Women's Rights Are Human Rights:
International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination
Sep 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
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Exhibition dates are tentative and subject to change due to the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Events will all be launched as Virtual Exhibitions, and participatory events will be Zoom-based Talks & Tours or Opening Receptions as listed for now, and until further notice.
Women's Rights Are Human Rights is a very fitting title for an exhibition of Women’s rights and advocacy posters, as it is a term used in the women's rights movement and was the title of an important speech given by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. In her speech, Hillary Clinton suggests that “if the term 'women's rights' were to be interchangeable with the term 'human rights' the world community would be a better place because human rights effect the women who raise the world's children, care for the elderly, run companies, work in hospitals, fight for better education and better health care.”
Yet gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched in every society. Women lack access to decent work and face occupational segregation and gender wage disparities. Women are often denied access to basic education and health care, and suffer from violence and discrimination, and are under-represented in political and economic decision-making processes.
In many cultures women have very little control over their own bodies, with female sexuality being largely controlled and defined by men in patriarchal societies. Sexual violence committed by men is often rooted in ideologies of male sexual entitlement, and these systems grant women very few legitimate options to refuse sexual advances. This entitlement can take different forms, depending on the culture. Human rights and women's rights are violated every single day as the rape and brutality of women is used as an instrument of armed conflict. Women and children make up a large majority of the world’s refugees. And when women are excluded from the political process, they become even more vulnerable to abuse.
This exhibition features posters created by both men and women to celebrate and acknowledge the vital role that all citizens should play in protecting and promoting human rights while challenging gender inequality and stereotypes, advancing sexual and reproductive 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 or restrict women from achieving their fullest potential. In their collective visual voice, these posters are designed to jolt the viewer’s sense of collective responsibility to challenge prevailing attitudes toward gender inequality and discrimination, while provoking both a healthy discomfort and empathetic response in the viewers.
Women's Rights Are Human Rights is a traveling exhibition facilitated by Michele Cairella Fillmore at the Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Women's Rights are Human Rights Zoom Talk and Tour
The Women's Rights are Human Rights Zoom Talk and Tour is on Tuesday, October 26 from 12 - 2pm! Register on Eventbrite here.
After over a year of closure, the shuttering of shows and postponement of various poignant and timely exhibitions for 2020-2021, we are now excited to announce the return of our first, on-site exhibition at our Kellogg Univ Art Gallery venue (Bldg 35A) at Cal Poly Pomona, along with a synchronous, downloadable, interactive, virtual exhibition!
In honor of the countless hours of staff-time dedicated to this project, while "learning by doing", in order to produce this mind-bending virtual experience that celebrates the wonderment of all participant-artists' work, we are enthused to invite students, faculty and the arts community to join us on a "Virtual" Artists' Talk & Tour of our Women's Rights Are Human Rights graphic posters exhibition.
Women’s Rights Are Humans Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination is an exhibition that features fine art graphic posters created by both men and women to 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, protecting women and girls against brutality, and promoting women’s empowerment, education, and participation in society. The posters argue for the empowerment of women, achievement of equality between women and men, and the elimination of discrimination against women and girls.
During this Talk & Tour event, as we stroll through a guided tour of the computer-generated gallery space, we will be joined on Zoom by a panel of amazing graphic artists, our esteemed Guest Curator, Elizabeth Resnick of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and Kellogg Art Gallery Curator, Michele Cairella Fillmore. The event will include an interactive, on-line viewing of the Virtual Exhibition and, what will prove to be, a lively and enriching conversational exchange with this select panel of participating artists and curators. Event starts at 2pm (PST).
Join participating artists, Alice Drueding, Anita Kunz and Parisa Tashakori for personal insight about their work and their creative process, guest curator's selection criteria and her process of developing an international traveling exhibition with such timely and poignant themes, and the curatorial and exhibition design challenges of exhibiting work virtually during a pandemic. Join us in asking pertinent questions and encountering art in a unique, virtual experience like no other!
Register for this event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-rights-are-human-rights-zoom-event-reception-talk-tour-tickets
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Women's Rights are Human Rights Opening
The On-Site Exhibition is opening September 15, 2021, be sure to come in and check it out!
Guest Curator Biography
Elizabeth Resnick is a Professor Emerita, former chair of Graphic Design and current part-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts. She earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
Elizabeth Resnick Design, an independent Boston design studio was in operation from 1973–1996. Clients included: Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corporation, Store 24, Animal Rescue League of Boston, AIGA Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and other area schools plus many local non-profit cultural organizations.
Professor Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions: Within/Without: The Art of Russell Mills with Teresa Flavin (1991); Dutch Graphic Design: 1918–1945 with Alston Purvis (1994); The Art of the Poster: Makoto Saito with Jan Kubasiewicz (1999); The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman (2005); Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age: 2001–2012 (2012) and currently Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination (2016) which investigates gender-based inequalities deeply entrenched in every global society.
Her publications include catalogs for the most of the exhibitions mentioned above plus The Social Design Reader Bloomsbury Visual Arts (2019), Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall Publications”(1984).
She has led poster workshops and lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Great Britain, China, South Korea, Iceland, Taiwan, Bolivia, Krakow and Warsaw. Her posters have been accepted at the Warsaw Poster Biennial and Mexican Poster Biennial and she frequently participates in International poster invitational exhibitions.
Artwork Listing
Selected Artworks
Women’s Rights Are Humans Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination is an exhibition that features posters created by both men and women to 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, protecting women and girls against brutality, and promoting women’s empowerment, education, and participation in society. The posters argue for the empowerment of women, achievement of equality between women and men, and the elimination of discrimination against women and girls.
Keep Abortion Legal
Fight Like RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsberg)
Audra Lorde
Free Pussy Riot
Greta Thunberg: Climate Activist
Stop FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)
Violence Against Women: aïe love you
Woman is not an Object
Women’s Right Are Human Rights
#youtoo
Leave My Body Alone
Let’s Protect a Woman from Sexual Violence
Indigenous Women of Ecuador
History’s Perspective –Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Breast Cancer: The Value of Early Detection
Women Are Perfect
Acid Violence Against Women
Allowed
Female Gential Mutilation:
White Rose
Words Hurt–Verbal Abuse–Bitch
Gallery Views
Installation View, Title Wall, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Front West Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Front West Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Front East Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Front East Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Corridor Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Corridor Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Back Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Back Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Installation View, Back Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Virtual Exhibition Gallery Views
Virtual Exhibition Installation View, Front West Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Virtual Exhibition Installation View, Front West Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Virtual Exhibition Installation View, Front East Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Virtual Exhibition Installation View, Front East Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Virtual Exhibition Installation View, Corridor of Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Virtual Exhibition Installation View, Back of Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
Virtual Exhibition Installation View, Back of Gallery, Women's Rights are Human Rights Exhibition, Sept 15, 2021 to Dec 1, 2021
About the Virtual Exhibition
The Women's Rights are Human Rights Virtual Exhibition is an online exhibiton. You will be able to navigate this virtual exhibition without downloading any files.
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Previous International Installations
Installation View, Women's Rights Are Human Rights Exhibition, December 2016, Seoul, South Korea.
Installation View, Women's Rights Are Human Rights Exhibition, April 2017, Warsaw, Poland.
— Gloria Steinem
