https://evelaurynlafountain.com Eve-Lauryn LaFountain Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:43:23 +0000 https://evelaurynlafountain.com en https://evelaurynlafountain.com/News-1 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:50:02 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/News-1 NEWS UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS PAST EXHIBITIONS PRESS Upcoming and Past Exhibitions and Press Mid-Career Film/Video Retrospective Two Special Screenings in Los Angeles Over two nights in Los Angeles I will be showing almost all of my single screen film and video works. I will also be premiering a new piece at the end. Each show is a completely different selection of films and videos.&nbsp;Night One: Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 6pm - Espiral Collective at Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory<img width="1206" height="1551" width_o="1206" height_o="1551" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9621a3e6705bdacb3d6bbef2adc117830e1027d96b2f2a0eff172a59f874c77/IMG_4532.JPEG" data-mid="245301298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9621a3e6705bdacb3d6bbef2adc117830e1027d96b2f2a0eff172a59f874c77/IMG_4532.JPEG" /> Night Two: Sunday, March 1, 2026 at 7:30pm - Los Angeles Filmforum at 2220 Arts + Archives Tickets and more information available here <img width="687" height="1024" width_o="687" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/630ce039ff51e3bf850dac3650edb33d9a0ae6caeb830c36ba0c0ddb1a0ac0fa/IMG_7214.PNG" data-mid="245301307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/687/i/630ce039ff51e3bf850dac3650edb33d9a0ae6caeb830c36ba0c0ddb1a0ac0fa/IMG_7214.PNG" /> ︎︎︎ Sustainers of LifeFeaturing the perspectives of Native and Indigenous women artists&nbsp;at Angels Gate Art Center Gallery in San Pedro, CA on view October 9, 2025 - January 24, 2026https://angelsgateart.org/exhibitions/sustainers-of-life/ CurationCecelia Caro &amp; Laurie Steelink Works byWeshoyot Alvitre, Emily Clarke, Katie Dorame, Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain, Cara Romero, Corey Stein, and Linda Vallejo The artists in Sustainers of Life create works that honor Native and Indigenous women as multidimensional beings and sustainers of cultural knowledge and community healing. Personal narratives are woven within broader historical contexts, uplifting individual stories of resilience and survival alongside the realities of colonialism's impact, motherhood, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. Sustainers of Life creates space for both mourning losses and celebrating the ongoing resilience of those who nurture and protect life.Press:Curate LA - 12 Indigenous Spaces, Exhibitions, and Collectives in Los Angeles to Know Right Now LA Taco -&nbsp;All-Indigenous Art Exhibit in San Pedro Celebrates Native Women as Knowledge-Keepers <img width="4475" height="6715" width_o="4475" height_o="6715" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0959badef56e7aa7bffb01977b74f8df447e30c0590a84870dd0d5edc1d7487f/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Birthing_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" data-mid="243296713" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0959badef56e7aa7bffb01977b74f8df447e30c0590a84870dd0d5edc1d7487f/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Birthing_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" />Becoming an Ancestor: Birthing, 2025 Photography, writing While pregnant with her first child in 2023, the artist was preparing an exhibition about her connection to women in the American pioneer era. She began relating to Sacagawea, who led Lewis and Clark across the west while carrying her infant son. Sacagawea served as translator and cultural guide, though she was also a child bride stolen from her own people. After her son's birth, the artist realized how difficult that journey must have been. The central image, Self Portrait After Sacagawea, was taken in her ninth month of pregnancy days after her uncle's death. It was censored and deemed too risqué for its original intended exhibition. Conveying grief and anxiety, the work radiates strength summoned from ancestral blood. The artist honors Sacagawea's memory through the depiction of ledger book art—a Native practice of recording stories that preserve Indigenous perspectives during times of immense cultural change. LaFountain’s work reflects the immense and sacred ancestral histories mothers carry within their bodies. LaFountain’s self-portrait is surrounded by her photo essay for Brink Literary Magazine entitled Laugh Like a Thunderbird, the artist’s birthing story. The artist shares her experience becoming a “portal that cracked her open.” Depicting her raw state, LaFountain is shadowed in deep grief and anxiety, having just learned she would need to be cut open to survive the birth of her child, yet she also radiates powerful strength summoned from all the ancestors in her blood, propelling LaFountain forward into her future as a mother. Laugh Like a Thunderbird published in Brink Literary Magazine, Issue 9 Spring 2025 <img