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Autry National Center Features Painting by Elizabeth (Buff) Elting in its Groundbreaking Exhibition about How Women Shaped the West Across Cultures and Times
Home Lands: How Women Made the West.
April 16 through August 22, 2010, Los Angeles, CA.
The Autry National Center opens new major exhibit celebrating enduring spirit of the diverse women of the West.
LOS ANGELES, CA, April 22, 2010 /Art and Artists PR News/ -- On April 15, 2010 Colorado-based artist Elizabeth (Buff) Elting, was an honored guest at the Autry National Center's elegant members-only reception to officially open its recently organized "Home Lands: How Women Made the West", a major exhibition celebrating the enduring spirit of the diverse women of the West. Home Lands carries the viewer far beyond standard perceptions of the West as an empty wilderness where white men struggled against nature to transform the land and instead, offers a dynamic, authentic portrait of the West from a less familiar perspective. Bucking tradition, Home Lands challenges stereotypes of women's roles by sharing the stories of the earliest Native American women who first made their homes in the region, as well as the countless women, from many different cultures, who have migrated to the West for hundreds of years. This dynamic re-thinking of the history of the West is sure to open eyes and inspire new ideas about women as well as the history of the American West. The exhibit is on view at the Autry through August 22, 2010.
"The Autry is proud to organize and present 'Home Lands'," said John Gray, President and CEO of the Autry National Center. "It is our mission to explore the experience of the diverse people of the American West and this provocative exhibition conveys how women have shaped the Western landscape through choices about how to sustain home, family, and community."
Co-curated by Carolyn Brucken, Associate Curator of Women's History at the Autry, and Virginia Scharff, Women of the West Chair, Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry, Home Lands focuses on three regions: northern New Mexico, the Colorado Front Range, and Puget Sound, Washington. Exploring a specific theme for each place—earth for Northern New Mexico; transportation for the Colorado Front Range; and water for Puget Sound— the exhibition highlights the West's remarkable cultural diversity; the role of the environment in women's lives; and the ways in which women responded to and inevitably shaped their environs.
"The history of the American West is often a male-dominated story. By examining the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal Western landscapes, 'Home Lands' explores not just what women have done, but why it matters for the West—past present, and future," said the exhibition curators, Brucken and Scharff. "We believe that seeing women in history makes history look different."
"Home Lands" challenges stereotypes of the Western woman, illustrating the extraordinary stories of numerous actual living and historical women with nearly 200 objects - from an ancient Mogollon metate (grinding stone) to a 20th century station wagon - spanning over 1,200 years. The visually stunning exhibition design by Los Angeles-based design firm M/M (Christopher Muñiz and Tim McNeil) creates an immersive experience for the senses.
The painting "Where The Sea Used To Be" by Elizabeth (Buff) Elting is highlighted in the exhibit alongside the work of other renowned women artists including painter Georgia O'Keefe, painter Eve Drewlowe, photographer Laura Gilpin and Pueblo potter Maria Martinez. Elting's painting suggests a modern-day "circling of the wagons" and bears witness to the profound impact of the automobile on the lives of American women, their families and the land. "Where The Sea Used To Be" was also selected by the exhibition's curators and co-authors Carolyn Brucken and Virginia Scharff for the cover of the accompanying 192-page fully illustrated book, also titled "Home Lands: How Women Made the West," which has just been published by University of California Press. The book is currently available online and will be sold in bookstores nationally as well at the Autry Museum store.
Exhibition Tour:
October 2010 through January 2011: Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; February through May 2011: Gilcrease Museum of the Americas, Tulsa, Oklahoma; June through September 2011: Palace of the Governors, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Contact: Buff Elting Phone: 303-242-5454 Cell Ph: 303-521-1989 Fax: 303-444-8728 Email: buffelting2@gmail.com www.buffelting.com
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