Gail Jerauld Bos
Violence Transformed Library Series, 2019
Boston Public Library, Connolly Branch
Exhibition Dates:
March 1-April 24, 2019
Opening Reception and TOTEM Workshop:
Saturday, April 20, 10 AM-12 Noon
Location:
Boston Public Library, Connolly Branch
433 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Library Hours:
Monday: 12-8 PM
Tuesday: 10 AM - 6 PM
Wednesday: 10 AM - 6 PM
Thursday: 10 AM- 6PM
Friday: 10 AM - 6 PM
Saturday: 9 AM - 2 PM
Sunday: CLOSED
For information call 617-522-1960
Curator: Gloria Carrigg
This installation is sponsored by Violence Transformed
About the Exhibition
“You are not obligated to win, you’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
~Marian Wright Edelman
This installation currently on view at the Connolly Branch of the Boston Public Library is a field of powerful women represented by painted totems; a series of pine boards measuring 24-36" high x 4-6" wide. Each designed pine board represents a woman and her work. Corresponding portraits and short descriptions accompany the totems, each one honoring a brave woman. Some of these women made contributions long ago. Others are working today. All worked under the threat of violence, were beaten, or imprisoned. Many you will not recognize; their names ignored by history. But their work has had powerful consequences. And those consequences have reverberated around the world.
Image Gallery
Women Commemorated in the Exhibition
Leymah Gbowee
Liberian Peace Activist
Sampat Pal Devi
Founder of Pink Sari Brigade in India
Emma Gonzalez
Florida High School Student, “March For Our Lives”
Germaine Greer
Influential feminist of the 20th century Australia
Pauline Tangiora
New Zealand Maori elder peacemaker
Tarana Burke
USA, “Me Too” Movement
La Donna Brave Bull Allard
Activist against Dakota Access Pipe Line
Patrisse Cullors, Marian W. Edelman,
Ida B. Wells
Black Men’s Lives Matter
Malala Yousafzal
Pakistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Education for Girls
Jakeline Romero Epiays
Leader of Columbia’s largest indigenous group
Migrating Women
Leaving the world’s danger spots with their children
Alma Gomez
Anti-femicide campaigner in Mexico
Junko Tabei
Japanese mountain climber and first woman to reach summit of Mt. Everest
Rosalind Franklin
Forgotten woman who discovered double helix structure of DNA
Patricia Bath
Ignoring racial prejudice, she invented lazer probe for cataract surgery
Artist Bio
Gail Bos is a prominent member of the Cambridge Art Association, the Jamaica Plain Arts Council and the Monotype Guild of New England. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries and art spaces throughout Massachusetts including Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Lowell and Wellfleet. Her work is in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum Board of Trustees, and the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission.