Call for Submissions, Your Voices: On Motherhood

Artists, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, writers—IMOW is now accepting submissions of any media type for their new online exhibition, Your Voices: On Motherhood. Contributions can come in any medium that is currently supported on IMOW.org and work must address a topic related to motherhood. Published submissions will be eligible for a US$1,000 Community Choice Award, with $500 going to the individual contributor and $500 going to a women’s nonprofit of the winner’s choice!

IMOW wants to showcase the experiences, ideas, joys and challenges of a new global generation on motherhood. What are your fears and hopes as you think about whether to become a mother? How is being a ‘good’ mother defined in your country or culture? How is mothering now different to your mother or grandmother’s generation? Tell your story and submit your work today!

For more information and submissions guidelines click here.

Your Voices: On Motherhood is an entirely global community driven showcase that will launch in November 2011. The exhibition will represent the diverse voices, experiences, struggles and successes of women worldwide as they relate to motherhood.  Submitting your work provides the opportunity to showcase your creativity for a global audience of over 50,000 monthly visitors from 200 countries. Submitted work will be reviewed by a jury, and selected submissions will be curated for inclusion in the Your Voices: On Motherhood exhibition.

Submit your work today!

Aminatta Forna Podcast Now Available!

Download a Free Recording of IMOW’s Speaker Series

Aminatta Forna
Credit: Simon Westcott

Acclaimed African author and IMOW Global Council member Aminatta Forna joined the International Museum of Women on January 26, 2011, for our Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change Speaker Series. Aminatta spoke about her newly published, critically acclaimed book The Memory of Love, talked about what inspires her as a woman writer, and described her experience as a dual citizen of both the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone.

If you weren’t able to make it to the event, a podcast of the evening is now available!

Listen to the podcast now>>

You can also download any International Museum of Women podcast for free. Just search for International Museum of Women on iTunes!

Aminatta Forna appeared in conversation with the Executive Director of the International Museum of Women, Clare Winterton.

Listen to the podcast now>>

Job Opportunity: Content Producer

The International Museum of Women has an exciting job opportunity! 

IMOW is seeking an innovative and experienced media professional to serve as Producer for its next major online exhibition on Global Motherhood/Maternal Health. The Producer will lead the development and implementation of the media-rich online exhibition, including content development and multimedia production. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience creating popular content with viral potential and will be extremely marketing-savvy, as well as have a strong interest in women's human rights.

For the full job description and application instructions, click here

Carpe the Chaos: How Women Will Thrive in Uncertain Times

Join Author and Activist Gloria Feldt on Dec. 2

The International Museum of Women is proud to co-host this SF Chamber's Women in Business Roundtable event on December 2 in San Francisco featuring Gloria Feldt, internationally renowned activist and author. During this presentation you will explore nine specific tips and tools on how to redefine power and leadership as she describes in her new book No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power.

Learn more>>

Event Details: Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Registration at 11:45 a.m.; program from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. at the SF Chamber of Commerce Boardroom, 235 Montgomery St., 12th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94104. Please note that IMOW Members must call (415) 392-4520 to purchase tickets to receive a member discount! For more information please contact nchan@sfchamber.com.

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View this Global Photography Exhibition in Oakland on Nov. 30

From Joanna Lipper’s series for
Picturing Power & Potential,
Growth & Stagnation

The International Museum of Women, Mills College, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery invite you to a reception and viewing of Picturing Power & Potential at Mills College in Oakland. Picturing Power & Potential is a juried photography exhibition of over 50 extraordinary works by 20 artists from around the world celebrating women as economic participants and agents of change.

Visit Picturing Power & Potential online>>

Event details: Tuesday, Nov. 30 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613. RSVP Required! To RSVP, email bgibson@mills.edu no later than Tuesday, Nov. 23.

Whose Reality? Exposing Gender, Race and Commercial Biases in Reality TV

Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Jennifer L. Pozner
Credit: Care of Jennifer Siebel Newsom Credit: Thomas Lascher

Join the International Museum of Women on November 16th for a noontime conversation between Jennifer Siebel Newsom, filmmaker, Miss Representation and First Lady of San Francisco, and Jennifer L. Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media & News, media critic and author, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV. The focus of their discussion is aimed at shedding light on gender and race in entertainment media. Video clips and a short trailer will reveal the sexism, racism and misrepresentations of women and people of color in reality TV. Please join us for this important conversation on media accountability to gender and race in reality TV.

Event Details: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 from 12:00-1:00pm, followed by a book sale and signing by Jennifer L. Pozner. Guests are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch. Located at the Russ Building in San Francisco, 235 Montgomery Street, 12th floor. For more information email events@imow.org or call 415-543-4669 ext. 27.

Seating is limited! Get your tickets today>>

Special Thanks to the Commission on the Status of Women and the San Francisco Chamber's Women in Business Roundtable program, Perseus Books Group

Oct. 28: Ingrid Betancourt in San Francisco

Ingrid Betancourt
Photo by Tess Steinkolt

Tickets are selling fast for IMOW’s latest Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change Speaker Series featuring Ingrid Betancourt. Purchase yours today!

Former Colombian Senator and activist Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her six and a half years of captivity in the Colombian jungle. Join us as she discusses her much-anticipated memoir, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. Learn more>>

Ingrid Betancourt will appear in conversation with Jeanne Carstensen, managing editor of The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit news organization in San Francisco that covers civic issues and produces the Bay Area pages of the New York Times.

