Ayagaurluanga New York-ami-qaa
Media: Audio, Sound, Music Composition
Date: 2017
Collaborator: Gary Beaver (singer / drummer)
Themes: Cultural Exchange, Migration, Finding Commonalities
Description: In October 2017, Gary Beaver travelled from Kasigluk, Alaska to Dreamers Welcome in Brooklyn, New York and collaborated with Bozeman on original music compositions combining Yupʼik language and electronic sound. As it was Beaver’s first time in New York (he had never been east of Washington State), he and Bozeman began their collaboration by finding through lines based on Beaver’s observed first impressions of commonalities and differences between their two cultures within the U.S. Over the course of a month, Beaver and Bozeman centralized their processes on these lists of through lines and collaborated on lyrics, language, and experimental music. Kasigluk is a native Yupʼik village in western Alaska situated along the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta’s Johnson River, has approx. 100 households (pop.500), and is only accessible by plane or boat. Dreamers Welcome is situated on the East River in Brooklyn, is one of ~100 units within 475 Kent Ave., and is next to the South Williamsburg Ferry. Beaver, in staying with the tradition of Eskimo culture of telling stories through song, wrote sentences about traveling to and walking in New York. Beaver and Bozeman selected these sentences for Bozeman to produce into an original song. Bozeman recorded Beaver performing on a traditional Yup'ik drum and singing. Bozeman then converted the recordings of drums and vocals to sampler instruments in order to produce, arrange, and record ‘Ayagaurluanga New York-ami-qaa’ (Traveling to New York).
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This Place/This Sound - Immersive Exchange Initiative I : GUSTAVUS Alaska
Media: Audio, Video, Dance
Date: 2015
Collaborators: Hank Lenfter (naturalist), Sarah Campen (dancer) , & Sarah Conarro (visual artist)
Themes: Environment
Description: Bozeman accompanied naturalist Hank Lentfer on an early morning field recording session, gathering sounds of Glacier Bay National Park in Gustavus, Alaska wildlife for the National Library of Natural Sounds at Cornell University. Bozeman inserted these sounds into a sampler and generated a composition with these sounds. Alaskan Dancer Sarah Campen choreographed a dance to the composition and performed it in Gustavus, AK. Campen then traveled to Dreamers Welcome in Brooklyn, New York to dance part 2 of her piece while working with Bozeman and Sarah Conarro. Campen and Conarro completed the circle back in Gustavus AK with this final video and Campen's final performance.
Media: Video, Hand-painted Animation
Date: 2020
Collaborators: Ping Chong Company
Themes: Cultural Heritage, Migration, Environment, Transboundary River Rights
Description: When the Salmon Spoke is a digital production featuring life stories from community members of the Stikine River. This project connects coastal Tlingit and Haida communities and inland Tahltan communities of Alaska and British Columbia. Drawn together by shared concern over the threats of climate change, a modern-day Gold Rush in northern British Columbia, and declining wild salmon populations, Stikine River Indigenous peoples are seeking reconnection and shared solutions.
To successfully communicate these complex storylines and histories, Bozeman worked in collaboration with Sarah Conarro to produce a stop motion of the maps of the Alaska / Canada border. This animation was the used throughout the film to depictswhat each interviewee describes, offering a visual bridge to help viewers understand the complex topics being shared verbally.
When the Salmon Spoke
Media: Installation, Projections, Painting, Sound
Collaborators: Hank Moore (singer / songwriter / music educator) & Sarah Conarro (visual arts educator)
Themes: Water, Environment
Date: 2021
Description: With “things we all need” as the theme, Bozeman worked with Hank Moore and Sarah Conarro in collaboration with young artists from The Painted Cloud to create this multimedia piece about the collective need for sunshine, water, and dreams. Bozeman utlized the paintings made by Conarro and young artists to create immersive projections that they danced and moved around in while listening their voices on the track Something We All Need (Sunshine / Water / Dreams).
Something We All Need (Sunshine / Water / Dreams)
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Media: Collage, Video
Collaborators: Sarah Conarro (visual arts educator)
Themes: Cultural Exchange, Gentrification, Habits of Mind
Date: 2013-2014
Description: In Juneau, Alaska two hundred middle schools students of Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School and one hundred and fifty students at Gastineau Elementary School worked with Bozeman and collaborator artist Sarah Conarro by answering the question, "What Is One Important Place to You in Juneau?" The objectives of the place-based project were to facilitate students in practicing dialogue and find commonalities they share in regards to their own community. The city of Juneau faces a housing crisis with increasing costs and limited options for low-income residents. Recent history includes traumatic actions that students' families experienced, such as in 1962, Douglas Village (less than a mile from Gastineau Elementary) was purposely burned down by the city government while many villagers were at their fish camp on the Taku River in order to seize the land for a harbor project. The shockwaves are still present as youth grow up with current tensions and tensions connected to their families’ pasts. When approaching this seemingly simple topic of naming important places, students found commonality. The students made individual collages centering on color and shape to the place they chose. The middle school students then worked with Bozeman on learning about the technical process of video making, learning about video feedback, and using robotically-controlled cameras. The elementary schoolers explored flashlights combined with video techniques. Students worked collaboratively on creating a video map to be able to digitally share their project. This fostered positive connection and increased accessibility to families and community.
