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Women Alive!Alive! a Legacy of Social Justice WOMENWOMEN ALIVE!ALIVE! A LEGACY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE A Tribute to Chicago’s Pioneering Women Archeworks ~ 625 North Kingsbury ~ Chicago, IL June 22 -August 24, 2003 1 Women Alive! A Legacy of Social Justice Written by Bliss W. Browne, Yasmeen Basheeruddin, and Elizabeth Browne with a foreword by Patricia K. Novick Installation texts written by interviewers named in each text and edited by Mary Nolan With special thanks to the Leo S. Guthman Fund and the Illinois Trade Association whose generosity made this publication possible Published by Imagine Chicago (www.imaginechicago.org) Chicago, IL December 2003 Portions of this document may be reproduced with the sources and authors acknowledged For more information, please contact Bliss Browne at [email protected] or Patricia Novick at [email protected] Cover Illustration: Marc Chagall drawing, used with permission of the owner 2 Table of Contents Reflections on Spirituality and Justice __________________________________ 4 Introduction to the Exhibition ________________________________________ 6 Interview Process __________________________________________________ 8 Site Selection and Installation Partnership _______________________________ 9 Meet the Honorees _________________________________________________ 10 Willie Barrow, Marca Bristo, Bliss Browne, Iva Carruthers ___________________ 12-19 Patricia Crowley, Patty Crowley, Josie Opena Disterhoft, Sunny Fischer _________ 20-27 Ann Ida Gannon, Jacky Grimshaw, Ronne Hartfield, Bette Cerf Hill ___________ 28-35 Mary Houghton, Jean Hunt, Indira Johnson, Eva Maddox _________________ 36-43 Aurie Pennick, Sylvia Puente, Hedy Ratner, Jan Schakowsky __________________ 44-51 Diann DeWeese Smith, Alaka Wali, Bernarda Wong, Addie Wyatt _____________ 52-59 Pioneers in Prehistory _______________________________________________ 60 Special Events and Programs _________________________________________ 62 Funding and Staffing _______________________________________________ 64 Special Thanks _____________________________________________________ 65 An Invitation to Expanding Connections ________________________________ 66 What’s Next in Chicago? _____________________________________________ 67 Co-Sponsoring Organizations ________________________________________ 68 National Connections _______________________________________________ 69 3 Reflections on Spirituality and Justice by Dr. Patricia Novick When I was small, growing up in Chicago, my grandmother It was always a man, of course. Chicago has hundreds of would take me to parks. Not just the big ones. She seemed public monuments to men, but only one sculpture dedicated to know every broad patch of grass and playground in to a woman (Jane Addams) for her contributions to the practically every neighborhood in the city. Often our city’s life. exploring led me to the base of some monument. Each of those memorials seemed gigantic to me as I looked up at it. Three years ago, as my friend Jean Hunt was working on I remember asking her why a particularly statue was there the book Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990, my and her answering, “Because that man was very important childhood recollections came back to me, and I wondered for the city. People wanted to honor him.” two things: would the women in that book ever be recognized with monuments; and, more immediately, how could we honor all the great women working right now for the cause of social justice? How could their legacies be revered in public and passed on? That’s how the idea for this project was conceived. It took scores of dedicated women, giving many hours of time, to bring the project to birth. The women who made this happen and the women they worked so hard to honor, are all people I want my daughters and grandchildren to know and remember with affection. Their stories are not only of struggle but of the deep joy born of embracing all of life. Not long ago I led a communication workshop at Erie Neighborhood House, a Chicago community-based organization. I gave the participants six balls of different- colored yarn and asked them to sit on the floor in a closed circle and toss the yarn to each other while they held onto the end. They called out a person’s name as they threw the yarn to another member of the circle. The result was a beautiful, multi-colored web stretched across the center of the circle. Patricia Novick in Washington Park, Chicago 4 They held it up, wiggled it and generally played with it until social justice pioneer. Second, spirituality shows a path to making someone said, “ I don’t want to let go if it,” and the others things better. It is a higher path of ideals and vision. Such a nodded in assent. They then talked about where they would vision of better life is a common characteristic of all spiritual hang it up in their building, and how this weaving was a practice, whatever the differences in specific religious beliefs symbol of their connection to each other. To use Susan may be. Thirdly, spirituality imparts a deep, persistent