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Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

Grand Rapids Art Museum 101 Monroe Center, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

The exhibition presents over 125 rarely-exhibited Newcomb ceramics, tableware, jewelry, textiles, bookbinding, and graphics, from one of the most remarkable collections of 20th century American pottery. Between 1894 and 1948, some of the most beautiful and functional art objects of the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements were created at the Newcomb Pottery Enterprise […]

No Más Bebés

Cook-Dewitt Auditorium, GVSU Allendale Campus 10720 S Campus Dr, Allendale, MI, United States

The Latin American Studies & The Women's Center at Grand Valley State University present: No Más Bebés, a documentary about Los Angeles County General Hospital's sterilization abuse against Latinas. The film tells the story of Madrigal v. Quilligan, a historic lawsuit filed by 10 Mexican-American women who had been sterilized in the early '70s after […]

The Second Line of Defense: Grand Rapids Women and the Great War

Ryerson Auditorium, Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

Presenter: Melissa Fox, President, Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council Upon U.S. entry into WWI, national women's groups transformed their organizational structures for war work. Grand Rapids women are among the midwestern leaders whose pioneering efforts have been too long neglected. Get ahead of history--credit them! Co-sponsored by the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council, […]