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Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, a temporary monument to dreams in the dust

Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, a temporary monument to dreams in the dust is a public work originally installed for the inaugural Bullfrog Biennial at the Goldwell Open Air Museum in October 2019. The piece memorializes a 1980s dream to establish “Stonewall Park,” a gay utopian effort aimed for Rhyolite, NV, a piece of deserted mining country that lies between Death Valley National Park and the Nevada Test Site.

Volume 1, Place, ArtEngaging CollectionsJuly 31, 2020artist's archives, Community Archiving, Community-Based Approaches to Archives, queer archives, Rhyolite, Memorial, monuments, queer art, lesbian art, art, Public Art, archive

How the West was Lost: On Archiving Sex in the Mountain West

During my visit to One Archives in LA last summer, I found a wide range of materials across lines of class, sexuality, gender expression, and race, however there are still gaps in representation: there is less working class material and the collection still favours big coastal cities.