Project 42

An International Collaboration created by Molly Vaughan

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Some incredible photographs of @randybaby11 performing at TEDX Seattle yesterday. #tedxseattle2018 #tedx #randyford #tyratrent #transgenderdayofremembrance #transgendervisibility #transartist #seattleartist (at McCaw Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqVAaAOFdiX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v7ylsgwf1jcb

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Only 7 left from the edition. This is the Hand painted and hand printed lithograph I am selling to raise money for the garments in my Ted Talk Nov. 17th. The edition size is small, just 10. Each are Hand coloured by me, not my assistants, and each is hand printed by me on a #takachpress from a photo positive plate. The drawing was created with @procreateapp and printed to a transparency. This was burnt to a photo plate and printed on 140 lb @arches.art hot press water colour paper with #charbonelink and then Hand coloured with #winsorandnewtonwatercolors Flying Ointment, which these deadly plants make, features heavily in the garments for my talk. This drawing is used throughout the garments for the guardians and so though the garments are not available, this print is a great piece of Project 42 history to have. $150 plus tax and shipping Direct Message me for Venmo or PayPal payments Since the edition is Hand coloured there will be some variation each print. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-4N01BGY2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ld02zq1tjwgd

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I am so honored that Project 42 inspires and empowers people. Amanda asked today to wear a piece of Paulina's fabric to an extremely difficult life event. She wanted to remind herself why she was taking this action and how, sadly, Paulina never got the chance.

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Video for yesterday's performance at Seattle Art Fair made in collaboration with Fridman Gallery. 

Project 42: Paulina Ibarra, Los Angeles, CA

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Project 42 is featured today on "Advocate". @randybaby11 @annaconnerartist @pickler_art @jessie.verge @waxdrawing @infinightly @up_my_ali

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Working on the next pattern for an upcoming performance. Buried in here are images of the murder location, building and surrounding landscape, and colours pulled from online documentation of the individual. More to release about who they were and how they passed once our performer has that information.

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This was the finished piece we created for Jade's performance in honor of Lorena Xtravaganza. It was full of textures and colours. Activated at Seattle Art Museum 6/7/18. @infinightly @waxdrawing @pickler_art @artofjelly

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Cross over video and article

A really great article and video came out about our project and the work we are doing at SAM. Please click on the link below to view the article and video.

https://crosscut.com/2018/06/42-garments-honoring-42-trans-lives-lost

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Video about Project42 published by the Seattle Art Museum

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Printing was mighty productive today with @pickler_art We printed some of our needed text fabric and also started some@new fabric for accents in the garments. Our mono printing textures often begin this way. This hair came from a client at the hair salon where @howsyourhair cuts and styles great hair. She was getting half her head shaved and I asked for the hair which she donated happily. #silkscreenprint #monoprint #hair #jacquardink #seattleartist #artistassistant

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It was amazing to have @zolajesus collaborate with Project 42 for my show @seattleartmuseum So excited to share these images with you of Zola in the garment we created to memorialize Myra Ical who was murdered in Texas in 2010. To learn more about Project 42 visit the blog at www.42-lost.tumblr.com

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More progress and ruffles on dress for Lorena Escalera Xtravaganza

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Curating at the studio.

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This 25 foot piece of fabric will feature silkscreen text from a collaboration with Lesley Dill . Dill who has been working with he poetry of Emily Dickinson selected the poem “The Soul has Bandaged Moments” to share with the memory of Lorena Escalera Xtravaganza. Lesley is an American born artist whose works have been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art in NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, the Whitney Museum in NY, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in NY, and many other institutions. She is the recipient of many awards including a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

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Flags from Project 42 on display at Project 106 Space in Seattle, WA

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Today is TDOR and to commentate the day we installed 6 flags from Project 42 at 106 third ave S in Seattle, WA. At sunrise, which was really wet, we had an intimate name reading after installing the flags. Today at sunset we will again have a name reading during de-install. The flags created utilize patterns from the project as a means to continue the process of re-highlighting these murders. Paige Clay, Tiffany Gooden, Mariah Malinda Qualls, Brandy Martell, Tiffany Berry, and Camila Guzman are represented in the flags. This year we have lost 27 trans identifying people.: :Sean Ryan Hake 6 January – trans man • Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow 7 January – trans woman • Mesha Caldwell, 4 January – trans woman • Jojo Striker 8 February – trans woman • Jaquarrius Holland 19 February – trans woman • Tiara Lashaytheboss Richmond 23 February – trans woman • Chyna Doll Dupree, 25 February – trans woman • Ciara McElveen, 27 February – trans woman • Alphonza Watson, 22 March – trans woman • Chay Reed 21 April – trans woman • Kenneth Bostick 4 May – trans man • Sherrell Faulkner 16 May – trans woman • Kenne McFadden, 9 April – trans woman • Kendra Marie Adams 13 June – trans woman • Ava Le’Ray Barrin, 25 June – trans woman • Ebony Morgan, 2 July – trans woman • TeeTee Dangerfield, 31 July – trans woman • Gwenevere River Song 13 August – femandrogyne • Kiwi Herring 22 August – trans woman • Pepper K, aka Phoenix 25 August – trans person • Ally Steinfeld September 3 - trans woman • Kashmire Redd 4 September – trans man • Derricka Banner 12 September – trans woman • Scout Schultz September 16 – non binary intersex • Stephanie Montez 21 October – trans woman • Candace Towns 31 October – trans woman There are many go fund me campaigns to help the families and communities of these individuals. Please consider supporting one. Thank you to all who have supported and continue to support Project 42

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On November 9th I publicly accepted the Betty Bowen Award at the Seattle Art Museum where, traditionally, the artist speaks about their work; however, given the violent nature of Project 42 it seemed only appropriate to share the space with the spirit of a trans individual from the project. To do this I invited three local collaborators to memorialize Fred Martinez, Jr. who was murdered in Cortez, Colorado. 

Each of the collaborators I worked with shared Native American heritage with and chose to represent and, ultimately, connect with Fred in different ways. Natalie Ann Martinez wrote a poem that myself and Amanda Pickler then embroidered onto the memorial garments. To honor Fred, Catherine Cross Uehara performed a fragment of a yucca root shampoo based on the traditional Navajo way demonstrated in the film made by her grandfather "A Fragment of Navajo Life" (1940 - Alexander H. Leighton, used by permission of the Farmington Museum) . While wearing her wedding kimono along with the dress we made for Fred, Catherine with the help of Amanda, incorporated portable shrines and offerings for Fred, pounded locally sourced yucca root to be used in a symbolic hair washing, an action founded in Dinè tradition while the film projected across the wall. 

Project 42 is hoping to return to memorializing Fred at a later date and to include a larger group of local Indigenous artists. Included are the photos we have currently of the performance taken by Saya Moriyasu.

Learn more:

Alexander H. Leighton; The Harvard Gazett

Dorothea Cross Leighton; Works and Publications