width="6202" height="4135" width_o="6202" height_o="4135" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13778a5f3d11609c6f34010208eeaef2e4aa60ae2ed532c2b00daa9f98aa5c17/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Dying_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" data-mid="243296714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13778a5f3d11609c6f34010208eeaef2e4aa60ae2ed532c2b00daa9f98aa5c17/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Dying_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" /> Becoming an Ancestor: Dying, 2025 Photography, writing The grief present in LaFountain’s last month of pregnancy at the loss of her uncle Presley was compounded by the loss of his younger brother, her father Bruce, just eighteen months later. This grief was paired with the overwhelming joy of watching her first child, who grew inside her body, grow into his own person. The juxtaposition of birth and death, joy and grief, is a cyclical story of human existence. Becoming a mother, LaFountain became a direct ancestor on this new person's family tree—carrying responsibility to teach the ways of the world to generations that follow. In Ojibwe culture, the northern lights are our ancestors dancing with us in the sky. This photo essay reflects on the most recently passed ancestor, what it means to become an ancestor, and the northern lights visiting to provide comfort when it's needed most. ︎︎︎ Laugh Like a ThunderbirdA birthing story commissioned by Brink Literary Magazine Issue No. 9: Access. Available now at https://www.brinkliterary.com/ <img width="914" height="1286" width_o="914" height_o="1286" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72733db41271b3542d031506366dd8ef983de1dfaf97739072c0c0bd9684cc63/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.58.03PM.png" data-mid="235000783" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/914/i/72733db41271b3542d031506366dd8ef983de1dfaf97739072c0c0bd9684cc63/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.58.03PM.png" /> ︎︎︎ The Art of Filmmaking: Composition and the Moving Image <img width="2736" height="1552" width_o="2736" height_o="1552" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d3d702a0fb0e05bc9fbf1fedd411b03fc0ca0d38a4083e553d8ac2e678a3edf/Screenshot-2025-04-22-at-2.45.17PM.png" data-mid="230535910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d3d702a0fb0e05bc9fbf1fedd411b03fc0ca0d38a4083e553d8ac2e678a3edf/Screenshot-2025-04-22-at-2.45.17PM.png" /> I’ve spent most of the past year developing The Art of Filmmaking: Composition and the Moving Image. There is a free version available through Coursera with an option to purchase a certificate. A more high touch version where I will do weekly critiques of student work will run a few times a year directly through CalArts Extended Studies.&nbsp; ︎︎︎ Digital Daydreams: In Medias Res Online and Beyond ︎︎︎ In Medias Res: ExpandedTorrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA October 12 - December 7, 2024<img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538a508ee4b00fa9a361f222/534267ea-c45f-421a-948e-ef74f0c09ce5/InMediasRes_Expanded_edit.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" style="width: 589.56px; height: 331.6275px;" data-scale="64"> FEMMEBIT x Supercollider Gallery present In Medias Res: Expanded, an exhibition of artworks by Los Angeles-adjacent, feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists who reimagine celluloid-based media for the decentralized realm of Life 3.0. FEMMEBIT is proud to present works by Anna Luisa Petrisko, Brian Dario, Casey Kauffmann, Eli Joteva, Ellie Pritts, Eve Lauryn LaFountain, Janna Avner, Jennifer West, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Jody Zellen, Huntrezz Janos, Katia M Stewart, Matt Nespor, Petra Cortright, Richelle Ellis, Sarah Zucker, Tuna Bora LA’s sun drenched, palm-dappled Hollywood aesthetic is reimagined as a diffuse and dis-related chaparral cityscape via video gifs, XR, and sculpture: In Medias Res reflects today’s digital uprootedness from time-based narratives of the silver screen to invoke liminal spaces of belonging. These artworks challenge conventional definitions of cities in relation to mainstream media, geography and land ownership to explore new perspectives on urban environments existing in the imagination as much as in real life. This exhibition is curated by digital artists Kate Parsons and Janna Avner.︎︎︎ Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellows Cohort IBoston, MA 2023-2025 <img width="851" height="642" width_o="851" height_o="642" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da7b643ad822fb123eb8a64f1ced7aceb236b8e164cdde68c3461f130058f1d2/CLP-Fellows-Banner-Final.png" data-mid="207413824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/851/i/da7b643ad822fb123eb8a64f1ced7aceb236b8e164cdde68c3461f130058f1d2/CLP-Fellows-Banner-Final.png" /> The Mandel Institute is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort (2023-2025) of the Cultural Leadership Program, a two-year fellowship for artists and cultural producers who aim to reimagine Jewish life and mobilize social change through their creative work.