{"id":40802244137,"date":"2020-01-29T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802244137"},"modified":"2022-04-28T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T12:25:16","slug":"monmouth-professor-johanna-foster-featured-in-women-pathmakers-art-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/monmouth-professor-johanna-foster-featured-in-women-pathmakers-art-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Johanna Foster’s Art Work Featured in\u00a0‘Women Pathmakers’ Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charlane Oliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The artwork of Johanna Foster, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, is currently\u00a0being featured\u00a0at the\u00a0Euphrat\u00a0Museum of Art at\u00a0DeAnza College in Cupertino, California. The “Women\u00a0Pathmakers” exhibit commemorates the 100th year of women’s suffrage and is on display through March 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Foster\u2019s works include portraits of freedom fighters Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Fannie Lou Hamer, and\u00a0Charlane\u00a0Oliver, and are featured as part of an interactive installation on voting rights, titled “Suffragists Tea Parties,” by sociologist, visual artist and documentarian Jen Myhre, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

Foster became involved\u00a0in the project when\u00a0her long-time colleague and friend Myhre began designing and conceptualizing different ways of bringing the\u00a0black suffragist social\u00a0issue to light.\u202f\u201cShe was looking to represent black women leaders in the installation project, and in a way that could symbolize and talk back to white suffragists\u2019 racism and the marginalization of black women leaders, not only in the first wave women\u2019s movement, but also in subsequent waves, including contemporary activism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foster added, \u201cBeing part of this exhibit has been so exciting for me as it has given me a forum to honor some of my personal heroes, and to also pay homage to women who were and are squarely within the social ethics tradition of sociology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0subjects of her paintings\u00a0bring the once silenced women of color\u00a0to the forefront.\u00a0Foster notes, \u201cIda B. Wells-Barnett was a founding sociologist who, like other women and men of color in our discipline, had been written out of the historical record for decades, despite her phenomenal work to end lynching in America.\u202fThe same is true for powerhouse civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer who exemplifies the best in applying sociology in the community organizing tradition. And as someone who studies mass incarceration as a major contemporary ethical issue, the opportunity to paint\u00a0Charlane\u00a0Oliver, who\u00a0has paved the way to end felony disenfranchisement in Tennessee, was really special.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Portrait
Fannie Lou Hamer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The artwork of Johanna Foster, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, is currently\u00a0being featured\u00a0at the\u00a0Euphrat\u00a0Museum of Art at\u00a0DeAnza College in Cupertino, California. The “Women\u00a0Pathmakers” exhibit commemorates the 100th year of women’s suffrage and is on display through March 12.\u00a0 Foster\u2019s works include portraits of freedom fighters Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Fannie Lou Hamer, and\u00a0Charlane\u00a0Oliver, and are featured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,1],"tags":[],"person":[352],"audience":[17,11,8],"school":[59,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802244137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-perspectives","category-uncategorized","person-jfoster","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-political-science-sociology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802244137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802244137"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802244137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802264666,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802244137\/revisions\/40802264666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802244137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802244137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802244137"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802244137"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802244137"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802244137"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802244137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}