited with us as well as upcoming exhibits, screenings and events at www.eastwindow.org

THANK YOU!

Thank you in advance for supporting east window. Your contributions make a world of difference.

Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions through our website or via the "contact" button below.

We can't wait to share this new space with you all!

Warmly,

Todd Edward Herman

Founding Director

eastwindow.org

Below are some photographs of past exhibits, screenings, and workshops at east window. You can see more images and learn more about us at eastwindow.