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WWU faculty, alums collaborate on new display at the Museum of Northwest Art 2024-01-17
Western’s Sound.Out.Radio makes music for night owls, literally 2023-01-10
Art and Art History's Daniel Coslett co-produces new anthology 2021-12-01
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
Art's Ryan Kelly interviewed on the "Tales of a Red Clay Rambler" podcast 2021-04-26
Western to launch new Museum Studies minor this fall 2021-04-22
Western's Art 306 Class Contributes to COVID-Themed Exhibition in Vancouver BC 2020-11-30
Western's Art 306 Class Contributes to COVID-Themed Exhibition in Vancouver BC 2020-11-30
Art History Prof. Jimena Berzal de Dios publishes "Chthonic Restitutions: Madness and Oblivion" 2020-11-25
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
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