About Us
We believe storytelling is a vibrant artistic expression and powerful communication tool within intergenerational communities, holding the ability to expand world views and build bridges of understanding, while reinforcing cultural knowledge.
Mateo and Malinda Galindo
Atomic Culture is a curatorial platform founded by Mateo and Malinda Galindo. Our mission is to collaborate with artists on site-specific projects that reimagine the outlook of our cities.
They were curatorial artists in residence at the Loisaida Center in 2017. Their exhibitions include Ojalá at the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center (2018), Entre Irse y Quedarse at Galeria Merida in Merida (2017), Mexico, and Future Now/Futura Ahora at the Loisiada Center (2017), Turn on/Take Cover, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center (2016), Shapeshifting: Towards Being Seen, Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2019), Re_, reimagine.site (2020) Site specific projects include American Ledger No.2, a score by Raven Chacon (2019), Election Night variety show, State of the Artist: We’re Only Dreaming (2020), Storefront sign by Demian DinéYazhi' Destroy the Myth (2020). Film Series Cinetelechy I, II, III. They have been guest lecturers at New School, Intro to Curating, and panelists in 2016 on Prefigurative Politics on the Eve of the Election at the Vera List Center. In 2019 they were invited to curate a booth at MECA art fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Atomic Culture is currently a 2019-2021 Tulsa Artist Fellow and Integration Grant recipient.
Blackhorse Lowe
Blackhorse Lowe is a filmmaker from the Navajo Nation. His current feature film, FUKRY screened at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media arts festival and many other festivals internationally. CHASING THE LIGHT, his previous feature won the Best Cinematography prize at the Terres en Vues/Land InSights Montreal First Peoples Festival 2016. The film has played to great praise at many domestic and international film festivals such as imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Skabmagovat Film Festival and the Maoriland Film Festival. He is a 2012 Sundance Institute Native Producing Fellow. Lowe’s feature directorial debut 5th WORLD premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and screened at film festivals around the world. He received the New Mexico New Visions Contract Award and Panavision Award for a short film he wrote and directed titled SHIMÁSÁNI. The film premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, as well as other Festivals around the world garnering many awards and accolades along the way. A recipient of a Re:New Media Award, Lowe is an alumni of the Sundance Institute’s NativeLab, Producers Lab and Screenwriters Writers Lab. Lowe also curates an ongoing film series in Albuquerque, New Mexico called CINEDOOM that showcases both edgy and genre-driven indigenous films. Currently he is a 2019 and 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow recipient, writing a variety of genre features and programming film screenings in the Tulsa area.