Curator’s Cut: An Inside Look at DC’s Suffrage Exhibits
A Roundtable Discussion with DC’s Women’s Suffrage Curators
Live: Wednesday, May 27, 2020. 7:00-8:00pm eastern time
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This webinar was created with our partners at the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, with special introductions by Senator Barbara Mikulski and Martha Jones, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 2020 Co-President.
Exhibit Resources
Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, curator, “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence,” National Portrait Gallery online resources
- Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery exhibition homepage with an overview of the exhibit and a link to selections from the exhibition on the Google Arts and Culture website.
- Women’s Suffrage Museum Exhibits: C-Span 2020. Curators from the National Portrait Gallery, National Archives, and the Library of Congress discussed their institutions’ exhibits commemorating the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. They talked about the creative process behind the exhibits, including determining goals and selecting objects. The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission hosted this event online and provided the video. (brief excerpt below)
Corinne Porter, curator, “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote”
National Archives online resources
- National Archives exhibition homepage includes 7 online exhibits, a 2-minute video about the exhibit, related resources and information about the Traveling Exhibit.
- “Rightfully Hers, American Women and the Vote” Exhibit: 48-minute curator led video from C-Span’s American Artifacts/American History TV with full text transcript and related videos
- “Rightfully Hers” exhibit tour at the National Archives: 8-minute curator-led gallery tour video (below)
Janice Ruth, curator: “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote”
Library of Congress online resources
- Library of Congress Exhibition homepage includes extensive information about their five exhibits, multimedia about the exhibit (with the video below please be patient), and information about related events and online resources including digitized collections.
- Shall Not Be Denied: Women’s Fight for the Vote Exhibit | Library of Congress: overview of the exhibition and details including an Exhibition Tour video.
- Women’s Suffrage Centennial Exhibition | Library of Congress: short video overview of the exhibition and visitors to it. (below)