&nbsp;During the program, fellows will engage in collaborative learning to deepen their creative wellsprings, cultivate leadership capacities, advance new work, and foster peer networks. ︎︎︎ In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now Minneapolis Institute of Art October 22, 2023 - January 14, 2024 Artnet: The Essentials: How a New Show on Native Photography Centers Its Enduring Resonance Through 4 Key Works ︎︎︎ Threads and Trails: Contemplations of Our HerstoriesGreat Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska October 6, 2023 - February 17, 2024 Erica Larsen-Dockray, Cybele Moon, Steph Coley, Eve LaFountain, and Marissa Magdalena Sykes will discuss the historical women that inspired their work, their personal experiences as female artists, and the creative process behind the collaborative exhibition “Threads &amp; Trails: Contemplations of Our Herstories.” This exhibition and panel were made possible by the generous support of the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Kimmel Charitable Foundation, Lincoln Community Foundation, Union Bank &amp; Trust, UNL Research Council, and UNL Faculty Senate Convocations Committee. ︎︎︎ THE HIGHEST FORM OF WISDOM IS KINDNESSW Hotel&nbsp; Boston, Massachusetts&nbsp; September - October, 2023<img width="3135" height="2508" width_o="3135" height_o="2508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/136fa8f7ef822899f6a2b1da9d12e770926e65787ff38dc714cf5be5b3a1e43e/652852949ba0c71cbf5d7ee1_MABostonEveLaurynLaFountain003.jpeg" data-mid="207413305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/136fa8f7ef822899f6a2b1da9d12e770926e65787ff38dc714cf5be5b3a1e43e/652852949ba0c71cbf5d7ee1_MABostonEveLaurynLaFountain003.jpeg" /> ︎︎︎ In Medias Res August 17 - 24 on FeralFile.com Curated by FEMMEBIT <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0b0a0bde92330c49cafc81d98d6bf55ddae7a2a9b050923e096c6f4faf6bcf4/unnamed.gif" data-mid="188029827" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/d0b0a0bde92330c49cafc81d98d6bf55ddae7a2a9b050923e096c6f4faf6bcf4/unnamed.gif" /> https://evelaurynlafountain.com/About Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:50:00 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/About Little Shell StudiosThe Creative Work of Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain <img width="3680" height="5520" width_o="3680" height_o="5520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e12f1a5127a70b96468049b768271bb8441f367d42344c5225c7a29bce5539d2/LaFountain_Camera.jpg" data-mid="207414820" border="0" data-scale="46" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e12f1a5127a70b96468049b768271bb8441f367d42344c5225c7a29bce5539d2/LaFountain_Camera.jpg" /> Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (she/her) is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, a multimedia artist, and an educator. She was born into a family of artists and grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she learned how to ride a horse instead of a bike. Her artwork explores identity, history, Indigenous futurism, feminism, ghosts, magic, and her mixed Native American and Jewish heritage through lens based media and installations. Her mostly analog practice also includes beadwork, and live projector performances with her frequent collaborator, Jon Almaraz. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and has shown in several venues and festivals around the world, including billboard projects in Los Angeles through the Billboard Creative and Boston with For Freedoms, Cineteca Nacional México, the Autry Museum, Walker Art Center, Great Plains Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe Indian Market, the Ga ni tha Film Festival at the Venice Biennale Native American Pavillon in 2015, Los Angeles Filmforum, REDCAT, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in New York, ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Festival and Images Film Festival in Toronto, among many others. Eve is currently a Mandel Institute Jewish Cultural Leadership Fellow. She has also received support for her work from the Sundance New Frontier Labs where she was a Fellow in 2019, and received a Sundance Indigenous MacArthur Fellowship in 2018. She was an inagural COUSIN Collective and Cinereach supported artist, and has recieved grants from the Mike Kelley Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. She has also been a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, and an Interactive Storyteller for Tribeca Film Institute. In 2008 Eve earned a BA from Hampshire College, where she designed her own major in experimental film, photography, and Native American and Jewish Cultural Comparisons. She then participated in a filmmaking fellowship at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), where she was recruited into the NBC Page Program in Los Angeles. In 2009, Eve became the Operations Manager of the Echo Park Film Center, a community non-profit arts organization, where she curated screenings, worked as a projectionist, and continues to serve in the international operational collective and teach classes to various communities. She earned an Inter-School dual MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Film &amp; Video and Photography &amp; Media in 2014. Eve also worked at CalArts as the Assistant Director of Admissions for the School of Film/Video for six years, a position in which she traveled around the world to recruit students, and as special faculty teaching alternative photographic processes and handmade filmmaking techniques. Eve currently teaches the online Portfolio Development Workshop for Experimental Film and Video Artists, and The Art of Filmmaking: Composition and the Moving Image on Coursera through CalArts Extended Studies. She has also taught Experimental Filmmaking at