{"id":10426,"date":"2018-09-07T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=10426"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:24:23","slug":"travis-ross-06-co-curates-award-winning-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2018\/09\/07\/travis-ross-06-co-curates-award-winning-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Ross \u201906 Co-Curates Award Winning Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/09\/Ross_Traviws.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10427 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/09\/Ross_Traviws-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/09\/Ross_Traviws-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/09\/Ross_Traviws-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/09\/Ross_Traviws.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a>The Western History Association\u2019s Autry Public History Prize is awarded annually to media exhibits, public programs, or written works that contribute to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or served as a model of professional public history practice in the history of the North American West. This year, the award was given to the creators of the \u201cUtah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps\u201d exhibit, including Travis Ross \u201906.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exhibit began with the desire to build a public history and art exhibit around a core collection of rare maps assembled by the local businessman Steve Boulay. On their own, Steve\u2019s collection told a visually compelling story about the cartographic history of western North America, but especially of the region that became Utah\u201d, says Ross. \u201cUtah Drawn uses the familiar and visually-interesting form of the map\u2013\u2013which purports merely to tell the truth\u2013\u2013to explore all the ways that ostensible facts like place names and special relationships are actually perspectives determined by political control, economic interests, and cultural assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following his 2006 graduation from Wabash, Travis earned a PhD in History from the University of Utah. Travis is currently a lecturer at Yale University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.utah.edu\/events-news\/travis-ross-exhibit.php\">University of Utah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western History Association\u2019s Autry Public History Prize is awarded annually to media exhibits, public programs, or written works that contribute to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/09\/Ross_Traviws.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10428,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10426\/revisions\/10428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}