Kate's 150th!

Kate Gleason, Visionary: a tribute on her 150th birthday is the third installment of the series “Exhibitions Across the Curriculum” established by RIT’s museum studies program in 2014. That spring, Mobilizing America: Fighting World War I on the Homefront and Battlefront was curated by Lent and Edwards to highlight WWI posters from the collections of the Rochester Historical Society. During the spring of 2015, the team prepared Resistance, Rebellion, & Renewal in Rochester: Narratives of Progress and Poverty, an exhibition examining more than 100 years of Rochester's history to demonstrate the coexistence of wealth and progress alongside poverty and lack of opportunity. The current exhibition focusing on Kate Gleason is on view through December 18, 2015 in RIT’s Wallace Library.

The press release is here.

An e-publication created by RIT student Alissa Roy is available here.

Kate Gleason, Visionary: a tribute on her 150th birthday was prepared by the museum studies exhibition subcommittee comprised of Michael Brown & Rebecca Edwards, department of history; Juilee Decker, Rebecca DeRoo, and Tina Lent, department of performing arts & visual culture; and Becky Simmons, RIT Archives. The team will prepare another exhibition in celebration of global traval and study abroad in the fall 2015.