Otis College of Art and Design, and been a guest teaching critic in the IAIA MFA Studio Arts Program. LaFountain recently moved back to Santa Fe to focus on her art practice invoking the landscape, community, and family. She and her partner and collaborator musician Jon Almaraz live on an ancient pathway that leads into the Old Santa Fe Trail with their new son and old cat. Latest Happenings and Press Sign up for mailing listGet in touch Download CV here <img width="1200" height="1609" width_o="1200" height_o="1609" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9cdc2d58e32ae1bf4286f69a48bf3260b70a830106165f9278bb7efb34727e0/Gaston_Bachelard_1965.gif" data-mid="73314213" border="0" src="//freight.cargo.site/w/1200/i/a9cdc2d58e32ae1bf4286f69a48bf3260b70a830106165f9278bb7efb34727e0/Gaston_Bachelard_1965.gif" style="width: 970.217373px; height: 1300.899794px; display: none;"> https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Projects Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:49:59 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Projects Projects FILM &amp; VIDEO / PHOTOGRAPHY / INSTALLATION / COLLABORATIONS <img width="856" height="1280" width_o="856" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cac9ee5a7f8b33c3927a90a454891d16aaf3b5e2f9e1330ffe8d56565b5b3a4a/4a0cdbc1-7bfd-4963-96a1-bc700d9f524d_rwc_0x0x856x1280x4096.jpg" data-mid="82374679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/856/i/cac9ee5a7f8b33c3927a90a454891d16aaf3b5e2f9e1330ffe8d56565b5b3a4a/4a0cdbc1-7bfd-4963-96a1-bc700d9f524d_rwc_0x0x856x1280x4096.jpg" /> https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Main Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:50:00 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Main Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain Little Shell Studios ︎︎︎︎ Feral File Foundation OpenSea Little Shell Studios is the creative work of Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain. LaFountain is a Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Jewish multimedia artist and educator. Her work investigates her mixed heritage, history, feminism, ghosts, and magic through lens based media and installation art. https://evelaurynlafountain.com/All-Projects-Header Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:50:01 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/All-Projects-Header All Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Sustainers-of-Life Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:43:23 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Sustainers-of-Life Sustainers of LifeFeaturing the perspectives of Native and Indigenous women artists at Angels Gate Art Center Gallery in San Pedro, CA on view October 9, 2025 - January 24, 2026https://angelsgateart.org/exhibitions/sustainers-of-life/CurationCecelia Caro &amp; Laurie SteelinkWorks byWeshoyot Alvitre, Emily Clarke, Katie Dorame, Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain, Cara Romero, Corey Stein, and Linda Vallejo The artists in Sustainers of Life create works that honor Native and Indigenous women as multidimensional beings and sustainers of cultural knowledge and community healing. Personal narratives are woven within broader historical contexts, uplifting individual stories of resilience and survival alongside the realities of colonialism's impact, motherhood, and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. Sustainers of Life creates space for both mourning losses and celebrating the ongoing resilience of those who nurture and protect life.Press:Curate LA - 12 Indigenous Spaces, Exhibitions, and Collectives in Los Angeles to Know Right Now LA Taco - All-Indigenous Art Exhibit in San Pedro Celebrates Native Women as Knowledge-Keepers Becoming an Ancestor is a transgenerational exploration of what it means to become an ancestor. As I became a mother I lost my uncle and my own father. I was becoming an ancestor to a future direct lineage that will come after me, while these two powerful men in my life, both also artists who taught me how to be an artist, left this realm and took on their new roles as ancestors of the past. Birth and death, joy and grief. We carry all of the DNA of many lineages within our bodies while creating new bodies, literally bridging generations through time and space. Mothers are the carriers of the people. This very intimate and personal work is also an investigation into becoming a portal through generations. Becoming an Ancestor: BirthingLaugh Like a Thunderbird photo essay and Self Portrait After Sacagewea, 2025 <img width="4475" height="6715" width_o="4475" height_o="6715" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0959badef56e7aa7bffb01977b74f8df447e30c0590a84870dd0d5edc1d7487f/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Birthing_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" data-mid="245301340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0959badef56e7aa7bffb01977b74f8df447e30c0590a84870dd0d5edc1d7487f/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Birthing_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" />While I was pregnant with my first child I was working on an exhibition about my connection to women in the American pioneer era. The show, Threads and Trails: Contemplations of Our Herstories, was installed at the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska