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Women
is lending its name and support to a national exhibition
that brings to life the stories of some 40 intriguing
women who helped shape the landscape of American
business.
Enterprising
Women: 250 Years of American Business tells
the story of American women in business from the
colonial era to the present. The exhibition was
produced by The Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
and the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA.
Funding was provided by the Ford Motor Company and
AT&T, with additional support from the Cabot Family
Charitable Trust and in-kind support from the U.S.
Small Business Administration.
Artifacts
and costumes, diaries and letters, business and
legal documents, photographs and paper ephemera,
audio recordings, and interactive technology are
used to tell the story of an amazing collection
of entrepreneurial women.
"This
exhibition is the first to combine the whole sweep
of women's entrepreneurial activity from Mary Katharine
Goddard, printer of the first copies of the Declaration
of Independence with signatures included, to Katharine
Graham, publisher of the Pentagon Papers and owner
of The Washington Post," according to Jane
Knowles, project director of the Enterprising Women
exhibition and archivist for the Radcliffe Institute's
Schlesinger Library.
An
interactive Web site at www.enterprisingwomenexhibit.org
and an illustrated book accompany the exhibition,
as does a full range of educational and public programming,
including lectures, teacher workshops, oral history
initiatives and lesson plans for middle and high
school students.
As
a member of the National Honorary Patron's Committee,
our magazine will help create awareness of the exhibition's
extraordinary story through an ongoing feature we
will publish in every issue through 2004. We will
showcase a sampling of the women who are featured
in the exhibition through profiles in our magazine,
while comparing and contrasting the issues they
faced with the contemporary challenges of today's
entrepreneurial women.
The
exhibition premieres at the National Heritage Museum,
Oct. 5, through Feb. 23, 2003, and then continues
on a national tour to:
- the
New York Historical Society, March 25, 2003-May
31, 2003;
- the
Atlanta History Center, July 4, 2003-Sept. 21,
2003;
- the
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Oct. 24,
2003-Jan. 11, 2004 (co-sponsored by the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of American History);
- the
Los Angeles Public Library, June 19, 2004-Sept.
19, 2004; and
- the
Detroit Historical Museum, Oct. 18, 2004-Jan.
9, 2005.
The
National Honorary Patron's Committee also includes
members of the Congressional Women's Caucus, the
United States Supreme Court and other federal and
state officials, business owners, corporate and
professional women, as well as national women's
organizations such as the National Association of
Women Business Owners, the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial
Leadership, and the Girl Scouts of America.
MONICA
SMILEY is editor and publisher of Enterprising
Women and CEO of Enterprising Women Inc., the
magazine's parent publishing company.
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