Last chance for tea and cookies at the Suffragist Tea Parties installation on March 7

The Euphrat Museum of Art will be holding special Saturday hours from 10am-1pm on March 7th, and I will be in the museum to serve tea and cookies to visitors in my interactive installation about voting rights 100 years after the suffrage amendment. This installation is part of an exhibit called Women Pathmakers, featuring works by pathbreaking artists such as Hung Liu, Jennifer Mondfrans, Rupy C. Tut and Jessica Sabogal. You can read the San Jose Mercury News’ coverage of the exhibit here. My installation features portraits of voting rights activists Ida Wells-Barnett, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Charlane Oliver painted by Johanna Foster, whom you can read more about here. The Women Pathmakers exhibit is up until March 12, and normal museum hours are Monday through Thursday from 10am-3pm.

Visitors to the artist reception having tea and conversation about voting; Jen Myhre and Johanna Foster in the background. Photo credit: Elizabeth Mjelde

Consider the 1500 Stories project for Giving Tuesday

In October, I did a series of workshops for folks in San Marcos CA about economic inequality, on behalf of the 1500 Stories project.  1500 Stories is a collaborative art, digital storytelling and civic engagement project about rising economic inequality in the U.S.  Storygatherers in California have already conducted over 150 in-depth interviews with people from all walks of life, about their struggles and their work and their hopes at different economic positions.  Storygathering has also begun in Wisconsin and Ohio.  Here, you see a socially engaged art piece called the Stacked Deck, which asks participants to think about and reflect on economic inequality as it is expressed through a deck of thirteen cards featuring documentary photography.  The project now has piles of unedited audio and video and is raising funds to edit those stories and make them publicly available on the website and for use at public discussions and forums about economic inequality.  Consider making a donation to the project here, and be sure to choose "Other" in the program box and type in 1500 Stories.  Everyone has a story to share.  Help the project get these stories out.