The following syllabus is intended to introduce central topics and methods from transgender studies to art history. It proposes some ways that art and art history鈥檚 key themes might be reimagined.
Expanding eastwards, in counterflow to the directional history of Manifest Destiny, I recently drove to Lost Nation, Iowa before turning north and then back to the west by way of Downer, Minnesota; Donnybrook, North Dakota; and Funk, Nebraska.
This summer, the Midwest is getting a little taste of Texas: it was recently announced that Wichita Falls-based artist B.C. Gilbert has been named the University of Nebraska-Lincoln鈥檚 Great Plains Art Museum 2016 Artist-in-Residence.