at the end of 2023. As I was preparing my work for that show I started reading about, thinking about, and ultimately relating to the ultimate pioneer woman, Sacagawea. It was she who led Lewis and Clark across the west, and began the whole movement. It was the presence of her and her infant son that signaled to the Indigenous peoples they met along the way that this was not a war party, but instead the first tourists. She was their translator and their cultural guide. She was also a child bride stolen from her own people. Her story became even more stunning to me after my son was born and I realized deeply in my body how hard that journey must have been for her. I installed the show when my son was 4 months old, the same age Sacagawea's son was when they set off on the expedition. This body of work was born out of my connection to this incredible historical ancestral mother. The prototype for this work almost made it into that exhibition, but the image, a self portrait of me in the beginning of my ninth month of pregnancy just days after the death of my uncle, was deemed too risque or indecent to share with all audiences at the museum. I was told that school groups and certain other viewers would not be invited into the gallery space if the work was in the show. I did not want my work to prohibit anyone from being able to experience the rest of the exhibition, so I decided not to include it. It didn't feel ready yet anyway, and it was clearly not the right venue for such intimate work. The photo that was censored out of the previous show is now in this exhibition, Sustainers of Life at Angels Gate Cultural Center. The self portrait is surrounded by a photo essay I wrote for Brink Literary Magazine entitled Laugh Like a Thunderbird. It is my birthing story, imperfect, raw, real. Becoming a portal cracked me open. The pregnant woman in the portrait is shadowed in deep grief, anxiety at having just learned that she would likely have to be cut open to survive having her baby, and yet also a powerful strength summoned from all the ancestors in her blood propelling her forward into her future as a mother. Ledger book art evolved from a long history of Native peoples drawing their stories, first on rocks, then on hides, and eventually into ledger books that were meant to keep track of inventories by Indian Agents in the mid-19th century. These powerful first hand historical records have preserved Indigenous perspectives on a time of immense cultural change. Contemporary Native American artists use ledger book paper as a nod to our ancestors who kept records, many draw in the iconic pictographic styles developed by the original ledger book artists. My way to honor and contribute to this art form is to incorporate this paper into my photographic work. I've done multiple series of photographs on ledger book paper, one about the west's own creation of a self image of the Wild West, and a series of cyanotypes using California Native plants and Mission model building kits. Self Portrait After Sacagawea is in honor of the memory of Sacagawea as a mother, a pioneer, and an ancestral hero. I am Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and our lineage is similar to that of Sacagawea's child in the mixing of Indigenous and French blood and culture. She led a party of men who would take most of the credit for "opening" the west to American pioneers. It's a complicated weight to bear on her memory, being part of the beginnings of the gentrification of the west. She couldn't have known what would come from that expedition, but she was the ultimate pioneer. It was during her era too that ledger book art was just beginning, so it was fitting to overlay ledger paper on this self portrait. This is a record of the histories that mothers carry within their bodies. Becoming an Ancestor: DyingBecoming an Ancestor (Dancing Northern Lights), photo essay and self portrait, 2025 <img width="6202" height="4135" width_o="6202" height_o="4135" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13778a5f3d11609c6f34010208eeaef2e4aa60ae2ed532c2b00daa9f98aa5c17/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Dying_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" data-mid="245301514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13778a5f3d11609c6f34010208eeaef2e4aa60ae2ed532c2b00daa9f98aa5c17/Eve-Lauryn-Little-Shell-LaFountain_Becoming-an-Ancestor-Dying_2025_Photo-by-Jordan-Rodriguez-01.jpg" /> The grief that was present in my last month of pregnancy at the loss of my uncle Presley was compounded with the loss of his younger brother, my father Bruce, just 18 months later. Grief paired with the overwhelming joy of watching a small human that grew inside my body grow into his own person. This pairing of birth and death, joy and grief, is the cyclical story of being a human. When I became a mother I became a direct ancestor on this new person’s family tree. We have a responsibility to the generations that come after us to teach them the ways of the world. We look to our ancestors when we are lost. We learn and pass down their stories, we carry them in every cell in our bodies, combining countless people from all over the world in our veins. In Ojibwe culture, the northern lights are our ancestors dancing with us in the sky. This photo essay is a reflection on the most recently passed ancestor, what it means to