Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
MAY 4 - JULY 27, 2024
Diary of a Native Femme(nist)
EXHIBITION
Diary of a Native Femme(nist) was a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Kimberly Robertson. The exhibition was The Chapter House’s inaugural exhibition at their new Echo Park location and was on display from May 4 to July 13, 2024.
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DECEMBER 2022 - MARCH 2023
BLACKLIST ME
EXHIBITION
As Native peoples, music permeates our lives in various and diverse ways. It may manifest in traditional songs, soundtracks to personal histories, memory, acts of love, resistance, poetics. In “BLACKLIST ME” (Academy of American Poets), which this exhibition draws its title from, poet Kinsale Drake (Diné) writes about destroying and re-centering the canon, penning love poems to Native rock icon Buffy Sainte-Marie, and working against erasure through mechanisms of joy and community.
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OCTOBER 11 - NOVEMBER 11, 2021
TCH x TA: A REZidency in DTLA
EXHIBITION / PROGRAMMING
Opening on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 11, 2021 and closing November 11, 2021 in Native American Heritage Month, Transformative Arts hosted 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, and artist talks and panels. This residency celebrated 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.
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AUGUST 20 - AUGUST 31, 2022
REZidency Pt. II
EXHIBITION / PROGRAMMING
From August 20 to August 31, 2022, The Chapter House held a second REZidency at Transformative Arts in Downtown Los Angeles. Featuring pieces from Emma Robbins and Meztli Projects, we worked with facilitators to provide fun arts programming for visiting community members.
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APRIL - MAY, 2021
but when you come from water
EXHIBITION
A rallying cry of Indigenous Peoples, and a plain and simple fact. But what exactly does it mean to come from water? In her poem Atlas, where this exhibition draws its title from, Terisa Siagatonu ponders the realities of being from Sāmoa, an island in the South Pacific, very often overlooked on maps, and that is victim to colonization, tourism, and American military imperialism. For Siagatonu, water is the place she is from, in part because it threatens to overtake what little land makes up Sāmoa, but also because the ocean’s vastness is easier to see than the island.