Trailblazing Women Featured to Celebrate Women's History Month

February 28, 2005

Celebrate Women's History Month with WOMEN WHO DARE: Shaping the Americas, a traveling exhibit that will end its three-month journey in North County in March. The multi-cultural, visual walk through explores the lives of 22 trailblazing women through their art. An opening reception with special guest County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price, whose support helped make the exhibit possible, will take place at the Cross Cultural Center March 3rd from 4 - 6 p.m.

Some of the women featured will be Ida B. Wells Barnett, journalist and co-founder of the NAACP; Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Congresswoman; Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, justice activist-leader, Mexican politician; Maria Luisa Bombal, Chilean/Argentinean novelist; Edmonia Lewis, 19th century African-American Native American sculptor; and Alfonsina Storni, an Argentina poet and playwright. The UCSD Women's Center, Cross Cultural Center and Women's History Museum are sponsoring the event.