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Imagined Wests: Painting a Multilayered Picture of the West
The Autry Museum is working to recontextualize a large mural, dating from the 1980s.
Southern California’s Autry Museum of the American West is working to recontextualize a large mural, dating from the Disney Imagineers-designed museum's opening in the 1980s. It depicts a widely accepted mythology of the West, which prioritizes white settler colonialism at the expense of other perspectives including those of Native Americans, Black settlers, Asian Americans and women.
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The American West has always been a national and international place for stories, good, bad and ugly. Today, storytellers and storytelling industries are upending and reevaluating which stories and which characters they place at the center of histories, legends, fictions and works of art.
A self-taught folk artist, Karen Collins and her collection of miniatures tell important stories about the struggles and triumphs of the Black community.
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The Autry Museum Mural and Imagined Wests (Clip)
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Countering Whitewashed Ideas of the West (Clip)
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How to Present Harmful History (Clip)
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