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Artist Talk: Molly Vaughan
Artist Talk | Molly Vaughan
Since 2012, Seattle artist Molly Vaughan has utilized her multi module approach to art-production to honor the lives of murdered transgender and gender non-conforming Americans with a series of works called Project 42. Through the creation of garments and diverse collaborative memorial actions, Vaughan raises awareness of the violence that transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, particularly trans women and trans femmes of color, face in contemporary American society with “42” referencing a symbolic average lifespan of someone in this community.
Vaughan’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 2024, she represented the state of Washington at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as part of their international triennial series Women to Watch. Her performance work Over, Under, Over: Intertwined Experiences in a Transgender Age was hosted at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg in 2015. Her Lecture on Project 42 and how the effects of continuing this work during an unprecedented time of anti-trans legislation marks her return to the MFA.
Artist Talk: Molly Vaughan
Thursday, November 21, 2024
6:00 PM–7:15 PM
Marly Room
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg FL 33701
Free for MFA Members; $15 for Not-Yet-Members (Youth 17 and under are Free!)
Program ticket includes Art After Dark admission from 5:00 PM–8:00 PM
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ABOUT MOLLY JAE VAUGHAN
Molly Jae Vaughan (b. 1977 London, UK) holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions including Molly Vaughan: Project 42 at Seattle Art Museum, Molly Vaughan: Project 42 at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, After Boucher: Boren Banner Series at the Frye Museum of Art, Site of Struggle at The Block Museum of Fine Art, and MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas Present: Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects at the Henry Art Gallery.
Vaughan was the recipient of the Betty Bowen Award in 2017. She has received grants from Art Matters Foundation, 4 Culture, and the National Performance Network. Her work has been featured in The Advocate, Surface Design Journal, New American Paintings and Transgender Studies Quarterly. Vaughan’s work is included in the collections of Seattle Art Museum, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Frye Museum of Art, the Block Museum, The Henry Art Gallery, and the Stanley Museum of Art.
Vaughan represented Washington State at the National Museum of Women in the Arts for the survey exhibition New Worlds – Women to Watch in 2024.
She is currently a Professor of Art at Bellevue College in Bellevue, WA.
Learn more about Molly Vaughan and Project 42 at fineartvaughan.com.
Photo Credit
Credit: Eva Broekema, 2022
Image Source: State of Fashion Biennial, Ways of Seeing, Arnheim, Netherlands, Holland, 2022
