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Home *Resist. Protest. Obstruct. Inform., Arts, Arts & Entertainment, SAM, Seattle Transgender Scene, Trans* EventsJono Vaughan’s “Project 42” Closes August 5th at SAM

Jono Vaughan’s “Project 42” Closes August 5th at SAM

July 23, 2018• byMichael Strangeways
Installation view of Project 42: Jono Vaughan at the Seattle Art Museum. © Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Natali Wiseman.

Installation view of Project 42: Jono Vaughan at the Seattle Art Museum. © Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Natali Wiseman.

It’s your final 2 weeks to see the incredible  Project 42: Jono Vaughan exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. Area artist Jono Vaughan honors transgender lives lost to violence in a multidisciplinary project that centers on garments that pay tribute to an actual life lost. 

This amazing show closes on August 5th. Some more info:

 

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum: Project 42: Jono Vaughan (April 21–August 5, 2018).

Seattle-based artist Jono Vaughan’s series Project 42 addresses the pattern of violence against transgender people in the United States, providing both a form of memorialization and an entry point for engagement and discussion. Begun in 2012, the project’s name is taken from the short life expectancy of transgender individuals in the United States, which the artist estimates is forty-two years, based—in lieu of official census data, which excludes trans identities—on third-party texts and research. Eventually the artist plans to make forty-two individual works.

Each of the three dresses in this exhibition memorializes the life and death of a transgender person who was murdered: Myra Ical, Deja Jones, and Lorena Escalera Xtravaganza. Vaughan alters images of the murder locations and turns them into abstract textile prints, which she then sews into a garment. The style of the garment is inspired by the life and history of the individuals. A collaborator wears each dress in a performance that commemorates and celebrates the individual, an act that Vaughan describes as “the returning of humanity and the sharing of missed opportunities.”

Jono Vaughan is the 2017 Betty Bowen Award winner. The namesake of this distinguished award, Betty Bowen (1918–1977), was a Washington native and enthusiastic supporter of Northwest artists. Her friends established the annual award after her death to celebrate and continue her legacy of supporting artists of the region. Since 1977, the Seattle Art Museum has hosted the yearly grant application process by which the selection committee chooses one artist from Washington, Oregon, or Idaho to receive an unrestricted cash award.

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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