Many Wests is an exhibition focused on what gets left out of stories traditionally told about the American West. Visions of Anglo Americans bravely settling the landscape originate, as we learn from the exhibition’s didactic material, with the U.S. government’s policy of unhalted territorial expansion beginning at the end of the seventeenth century.
Currently on view at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition titled “Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea.” This collaborative exhibition takes a critical look at Western narratives and who those narratives have historically amplified or silenced. Devoted to Affirming Inclusivity The UMFA recently welcomed a new senior curator: Alisa.