Thursday: Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights @ Cooper Union

from The Cooper Union:

Thursday, November 19 at 6:30 PM:
Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights
Another Great Evening in The Great Hall celebrating The Cooper Union's 150th anniversary!

The program will feature Karen DeCrow, co-founder and past President of
the National Organization for Women (and the leader of the band of
intrepid women who first integrated McSorley's.)Prof. Day Gleeson will
take part as will Actors Karen Finley, André De Shields, Richard Kind,
Brenda Wehle, and Singers Catherine Brookman, Jay O. Sanders, Adrienne
Deekman, Jenifer Fouché, Grace McLean, and Eliza Poehlman. Kris Kukul will
be on the piano and Hiroyuki Matsuura on drums. Music by Elizabeth Swados
will be featured, along with historic documents and projections. The Great
Hall gallery will feature a display of women's art in tribute to the women
artists who studied at The Cooper Union 150 years ago.

Events are free and open to the public.

Say NO

Artist Amy Stein just started an action on the Say NO to Violence Against Women site called Photographers Say NO. Please join the campaign by clicking and then reposting this URL http://j.mp/1lRD2U and using #photosayno on Twitter.

Spread the word!

Visual Op-Ed: Kerry Mansfield

Recently while researching women photographers for a project I came across the work of Kerry Mansfield (tx, Jane Tam & Lenscratch).
Kerry is an artist with a strong vision and an assured sense of space coupled with a superb color palette. See her work at www.kerrymansfield.com and look for our interview with Kerry as part of the Nymphoto Conversations series in the weeks to come.

But today I wanted to share a different body of work by Kerry Mansfield's.
Aftermath is very personal, incredibly frank, courageous and will not leave you untouched.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Go get checked, check yourself. Remind your friends and family to get checked. Help raise awareness.



Aftermath © Kerry Mansfield

Katy Grannan for The New York Times

Head over to www.nytimes.com to see Katy Grannan portraiture illustrating Nicolas D.Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn's report A Powerful Truth.

This Sunday: Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion: Why Are Women Artists Still Underrepresented in Major Collections?
Where: Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Brooklyn)
When: Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 6pm

Find out more by visiting: www.wahcenter.net

Reminder: October is Breast Cancer Awarness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awarness Month.
Photographer & filmmaker Jila Nikpay published Heroines in 2006, a collection of black and white portraits of 21 Minnesota women who dealt with breast cancer.
Find out more about this project at Jila Nikpay's website, www.jilanikpay.com. Or listen to Minnesota's Public Radio feature about the project, here.