Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

Grand Rapids Art Museum 101 Monroe Center, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

The exhibition presents over 125 rarely-exhibited Newcomb ceramics, tableware, jewelry, textiles, bookbinding, and graphics, from one of the most remarkable collections of 20th century American pottery. Between 1894 and 1948, […]

No Más Bebés

Cook-Dewitt Auditorium, GVSU Allendale Campus 10720 S Campus Dr, Allendale, MI, United States

The Latin American Studies & The Women's Center at Grand Valley State University present: No Más Bebés, a documentary about Los Angeles County General Hospital's sterilization abuse against Latinas. The […]

The Second Line of Defense: Grand Rapids Women and the Great War

Ryerson Auditorium, Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

Presenter: Melissa Fox, President, Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council Upon U.S. entry into WWI, national women's groups transformed their organizational structures for war work. Grand Rapids women are among […]

The Wives (and Lives) of the Early Dutch Pastors – Janet Sheeres

Ryerson Auditorium, Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

START the new year with new women's history! On Saturday at 1:30pm, "The Wives (and Lives) of Early Dutch Pastors" -- Unlike the biographies of early male ministers of the […]

Elective Detectives & Crowdsourcing Grand Rapids Women’s History

Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

At History Detectives, the Grand Rapids Public Library’s day-long offering of local history programming, Julia Bouwkamp and Jo Ellyn Clarey will report on how the charting of 19th-century local women’s […]

African Americans in Early Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

At History Detectives, GGRWHC’s Ruth Van Stee will present African Americans in Early Grand Rapids—including, of course, more women’s history. From 1850 to 1920 African Americans here were a steady one […]

A Team of Her Own: Minnie Forbes & Negro League Baseball

Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

The last female owner of a Negro League baseball team will talk with former Grand Rapids Press columnist Jaye Beeler at Taste of Soul Sunday about playing softball at fifteen […]

Links to the Local: Building a National Women’s Elective History

GVSU, Allendale Campus, Kirkhof Center, RM2270

The historical charting of Grand Rapids women's runs for public office upends conventional wisdom and offers surprises about dates, the numbers of races, and the identities of women who participated […]

Atmosphere of Distinction

Holland Museum 31 W. 10th Street, Holland, MI, United States

Open to the public on March 2!  During the twentieth century, women throughout the country took great strides toward equality and began abandoning their traditional roles, as well as restrictive fashions, […]

Author Lecture with Rebecca Traister

GVSU, Allendale Campus, Kirkhof Center, Grand River Room

Community Reading Projects Author Lecture with Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies! Door open at 6:00pm, book signing will follow the lecture.  Free and Open to the Public!