Higher Ground features artwork and archival material from across the Palouse that speaks to the history of, nuance, and manifestations of queer experience in the area. These collected works bring together ephemera, historical photographs, writings, and pieces of art to create a broad view of how queer life has been documented, experienced, and memorialized in the greater Palouse region. Higher Ground moves beyond a simplistic notion of history and representation and speaks to a more serpentine canon of life, history, and art. It embraces the incompletes, the remembrances, the keepsakes, the half-truths, gossips, murmurs, and fleeting moments.

This exhibition is in collaboration with the Washington State University LGBTQ+ Center & the Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections.

The Higher Ground Exhibition will be installed through Queer History Month, October of 2024.

Curated by June T. Sanders & Josie Cohen-Rodriguez

Learn more about the WSU Queer Archives.