We like to celebrate this event all month! Through a variety of programs with guest speakers, films, displays, and articles, we highlight notable women in history and look at the latest focus among today's gender historians.

Public Law 101-6 designates March as Women's History month observed through related programs, ceremonies, and activities. The law was passed in 1989 in order to recognize women's contributions, including:

"Whereas American women have played and continue to play a critical economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life of the Nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home;

Whereas American women of every race, class, and ethnic background served as leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement;

Whereas American women have been leaders, not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial movement, the civil rights movement, and other movements, especially the peace movement, which create a more fair and just society for all; and

Whereas despite these contributions, the role of American women in history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued, in the literature, teaching and study of American history."

"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."

-Abigail Adams

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2012 Events

 

 

Montana State University's

Office of the President & College of Arts & Architecture

President's Fine Arts Series

celebrates

Women's History Month

‘In a Different Voice'

A series of artistic and cultural events focusing on women in the arts

Calendar of Events

 

Thursday, March 1 st

  

Identity/Representation: Student and Faculty Exhibition from the School of Film & Photography. An exhibition of imagery that explores themes of identity and exploration, incorporating lens based media - Helen E. Copeland Gallery. Closes March 7 th

Pioneers of Modernism: Celebrating the work of Montana Women artists Gennie Adams DeWeese, Frances Senska, and Jessie Wilbur – Dean's Gallery in the College of Arts & Architecture Dean's Office (217 Cheever Hall). Closes March 30 th 

7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – Dance, Girl, Dance -VCB 182 - Screening presented by Victoria O'Donnell

 

Monday , March 5 th       

Personal Vision: School of Film & Photography's Annual Juried
Undergraduate Photography Exhibit . A juried student exhibition of
photography by undergraduate CAA students – Cheever Lower Gallery.
Closes March 30 th

 

Tuesday, March 6 th   

7:00 p.m.   Artist Exhibit Reception for all three shows starts in the Helen E.
Copeland Gallery with an awards ceremony and reception at 8 p.m. in
Cheever's Lower Gallery

 

Thursday, March 8 th   

7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work – VCB 182

 

Tuesday, March 20 th   

6:00 p.m.    Miss Representation - Film Screening/Panel – The Ellen Theater
    This event is free; however, seating is limited. Tickets are available on
www.theellentheatre.com or by calling 406.585.5885.

 

Thursday, March 22 nd   

7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – Girls Rock! – VCB 182
Screening presented by Bozeman High School's Project X 2

 

Tuesday, March 27 th  

6:30 p.m.    A Celebration of Women in Music with Dessert for the Spirit Reception. Music composed and performed by women, with contextual
commentary provided – Reynolds Recital Hall. This event is free;
however, seating is limited. Please call to reserve your seat at
406.994.6654.

 

Thursday, March 29 th  

 7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – Git Along, Little Dogies (Short) & Mating for Life – VCB 182 – Screening presented by Cindy Stillwell

 

Friday, March 30 th   

5:30 p.m.   Architecture Friday – Building Their Voice - A panel of women
presenting and discussing current issues: Have women found a voice in
architecture? The balancing act between a professional life and a
personal life. Reception immediately following.

 

Thursday, April 5 th   

7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – Who Does She Think She Is? – VCB 182 – Screening presented by Betsy Danforth

 

Thursday, April 12 th   

7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – Thirteen – VCB 182

 

Thursday, April 19 th   

7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – The Arbor – VCB 182

 

Thursday, April 26 th   

7:00 p.m.   Reel Women Film Series & Discussion – Variety – VCB 182   

 

For more information www.montana.edu/caa/pfas or call

406.994.6654

 

All events are sponsored by the MSU

Women's Center and are free and open to the public.

 

"In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism."

-Shirley Chisholm