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Exhibtions…
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Celebrating rising women and nonbinary artists alongside established trailblazers. Artistic focuses of artists in this show range from de-colonial discourse, political action, intersectional identity, resilience, ancestry, and joy.

 

LFAC has elevated unseen and invisiblized artists since the 90’s. We are excited to continue this mission in our new Yolia Art Space.

 

Artist workshops to come…

Nov 9th-January 17th
Yolia Artspace
901 Englewood Pkwy Unit 112 Englewood, CO 80110

ARTIST BIOS

2025...

Collective Dreaming

a collaboration between two collectives, Los Fantasmas and #NotWhiteCollective

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January 10 - February 10

Artists Image Resource (AIR)

518 Foreland St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

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A chance meeting between two members of art collectives in May of 2022 germinated the idea of bringing the art collectives, Los Fantasmas (from Denver, CO) 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 two respective art exhibitions: one in Denver at Yolia ArtSpace and one in opening in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Friday, January 10, 2025 6-8 pm at Artists Image Resource.

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Los Fantasmas is a Denver, Colorado based collective consisting of four Indigenous, Chicano, and Raza identifying artists. LFAC was developed in the late 1990s by Carlos Fresquez, Tony Diego, and Ismael Lozano (all current members) as a response to the local art scene that in our view treated BIPOC artists as “fantasmas” (ghosts) or “the unseen”. Collective Dreaming: Los Fantasmas and #thenotwhitecollective

COLLABORATORS

#notwhite collection

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.

Artists Image Resource

Since 1996, Artists Image Resource (AIR) has initiated and facilitated projects with professional artists, creating an active laboratory environment where artists, students, and the community interact.

AIR provides facilities and equipment, technical assistance, and printmaking expertise.

AIR became incorporated as a nonprofit Pennsylvania Corporation in 1997 and received nonprofit 501(c) 3 tax status in 1998. In 1996, AIR started working with professional artists on projects and began to organize resources in a 10,000 square foot space in an urban neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. In 1996 and 1997, AIR began working with university educators to design programs that would allow the aspiring artist to work directly, hand in hand, with the professional artist in an active real world studio environment. This methodology continues to define the studio as the active and engaged art production and learning laboratory that it is today.
 

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