Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science is offering a monthly Women Speaker Series in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote.

Katie Waters, Emerita Professor of Art at the University of Southern Indiana and Active Artist, will speak on Picture This: The Art of the Suffrage Movement at 6 p.m. March 26 at the Museum.

 

Additional speakers and dates:

 

• Thursday, April 16 | 6:00 PM

  Summer El-Khodary, Founder of Cultural Communications

  Topic – Living as a Women Visibly of Color or Religion (Panel Discussion) 

• Thursday, May 7 | 6:00 PM

• Summer El-Khodary, Founder of Cultural Communications

  Topic – Living as a Women Visibly of Color or Religion (Panel Discussion)

• Thursday, July 30 | 6:00 PM 

Dr. Alan Kaiser

Topic – Archaeology and Scandal: The Adventures, Accomplishments, and Secrets of Mary Ellingson 

• Thursday, August 13 | 6:00 PM

Karen Chapman-Shank, Executive Director, Wayne County Historical Society

Ashley Jordan, Executive Director, African American Museum

Mary Bower, Executive Director, Evansville Museum

Topic – Women Executive Director Panel Discussion 

• Thursday, August 27 | 6:30 PM

Roberta Heiman, Retired Evansville Journalist

Topic- Votes for Women-and Then What?: The Untold Story of Evansville’s Suffrage Movement 

• Thursday, September 10 | 6:30 PM

Dr. Denise Lynn, Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana

Topic- Battle for the Ballot: The Long National Fight for Women’s Suffrage 

• Thursday, September 17 | 6:00 PM

Diane Kahlo, Artist and Women Activist

Topic – Femicide in the Juarez Desert  

• Thursday, October 8 | 6:00 PM

Soreyda Begley, Fashion Designer

Topic – The Daily Fight against Injustice  

• Thursday, October 22 | 6:30 PM

Melissa Gentry, Map Collection Supervisor, Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection

Presented in partnership with the Vanderburgh County Historical Society  

Topic-From Seneca Falls to Seymour and South Bend: Mapping Indiana’s Suffrage History 

• Thursday, November 12 | 6:00 PM

Catherine Huff, Coordinator of Exhibitions and Permanent Collections at the High. Juror of the 60th Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum

Topic – Women of the High Museum’s Permanent Collection   

• Saturday, November 14 | 2:00 PM

Amber Gowen, Archivist, Vanderburgh County Clerk’s Office

In conjunction with: History Celebration: A Coming Together of Organizations from the Tri-State

Topic- Stories and personalities of the people involved with the suffrage movement in Evansville. 

The Speaker Series is also in connection with the Exhibit “A Celebration of Women: Presented in 2020 to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage.”

A Century of Art by American Women

As the country celebrates the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States, the Museum has re-installed our permanent collection galleries in 2020 with a special exhibition highlighting images of women from American and European artists from the 3rd through 21st centuries and work by American female artists dating from the 1920s through the present.

This section of the gallery features artists working in the late 19th century and first decades of the 20th century and includes prints by Bertha Jaques, Blanche Dillaye, Frances Gearhart, and photographs by Jane Reece. The exhibition includes signature work by American masters Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson from early in their careers. The Museum’s nationally recognized still life collection is represented with works by accomplished 20th century painters Janet Fish, Janet Monafo, Carol Mothner and Myra Schuetter.

For 60 years, the Evansville Museum has added to its permanent collection by purchasing works of art from our annual regional competition entitled the “Mid-States.” The blind jurying process has resulted in a significantly higher percentage of paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, wood and metal work by women in our permanent collection than the national average of art by women in most museums. The pieces selected for this installation give an overview of the many outstanding female artists from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Ohio represented in the collection.

It is a joy to celebrate this abundance of talent during a monumental anniversary year.

Mary McNamee Bower
The John Streetman Executive Director

Source; Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science