Welcome to Visualizing Women's Work!
Visualizing Women’s Work (VWW) is a research-based visual art project, addressing gendered public monuments, and the historical erasure of women in the public material landscape. Further, we seek to question both the definition and representation of heroism.
To do so, we realize we must ask what and how women were working and contributing to the growth of this nation – most often in unrecognized and support system roles. This means going beyond nominating singular women in leadership roles – though we like them too! We propose a re-thinking of visual culture to recognize women’s work, both paid and unpaid, and rethinking the very structure and design of monuments themselves.
