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Stand Up!: Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change Exhibition

The Holle Center for Communication Arts at the University of Alabama is hosting the exhibit, Stand Up!: Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, April 5 – May 24, 2024. 

The Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change exhibition celebrates the debut picture book of the same title by Brittney Cooper, professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers, with illustrations by Cathy Ann Johnson. Inspiring text and dynamic illustrations bring to life both famous and unsung Black women who took a stand and made the world a better place for future generations. Each heroic figure is interconnected by a united quest for equity, and offers young readers a stirring, inspirational call to action, reminding them that they are mighty too, and can be forces for change when they stand up! The exhibit opening events featured a presentation by Cooper and Johnson.

Stand Up! Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change is curated by Nicole Simpson, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. This exhibition is supported by PNC Grow Up Great.

The Holle Center for Communication Arts has partnered with the Tuscaloosa Arts Council, UA’s School of Library & Information Studies, the Department of Communication Studies, the College of Education, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Gender and Race Studies, and Mark and Tonya Nelson to host this exhibition.

Illustration credit: Cathy Ann Johnson, Stand Up! 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change, 2022, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and digital. © Scholastic Stand Up! Ten Mighty Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper with illustrations by Cathy Ann Johnson.