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RoCo, Anthony House seeking artist for women’s rights project

Rochester Contemporary Art Center and the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House plan to collaborate this year on a site-specific public art project that will celebrate the 200th birthday of Susan B. Anthony and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The two nonprofits are seeking proposals for the art installation.

susan-b-anthonyRoCo’s public art program will give one artist in the Greater Rochester area and elsewhere the opportunity to envision, produce and exhibit a sculpture or multimedia work adjacent to RoCo that recognizes the anniversaries. The completed work will be on exhibit free to the community.

The program is part of Votercade 2020, a yearlong celebration of women’s rights anniversaries presented by the Anthony House.

“Through Votercade 2020, the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House reaches beyond Anthony’s home on Madison Street in Rochester, N.Y., to highlight the importance of voting rights and civic discourse and to celebrate the ways Susan B. Anthony’s work is still relevant today,” said Anthony House President and CEO Deborah Hughes in a statement.

RoCo’s public art program is supported by the state Council on the Arts, the Community Foundation, the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust, the Farash Foundation and members. Proposals for the art installation are due by Jan. 31.

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Women’s celebration coming to Rochester

Susan B. Anthony (Engraved by G.E. Perine & Co., NY)
Susan B. Anthony
(Engraved by G.E. Perine & Co., NY)

An inaugural celebration of women will be held in Rochester later this month, giving women an opportunity to learn, bond, reflect and strategize for the centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment in 2020.

Seneca Falls Revisited will be held at the Hyatt Regency from Aug. 23 through 26. The Women’s Equality Weekend is a tribute to the historic 1848 convention held in Seneca Falls. The first women’s convention was the first women’s rights convention, designed to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of woman.

The mission of Seneca Falls Revisited is to update and build civic, social and spiritual collaborative platforms between women.

The event is sponsored by the New York Women’s Foundation, New York State Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, Humanities NY, Visit Rochester, the City of Rochester and a number of other nonprofit organizations. The Susan B. Anthony House President and CEO Deborah Hughes will co-chair the event with Irma McClaurin, former president of Shaw University.

The weekend’s festivities begin at 9 a.m. Aug. 24 with opening speaker state Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and morning keynote speaker Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren. National Women’s Political Caucus President Emeritus Linda Young will deliver a tribute to historical ladies at the weekend’s closing festivities.

Officials expect the event to continue in 2019 and 2020.

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Susan B. Anthony Museum leader wins Women’s History Month honor

Deborah Hughes, president and CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
Deborah Hughes, president and CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House

The Greater New York City Chamber of Commerce has chosen Deborah Hughes, president and CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, for its annual Women’s History Month honor.

This year’s theme is Celebrating Equality, Fairness, Respect & 100 Years of Voting Rights. Hughes is joined by four other female business leaders. Past honorees include U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Hughes was named executive director of the Susan B. Anthony House in 2007, following 20 years of experience in nonprofit management. Hughes is a 2016 Athena Award finalist and last year was named a 2017 Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Western New York.

The Susan B. Anthony House was the home of the American civil rights leader, and the site of her arrest for voting in 1872. The home was the headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when Anthony was its president. It’s also where she died in 1906 at age 86, following her “Failure is Impossible” speech in Baltimore.

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