“WE DISSENT… Design of the Women’s Movement in New York” Exhibition
Cooper Union (41 Cooper Square)
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WE DISSENT… Design of the Women’s Movement in New York considers more than 150 years of feminist artifacts. Showcasing a diversity of printed matter and other materials including engravings, posters, brochures, journals, magazines, T-shirts, buttons, and more that were created by women artists and designers from the 1860s to today, the exhibition includes more than 200 artifacts by women artists rarely seen and shown in order to reconsider the contributions of women to social unity and justice. The exhibition expands our knowledge of the history of women and of the relationship between feminism and political action and reminds us that much of the issues facing women are vestiges from past centuries that remain daily realities.
The exhibition includes work by and from Sisters of the Black Panthers Party, Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!), Jane Dickson, Alice Donlevy, The Feminists, The Feminist Press, fierce pussy, Firebrand, Guerrilla Girls, Heresies, Jenny Holzer, Interference Archive, The Lesbian Herstory Archives, Madame Binh Graphics Collective (MBGC), Ms. Magazine, Su Negrin, New York Radical Women, Redstockings, Red Women’s Detachment, Faith Ringgold, Salsa Soul Sisters, Third World Women’s Alliance, WIRE (Women’s International Resource Exchange), Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), and WITCH (Women International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) among others.
Stéphanie Jeanjean, adjunct assistant professor of art history in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union,and Alexander Tochilovsky, curator of the school’s The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, co-curated the exhibition.
Curator Bios: Stéphanie Jeanjean, Ph.D., is an art historian, curator, and translator, who currently teaches art history in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She is also a regular lecturer on modern and contemporary art at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her previous curatorial work focused on emerging or underrepresented artists using sound and digital art. Her recent academic works contributed to the institutional history of video art, especially women’s (Robinson ed., Feminism–Art–Theory, 2015), French militant feminist video (The Kitchen, 2011), and sociological art (Bovier & eds., Exhibited Cinema an Anthology, 2016). She received her M.A. from Bourgogne University in Dijon (France) and completed a Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Alexander Tochilovsky, M.F.A., is an associate professor at The Cooper Union’s School of Art, where he teaches graphic design and the history and theory of typeface design, and co-founder of Type@Cooper, a post-graduate certificate program on typeface design principles. He is also the curator of the school’s The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, a graphic design archive that houses original groundbreaking design work from the 20th century and beyond. He has curated or co-curated several exhibitions at The Cooper Union including Appetite (2010), Pharma (2011), Type@Cooper (2012), Image of the Studio (2013), thirty (2015), and Swiss Style Now (2016). He received his B.A. from The Cooper Union and M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Schedule
from October 03, 2018 to December 02, 2018
Monday–Tuesday 3pm–7pm, Wednesday–Saturday 10am–7pm, Sunday 12pm–5pm Closed November 21–25, 2018.
Opening Reception on 2018-10-02 from 18:30 to 21:00