Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Pave The Way skate deck is a maple wood laminate with a green top surface. The bottom has a green and black checkerboard design throughout. Some of the squares have well known LGBTQ performers, athletes and activists. Created by Tara Jepsen, a queer writer and performer and Miriam Klein Stahl, a queer graphic artist and teacher, Pave The Way skateboards celebrates being queer and living life through skate without fear of expressing who you are. Jepsen and Stahl’s board depicts a collection of queer icons who impressed upon them an ethos of acceptance and versatility reflected in their impact on skate culture.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 2018
- ID Number
- 2018.0145.01
- accession number
- 2018.0145
- catalog number
- 2018.0145.01
- Object Name
- skate deck
- skatedeck
- skateboard deck
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 32 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 83.185 cm x 22.225 cm x 5.715 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- National Museum of American History
- name of sport
- skateboarding
- web subject
- LGBTQ Rights
- Subject
- LGBTQ
- Gay Rights
- Record ID
- nmah_1893556
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-1ff7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
