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Labor Arts Website Launched |
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by Mike Lehman
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23 May 2001
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This new website will have both permanent and rotating exhibits of art from a working class point of view. Associated with the cutting edge SEIU Local 1199 "Bread and Roses" project, you'll want to bookmark this and return to see what's new often. |
From the Labor Arts website:
LABOR ARTS is a work in progress -- a virtual museum designed to gather, identify and display examples of the cultural and artistic history of working people and to celebrate the trade union movement's contributions to that history. LABOR ARTS is building a collection of these items for the viewer's enjoyment, education and research.
Jointly sponsored by: The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, supporting innovative efforts to transform society's institutions, thereby making them more responsible. The Foundation's interests include the study of the relationship between art, culture and humanity. Bread and Roses, the cultural arm of the hospital workers union 1199, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and a nationally acclaimed working people's cultural program with a wide range of activities, including theater, music, literature and art. The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, created in 1977 by the Tamiment Institute and the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO to document, preserve and disseminate the history of New York City's working people and their organizations.
Credits: The Labor Arts website was created by Donald Rubin, Evelyn Jones Rich, Moe Foner, Esther Cohen, Debra Bernhardt, Henry Foner, Rachel Bernstein, Jeff Watt, Keith Bush, Angela Powell, Milton Glaser and others.
Contact LABOR ARTS at:
Labor Arts, NYU Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
E: info (at) laborarts.org
P: (212) 998–2637 |
See also:
http://www.laborarts.org/
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