Women's History Month and Trans Visibility Week

"Kinship stories." Guen Montgomery will present a lecture about her work while sharing images from her art practice, which draws inspiration from her rural Appalachian heritage and identity as a femme gay person. She is interested in the complexity and inherent theatricality of real and imagined human characters. She will discuss the performative intricacies of gender, queerness and societal expectations, and the varied identities which haunt the words queer, lesbian, and femme. Through the lens of material culture and her extended family’s fraught relationship to objects, she will explore the complexities of class, consumerism, and the lasting legacy of possessions.