TONGVALAND / LOS ANGELES — Opening on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 11, 2021 and closing November 11, 2021 in Native American Heritage Month, Transformative Arts will host The Chapter House for a REZidency at their location on Tongvaland, or Downtown Los Angeles. This collaboration marks The Chapter House’s first in-person arts events, including musical performances, workshops and demos, artist talks and panels, and a raffle. This residency will celebrate the community of Indigenous Peoples, allies, and accomplices The Chapter House has cultivated through online programming over the past year in Transformative Arts’ physical space. This is the first step for The Chapter House towards opening a permanent brick and mortar space in Tongvaland/Los Angeles.
The Chapter House is an Indigenous arts space that celebrates individual and shared Indigenous cultures, and explores the complexities of the 21st Century Indigenous experience. Over the past year, The Chapter House’s online programming has included panel and community discussions, the exhibition but when you come from water, concerts, artist lectures, poetry readings, and community craft nights and workshops.
Founded by curator jill moniz, Transformative Arts is both an arts nonprofit and a physical space intended to nurture participation in the arts and to develop Visual Literacy that contributes to sustainable communities worldwide. With a focus on freedom, equity, accessibility and diasporic narratives, Transformative Arts nurtures local arts projects that make art accessible through collectivity and collaboration, by and for LA communities.
Through the month-long exhibition and in-person and online programming, The Chapter House will provide a space for Indigenous artists to showcase work, to include and educate non-Indigenous people on Indigenous art, issues, and movements, and to welcome those who may not normally experience white cube arts spaces.
Please join us October 11th from 12 pm - 5 pm PDT for some amazing art by Indigenous artists, an opening prayer and land acknowledgment, an introduction to The Chapter House and Transformative Arts, a Métis Weaving Workshop (all supplies provided!), a BYOP (Bring Your Own Project—bring something you’re working on for an art making circle, we’ll also have some supplies present) Session, a concert by Gabe Colhoff from 1876, Ch’il Gohwéhí (Navajo tea) and piccadillies! Please register ahead of time below and feel free to choose one or both sets of events!
Admission is always free and all are welcome. All in-person events will follow COVID safety guidelines, including mandatory masking, physical distancing, and proof of vaccination and/or negative COVID test within the last two days. These precautions are to ensure the safety and health of all staff and visitors.