Ellen Rothenberg, let’s switch it up! (Online version), 2020, Window installation at 688 N Milwaukee Ave
Ellen Rothenberg’s street level call to action connects America’s history of voter suppression, systemic racism, and violence to movements for social justice and electoral activism. The work is dedicated to Black Lives Matter and on this centennial of the nineteenth amendment, to women activists whose contributions continue to be obscured and erased.
Project Team: William Watson, research assistance; Sonia Yoon, project design.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of M. Denise Dennis; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Division of Political and Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Ellen Rothenberg, let’s switch it up! (Online version), 2020, Window installation at 688 N Milwaukee Ave
Ellen Rothenberg’s street level call to action connects America’s history of voter suppression, systemic racism, and violence to movements for social justice and electoral activism. The work is dedicated to Black Lives Matter and on this centennial of the nineteenth amendment, to women activists whose contributions continue to be obscured and erased.
Project Team: William Watson, research assistance; Sonia Yoon, project design.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Dawn Simon Spears and Alvin Spears, Sr.; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of M. Denise Dennis; Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Division of Political and Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution