Summer 2024 Exhibition: Tracking Time
May 23 - September 2, 2024 @ BMoCA
Tracking Time is a two-person exhibition featuring newly commissioned work by painter Noelle Phares and multi-disciplinary artist Chelsea Kaiah. The work on view situates two different interpretations of our evolving relationship to the natural world through the lenses of environmental studies and Native American cosmology, respectively. Anchored by seven personally relevant sites along the Colorado River, Phares translates the human impact on land and water in her signature painting style. Kaiah employs recurring materials associated with her indigenous hunting practice, including animal hides and blue plastic tarps, to reinvent traditional Ute and Apache symbolism. Each body of work serves as a map to help navigate the current conversation around our ecological crisis and as a reflection of our interrelated past, present, and future.
Opening Reception
Thursday, May 23, 2024
5-6pm, Members Preview
6-8pm, Pay From Your Heart
Press:
Yellow Scene Magazine, BMoCA’s Tracking Time, The Colorado River and Us, June 2024
Boulder Lifestyle Magazine, Nature’s Timestamps, July 2024
Daria Magazine, Tracking Time, 8/13/24
Artist Talk & Tour with Noelle Phares
Thursday, June 20
6–7:30pm
$15/$10 members/$5 students >>SOLD OUT<<
Phares will discuss her new body of work depicting seven sites along the Colorado River in conversation with her twin sister, Natalie Collar, Ph.D., a Senior Hydrologist and Rachel Pittinger, P.E., a Senior Water Resources Engineer, both who are with Wright Water Engineers, Inc., in relation to some of the river’s most pressing environmental issues.
Link to slide show HERE.
Rawhide Painting Class with Chelsea Kaiah & Akalei Brown
Saturday, July 20
1–3pm
$50/45 members (includes material costs)
Learn how to paint geometric patterns on rawhide leather based on the Plains tribes technique, parfleche (a Native American rawhide container or saddle bag) with artist Chelsea Kaiah and Akalei Brown, of Colorado Native Org.
The Summer Exhibition is generously sponsored by the Kelley Knox Family Foundation, The Kemper Family Foundations, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee, the Scintilla Foundation, Lynn McGowin, Elise & Skip Miller, Stacey Steers & David Brunel, Nicky Wolman & David Fulker, Boulder County Arts Alliance, Boulder Arts Commission, City of Boulder, Colorado Creative Industries, Community Foundation of Boulder County, the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District, and Wright Water Engineers.
This map shows the locations along the river that artist Noelle Phares used as inspiration.