About the Event

Artists often play a major role in social movements. Through theater, dance, music, and the visual arts, they challenge narratives, offer new perspectives, and inspire in ways that traditional political methods rarely can. Join local creatives for a discussion of the power of art to make change. Co-presented with the Boulder County Arts Alliance.

Featured Guests

JayCee Beyale is from the Four Corners area of New Mexico, and received his BFA in Printmaking from the University of New Mexico. JayCee’s connection to his Indigenous (Dine’) culture is heavily influenced by his involvement in the arts; his personal identity and background have always been present in his Art because he is proud of who he is and where he comes from. Combining traditional indigenous ideologies and his personal Buddhist practice, JayCee is always striving to emphasize those concepts and convictions in his art. He hopes to share his beliefs by celebrating the fusion of technology and Indigenous culture in his work. JayCee aspires to illustrate the Laws of Movement, Unity and Impermanence in his work.
 
Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up 3 miles from the CIA and currently lives in Denver where she works as the Program Director for Chinook Fund, a community foundation dedicated to supporting grassroots community organizing work throughout the state. A former Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature, she’s held international artist residencies in video art, poetry, and dance. Her books include Solar Maximum (Futurepoem, 2015), No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Kore, 2017), and Aerial Concave Without Cloud (Nightboat, 2021). Her essays and reviews explore race, contemporary US poetry, and the avant-garde. Find her a silentbroadcast.com.
 
Cipriano Ortega has been fortunate enough to have his work recognized and shown both nationally and internationally. Cipriano strives to create works of art that probe the mind and make people question what they perceive as the normative. Whether that is shown in music, theater, visual art or some sort of culmination of all of the above; Cipriano enjoys blending all creative forms of expression. As a sociological artist, Cipriano deconstructs the worlds around them and observes it under a nihilistic perspective. As an indigenous POC, he also has no choice but to deal with colonialism head on by making it a daily practice to see the divisions we as a society create and continue to make the “normative.”
 
Christina Pittaluga is an actor, writer, producer, creative director, teaching artist, stylist and multimedia artist born and raised in Denver. Her love of the stage started in 7th grade during her theatre class and the rest is history. In 2014, she joined the Black Actors Guild. Although she started as an intern, her ideas, quick wit and hard work earned her the title of Director of Creative Content with the guild. She has been blessed to experience the art scenes of both Colorado and New York City. She continues to use her knowledge of theatre and styling to enhance the artistic opportunities given to her. 

: Photo of Cipriano Ortega used courtesy of the artist.

About Thursday Nights @ the (Virtual) Museum

Spend your Thursday evenings at the (virtual) Longmont Museum for panels, lectures, conversations, and readings presented live from our Stewart Auditorium for FREE.

Every Thursday at 7:30 pm, January 28 – April 29

Watch Agents of Change: Art & Social Justice