Alaska Experimental Map Project
Media: Mural
Collaborators: Sarah Conarro (visual artist)
Themes: Public Health, Habits of Mind
Date: 2025
Description: Bozeman and collaborator Sarah Conarro teamed with public health administrators in Nalerigu, Ghana to develop their Public Health building . The public health administrators and health care workers are focused on raising awareness of pre- and postnatal health for their community. They wanted to centralize imagery of destigmatizing ideas regarding men not being masculine if supporting their partners in aspexts of the pregnancy and infant time. They also wanted to raise awareness that being specific with diet will have longterm effects on a baby. Becuase there are many languages in the area, the request was for imagery of readily available local food and crops that are positive choices for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. Within the painting process, Bozeman and Conarro worked with local teachers and teacher trainees on How Tos for painting. This included logistics for planning imagery to technical art lessons such as color theory. Teachers participated to add to their community and also to gain knowledge to use in their own classroom. Together, Bozeman, Conarro, and local teachers invited youth to join the painting process on the community mural on the outside and inside of the building.
Healthy, Strong, and Intelligent
Media: Watercolor, Video, Song
Collaborators: Sarah Conarro (visual artist)
Themes: Social-emotional learning, Habits of Mind
Date: 2024
Description: In conjunction with the U.S. presidential elections in fall 2024, Bozeman and collaborator Sarah Conarro lead a project with young artists centered on the concept 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘉𝘺 𝘈𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴. Young artists began gathering information by asking questions & listenting to answers about sounds & colors with the objective of observing & exploring relationships.
Within the process, Bozeman worked with young artists in their urban environment to record “found sounds”. Using these sounds, Bozeman lead young artists into transferring these sounds into percussive elements which young artists used to make a looping sound piece as a backtrack to the audio recording of young artists saying “𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘉𝘺 𝘈𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴”.
Vocabulary exercised : ~Relationship→the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected || ~Isolation→the state of being alone ||~Collective→acting as a group ||~Composition→a whole or mixture
Relationships observed/explored: ~sounds found in our environment || ~colors of paint interacting
Questions asked about sound: ~Isolation→What happens when an every day sound like opening a door is isolated? || ~Collective→What happens when we put our different found sounds (doors opening, feet on pavement…) together in a composition? What happens if we add our voices to the composition?
Questions asked about Color: ~Isolation→What happens when one big puddle of color stands alone on the page? || ~Collective→ What happens if wet painted colors are by wet painted colors -or- new paint is dropped on the page like rain? What happens if I change the composition & add different sizes of paint puddles?
Methods of considering answers:~Isolation→reflection drawing & observation || ~Collective→critique
Relationship
Media: Wood, Paint, Plants
Collaborators: Sarah Conarro (visual artist)
Themes: Environment, Mental Health
Date: 2024
Description: Bozeman designed and built an ongoing series of wood works linking practical life and meditation by combining utilitarian materials with fine art. The woodworks are made of wood, paper, paint, and incorporate commonplace objects such as mirrors, candles and plants. The works are developed with two presentation formats in mind. Combined together, the pieces create a flowing and complete installation. Independently, each piece maintains its own function and simple beauty while still retaining the magic of the whole.
Growth Potential
You and Me (Me and You)
Media: Mural, Book, Video, Song
Collaborators: Sarah Conarro (visual artist)
Date: 2024-2025
Description: During the 2024-2025 academic year, educators and students at PS018 worked on a multidisciplinary project combining visual arts, music, and video. To begin, Bozeman and collaborator Sarah Conarro gathered information in two ways. 1) They met with educators and staff at PS18 to hear educators share curriculum vocabulary and classroom themes that they are emphasizing in their classrooms. 2) They sent a questionnaire to PS18 families asking fun-yet-personal questions about their children (such as positive traits and terms of endearment) as well as cultural heritage questions (ie what foods do they eat at home that are attached to their heritage).
Through exploring that data of families’ answers, Bozeman and Conarro mapped students’ commonalities and connection to one another. Combining this information with teachers’ curriculum desires, they worked with students K-5 to create:
a collaborative mural in their school commons depicting graphs that represent all PS18 caregivers’ answers to fun-yet-personal questions about their children (such as positive traits and terms of endearment)
a school song You and Me / Me and You incorporating all of the positive traits offered by families about their children
a music video for You and Me / Me and You using a green screen and hd video cameras to capture one another singing and dancing, as well as feature the mural.
The project was made possible through the support of the Arts for Multilingual Learners grant program from the NYC DOE.
To learn more about the project, click here.
New Projectors
Media: Mirror, Projector, Wood, Video
Themes: Environment / Light, Habits of Mind
Date: 2018
Description: “New Projector” is a video-light-bending new media sculptural installations developed to explore technologies role in the environment and mental health. Technology’s pros are coupled with its toll on mental health — “New Projector” is an exploration of employing technology to create an immersive, interactive, psychedelic, and beautiful environment. Paired with a meditative soundscape composed by Bozeman, the light, sound, and vibe, the goal of the work is to bring any viewer to a meditative mental state, one that is related to how one feels when enjoying the night sky.
