Women's History Consortium
Women's Votes, Women's Voices
Washington Women's Suffrage Centennial Exhibit
Yakima Valley Museum
February 11, 2010-June 20, 2010
Washington State celebrates its centennial of permanent women's suffrage in 2009-2010. This exhibit highlights the history
of the struggle to attain women's right to vote in Washington State and illuminate how women's voting influenced territorial
and state history as well. The exhibit tells the story of how women from various ethnic and economic groups have achieved a
voice in public life, despite barriers through organizing and activism. The exhibit stresses how suffrage was a springboard
to women's achievements throughout Washington's history and extending into the present, how women organizing for change have
made a difference in Washington. The exhibit is co-curated by the Washington State Historical Society and the Northwest Museum
of Arts & Culture. Information about a smaller traveling exhibit based upon the larger exhibit is available at
http://www.washingtonhistory.org/heritageServices/traveling_exhibits.aspx.
The full schedule of events for the Yakima Valley Museum exhibit is also available.
Suffer for Beauty
March 8, 2010
Patricia Cosgrove, Director of the White River Museum, Auburn will present “Suffer for Beauty, Revealing Washington Women’s History through the Study of Undergarments.”
“Suffer for Beauty” explores the history of women’s undergarments and tells the story of what women have done to accommodate the changing norms of beauty. The audience will see historic photographs of local women, national fashion trend setters, and hands on examples of historic undergarments.
You are invited to the opening of a new exhibit “From Parlor to Podium: Territorial Suffragists of Olympia,” at the State Capital Museum, 211 21st Avenue SW in Olympia, on Saturday, March 13, 2010 from 1 to 3 p.m. As part of the program we will be honoring descendants of those brave Olympia-area suffragists featured in the exhibit who were vital to the suffrage movement as well as other activities.
The Women of Grays Harbor
The Aberdeen Museum of History 111 East Third Street Aberdeen, WA
March 21, 2010
The Women of Grays Harbor, the second in a series of Living Histories.
Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010
Whatcom Museum,
121 Prospect Street, Bellingham, WA 98225
April 24, 2010-August 8, 2010
Featuring more than 90 works of art by 63 women artists from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, Show of Hands opens April 24 at the Whatcom Museum‟s Lightcatcher building. Celebrating women‟s contributions to the legacy of Northwest art, this unprecedented gathering of women artists examines the myriad talents women of the Northwest have displayed in all media since 1880.
A copy of the
press release and
list of artists with accompanying images are also vailable.
For more information contact Barbara Matilsky at 360-778-8966 or via email: bcmatilsky@cob.org
Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage to Seneca Falls, NY
Senca Falls, New York
July 14, 2010 - July 19, 2010
Travel with Washington State Historical Society Director and Seneca Falls, NY native, David Nicandri, and Women's History Consortium Coordinator and
Women's Votes, Women's Voices: The Campaign for Equal Rights in Washington author Shanna Stevenson, for a women’s suffrage pilgrimage to the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls.
Dave and Shanna will lead a six-day tour to commemorate the 100th anniversary of equal voting rights for Washington women. The tour is timed so attendees can be in the heart of the birthplace of the suffrage movement during the annual Convention Days Festival that honors the first women’s rights convention, held in July 1848.
For $999 per person, this trip includes more than a dozen attractions in New York's spectacular Finger Lakes region, land transportation, most meals, five nights lodging, taxes, insurance, and more. Airfare is not included.
For more information, contact Kathleen Tansey, Travel Leaders-Travel Center agent, at 253-630-7755 or Kathleen@travelcenter4u.com.
Pacific Northwest History Conference
Spokane
November 3-5, 2010
Save the dates!
The
Washington State Historical Society (WSHS)
and the
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (NWMAC)
are jointly planning a women's history-themed Pacific Northwest History Conference November 3-5, 2010, in Spokane. The conference, part of the commemoration of the centennial of women's right to vote in Washington in 2010, will highlight all aspects of women's history in the region. For more information contact program chairs Shanna Stevenson, Coordinator, Washington Women's History Consortium, at
sstevenson@wshs.wa.gov, 360-586-0171 or Marsha Rooney, Senior Curator of History, NWMAC at
marshar@northwestmuseum.org 509-363-5309. More information will be available on this site in early 2010.