Exhibit shows impact U.S. nuns, past and present, have had on nation

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This news hasn’t gotten a lot of attention, but the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington DC, has opened an exhibit called "Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America.

It shows the impact that Catholic sisters have had on the US during the past 300 years.
The dimly lit S. Dillon Ripley Center at the Smithsonian Institution holds more than a few nun’s habits and artifacts. The exhibit also features state-of-the-art multimedia images, photos and historic narratives depicting the impact Catholic sisters have had in the U.S.
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“It’s really amazing to see all they’ve done for our country,” Smithsonian spokeswoman Becky Haberacker told Catholic News Service during a recent tour of the exhibit, which made its Washington debut Jan. 15. “It’s also really interesting to find out how rugged they are. That just isn’t something I imagined before when I thought about nuns.”
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The exhibit includes an 1804 letter from President Thomas Jefferson to an Ursuline nun, braided corn husk shoes worn by pioneer sisters, the nurse’s bag of a nun used during the Civil War and student work from the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first all-black community
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catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=7864

The exhibit will stay in DC until April 25th, after which it will move to the Maltz Museum in Cleveland for the summer, then to the Statue of Liberty National Monument/Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York from Sept. 24 to Jan. 22. After that, it comes to Dubuque (yay!) for a couple months. Then to Notre Dame Univ. for the final four months of 2011.

Here is the web page for Women & Spirit.
womenandspirit.org/index.html
It has photos of the exhibit, and from the exhibit as well as a teacher’s guide and an assortment of other information.
 
Dale_M said:
This news hasn’t gotten a lot of attention, but the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington DC, has opened an exhibit called "Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America.

It shows the impact that Catholic sisters have had on the US during the past 300 years.

catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=7864

Here is a more lengthy article about the exhibit:
americancatholic.org/Messenger/Aug2009/Feature2.asp

The exhibit will stay in DC until April 25th, after which it will move to the Maltz Museum in Cleveland for the summer, then to the Statue of Liberty National Monument/Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York from Sept. 24 to Jan. 22. After that, it comes to Dubuque (yay!) for a couple months. Then to Notre Dame Univ. for the final four months of 2011.

Here is the web page for Women & Spirit.
womenandspirit.org/index.html
It has photos of the exhibit, and from the exhibit as well as a teacher’s guide and an assortment of other information.
Click to expand...
 
Which is why there is a street in New Orleans called ‘Ursulines’ and why the nuns were allowed to ride the buses in that city at no charge for decades. This was due to their volunteer efforts in a yellow fever epidemic, I believe.
 
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