become an ancestor, and the northern lights visiting to provide comfort when it’s needed the most. https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Laugh-Like-a-Thunderbird Wed, 25 Jun 2025 02:53:21 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Laugh-Like-a-Thunderbird Laugh Like a Thunderbird A birthing story commissioned by Brink Literary Magazine Issue No. 9: Access. Available now at&nbsp;https://www.brinkliterary.com/ <img width="1212" height="860" width_o="1212" height_o="860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a46dec1205a5f6ff0a5b18a7faf9c3c7373df4a19bd1eb591694a2640b6f4e6/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.38PM.png" data-mid="235000553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a46dec1205a5f6ff0a5b18a7faf9c3c7373df4a19bd1eb591694a2640b6f4e6/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.38PM.png" /> <img width="1220" height="864" width_o="1220" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18d9f523e253b8e016875293252772e9ba9d75f39146955229614705b416a19a/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.30PM.png" data-mid="235000552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18d9f523e253b8e016875293252772e9ba9d75f39146955229614705b416a19a/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.30PM.png" /> <img width="1220" height="868" width_o="1220" height_o="868" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/898c40dd6bddad2c1a8ed218ca322a121b1977a7c2cc763d9472fea9be02c92f/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.11PM.png" data-mid="235000550" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/898c40dd6bddad2c1a8ed218ca322a121b1977a7c2cc763d9472fea9be02c92f/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.11PM.png" /> <img width="1218" height="866" width_o="1218" height_o="866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eddb2cfb87694deaff9f904b374c3e79d6b7dcc92fc35bdd5c73a966ea1e5e51/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.18PM.png" data-mid="235000551" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eddb2cfb87694deaff9f904b374c3e79d6b7dcc92fc35bdd5c73a966ea1e5e51/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.59.18PM.png" /> <img width="914" height="1286" width_o="914" height_o="1286" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72733db41271b3542d031506366dd8ef983de1dfaf97739072c0c0bd9684cc63/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.58.03PM.png" data-mid="235000554" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/914/i/72733db41271b3542d031506366dd8ef983de1dfaf97739072c0c0bd9684cc63/Screenshot-2025-06-24-at-8.58.03PM.png" /> https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Love-is-Mortar Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:46:51 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/Love-is-Mortar Love is Mortar - Boston, MA September - November 2023 Billboard commissioned by For Freedoms <img width="3135" height="2508" width_o="3135" height_o="2508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b414d1103a46d8dea40199fb1538cdd29091088850ea6b9109b430f996965ee/652852949ba0c71cbf5d7ee1_MABostonEveLaurynLaFountain003.jpeg" data-mid="231520248" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b414d1103a46d8dea40199fb1538cdd29091088850ea6b9109b430f996965ee/652852949ba0c71cbf5d7ee1_MABostonEveLaurynLaFountain003.jpeg" /> <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06d4ba106d0852d92bf385f6be5b4b814f21c3975bf2cbe094b4e2711283412a/MA_Boston_Eve-LaurynLaFountain_LoveIsMortar_PhotographerTaisukeYamada_waniwanipanicdj_PartnerOrangeBarrelMedia_001.jpg" data-mid="231520251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06d4ba106d0852d92bf385f6be5b4b814f21c3975bf2cbe094b4e2711283412a/MA_Boston_Eve-LaurynLaFountain_LoveIsMortar_PhotographerTaisukeYamada_waniwanipanicdj_PartnerOrangeBarrelMedia_001.jpg" /> <img width="4016" height="3213" width_o="4016" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab4110c10c9b99bca8d72551ded4ea34de867b3b92a3f0debc2115041d022308/MA_Boston_Eve-LaurynLaFountain_LoveIsMortar_PhotographerTaisukeYamada_waniwanipanicdj_PartnerOrangeBarrelMedia_005.jpg" data-mid="231520254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab4110c10c9b99bca8d72551ded4ea34de867b3b92a3f0debc2115041d022308/MA_Boston_Eve-LaurynLaFountain_LoveIsMortar_PhotographerTaisukeYamada_waniwanipanicdj_PartnerOrangeBarrelMedia_005.jpg" /> Digital billboard at the W Hotel at the Boston Common September - November 2023 Commissioned by For Freedoms as part of “The Highest Form of Wisdom is Kindess” campaign in partnership with Orange Barrel Media Featured in Where Do We Go From Here? Monograph available for purchase here. Love is the mortar that binds people, culture, stories, and histories together through generations. This pyramid of apples is a reminder of when Jews were slaves building pyramids in Egypt. It is also a celebration of Rosh Hashanah as honey drips over the apples in the traditional celebration of a sweet new year. The Hebrew on the top of the image is L'Shana Tova, a greeting said during this time wishing for&nbsp;a good new year. There is always a balance in remembering hard times while celebrating the sweetness of life.Press:The Art Newspaper September 11, 2023&nbsp;US public art project seeks to combat rising antisemitism Phaidon Press For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?