Everybody's Everything

LOCATION: Alto Gallery - 1900 35th St, Suite B

CATEGORIES: Art Events | First Fridays

PAST DATE AND TIME:

• Fri, Oct 4, 2024 - Sat, Oct 26, 2024  

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Join us at Alto Gallery on First Friday, October 4, 6 - 10 PM for the opening reception of Everybody’s Everything, featuring works by Denver-based Los Fantasmas Artist Collective and Pittsburgh, PA-based #NotWhite Collective. Artists in attendance. Free event and refreshments, open to the public.

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ABOUT
A chance meeting between two members of art collectives who met in May of 2022 germinated the idea of bringing the art collectives, Los Fantasmas (from Denver) and #notwhite collective (from Pittsburgh, PA) together to begin collectively dreaming. Over the past two years of online meetings, members shared, learned, and planned for three respective art exhibitions: two in Denver at Yolia ArtSpace and Alto Gallery and one in Pittsburgh at Artists Image Resource.

These events are intersectional, intergenerational, and inclusive. Yolia ArtSpace is physically accessible to wheelchairs as is Alto Gallery. Please contact the LFAC contact for additional accommodations to support your participation.

Join us in celebrating Joy, Love, Friendship, Respect, Acceptance, Understanding, Dreaming and Togetherness.

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Los Fantasmas Artist Collective
Los Fantasmas Artist Collective was developed in the late 1990s by Carlos Fresquez, Tony Diego, Ismael “Izzy” Lozano, and Josiah Lopez as a response to the local art scene that in our view treated BIPOC artists as “fantasmas” (ghosts) or “the unseen”. Now consisting of six Indigenous, Chicano, and Raza identifying artists, Los Fantasmas is dedicated to our communities to broaden the scope of venues available to BIPOC Artists throughout the Denver and greater Colorado area.
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Throughout its history, LFAC has organized such events as Urban Decay, which transformed the Chicano Arts and Humanities Council Gallery into a vision that reflected the decay of the urban Chicano Neighborhood in which it was located. We participated in exhibits and panel discussions at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo Colorado. We also curated a Dia de Muertos Exhibit with community discussions in Trinidad Colorado at the Corazon Gallery. More recently, LFAC has collaborated with youth organizations such as Colorado Circles for Change, Gang Rescue and Support Project, and the Denver Juvenile Diversion to facilitate classes for youth to participate in art exhibits alongside established artists. Raza Futura, our most recent exhibit was held at the Hideout Gallery and continued the vision. The exhibit included work from LFAC founding members, several upcoming artists, college students and youth artists following our original vision and mission to create space for the unseen BIPOC artist.

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#NotWhite Collective
The #notwhite collective is a group of 13 women artists whose mission is to use non-individualistic, multi-disciplinary art to make our stories visible as we relate, connect, and belong to the Global Majority. We utilize our arts practice singularly and collectively to Excavate Histories, Expose Realities, and Exorcise Oppression.

We are bi/multi-racial/cultural, immigrant or descendants of immigrants investigating the many ways we are seen or not seen, how we self-identify and how we seek liberation through sharing space and stories; research and art-making; discussing the history of imperialism and its effect on us, on the whole not-white world. We actively reject colonialism through our non-hierarchical process.

The #notwhite collective expresses the hybridized and multifaceted aspects of self-defined liberation; we accept cultural fluidity as a means of seeing and being seen, each member declaring their existence, individually and collectively, through our voices, bodies and art.