Arts critic Matthew Kangas offers this new round-up of the Whatcom Museum's Spring-Summer exhibition "Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010" which closed recently in mid-August. "Canon Building and the Difference Between Historians and Art Critics" explores the Whatcom exhibit curated by newcomer Barbara Matilsky for her second show at the museum. In context of the 130-year history of art-making by women in the Northwest, Kangas writes about how "Show of Hands" reveals the development and evolution of creative period styles coinciding with the settlement of the Pacific Northwest region and emergent contemporary art expression. Read more in his essay "Canon Building and the Difference Between Historians and Art Critics".