Women’s Rights are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination opens on Thursday, October 7, at the Reynolds Art Gallery in the Jeannette Powell Art Center. The gallery will celebrate with a closing reception on the show’s last night, November 18.
The gallery is excited to begin the fall semester by presenting this first in-person exhibition since January 2020. Originally curated by Elizabeth Resnick, design educator and professor Emerita at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the show was presented to the Pacific community virtually in November 2020. Resnick was inspired by Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on women in Beijing in 1995. In her remarks Clinton said, “If the term ‘women’s rights’ were to be interchangeable with the term ‘human rights,’ the world community would be a better place.”
To create this version of the show Pacific student curators Paola Baltazar Salcedo, Brianna Lui, and Lisette Silva worked under the mentorship of university curator and professor Lisa Cooperman and graphic design professor Marie Lee. After selecting 48 posters from the online version they printed, framed, and organized them by theme. These posters are graphic, captivating and need to be seen up close to feel the messages of the artists.
The work was created by international design agencies and individual artists including Shepard Fairey, Joe Scorsone, Alice Drueding, Yossi Lemel, and Lex Drewinski. Resnick says “In their collective visual voice, posters created by both men and women celebrate and acknowledge the vital role that all citizens play in protecting and promoting human rights while challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing reproductive and sexual rights, and protecting women and girls against brutality. These posters promote women’s empowerment and participation in society while challenging religious and cultural norms and patriarchal attitudes that subordinate, stigmatize and restrict women from achieving their fullest potential.”
Women’s Rights are Human Rights runs from October 4 – November 18. For more information contact Lisa Cooperman of the Visual Arts Department at (209) 946-2241 or lcooperman@pacific.edu.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 4:30pm
Closing Reception, November 18 from 6 - 8 pm
The Reynolds Gallery is located in the Jeannette Powell Art Center on the campus of the University of the Pacific at 1071 W. Mendocino Ave. in Stockton.
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