Labor Arts, a new website

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:30:21 -0500
>Reply-To: SethW at Maine.edu
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>From: "Seth M. Wigderson" <seth.wigderson at gte.net>
>Subject: Labor Arts, a new website
>To: H-LABOR at H-NET.MSU.EDU
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>From: Rachel Bernstein <rachel.bernstein at nyu.edu>
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>Labor Arts
>
>http://laborarts.org
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>is a new website for activists, artists, scholars and organizers--anyone
>interested in working people and the role that culture and art have played in
>labor history.  This virtual museum is building a collection of the
>photographs, buttons, banners, posters,  paintings and songs that have
>moved workers to action.  The collections can be viewed by browsing quickly
>through sets of thumbnail images, or by searching for a specific date or
>subject.  Exhibits currently include a "Labor Arts Sampler," "Images of
>Labor," with original art about the relationship between working people and
>American History, and "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives," with
>photographs and oral history clips about the "culture of solidarity" in
>twentieth century New York City.
>
>The site is jointly sponsored by The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation;
>Bread and Roses, 1199/Service Employees International Union; and the
>Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.   Labor Arts is a
>work in progress, and contributions and suggestions are welcome.