Collective Dreaming: Los Fantasmas and #thenotwhitecollective

A chance meeting between two members of art collectives in May of 2022 germinated the idea of bringing the art collectives, Los Fantasmas (from Denver, CO) and #notwhite collective (from Pittsburgh, PA) together to begin collectively dreaming. Over the past two years of online meetings, members shared, learned and planned for two respective art exhibitions: one in Denver at Yolia ArtSpace and one in opening in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Friday, January 10, 2025 6-8 pm at Artists Image Resource.

Los Fantasmas is a Denver, Colorado based collective consisting of four Indigenous, Chicano, and Raza identifying artists. LFAC was developed in the late 1990s by Carlos Fresquez, Tony Diego, and Ismael Lozano (all current members) as a response to the local art scene that in our view treated BIPOC artists as “fantasmas” (ghosts) or “the unseen”. Collective Dreaming: Los Fantasmas and #thenotwhitecollective