Dual Closing Reception: Womens Rights and Black Suffragettes

Dual Closing Reception: Thursday, February 2 | 4:30–6:30 p.m. | Carol Grillo Gallery Women’s Rights are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination Featuring posters created by both men and women works in this exhibit celebrates and promotes human rights—while actively challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing sexual and reproductive rights, and protecting women and girls against brutality. In their collective visual voice, these posters promote women’s empowerment and participation in society while challenging religious and cultural norms and patriarchal attitudes that subordinate, stigmatize or restrict women from achieving their fullest potential. Organized and curated by: Elizabeth Resnick, Professor Emerita, Graphic Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston A Tower of Strength: Black Women of the Suffrage Movement This exhibit celebrates the remarkable black women in history who paved the way for Shirley Chisolm, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, Ayanna Pressley and so many more. Pieces highlight the contributions of Black Suffragettes, such as Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida B. Wells made towards the Women’s Suffrage Movement as a whole. This traveling exhibit is presented in partnership with North Shore Juneteenth Association Inc.