Image credit: Chelsea Kaiah, Ndee (detail), Leather, red mylar, leather glue, rope, wood frame, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Image credit: Noelle Phares, This Fickle Bounty. Oil, acrylic, oil pastel, and colored pencil on wood panel, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
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
6-8pm, Pay From Your Heart
Artist Talk & Tour with Noelle Phares and Natalie M. Collar, Ph.D.
Thursday, June 20
6–7:30pm
$15/10 members; $5 student rate
Phares will discuss her new body of work depicting seven sites along the Colorado River in conversation with her twin sister, Natalie Collar, a Senior Hydrologist with Wright Water Engineers, in relation to some of the river’s most pressing environmental issues.
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, and the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District.