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Opening Reception for Women’s Work: Organizing New York Independent Film & Video
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Celebrate the opening of the exhibition Women’s Work: Organizing New York Independent Film & Video. Organized in collaboration with the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts’ signature program, Women’s Work: Preserving Independent Film and Video Histories, Connecting Media Futures, the exhibition highlights the organizing labor that enabled groundbreaking film, video, and community media collectives like Third World Newsreel, Paper Tiger Television, and Women Make Movies to pursue new forms of self expression and advocate for political change from the 1960s–1990s. Come meet some of the key figures whose labor made important untold stories visible, and those who are working to preserve and continue this work today.

Free and open to the public.

Several individuals gather closely in a small room with plain white walls and a fluorescent ceiling light. Some are seated while others stand, holding or reviewing stacks of typed pages, with one person in the center crossing their arms and another writing on a pad near the doorway. Attentive expressions are visible throughout the group, with a mix of seated and leaning postures. A tall shelf filled with papers stands to the left, and a small framed portrait hangs on the back wall.
Bev Grant (American, b. 1942), New York Radical Women organizers at a planning meeting, Southern Conference Educational Fund offices, New York City, Summer 1968, gelatin silver print © Bev Grant