courage Monk’s words: – the faith that justice will prevail because it must. This is not to diminish the challenges to that courage and faith that all activists “We found that every movement vibrated the entire endure, but simply to note that for many it is hard to imagine web. And it dawned on me – this We found that every staying on that rugged path without the strength provided by movement vibrated the entire web. And it dawned on spiritually grounded faith. me – this immeasurable truth we were portraying. We are each a thread woven into the vast web of the universe, Finally, and perhaps most importantly, spirituality constantly linked and connected so that our lives are irrevocably deepens that unshakeable awareness of the connectedness of all bound up with one another. I looked at those faces things. As environmental activist John Seed describes: “‘I am around the circle in a new way. The old adage, “I am protecting the rainforest’ develops into ‘I am part of the rainforest my brother’s keeper” – or in this case, my sister’s keeper – melted into something new: I am my sister. And protecting myself. I am that part of the rainforest recently suddenly I wanted to gather them to me and do what I emerged into thinking.’” could to heal them and bless them and affirm to them how beautiful they were.” The lives you will touch in this book are Women Alive...women who exemplify wholeness, the ecology of life that constantly I can’t speak for the women honored here as social justice weaves nature and city, inner and outer, personal and political, pioneers, but I will speak about them. In addition to their sacrifice and blessing, into a seamless whole. The call to justice brave and visionary activities to improve our world, each is transformed beyond a moral mandate into a vocation to of them was chosen because she embodies spiritual plunge more deeply into Life. connectedness, living all aspects of her life – private as well as public, internal as well as external – in a way that makes I hope this wonderful exhibit will begin to shift the balance of the web of connectedness more dense, and more beautiful the people Chicagoans learn to look up and to bring honor to than it otherwise would have been. Their lives make vivid the lives and legacies of the many women in Chicago who are the many ways that spirituality inspires and informs the pursuit making a difference. of social justice. Dr. Patricia Novick was the initiator of Women Alive! A Legacy of At least four ways are in evidence. First, spirituality promotes Social Justice. She founded Alive Ltd. in 1998 to conduct workshops, a personalized awareness of injustice, the sense that it is not seminars and other programs that provide individuals and groups just “others,” but one’s “sisters and brothers”, who suffer tools to adopt and sustain physically, mentally and spiritually healthy from oppression. This is a deeply felt call to action of the ways of life. 5 Introduction to the Exhibition For generations, many Chicago-area women have been social vital connections between personal values and public action. justice pioneers, working on behalf of education, health, A volunteer artist or designer was available to work with economic opportunity and employment and social inclusion. them to create their installation. The inspiring exhibits they They have fought to eliminate bias on the basis of race, gender, created—from notebooks and journals, photographs, posters, ethnicity, and disability. They have dedicated works of art—testify to their values, struggles, their lives to shaping values, raising families, and achievements. They showcase how women and building healthy, just communities. For generations, many think about and express their devotion to Chicago women have been improving public life. In 2002, a group of Chicago women social justice pioneers decided that public recognition of these To strengthen the link between these honorees pioneers for social justice was long overdue. and future social-justice pioneers, young adult A committee of women leaders was organized, determined women volunteered to interview the honorees and document criteria, and solicited nominations of women who deserved to their stories, for the exhibition and for the women’s leadership be honored—and who might be willing to share their lives archives at the Gannon Center at Loyola University Chicago. and stories in a public exhibition. The committee selected two The text for each installation is the story they “caught.” dozen honorees from nearly 100 nominations, based on the following criteria: The Women Alive! A Legacy of Social Justice exhibit opened June 21, 2003 in Chicago and ran through August 24. The v a demonstrated commitment to improving conditions exhibition website, www.aliveltd.org , and a telephone infoline for disadvantaged or oppressed groups and to provided current information to prospective visitors. Exhibit empowering communities; hours were Saturday-Monday from noon to 6 p.m. and Tuesdays from 2 to 8 p.m., staffed by young adult summer v a risk-taker who created or led a new vision and explored interns.
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