RECENT EVENTS
On November 3, 2011 we held a launch party for the third exhibit in a series celebrating the National Maritime Union's 75th anniversary --
Fighting Jim Crow on the High Seas
The event featured images, music, and fascinating reminiscences from:
Don Rubin, co-founder and CEO, The Rubin Museum of Art, and former dock worker
Jack Geiger, co-founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility and former sailor
George Stoney, documentary film maker, the "father" of public access television and former sailor,
and Mark Naison, professor of history at Fordham University
As part of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Fire, in March, 2011 we held the first "I Have Something to Say" -- Clara Lemlich Awards. Co-sponsored by LaborArts and the Triangle Fire Coalition, we honored women who have been working for the larger good all their lives, in the tradition of those who sparked so many reforms in the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire one hundred years ago.
Short bios of the women celebrated at the event can be found at "I Have Something to Say."
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1911- 2011 is the Labor Arts exhibit about the Triangle Fire and its long reach across the century.
RECENT EXHIBITS
Paul Robeson and the NMU featuring recordings of Robeson singing eight songs he often sang at NMU conventions
Why Unions -- Art from the National Maritime Union features graphic art from the 1940s by Harold Price, Rockwell Kent ahd William Gropper
Making Labor's History Visible The CUNY/LaborArts Essay Contest
Civil Rights History Walks Into the Classroom. Spring 2011 was the fiftieth anniversary of the freedom rides; Labor Arts is featuring an exhibit about one organizer's memories
Landscape of Lost Arts Vanished Structures and Forgotten Skills -- Janet Wells Greene curates images of artisans and union craftsmen building and rebuilding the NYC skyline
We Love A Parade Union Banners Then and Now -- featuring four labor banners from the 19th century and 27 banners from the twentieth century NYC garment industry
Sisters in the Brotherhoods -- Jane Latour interviews women who were pioneers in skilled blue-collar jobs
The ILGWU: Social Unionism in Action -- garment union initiatives in organizing, immigration, civil rights, health care and culture