{"id":1213,"date":"2017-03-21T14:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2021-01-18T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:13:40","slug":"every-girl-has-a-voice-8-14-year-old-girls-explore-iwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2017\/03\/21\/every-girl-has-a-voice-8-14-year-old-girls-explore-iwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Girl Has a Voice: 8-14 Year Old Girls Explore IWA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every girl has a voice. Every woman has a story!<\/p>\n

This month the IWA held an event for area girls from ages 8 – 14. The girls learned about Iowa<\/span> girls and women from decades past like Dora Martin Berry, the first black student to be named Miss State University of Iowa<\/span>; 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.
\nUsing 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All who participated had a blast, and we hope to have a similar event in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"The
The girls examine our current exhibit “History as it Happens: Women’s March 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Curator
Curator K\u00e4ren Mason shows the girls some artifacts from IWA collections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Assistant
Assistant curator Janet Weaver helps a girl write her exhibit caption, “And the women powered through it!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Quilt
Quilt squares about Iowa women, by Iowa girls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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