Museum of Culture and Environment
Honoring Transgender Day of Remembrance with Stories from Transrural Lives
Museum of Culture and Environment 1200 N. D St., Ellensburg, WA, United StatesPlease join the CWU Museum of Culture & Environment (MCE) as we partner with TransRural Lives, a community-rooted digital storytelling project, funded in part by a Humanities Washington Stories Fund Grant, that explores and celebrates the rich lives of rural Transgender adults. We'll mark the loss of trans and gender-diverse people and create a space… Continue Reading Honoring Transgender Day of Remembrance with Stories from Transrural Lives
Cultural Appropriation: A Roundtable
Museum of Culture and Environment 1200 N. D St., Ellensburg, WA, United StatesWhat is “cultural appropriation”? Can the use of cultural designs, materials, or techniques that are not from your own community ever be “appreciative” and respectful? To discuss this, we have invited scholars from throughout our community to gather together and have a conversation about cultural appropriation, what it is, why it is harmful, and how… Continue Reading Cultural Appropriation: A Roundtable
Heroes Unheralded: Stories from Nisei World War II Veterans and their Families
Museum of Culture and Environment 1200 N. D St., Ellensburg, WA, United StatesOn May 11 at 6:30 PM the CWU Museum of Culture & Environment welcomes Dr. Linda Tamura, Professor of Education Emerita, Willamette University. She will address American World War II veterans of Japanese ancestry, their unwelcome return home, and how communities have moved forward to honor them and address past wrongs. This research is rooted… Continue Reading Heroes Unheralded: Stories from Nisei World War II Veterans and their Families
Hanford Reach: In the Atomic Field
Museum of Culture and Environment 1200 N. D St., Ellensburg, WA, United StatesHanford Nuclear Reservation is one of the most radioactive places on the planet. It is a terrain teeming with life, and it has long been a source of destruction. On Thursday April 13 at 5:30 PM, the CWU Museum of Culture & Environment (MCE) will host the panel “In the Atomic Field: The Long Reach… Continue Reading Hanford Reach: In the Atomic Field
Sap In Their Veins: A Conversation with Photographer David Paul Bayles
Museum of Culture and Environment 1200 N. D St., Ellensburg, WA, United StatesDavid Paul Bayles is a photographer, a former logger, and an environmentalist whose work is featured in the exhibit Sap In Their Veins (currently on display at the CWU Museum of Culture & Environment). Through photographs and oral histories of loggers in the wake of the Pacific Northwest’s “Spotted Owl Wars,” Bayles asks us to… Continue Reading Sap In Their Veins: A Conversation with Photographer David Paul Bayles
