Chris Vargas
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| IMPERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Julia Bryan-Wilson on Queer and Trans Artists’ Museums | A similar dynamic, in which the museum is utilized by an artist as an instrument capable simultaneously of discipline, coerced revelation, and strategic opacity, is activated in Chris E. Vargas’s Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA), founded in 2013. Across his work,… |
2021-09-17 | |
| Chris E. Vargas on demands for trans+ affirming museums | MOTHA was founded as a conceptual museum in 2013 to highlight trans art and history and engage critically with how transgender people are gaining entry into institutions that have historically excluded them. Initially I didn’t conceive of MOTHA as a real place because it didn’t seem possible to… |
2020-10-13 | |
| Chris E. Vargas on demands for trans+ affirming museums | MOTHA was founded as a conceptual museum in 2013 to highlight trans art and history and engage critically with how transgender people are gaining entry into institutions that have historically excluded them. Initially I didn’t conceive of MOTHA as a real place because it didn’t seem possible to… |
2020-10-13 | |
| MOTHA Is Preserving Transgender Hirstory One City at a Time | Chris E. Vargas’s superpower is prescience. In 2013, a year before Laverne Cox’s TIME cover announced the “transgender tipping point,” the interdisciplinary artist created a black-and-white broadside poster in response to the mainstreaming of the trans community, and how… |
2019-05-20 | |
| Stonewall at Fifty: That But Not That By T Cooper | WWU Associate Art Professor Chris Vargas' artwork "Transgender Hiroes" accompanies "That But Not That," by T Cooper, one of nine personal pieces in Harper Magazine's June 2019 issue; Stonewall at Fifty. |
2019-05-14 | |
| Queer Stories Reign Supreme at the Oakland Museum of California | Videomaker and interdisciplinary artist … |
2019-03-25 | |
| Creating a Body of Work - Creative Exploration in the Fine Arts | 2017-01-04 | ||
| The transgender body in art: finding visibility 'in difficult times like these' | “What’s missing in the conversation about the ‘trans tipping point’ is the fact that the experience is being told, but the means of production are still in the same hands,” says Chris Vargas, the executive director of the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (… |
2016-11-28 | |
| B Gallery Reception Introduces BFA Candidates and Showcases Work | 2016-10-20 | ||
| Creative Capital Awards Nearly $4.4 Million in Arts Grants | Artistic projects that aim to reflect broad cultural conversations about gender, gun violence and race are among those chosen for nearly $4.4 million worth of grants awarded by Creative Capital, the organization announced on Tuesday. The winning projects, 46 in all, each receive $50,000 in… |
2016-01-13 |