Britt Westveer

My name is Britt, she/her, and I’m a Milwaukee, WI-based multidisciplinary artist with a focus on textiles and photography. My work evokes both the past and the present, with a heavy emphasis on identity. I’m currently exploring these themes by researching the erasure of women and non-binary people’s history during the ‘Old West’ in the early to mid-1800s. Through the use of my storytelling, photographs and found imagery, I want to demystify the fables of the west. As well as generate a discussion about people who identify as women or non-binary during a time that has been consistently populated with cis-male-centered folklore and glamorization.