&nbsp; https://evelaurynlafountain.com/In-Medias-Res-Expanded Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:05:57 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/In-Medias-Res-Expanded <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/608901d9436b433d120270ddbcc4493a3bf027238edccb45fa8af0f32933493b/image.jpeg" data-mid="219808386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/608901d9436b433d120270ddbcc4493a3bf027238edccb45fa8af0f32933493b/image.jpeg" />IN MEDIAS RES: EXPANDEDOCTOBER 12 - DECEMBER 07, 2024FEMMEBIT and Supercollider are proud to present In Medias Res: Expanded!Featuring: Petra Cortright, Jennifer West, Sarah Zucker, Brian Dario, Janna Avner, Katia M Stewart, Casey Kauffmann, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Richelle Ellis, Jody Zellen, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, Huntrezz Janos, Tuna Bora, Ellie Pritts, Eli Joteva, Matt Nespor and curated by Kate Parsons and Janna Avner. In Medias Res: Expanded celebrates the contributions of feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists who live in the vibrant city of Los Angeles. The artworks in this exhibition reflect today’s digital uprootedness from time-based narratives of the silver screen to invoke liminal spaces of belonging. They challenge the conventional definitions of cities and urban identities in relation to mainstream media, geography and land ownership. Originally curated as a part of the Feral File Web3 exhibition platform, In Medias Res: Expanded brings the virtual exhibit into a physical gallery space.The artists’ interventions in ceramics, video installation, expanded cinema, sculpture, painting and projection bring the myriad digital explorations into the physical, transcending the boundaries of artifice towards material reality. In Medias Res: Expanded is open October 12 - December 7 at the Torrance Art Museum. Opening reception will be held October 12th from 6-9pm with more programming to follow during the run of the show. More information can be found at: https://www.supercollider.la/exhibitions/in-medias-res-expanded/ To purchase the original 2023 In Medias Res Web 3.0 works, please contact the artist or Feral File’s Lauren Jones at lauren@feralfile.com. You may read more about the 2023 exhibit at FLAUNT and Right Click Save. View the full exhibition here.&nbsp; This exhibition is curated by digital artists Kate Parsons and Janna Avner. <img width="2100" height="2100" width_o="2100" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41a7b98d624f902bbbd0ddd5f63401297c807653af1e68e881941018dcf098cf/In-Medias-Res-Expanded-EveLauryn-LaFountain-Grid.png" data-mid="219808510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41a7b98d624f902bbbd0ddd5f63401297c807653af1e68e881941018dcf098cf/In-Medias-Res-Expanded-EveLauryn-LaFountain-Grid.png" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0769bdb38273cbc96a54d16594b1ea15df38ea313377b1a77dcc31371fccdd3/11_EveL.png" data-mid="219808393" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0769bdb38273cbc96a54d16594b1ea15df38ea313377b1a77dcc31371fccdd3/11_EveL.png" /> https://evelaurynlafountain.com/In-Medias-Res Sun, 13 Aug 2023 22:58:09 +0000 Eve-Lauryn LaFountain https://evelaurynlafountain.com/In-Medias-Res In Medias Res <img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0b0a0bde92330c49cafc81d98d6bf55ddae7a2a9b050923e096c6f4faf6bcf4/unnamed.gif" data-mid="187851404" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/d0b0a0bde92330c49cafc81d98d6bf55ddae7a2a9b050923e096c6f4faf6bcf4/unnamed.gif" />FEMMEBIT is proud to present In Medias Res, a collaboration with the platform Feral File! Opened August 17, 2023 on FeralFile.com. Featuring work by Petra Cortright, Ellie Pritts, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Tuna Bora, JJ Stratford, Casey Kauffmann, Wednesday Kim, Huntress Janos, and Eve-Lauryn LaFountain. Curated by Kate Parsons and Janna Avner. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7791ee86ab1d822f69f990d6e21f90c030cb0fcb6b530d99f348adab0798a60/LaFountain_Femmebit_1.jpg" data-mid="187852051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7791ee86ab1d822f69f990d6e21f90c030cb0fcb6b530d99f348adab0798a60/LaFountain_Femmebit_1.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfd01769664ce97fc18b2f6c4f1a64352a292b5d93e27ca883756e4781dc6535/LaFountain_Femmebit_3.jpg" data-mid="187852053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dfd01769664ce97fc18b2f6c4f1a64352a292b5d93e27ca883756e4781dc6535/LaFountain_Femmebit_3.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/596e383e58dd9d8d7f8dd266800a15f3e45de46b457c384316b9bdf4b9b1891b/LaFountain_Femmebit_2.jpg" data-mid="187852052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/596e383e58dd9d8d7f8dd266800a15f3e45de46b457c384316b9bdf4b9b1891b/LaFountain_Femmebit_2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7684f26a951ff1c9e4ebd47cd888d71da91208eb0232533f15231b0177cd9c7/LaFountain_Femmebit_15.jpg" data-mid="187852065" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7684f26a951ff1c9e4ebd47cd888d71da91208eb0232533f15231b0177cd9c7/LaFountain_Femmebit_15.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/950cf216701fccb75733054fbf3ea27142733f8319bfeb2e4420a1e04678b0a3/LaFountain_Femmebit_27.jpg" data-mid="187852077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/950cf216701fccb75733054fbf3ea27142733f8319bfeb2e4420a1e04678b0a3/LaFountain_Femmebit_27.