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Bev Grant (American, born 1942), New York Radical Women organizers at a planning meeting, Southern Conference Educational Fund offices, New York City, Summer 1968 [detail], gelatin silver print.Image courtesy of Block Museum
WHEN:
Wednesday, Sept. 18 to Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024
WHERE:
Northwestern University
1603 Orrington Ave., Evanston
IL 60201 United States
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the Block Museum website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...During a pivotal period in American public life, Grant participated in and photographed political movements in and around New York City. Between 1968 and 1972, she documented the actions of the New York Radical Women (NYRW), the Black Panthers, the Young Lords Organization and protests against the Vietnam War. Featuring 17 photographs by Grant that were recently acquired by The Block, the exhibition tells stories of civil rights and social justice movements in the United States. Within the exhibition, the fervent moment of the late 1960s is contextualized with ephemera — political posters, pins and newspapers — selected from the collections of the Northwestern Libraries. The exhibition includes items from the libraries’ wide-ranging holdings in Women’s History, Second-Wave Feminism and the Long 1960s. Alongside ephemera from these archives, the exhibition will also display contemporaneous work of Chicago artists Peggy Lipschutz, Pearl Hirshfield and the Chicago Women’s Graphic Collective, underscoring the intersectional commitment of feminist practices of the era…”