Event details: Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 7:00pm, followed by book sale and signing with Book Passage. Schwab Center, 211 Main Street (at Howard), San Francisco, California. Seating is limited. Reserve your tickets now! An RSVP is required. For more information email events@imow.org or call 415-543-4669  ext. 27.

A limited number of tickets are also available for a 5:00pm private reception with Ingrid Betancourt preceding the Speakers Series program. The ticket cost is $150 (includes program ticket valued at $25). To purchase reception tickets, please email irene@imow.org or call 415-543-4669 x27 by October 22. For those who can't attend this Speaker Series, a podcast of the conversation will be available on IMOW.org shortly after the event.

Get your tickets online today>>

Hear From Ingrid Betancourt on October 28!

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Get Tickets Today for Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change

The International Museum of Women presents Ingrid Betancourt for our latest Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change Speaker Series.

Former Colombian Senator and activist Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her six and a half years of captivity in the Colombian jungle. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, Betancourt was abducted by the FARC and was released in a dramatic 2008 rescue. Join us as she discusses her much-anticipated memoir, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. Learn more>>

Event details: Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 7:00-8:00pm, followed by book sale and signing with Book Passage. Schwab Center, 211 Main Street (at Howard), San Francisco, California. Seating is limited. Reserve your tickets now! An RSVP is required. For more information email events@imow.org or call 415-543-4669 ext. 27.

Get your tickets online today>>

Special thanks to Wells Fargo, the sponsors of our Speaker Series, and to Charles Schwab for hosting and supporting this program.
Special thanks to Book Passage.

Get Tickets Today for Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change

The International Museum of Women presents Ingrid Betancourt for our latest Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change Speaker Series.

Former Colombian Senator and activist Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her six and a half years of captivity in the Colombian jungle. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, Betancourt was abducted by the FARC and was released in a dramatic 2008 rescue. Join us as she discusses her much-anticipated memoir, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle. Learn more>>

Event details: Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 7:00-8:00pm, followed by book sale and signing with Book Passage. Schwab Center, 211 Main Street (at Howard), San Francisco, California. Seating is limited. Reserve your tickets now! An RSVP is required. For more information email events@imow.org or call 415-543-4669 ext. 27.

Get your tickets online today>>

Special thanks to Wells Fargo, the sponsors of our Speaker Series, and to Charles Schwab for hosting and supporting this program.  Special thanks to Book Passage.

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Picturing Power & Potential: A Project of Economica

A woman seaweed farmer in Zanzibar

(From Joanna Lipper's series for 

Picturing Power & Potential, "Growth Vs. Stagnation: Seaweed Farmers in Zanzibar") 

credit: International Museum of Women

What do you picture when you think of women’s economic power and potential? Check out our brand new exhibition, Picturing Power & Potential: A Project of Economica, opening June 15, to see stunning images that depict women around the world exercising their power in the global economy.

Picturing Power & Potential is a joint project from the International Museum of Women and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery’s Art at City Hall program.Picturing Power & Potential will launch on June 15, 2010 online at IMOW.org and in a physical exhibition at San Francisco City Hall. This juried photography show includes more than 50 images from 20 photographers around the globe, representing countries such as India, Ghana, the United States, the Netherlands, and more.

If you’re in the Bay Area, join us on Tuesday, June 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm for a public reception celebrating Picturing Power & Potential at San Francisco City Hall, located at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place in the Civic Center. Learn more>>

Intern: Library Science Internship with SJSU for IMOW

The International Museum of Women is looking for a Library Science Graduate student intern in the San Jose, California, area to work on a project with the San Jose State University Special Collections and Archives. The intern will archive and organize the Women’s Heritage Museum’s organizational records (donated by IMOW to SJSU) for a semester - or semesters-long internship. Please spread the word!

Learn more about the position.

Honor Women Around the World

The International Museum of Women's Women on the Map! allows you to pay tribute to the women who have made a difference in your life. The result will be a powerful visual representation of the vast, change-making impact women have on our world.  


Go to Women on the Map - International Museum of Women for more information.

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Calling All Photographers!

Submit by April 10 and You Could Be Part of an Exhibition in San Francisco City Hall

Submit your photography to the International Museum of Women'sPicturing Power & Potential, a new opportunity for photographers around the world to have their work displayed in an exhibition in San Francisco City Hall in the summer of 2010 and online at IMOW.org. Picturing Power & Potential is a collaborative project between I.M.O.W. and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. ELIGIBILITY: All living artists worldwide working in a digital photography format. Special attention will be paid to those who submit work created in the past five years. No entry fee required. SUBJECT MATTER: We are looking for works that demonstrate how women are participating in the current global economy as leaders and agents of positive change. MEDIUM: Photographic works that can be printed via a digital file are eligible. Submit your work through the I.M.O.W. online form. Visit our Call for Submissions for details. The deadline for submissions is APRIL 10, 2010. A project of Economica, this special photography exhibition will include a global celebration of women as economic change-agents. As many as fifty works will be selected from the submissions for display in both the physical exhibition in San Francisco and in a special presentation online at I.M.O.W.'s Web site. For complete submissions guidelines, click here.