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Shaun Huston, professor of Geography and Film Studies at Western Oregon University, created Visualizing the West to provide a forum for artists and scholars interested in Western cultural identity and representations of the region. A collaborative project, the site features a wiki reference of sources about the West, a blog by Huston, and an exhibit of images related to the western US and Canada.
The exhibit area, Original Visualizations, will become a public space for artists and researchers to explore the idea of regional identity through photo essays, multimedia installations, and the blending of text and imagery.
Huston’s effort to nurture collaboration between academics, artists, and community members has tremendous promise. On one level, it brings to mind the explosion of cultural and regional studies in the 1960s and 1970s, when the merger of literature, art, social awareness, and research created new ways of interpreting the modern experience. Huston’s project, however, will make this exploration more accessible to both contributors and readers, allowing regional identity to be examined in a wide variety of ways and making the research more available to the public.
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. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
