20/20 Vision: Seeing HERstory Exhibition

See my mom, Dr. M. René Johnson, featured in a video in the "Nevertheless" gallery!

Image credit: Midland Center for the Arts

 JAN 25 – APR 26
On display in the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art

https://www.mcfta.org/perspectives1920/
https://www.mcfta.org/alden-b-dow-museum-of-science-and-art/current-exhibitions/

Info from MCFTA website:
Explore 20/20 Vision: Seeing HERstory as we take an in-depth view of women’s contributions to the nation and the local community that shaped the last 100 years in the U.S. See the portraits of and learn about local Michigan women making a difference today and the change makers of tomorrow. Museum admission required.
Exhibition Curator / Jennifer Vannette, Ph.D.
Sponsored by / Kevin and Jenny Kendrick Charitable Giving Fund, Randi and Tsune (Tsuneharu) Kawakita and Larry and Ellie Schroeder

Simultaneous exhibit:

Redefining Representation: The Women of the 116th Congress Exhibit

JAN 25 – MAR 29
On display in the AB Dow Museum

Just over a century ago, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won a seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the first woman ever elected to federal office. In 1917, 128 years after the first United States Congress convened, she was sworn into its 65th session. One hundred and two years later, one has become 131 — the number of women serving in both chambers of the 116th Congress for 2019-2020.
This exhibit of portraits, first published as its own 16-page section in the New York Times in January 2019, features striking images of the women who now serve in the House and Senate. Internationally-renowned photographers Elizabeth Herman and Celeste Sloman turn the traditionally male art form of portraiture on its head and evoke the imagery we are used to seeing in the halls of power, but place people not previously seen as powerful starkly in the frames.  Museum admission required.

 

View the exhibit VIRTUALLY:

https://www.midlandcenter.org/virtualexhibit