The image features a rectangular invitation with a vibrant magenta background. At the center, bold text announces "Collective Dreaming" above the event details: Artist Image Resource, 518 Foreland Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212. The art exhibition showcases the Los Fantasmas Artist Collective and #notwhite collective, running from January 10 to February 10, 2025. A reception is scheduled for January 10, from 6-9 PM, followed by an open workshop on January 11 from 12-3 PM. Website links for the participating collectives are also included: notwhitecollective.com and losfantasmas.org.
Two monstera leaves are positioned diagonally, one in the top-right corner and the other in the bottom-left. The letters "LFACXNWC" are displayed across the design, each letter featuring a unique collection of artwork from the members of the Los Fantasmas and #notwhite collectives.
Collective Dreaming 2
an art exhibition of the
Los Fantasmas Artist Collective & #notwhite collective
jan 10 – Feb 10, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION ⬩ JAN 10, 6-9 PM
COLLABORATIVE OPEN WORKSHOP ⬩ JAN 11, 12-3 PM
ARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE
518 FORELAND STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15212
A chance meeting in 2022 between two artist collectives, Denver-based Los Fantasmas and #notwhite collective of Pittsburgh, germinated the idea for an exhibition about collectively dreaming. Over the past two years of online meetings, members shared, learned and planned for two art exhibitions: one at Yolia ArtSpace in Englewood, CO; one at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh, PA, January 2025.
Friday, January 10, 6-9 pm
Opening Artist Reception
with music by Geña y Peña & DJ SMI
Saturday, January 11, 12-3 pm
Collaborative Printmaking Workshop
with members of Los Fantasmas x #notwhite
Collective Dreaming will also feature a 4-month exhibition of rotating artwork at sidewall (the corner of 608 S. Millvale & Lima Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15224), January-April 2025.
Los Fantasmas is a collective consisting of Indigenous, Chicano, and Raza identifying artists. LFAC was developed in the late 1990s by current members Carlos Fresquez, Tony Diego, and Ismael Lozano as a response to the local art scene that treated BIPOC artists as “fantasmas” (ghosts) or “the unseen.”
Collective Dreaming is made possible with support from the Pittsburgh Foundation and Elsie H. Hillman Foundation.
losfantasmas.org
notwhitecollective.com
Los Fantasmas Artist Collective was developed in the late 1990s by Carlos Fresquez, Tony Diego, Ismael 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.
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.
Members:Tony Diego, Carlos Fresquez, Juan Fuentes, Grace Gutierrez, Josiah Lee Lopez, and Izzy Lozano
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.
#NOTWHITE COLLECTIVE⬩SISTER SOUL SPECTRUM
Thursday, September 19 – Sunday, December 15, 2024
Gallery Hours with KST Presents Performances
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Sister Soul Spectrum exhibits artworks from the #notwhite collective. Spanning photography, painting, mixed media, and more, individual pieces explore cultural heritage, personal identities, and feminist ideologies. The exhibition investigates ways collective members are seen (or not seen) and how they seek liberation through sharing space, telling stories, researching, and making art.
Sister Soul Spectrum is on view at KST’s lobby gallery. The gallery is open to the public during and one hour before every KST Presents event. Arrive early and take a look!
