Western Mystique at Dorado 805 March 12
806 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA, march 12 - april 2, 2025
featuring: Amelie Laurice, Brittany Kiertzner (Arisawe), Chelsea Wrightson, Gina Teichert, Katie Dorame, Kelly Witmer, Meghan DeRoma, Yanin Ruibal
The Western Mystique reimagines the West beyond its mythic past. The frontier was never just cowboys and conquest; it was a place shaped by the resilience of women whose stories remain largely untold. From Indigenous leaders like Lozen, the Apache warrior and healer, to Biddy Mason, the formerly enslaved woman who built a legacy of landownership and community care in California; from 'Stagecoach Mary,' the first African American woman to work as a U.S. postal carrier in the West, to artists like Agnes Pelton, who sought spiritual transcendence through abstraction; and yes, even 'Calamity Jane'. These women have long transformed the West into a space of reinvention, survival, and quiet revolution.