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ba876192fc533044396f4e6088043c335e023bdd0858b980ea135415a064dfa/LaFountain_Femmebit_23.jpg" data-mid="187852073" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ba876192fc533044396f4e6088043c335e023bdd0858b980ea135415a064dfa/LaFountain_Femmebit_23.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dad0472f46d0217c3d3d3e34bfbee9a3e42f0794aaa64d76c1992720857846a9/LaFountain_Femmebit_19.jpg" data-mid="187852069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dad0472f46d0217c3d3d3e34bfbee9a3e42f0794aaa64d76c1992720857846a9/LaFountain_Femmebit_19.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13c2cef06c82f9b435ad08497cb254f06b1d17f18de36c661c7d74778e810422/LaFountain_Femmebit_11.jpg" data-mid="187852061" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13c2cef06c82f9b435ad08497cb254f06b1d17f18de36c661c7d74778e810422/LaFountain_Femmebit_11.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff7cf4c21769f8f5ae4a7e5da5cf0403daa4d79cb3ddc2ad7c5bb901aff3143f/LaFountain_Femmebit_31.jpg" data-mid="187852081" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff7cf4c21769f8f5ae4a7e5da5cf0403daa4d79cb3ddc2ad7c5bb901aff3143f/LaFountain_Femmebit_31.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26159525f27a9ac1454e80a67f105605e5296ba7402f1dd60bcc7cb30525d2a3/LaFountain_Femmebit_7.jpg" data-mid="187852057" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26159525f27a9ac1454e80a67f105605e5296ba7402f1dd60bcc7cb30525d2a3/LaFountain_Femmebit_7.jpg" /> Stills from Waabanishimo: Miigaazh (She Dances Till Daylight: Fight) 33 NFT videos available on FeralFile.com AUGUST 15 - AUGUST 24 IN MEDIAS RES&nbsp;PROGRAMMING:INAGURAL EVENT:Date: Tuesday, August 15, 2023Time: 7pm PSTPlace: Artist Talks at NFTuesdays @ ElCid, Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA VIEWING OPENS:Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023Time: 14:00 UTC/7am PSTPlace: Feralfile.comDiscussion: Join us at 11am PST on Twitter Spaces Exhibition Walk-through: 8/23 at 11am PST on Zoom. Visit Feralfile.com to registerCOLLECTING STARTS:Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023Time: 16:00 UTC/9am PSTPlace: Feralfile.comCOLLECTING ENDS:Date: Friday, August 25, 2023Time: 16:00 UTC/9am PSTPlace: Feralfile.com IN MEDIAS RES - The exhibition In Medias Res celebrates the contributions of feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists who live in the vibrant city of Los Angeles. The artworks in this exhibition reflect today’s digital uprootedness from time-based narratives of the silver screen to invoke liminal spaces of belonging. They challenge conventional definitions of cities and urban identities in relation to mainstream media, geography and land ownership.The artists selected for this exhibition are LA-based and LA-adjacent, with rigorous art practices in film, digital art and internet culture. These artists reinterpret the visual mainstays of Los Angeles from personal, multicultural, dreamlike, queer, decentralized, and other alternative histories to explain Los Angeles far better than Hollywood’s palm-dappled, hegemonic and heteronormative “Barbie”-esque ideations.The artists of In Media&nbsp;Res&nbsp;have collectively chosen to create 33 pieces of art. As an “angel number” in numerology (the study of the occult significance of numbers), 33 is associated with artistic expression and creativity. This number is also linked to collaboration and the importance of community. As the City of Angels, LA comprises thriving artistic scenes fed by the TV and film industry, video game industry, art world and cult of celebrity. The wide range of mediums, tools and narrative expressions in this exhibition — including analog video, film, animation, AI, game engines and XR — reflect the artists’ navigation of LA’s various creative industries. Despite its competitive nature, LA is home to an extraordinary collaborative spirit, without which FEMMEBIT would not exist.While FEMMEBIT has and will continue to provide in-person events, the pandemic recalibrated support for artists. In this sense, we see on-chain work as a way to not only financially support art created by womxn, femmes and non-binaries, but also to aid in a general understanding of how to buy, display and properly represent digital art. NFTs remain a contentious sticking point for various art industry factions — and indeed, some of our own artists are outspoken critics, and provide us with insight we understand and respect. Nevertheless, NFTs have also created an intersection of digital spaces, of which ours has a place and is worthy of exploration. The work within In Medias&nbsp;Res&nbsp;can be collected with fiat and cryptocurrency. FEMMEBIT is also excited to announce its fiscal sponsorship by Fractured Atlas and our donors will continue to receive non-profit deductions for their donations. These proceeds will help support this digital exhibition, as well as FEMMEBIT’s day-to-day operations. The deadline to reach our goal of $20,000 is August 30th, 2023!&nbsp; Visit femmebit.art/donate to learn more. PRESS FAD Magazine:&nbsp;IN MEDIAS RES, AN EXHIBITION OF NFT ARTWORKS BY FEMINIST AND POST-CYBERFEMINIST ARTISTS WHO REIMAGINE CELLULOID-BASED MEDIA FOR THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEBy Mark Westall • 11 August 2023