Every girl has a voice. Every woman has a story!
This month the IWA held an event for area girls from ages 8 – 14. The girls learned about Iowa girls and women from decades past like Dora Martin Berry, the first black student to be named Miss State University of Iowa; Dorothy Fox Wurster, who joined the local boys 4-H club in order to competitively show cattle; and Phyliss Henry, Des Moines’ first police woman.
Using photocopies of what they found, the kids made their own mini-exhibits and decorated a quilt square about a girl or woman of their choice.
All who participated had a blast, and we hope to have a similar event in the future.
The girls examine our current exhibit “History as it Happens: Women’s March 2017
Curator Kären Mason shows the girls some artifacts from IWA collections.
Assistant curator Janet Weaver helps a girl write her exhibit caption, “And the women powered through it!”
Quilt squares about Iowa women, by Iowa girls.